Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This is also the time when many organizations host their year-end gala or another major event to drive even more donations. A conversion-optimized donation page. A/B testing involves creating two different versions of a webpage and assessing which drives more engagement and conversions. A conversion-optimized donation page.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 22, 2021

Increasing website conversion rates is a perpetual priority for both higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations. One of the most reliable methods of increasing your website visitor conversions is through the use of forms. in the higher education space and only 1.0% for nonprofits. Does your website feature forms?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The first step to understanding and analyzing your findings will be to organize this data in a way that’s easy to understand. Whether you’ve collected the audio over a video call, traditional phone conversation, or a recording of an in-person event, you have numerous transcription options.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Donors like to have an idea of the type of donations your organization is looking for to help them choose the right giving amount. Suggested donation amounts are the provided gift amount options that your organization offers to supporters. What you choose will depend on how your organization fundraises. The ‘amount’ used varies.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Although DevOps is a relatively niche sect of the Salesforce ecosystem, over 200 attendees, diversely represented across declarative admins, coders, BAs, and consultants, comprised the event from all manner of organization sizes and industries. Some of the best conversations I was a part of took place at booths in the time between sessions.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

Did you know that the average open rate for the nonprofit organization is around 25.17%, much higher than the industry average open rate, which is just 21.33%? email marketing is one of the most effective channels for nonprofit organizations. As a nonprofit organization, email marketing should be one of your top priorities.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Not all leaders think that way, but organizations that value equity of access must consider the plights of those who might be systematically excluded from engagement efforts. Although we did not start with a particular emphasis on equity and access, this theme came up regularly in our conversations with the field.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

The exact dollar amount that’s considered a major gift varies from organization to organization. For some organizations—especially those that are small or are just getting started—a major gift may be $1,000. Next, you should look at past giving patterns—both to your organization and to other nonprofits as well.

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Byte Technology

MAY 6, 2015

For instance, having experiential videos on your home page often detracts from the core idea of what the organization is trying to accomplish, so save such videos (or photographs) for a dedicated interior page. People truly interested in a specific cause want to hear their own voice as part of the conversation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

If your organization deals with sensitive information such as health records, confidential reports, or family issues, you should consider encrypting your data. When you have a conversation with a client, staff member, or volunteer, you want to ensure that it is completely confidential. What if it ends up in the wrong hands?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

Supporters can use these platforms to give quickly and easily from their laptops, desktop computers, and mobile devices. Many online fundraising platforms also make it easy for supporters to start fundraisers of their own to gather donations on behalf of your organization. Give donors an easy way to show their support.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In addition to the challenges inherent to any nonprofit mission, these organizations and their personnel must often work in areas with poor security and limited resources. Organizations should critically review proposed data collection and ensure that the intended benefits and impact justify the risks of data collection in the first place.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 28, 2010

is one person or organization pushing content out to many people via websites and e-mail newsletters. People can post comments and converse with your organization in public for all to see. is all of the above except that the Web experience is no longer limited to desktop and laptop computers while stationary in one place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

I’ve been reflecting on the discussion we had about how meetings are “under belly” of an organization’s culture and ways to make incremental changes to improve meeting culture to avoid wasting time or frustration. This can happen even if your organization is using video conferencing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone sitting around the table, but only engaged on their mobile phones or laptops, checking email or looking at social feeds? Wondering how to organize and facilitate a meeting where everyone is on their feet instead of their devices? There will be conversations while walking, then planned stops for presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

It was inspired by a conversation we had during the planning sessions in San Francisco in January about whether or not there was an Arabic word for Nerd (there isn’t). His organization’s name, Shabakat , translates into the word “network.&#. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For those that follow the #4Change twitter-based chats, this is a post recapping and highlighting our latest conversation on social media application in the Climate Change movement. Note: the @names provide links to the Twitter users who made specific comments, just in case you want to connect and continue the conversation!*.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

Susan Tenby , Josephine Dorado , and I camped with our laptops, video cameras, resource guides, favorite game-building sites, and a bountiful new Nonprofit Resource Library in Second Life providing a playful space for participants to get hands-on with mixed reality technologies.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

While your nonprofit is, by definition, not a profit-driven organization, you can still leverage this massive market to achieve your fundraising goals and grow your support base. backpacks, and laptop stickers. Your organization will need to tap into its. Your organization will need to tap into its. coupon cards.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

No matter what prompts the conversation though, it almost always circles back to the same place: productivity. Evernote lets me organize files, web sites, pictures, audio, and notes, from any device. I can retrieve these items from my phone, my tablet, my laptop, or any computer with a browser. That's all it takes.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Many organizations are enjoying lower overhead, higher productivity, and happier employees by providing the option to work from home (WFH). A growing trend among organizations is to get out of the business of owning servers entirely. The average smartphone outperforms the laptop computer of the previous decade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Here’s how to do it: Practice Mindfulness Meetings : Be fully present at every meeting, focused on the conversation at hand. The quality of listening and attention in the room shapes the quality of the conversation. Have Patience: Set aside impulses to interrupt or jump into a conversation.

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CauseVox

MAY 12, 2022

Here’s a surprising truth for a lot of nonprofit organizations: the donate button on your website is a really big deal! Nonprofit organizations fail at caring for their donors. A poor or difficult giving experience tells your donors that their time, effort, and money isn’t valuable to your organization. Customization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

These phrases and others are becoming increasingly more common among marketing, development, and communications professionals at nonprofit organizations. Digital communications has found a permanent place within organizations. And content should not be all about you and your organization. Click here to register.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Over at Care2 , Garth Moore relates the value of attending a conference without the distraction of a laptop in front of you. Pop on over to NTEN's Community Builders (CommBuild) Community of Practice group and add your ideas to the conversation. Organizations that are accepted can select what products they'd like to enroll in.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2012

We wrote the book because we thought today's marketing conversation needs to refocus on making all of the tactics work together. Direct mail and purchased media (ads) by far represent the greatest expenditure organizations make. We know that most organizations delegate social and mobile to a young person or an individual department.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation. Anyone who uses the designated tag on Twitter automatically becomes a part of the ongoing global conversation on that topic of interest. We think Watchitoo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

The Conversational Keynote: Room Configuration Is Key. I’m working on perfecting the conversational keynote. The space where I gave my keynote in Toronto is well designed designed for conversational keynote format. This made it easy for me to get off the stage and wander into the audience to engage them in conversation.

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NTEN

MARCH 11, 2013

Over at Care2 , Garth Moore relates the value of attending a conference without the distraction of a laptop in front of you. Pop on over to NTEN's Community Builders (CommBuild) Community of Practice group and add your ideas to the conversation. Organizations that are accepted can select what products they'd like to enroll in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Use a Unique HashTag: A hashtag is a keyword that opens up a public conversation on Twitter. If your organization has a robust Facebook presence, you can also use a Facebook Event to promote the event. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event. Be creative.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

Lower-than-expected numbers make you feel like you failed, like you put your organization and the people you serve at risk. Even experienced fundraisers sometimes use fundraising methods that just don’t work for a particular organization or audience. Don’t give your donor any reason to feel dissatisfied with you or your organization.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As social good organizations continue to hurl through the twenty-first century , they are managing more and more (and more) data than ever before. These days, conversely, not only is there far more data to get into development database systems-of-record, but more and more systems, both data sources and data destinations, reside in the cloud.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2013

These handy apps let you connect with the most important people in your organization when you're on-the-road. ReadyTalk Mobile (iPad) makes it easy to jump in on a meeting if you left your work laptop behind. TechSoup Donor Partners. Although working during vacation isn't ideal, it happens to the busiest of us. More Resources.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Using this platform enables organizations to create engaging, multi-perspective videos with their employees. SeenIt enables organizations to truly scale the way they produce video by engaging their own employees to become their content creators and brand ambassadors. Turn your employees into content creators.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 24, 2015

You could seriously benefit from sitting down at a group of strangers and striking up a conversation. Plus, make sure your organization has pinpointed the areas that you hope to improve. And instead of trying to download the website content on your phone, tablet or laptop, you can instead download an easy-to-navigate app.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The experience your organization provides online must be one that converts. The most common screen width for desktop/laptop computers is 1336px , so you can go pretty wide. I hope these questions and tips will get the conversation started at your organization! And every pixel counts.

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