Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

It may make sense to hire someone to give you that help, especially if that person has the skills you need and can work remotely. A virtual assistant is an independent contractor who provides services for clients while working from their home office. Be sure to ask for work samples if appropriate for the work you are requesting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The ability to track and monitor those relationships should be the #1 priority for organizations seeking to expand their donor base or increase their revenue. Cost: $100/month for 1,000 contacts to $800/month for 85,000 contacts. Cost: $39/month for 2,500 contacts to $149/month for 100,000 contacts.

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Greater Giving

JULY 24, 2023

As a nonprofit leader, you know the impact of successful fundraising events on your organization’s work. However, the IRS needs information about your nonprofit’s operations to ensure it maintains its eligibility for tax-exempt status. You’ll need to provide details about the work that your auction is raising money to support.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

When your board can’t work to the best of their ability, it holds your entire organization back from reaching its true potential. Many of today’s nonprofits have remote or hybrid work setups, which means that directors are likely to be working in different time zones or locations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

GivePanel empowers nonprofits to better use Facebook Fundraising Tools by providing an easy way to thank all fundraisers, collect contact details, and track results. For more information, see Tapkat’s 10 Best Practices for launching an online sweepstakes. GivePanel :: givepanel.com. GolfStatus.org :: golfstatus.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

Working with NGOs, thought leaders, and policymakers in DC for the last decade, she specializes in getting people to care about complex issues that might otherwise get ignored. Instead, share your mission through stories and behind-the-scenes looks at your work. Make eye contact with your audience. Say their name. Don’t fake it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2020

Event organizers need an easy way to collect the right information with as little manual work and opportunity for error as possible. It needs to be easy for players and sponsors to commit and submit payment, and easy for event organizers to manage inbound registrations and sponsor information. 4) Scoring Challenges.

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EveryAction

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why we often say that advocacy is for everyone: when decisions are being made that affect your organization’s work, mission, and vision, it just makes sense to get involved, unite your supporters, and move them to take action with you in pursuit of a specific mission-oriented goal. If possible, include a photo of the stakeholder!

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EveryAction

JUNE 23, 2023

For state-level work, you’ll want to focus on voters within a target’s district. If you work on multiple issues and have tagged your supporters by their interests it will be easy to identify your most likely action-takers, but you have several other options as well. Send and track your advocacy calls!

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore a few key types of advocacy that help organizations drive positive change; tactics that unite and activate supporters; and technology to make this important work more effective and efficient. Later, that information can be used to target the most active and educated supporters and get them involved.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Here are a few tips from The Fast Track to help you the next time you’re having trouble getting your volunteers motivated. Keep track of what people are signing up for with your CRM or volunteer management system to help you send more targeted emails about opportunities at your nonprofit. Engage a volunteer individually.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 11, 2020

What are you doing with your current e-mail contact list? All of those are great tactics, but here’s one that has worked wonders for many organizations: try asking your email subscribers and social media network to take just a little action on your behalf – something other than giving money or asking others to give money.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

This will give you a good idea of what works and what doesn’t. 2) Make it easy for people to contact your association on social media. Once you’ve got their attention, people will want to get in touch, to find more information about becoming a member. Give reliable information. Respond to messages fast.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 19, 2021

By using Google Tag Manager (GTM), tagging your website, and using Google Analytics, you will collect plenty of helpful information to understand what your customers are seeking on your website. . How do Tags work? Tags are fragments of code included in a website that take information and send them to third parties. Containers.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. But, as my example indicates, things do not always work as expected. I’m sure we each have stories like this.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2021

Thanks to technology, there’s no need to spend hours processing mailed registration forms, checks, receipts, and entering information in endless spreadsheets. It’s more than just basic contact information—quality, complete donor data gives organizations insights into how and why donors are supporting their cause.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The difference between Contacts/Accounts and Person Accounts data models. The Salesforce Contacts/Accounts data model aligns with the way most companies work – where activity is related to organizations, not individuals. the Contacts/Accounts model is not an ideal choice for associations.

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EveryAction

MAY 30, 2023

Before your event, use an email series to give supporters a refresher on the policy issues you’re working on and how they’re impacting the community. Click-to-email (or tweet, or call) tools make it easy for your supporters to contact their legislators or other decision-makers on their own schedule.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 11, 2022

With new employees starting, exciting projects kicking off, and donations coming in like wildfire, it’s becoming harder and harder to keep track of everything. A donor management system is like a really big filing cabinet that lives in the cloud and tracks everything about your organization. Names, emails, tasks, deadlines, gift asks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

What’s more, with social distancing and contact-free protocols likely to stick around for much of the year, an event website is even more important for communicating information, collecting registrations, and displaying sponsor recognition. Save time and avoid duplicative work with online registration.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 12, 2024

The Power of Collaboration Fundraising events often involve a symphony of vendors working together to create a seamless experience. This individual acts as the central point of contact, ensuring clear communication between each vendor and yourself.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Working in the nonprofit sector is hard. As a grantmaking organization focused on the success of your grantees, it is essential to have a process in place to manage personnel changes—for both you and your grantees—so everyone stays informed and on schedule.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It's a toolkit made to flex so you can work in the way that succeeds for you. With the experience of tens of thousands of incidents and hundreds of large, named disaster operations, we've built solutions that are proven to work. Every module works the same —saving you tremendous training and support time. No custom engineering.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2024

And also let them know you’ll be in contact if you don’t hear from them by such and such date. Ideally, offer something people may want in return for submitting their information. Create contact information forms for folks who’d like to learn more about your services. Receiving your newsletter is the bare minimum.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

A successful volunteer management process ensures that volunteers are informed, engaged, and motivated, which in turn increases long-term volunteer retention. Let’s answer a few frequently asked questions about how this process works: What are the steps of the volunteer management process?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Segment your list of contacts. Text marketing works on an opt-in basis, so the first step in developing or improving your text communication strategy is asking supporters to opt in. Segment your list of contacts. Supporters can get more information quickly by asking any questions they have about a message.

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Greater Giving

JULY 18, 2023

You collect information at every turn, whether someone fills out your donation form, registers for an event, interacts with you on social media, or browses your website. However, it can be easy to get lost if you don’t know which information is helpful to your nonprofit. Organize and segment your data in your CRM.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 12, 2023

As nonprofits work on strengthening donor relationships to improve retention, there has been an increased focus on the donor experience. Create a donor experience that strengthens supporter relationships. According to the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the average donor retention rate in the U.S. is around 45 percent.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Just sitting by the phone waiting for your donor to figure it out—and do all the work—is simply not going to cut it. Alas, billions of dollars are left on the table because (1) employees don’t know about this money and (2) nonprofits don’t inform their donors of the opportunity to claim these funds. But you do need a plan.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

As you quickly grow and engage your audience , it can be easy to lose track of your campaign plan. If you’re a new organization without many resources or contacts, you may have more luck working first at the local level. Which goals helped you stay on track in past campaigns? Personalize your messages to every contact.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 18, 2023

Automation is like having another team member who can seamlessly handle that work for you. Effortless Email Communication: Utilize email marketing tools like Mailchimp, Constant Contact, or Mailer Lite to send automated updates and reminders to supporters, ensuring they stay engaged and informed with minimal effort on your part.

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Our new Member Portal is a self-service portal for recurring donors to track and mange their monthly gifts and pledges. Instead of manually updating donation amounts through back and forth emails, you can easily keep recurring donations up-to-date with zero administrative work by allowing donors to update their recurring donation themselves.

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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As a nonprofit, keeping track of your supporters and donors and managing member relationships is an essential part of how you fulfill your mission. In a nutshell, nonprofits should have a database because it is the central hub for recording and keeping information about their members, donors and supporters.

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Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Social media is a powerful, yet affordable, way to inform, engage, and recruit volunteers. billion social media users nationwide, it is safe to say there is strong potential to engage, inform, and recruit volunteers within your local community. Here are 7 tips to help your organization get the most value from social media.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2023

To cultivate alumni donors, you’ll need to stay in contact with graduates so your program remains top of mind and provide opportunities for them to give that they’ll be receptive to. Your performing arts program can leverage an alumni database in multiple ways, including to: Maintain up-to-date contact information for each of your alumni.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

If they don’t, use your donor management system to look up the name of the deceased and see if you have any contact information for a family member of theirs. Once you’ve made contact with a family member or close friend, ask who the main point of contact or representative from the family will be. For example, the St.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2020

If you haven’t identified these website goals and tracked them in Google Analytics to determine when, where, and how often they’re occurring, you’ll never know how your website is truly performing. For more information, we look to destination goals. What Google Analytics Goals Should a Nonprofit Track?

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