Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Mobile Phone Access. These days, this means making sure that you’ll be able to get the CRM on your mobile phone, which has become an increasingly important part of both our private and work lives. In fact, it’s estimated that 71 percent of workers access company information from their phones. Integrates With Other Software.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

If this has been your experience when setting up and configuring any software, stop reading this post and email me ASAP what you are using. Back to that summer of 2020, I had a calendar script running that populated student and teacher Google calendars with their class schedules. Stale” calendars or no calendars? “No

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 23, 2024

It usually shows up in one or more ways, like these: Declining donations Lower total amount raised through an appeal Declining open rate on emails Declining click through rate in emails Increased number of lapsed donors Fewer large gifts If you’re tuned in to your donors and how they feel, you may also have a gut sense that something is wrong.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Fundraising apps are helpful tools that drive your nonprofit’s fundraising campaigns by empowering you to pull in more donations, and there are hundreds to choose from. This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Send personalized thank-you messages, emails, or letters to acknowledge their support—even if you have an automated email acknowledgement message. Make phone calls or send text messages that solely express your thanks. A service like Double the Donation can help you streamline this effort. They’ve done the work for you!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2014

I decided to try out the Sunrise calendar app for iOS to see if it can help me stay in check. This free app synchronizes event information from your various social media and calendar accounts into one sleek display. For example, you can't load in events from your Microsoft Outlook calendar. Using Sunrise. Bottom Line.

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NetWits

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here are some ideas to help you get back into the swing of things and beat those post-holiday blues, as well as those mountains of work. Google Calendar. Set up a Google Calendar and allow your colleagues to see which activities are happening at various times without having to sort through multiple spreadsheets. Google Docs.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

My calendar and ‘To Do’ list were written in a notebook. Google Calendar has many rivals in the marketplace, but for meeting the scheduling needs of a busy nonprofit, I can’t imagine a more effective tool. When you accept invitations via email, the meeting gets automatically added to your calendar. With a pen.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

To be able to telework, people usually need five things: a computer or tablet, broadband Internet, access to work email, access to work documents, and a phone. I don’t know what the formal stat is on this, but I know that I’m much more likely to get a fast response if I text someone rather than call them or email them.

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2022

I utilize whatever forms of communication work for everyone, whether it be an email thread, group text, or Google Calendar meeting requests. To accommodate this, I simply print out a big blank monthly calendar with shifts, and volunteers will initial on the shift they’ll cover. Ursula Academy . .

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2023

Your nonprofit CRM is much more than a storage space for addresses and phone numbers. The data in your CRM can help you raise more money, improve your donor retention, and even attract new supporters to your cause. This boosts engagement and response rates and helps create authentic relationships. It just might be!

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Judi Sohn

JULY 31, 2011

Pro-Android: I have 3 email accounts, all Gmail. I use Google Voice, Google+, Google Calendar, etc. Android phones seem to be much cheaper with contract than iPhones. I have no idea how to really compare these phones and make the right decision, aside from reading thousands of reviews. Just not feasible to switch.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Take a look at your fundraising tech stack – do you have a peer-to-peer fundraising platform in place that allows for simple sign-up, easy fundraising page creation, and convenient fundraiser management, such as sending requests via email or social media? Bonus – if you have Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®, you can integrate the two products.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Did you know that nearly one-third of individual fundraising happens during the month of December and 12% of giving happens in the last week of the calendar year ? . With that in mind, here are some year-end fundraising tips to help you make the most of your online fundraising efforts. Tip 1: Maximize your year-end fundraising emails.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 21, 2009

Tasks is a relatively new-from-GMail-Labs feature that pulls together Gmail and Google Calendar to help you create and manage “to do” lists. This isn’t a tool for the true productivity wonk, but it does offer a quick and convenient way to get a task into your calendar from email. read more ).

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Communication is the most important tool a project manager and their team has to help clients achieve their goals, especially in the ever-changing landscape of the current workplace. That might include CC’ing them on project status emails. Try to keep discussions to relevant project conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

It's been about a year now since I kicked my outlook email habit and been a gmail and google calendar user. I really really miss that feature and it helped me clean up my email quickly. The second thing I missed was having my calendar and sync ability with my pda/cell phone (treo). No glitches.

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2019

Events are an important part of your organization’s yearly calendar. Your events are a crucial part of your supporter engagement strategy, and they help your organization build community and move forward together. Email is going to be one of the most valuable tools in your staff’s wheelhouse for event marketing purposes.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The terms “LYBUNT” and “SYBUNT” are often used to segment communications to donors that have given before but not within the current calendar/fiscal year. Of course, if you wanted to help us, we would greatly appreciate it and put your gift to immediate work helping [insert target beneficiary here]). My lapsed donor came back!

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it. SMART goals help you streamline a reasonable goal for any situation. There are a number of ways you can tell your supporters “Thanks” on Thanksgiving, including: Social Media Email blast Direct mail.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

If you can find 10 good grant leads — we can usually find at least 10 hot leads when we do grant research for our clients—then you can fill your grant calendar and keep your grant pipeline full all year long. Create a calendar of Asks. And there is nothing wrong with using a paper desk calendar, if that’s your jam.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 29, 2023

When that piece of software has a ton of features—like donor management tools, fundraising features, events capabilities, membership management, email and website builders, and on and on—there’s even more to learn. Our service teams are here to help you! That will help us route your question to the right team! What Is It?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

They can’t be expected to keep track of their giving status–especially if you’re on a fiscal year and they think in calendar years. . You can organize this as a live or virtual phonathon and enlist your board and other volunteers to help. Please put it on your calendar for next year as a ‘must do.’

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

In the following blog post, we will delve into practical strategies to help your nonprofit maximize its efforts during the crucial calendar year-end period. It goes without saying, but calendar year-end is a critical time for many nonprofit organizations. percent after inflation adjustments) for calendar year-end giving in 2022.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

And what’s even better is we’ve compiled some best practices to help you learn how to make one! As mentioned above, a lot of this work is done online, in this case through your social media presence, email campaigns, and website traffic. We’ve mentioned one of the ways to help create a major gift pipeline: donor stewardship.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2014

Make a donor retention calendar to keep your donors loyal! Here are 4 Steps to help you focus on the things that matter: Step One: Don’t Focus on Everyone! Over $100 Check in the mail: Thank them with a phone call & letter. Multi-year donor: thank them with a phone call. Phone-a-thons. Today it’s 27%.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

But what you really want is to help people feel good. Do you make it easy for them to contact you by putting your email address and phone number in plain sight? Email Marketing . When your email marketing campaign flops, you can easily look up analytics. And you can incorporate fresh strategies in your next email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2017

One of my colleagues, Nada Hamzeh , a nonprofit capacity building consultant from Lebanon, tagged me when sharing this striking image that depicts how can easily develop a behavior addiction to our mobile phones. InBox When Ready – This a chrome plugin for gmail that maximizes the time you spend in email. Productivity.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2021

As a leader, you want a smooth, easy to run, well-supported product fundraiser with help just a phone call away. Keep an eye out for user reviews that could help identify pitfalls and hidden costs. Help them understand the tools of the trade: brochures, websites, apps, etc. Have people ready to help with distribution.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And yet the most charitable giving that happens in all of the calendar year is December 31st. And I’m going to help you figure out what to do about it. So that’s what I’m going to help you with today. I hope that’s helpful. Does the calendar year matter to you? I want to be helpful.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Brazosport Cares Food Pantry consistently uses compelling stories to help readers understand the pain and suffering of going hungry. Are the same fonts and colors being used on my website as in our print pieces, emails, and social media? How does my nonprofit’s website look on a phone? Detailed activity calendar.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

Now anyone can create and edit video from their phone … yet it still seems to be the final frontier in nonprofit marketing. 15 Types of Nonprofit Videos to Help You Connect with Supporters. You might even use “World Storytelling Day” (March 20 th ) to tell the stories of those your organization has been able to help!

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Our guide will help you sort through your options and choose the tools that will help you raise more money and change more lives. With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. TechSoup can help you get set up with Office 365 at a discount.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

They receive a welcome email that prompts them to join Slack, where they’re added to several broader student community channels to get acquainted with fellow classmates. In addition, workflows help set up students for success with Slack and other learning tools. Slack helps companies bring employees together around a shared purpose.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Text-to-give is a powerful donation tool that offers donors a way to easily give to their favorite nonprofits right from their phones. And that means you can start using those funds almost as soon as they’re donated to help your organization reach its goals. They should receive an email confirmation of their donation.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Put together a master marketing calendar. To make your multi-channel marketing efforts successful, it’s important to implement a campaign calendar. Your communications across every channel you use should be included on the calendar. How to use email marketing efficiently. Personalize your emails.

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NetWits

AUGUST 11, 2011

Make it easy for participants to send more emails. Historically, the average event participant sends about 22 emails, with approximately 25% resulting in a donation. With email that valuable, it makes sense to do some of the leg work for participants. January: Send a “save the date” email. Focus on customer service.

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