Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

When you start planning your fundraising events, you want to make registration and management as easy as possible for both you and your donors. With the right event management software for nonprofits, you can run your fundraising events more efficiently, helping you raise more money for your cause.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

Changing a core piece of software at your grantmaking organization is no picnic. But inertia is not an option when your grant programs outgrow your current solution, or your vendor sunsets the software you use, like Salesforce is doing with their grant management software, FoundationConnect.

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Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sustainable fundraising is all about developing key, core practices within your organization that can be applied to several different events and initiatives so your team isn’t constantly feeling burned out and at capacity. This can lead to a higher average spend per attendee, which directly impacts your fundraising total.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As the coach of a youth sports team or the leader of a school-affiliated academic bowl team, you know that there are some aspects of team fundraising that make it different—and often more challenging—than other types of fundraising. Team members can personalize their efforts. Reaching goals is easier through teamwork. Fellow students.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your marketing strategies and the marketing channels you use can drastically affect your fundraising success throughout the year. This approach leads to marketing campaigns that are aimed to educate, enlighten, and inspire your audience to participate in your mission instead of simply buying a product.

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Kindful

MARCH 22, 2021

Communicating with your supporters is critical to your fundraising success. When people subscribe to your email list, you can send fundraising appeals, updates about programs, stories that show how you’re fulfilling your mission, and more straight to their inboxes. In this blog post, we’ll share a few ways you can do that.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Mobile communication is becoming a central part of nonprofit fundraising and advocacy. According to the M+R Benchmarks 2023 report , 62% of nonprofits used text messaging for fundraising purposes in 2022. Here’s how the text fundraising process works: Your nonprofit chooses a text fundraising platform or service provider.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the modern fundraising world, creating an online fundraising strategy is essential to the success of your nonprofit. As the world continues to grapple with the ups and downs of COVID-19, it’s essential to meet your donors where they’re most comfortable, and that means coming up with inventive online fundraising ideas.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As we spring further into a new year, it’s time for your fundraising efforts to pick up speed! Spring fundraisers are a great way to bring your community together while gaining support for your cause. Here’s a list of spring fundraising ideas to help you celebrate the season with your supporters: Spring fundraising ideas 1.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 12, 2021

Sponsors at live fundraising events are accustomed to certain benefits—banners in a ballroom, a table and dinner for their guests, sometimes on-stage recognition. Selling sponsorships in the era of virtual and hybrid events present fundraisers with a challenge when those traditional benefits don’t look quite the same.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

That’s why we bring you a list of mistakes that you should avoid in your next fundraising campaign. Buying mailing lists. When it comes to email marketing, most nonprofits rely on buying mailing lists, and it has its own pros and cons. Buy only from a reputed vendor. . Overlooking mobile users.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The first step for any nonprofit, is to either build or buy a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to create a history of each supporter, recording their donations, if they volunteered, attended your event, or even sent you an email! Hands-on participation. Create unique videos and photos detailing the impact of their donation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 24, 2021

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. You can also purchase additional software, like Wealth Engine , Donor Search and others, to help you do further research on prospects you’ve identified as having high potential. Have a question for our Fundraising Coach? I hope this helps to clairify things!

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This article offers suggestions to help churches like yours grow giving with church fundraising events. With the right church giving software, your church can employ new ways to raise funds to support your mission. We’ve put together some of our favorite church fundraiser ideas. Fundraising events. T-shirt fundraiser.

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Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

My last article of this two-part series, “ Nonprofit Giving Trends and Future Fundraising Strategy ,” began a discussion of smart fundraising strategies to take advantage of best practices and current trends. It covered broad brush strategies all nonprofits today should incorporate into their donor fundraising/marketing mix.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

As your nonprofit organization continues to grow, it’s time to consider investing in an effective fundraising platform that truly accommodates your nonprofit’s size, financial needs, and developing fundraising strategies. Why is fundraising important for nonprofits? Leverage Nonprofit Fundraising Best Practices.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Fundraising events can be incredibly helpful for funding services and mission work at your faith-based nonprofit. How can you make hosting fundraising events easy and profitable for your organization? The right church event planning and management software can make a significant difference! Text fundraising tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

There’s no shortage of year-end-and-beginning blog posts about social media, but I thought I’d throw mine into the mix as well. But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. WWF Mobile.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Identify how useful your event technology will be and where it can save you money ( i.e., ticketing , integrated fundraising, sponsorship ideas, digitization for trade shows, analytics). Consider ‘free’ ways of promoting your event through content marketing , like writing a blog post, going on a podcast, or self-promotion on social media.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2021

Auction fundraisers are one of the most effective ways that nonprofit organizations engage supporters and reach their revenue goals. If you want to host a successful auction, a lot of it comes down to the planning, resources, and charity auction software that you use. Why is Charity Auction Software Important?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

Now, I could easily write a blog about my kitchen and chrome versus brass faucets, but today we are going to be talking to five leading experts from various organizations to get their top tips about a migration to Salesforce. Learn more about fundraising with Nonprofit Cloud and NPSP. Nonprofits of all sizes use Salesforce.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2022

Online Auction Website Software Online Auction Site Best Practices Online Auction Website Ideas. Online Auction Website Software. There are a lot of software providers that can help you create an auction website for your event, so it’s important you take the time to research and choose the right one for your organization.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

That’s why it’s important for your nonprofit to make the most of your peer-to-peer fundraising events. We put together some peer-to-peer fundraising software tips that can make it easier for your supporters to raise funds on your behalf, host more profitable fundraising events, and other tips to boost your peer-to-peer efforts.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 1, 2012

It feels good to be blogging again. When I accepted the job at Convio, I negotiated that it would be okay for me to blog. You would assume that with other fundraising solutions targeted to the midmarket nonprofit, Common Ground wouldn't be missed. I know I'll be fine. Even preferred. Too many moving parts.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

As a nonprofit or educational institution, you know firsthand the importance of fundraising to support your mission programming. More than likely, you’ve been using your fundraising technology to collect data and build detailed donor profiles in your CRM. Leverage donor employment details to uncover opportunities.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

A comprehensive list of every different Fundraising Event Committee you’ll need for your gala- their roles and job descriptions. A successful event requires a lot of coordination, planning and effort from your Fundraising Event Committee. Entering donations and item donors into an event software or database.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This article offers suggestions to help churches like yours grow giving with church fundraising events. With the right church giving software, your church can employ new ways to raise funds to support your mission. We’ve put together some of our favorite church fundraiser ideas. Fundraising events. T-shirt fundraiser.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 27, 2017

Online fundraising garners millions in charitable giving for the nonprofit industry every year, but with so many options, it can be difficult to find the right online donation tools for your organization. To make the buying process a little less intimidating, here are some of our favorite online donation tools: Fundly. Price Point.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Whether you’re fundraising for your church’s youth group, your school, or your kid’s sports team, investing in the education and wellbeing of your kids is priceless. With a youth-oriented fundraiser, you can raise money for educational trips, sports equipment, classroom supplies, art supplies, musical instruments, or any other cause.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The best way to learn about virtual fundraising events is to hear from those who’ve experienced them. Get to know their top insights and learning moments to accelerate the impact of your nonprofit’s next virtual fundraising event. 13 Virtual Fundraising Event Takeaways from Four Marketing Professionals.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

With #GivingTuesday only weeks away, hopefully your fundraising campaign plan has taken shape and you're feeling prepared for the big day. Corral Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Team Captains. If you already use crowdfunding and peer-to-peer fundraising , your team captains are built-in pipelines to rallying your extended community.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

Let’s start at the beginning… A recent conversation sparked on the Ars Technica blog focused on the use of push-notifications by the This American Life application on iPhones – the pop-up messages asked users to make a donation to the program as, it is, like other public radio/media, listener supported.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 30, 2022

Set Fundraising Goals. Setting a fundraising goal is the first step in planning an auction. Merchandise from a specific brand you want to promote (lots of people will buy this if they already love a company’s products!). Use integrated software for check-in, recording sales and check out and consider adding online bidding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We recently shot a fundraising campaign video for the Autism Science Foundation with our Canon HD DSLR. When shooting a fundraising video or another piece for wider distribution, quality is key. Rent or Buy? You don’t have to buy a thing to film your video on a DSLR. While smaller camcorders have their place.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Not waiting for Android vaporware (my research suggested it was probably a long time coming, and would not be on my carrier, AT&T,) I decided to succumb, and buy an iPhone 3G. Is this a bad thing? Myspace is going with OpenID ! More on that in a later post. { More on that in a later post. { More on that in a later post. {

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Now that we’re entering a new post-COVID era, nonprofit leaders need to think about what virtual fundraising will look like in the future. It looks like virtual fundraising is here to stay! 25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas to Try Out Best Virtual Fundraising Strategies Virtual Fundraising Software: Our Top Picks.

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Achieve

JUNE 11, 2020

“We have so much going on right now – how can we even find time to fundraise?” . Understandably, many nonprofit professionals are raising the question: “Should we be fundraising right now?” If you stop your fundraising efforts what will that mean for your organization in the long term? To which my answer is a resounding YES!

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