Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2011

Guest blog alert: Donna from Charity Dynamics (a Convio Solution Provider ) is sharing an real-life example of how integrated marketing and fundraising helped a nonprofit increase online revenue by more than 100%. A couple of weeks ago I shared some insights on integrating online and offline fundraising channels for strong results.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2010

million people used their cell phone to donate. 77 percent of respondents were aware of the Haiti text-to-donate efforts. 77 percent of respondents were aware of the Haiti text-to-donate efforts. Much like mobile fundraising – donation expected immediately.oh Here are some of the key findings.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

It also has a basic e-retail store (housed and managed within their Convio website). Some discoveries we’ve made historically include: People on lists we’ve acquired seem more willing to buy something than to give a cash donation. We split our list in two (we use Convio Luminate) and sent two emails with different leads.

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Care2

DECEMBER 1, 2010

My husband and I are ready to make our year-end donations. The result of our research and discussion will be 2 – 3 major gifts and some smaller gifts in honor of friends and families. This includes $6 billion from online donations, an increase of more than 30% over last year. need to get ready, and fast! Repeat after me.

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Care2

JUNE 10, 2012

If you are looking to start a welcome series or freshen up your existing one, check out these four tips from Convio’s latest report. This is an important step, because many constituents take a second action (like donating money) immediately after subscribing to organizations lists. inspire people to get more involved.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2011

At the Convio Summit earlier this month, we honored The American Heart Association (AHA) with an Innovator Award for the Best Team Event for their Youth Market Events, Jump Rope For Heart and Hoops For Heart ! RESULTS: Thanks to these tools and the fantastic team on the ground at AHA, the Youth Market events saw tremendous growth.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

As I learned from attending the just completed Convio Summit in Austin, Texas, a discussion about APIs and databases fortunately doesnt have to be technical. In fact, ASPCA and Conservation International received recognition during Convios Summit, in part for their successful use of widgets on social networks such as MySpace.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2010

I t's the season for a slew of reports analyzing last year's online giving results. Convio released their 2010 Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study in March, based on results from nearly 500 clients. As Convio found, average gift size declined. Its findings included: 14% growth in online giving overall. read more.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. I remember sitting in a session by Kurt Voelker of ForumOne Communications, Tompkins Spann of Convio, and Jeremy Carbaugh of The Sunlight Foundation. That’s today. They were talking about API’s.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2011

Convio wants to help you. Being prepared for an unforeseen surge of donations is something every nonprofit should be positioned for, and the swell of attention doesn’t need to come only from a natural disaster. This information was originally posted by Convio's Molly Brooksbank in March of 2010. Author: Kent Gilliam.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2011

David Glass from World Wildlife Fund and I had a blast spending our Wednesday morning with folks at the Convio Summit during our session "All Roads (Should) Lead To Sustainers.". Look for our book, published by Glass Heaven Convio WWF Publishing Co. Also, younger people (especially GenX) are twice as likely to donate monthly ).

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2013

Similarly, the results or value of efforts we make in our fundraising can accurately be measured in numbers. In reality, the most valuable efforts are not always the hardest, but those with the greatest likelihood to achieve the desired result. Percentage of self-donations. Average donation size. Team participation.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 18, 2011

Another day, another hallway conversation at Convio - this time about segmenting your e-mail housefile. At a minimum, you should be communicating different messages to those who have supported your organization in the past, and those who have yet to make a donation. What matters is - why does the donor donate to your organization.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Over the dozen or so years we have been doing event fundraising online, results analysis has revealed statistics that correlate to fundraising success.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

And how do you check results? In a tough economy, it also wanted to offer opportunities to get involved, participate, and donate at many different levels, but also not forget its core base of supporters. When there, volunteers set up a laptop that guests could use to make a donation via CC’s web site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

By Christy Noel , Vice President of Digital Marketing Services at MobileCause – a company that pioneered text-to-donate and also offers an extensive suite of online, mobile and event fundraising solutions. Here are our 4 proven ways to improve your online giving page so you can bring in more donations. Use a single-page donation form.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

Mobile strategy : From defining goals, to designing for mobile, to developing and executing campaigns, to measuring results, a growing number of digital strategy consultants can be your partner in effectively using the mobile channel. What kinds of results should you expect from your mobile efforts?

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

If you're on Convio, sourcing Facebook recruits is easy. At our last analysis, our Facebook recruits had donated a total of $3,793 in the last 12 months, with an average gift of $79. We've only recently begun aggressively recruiting our Facebook fans to join our eFile, so these results are immature.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Causemunity.org provides easy solution to your fund-raising needs through micro-donations. Convio in booths 107 & 108. Convio will be giving away an Apple iPad and also coffee in our booth during the Science Fair. For the duration of the conference, attendees can swing by the Convio booth for a coffee anytime as well.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2011

So using Causes , a Facebook app for micro-fundraising, I donated my birthday to a great cancer fighting organization. And actually one inspired by Convio's Social Media Week presentation, "Is Three a Crowd?" Donations are processed through Network for Good. from back in February.). Donors don’t have to be on Facebook.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

They can be both time and labor intensive – involving numerous stakeholders (board members, department directors, and key staff) and often you don’t see results for more than a year. Project HOPE is a Convio client I work with who recently re-launched their site after only working with our interactive agency practice for 4 months.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Causemunity.org provides easy solution to your fund-raising needs through micro-donations. Convio in booths 107 & 108. Convio will be giving away an Apple iPad and also coffee in our booth during the Science Fair. For the duration of the conference, attendees can swing by the Convio booth for a coffee anytime as well.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

It's about creating authentic, meaningful relationships that drive actions benefitting your organization: getting more members, volunteers, and donations. Your organization may already use a traditional CRM like Convio, Blackbaud, or Salesforce to track and maintain information about your members. So, what is Social CRM?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2011

That’s the service area for Philabundance , an amazing Convio client that provides food to approximately 65,000 people per week through direct services and network of 500 member agencies. In 2011, the results keep getting better!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2012

What better way of expressing this then when we commune through donating our time and, often more heart-touching, our dollars to those in need. So, how does this act of caring and sharing apply to you and your organization?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 31, 2010

This realization about event fundraising analytics was reinforced during recent conversations with Alan Cooke at Convio and Jeff Shuck at Event 360. For example, tell them to look in their sent folder and email the five people they’ve contacted most recently to ask them for a donation. Below are a few that stood out to me: 1.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2016

This massive number of small online donations made a huge difference in the campaign. Whereas before campaign donations were synonymous with “writing a check” now the ability to donate and participate online was accessible to large numbers of people like never before. Lesson Three: Ease of Donations.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over, the same US consumers clamoring for the best deal on a flat-screen TV or iPad say they will give an estimated $48 billion to charity during the last two months of the year according to a survey conducted by Edge Research for Convio.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. Another purpose is for membership lists, or group lists, or perhaps live tracking of donations from a specific campaign. Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 10, 2011

Pledges are donations made to an organization for a specific period of time (until the election) or for a specific project (help us accomplish this goal during the next two years). A couple of other sustainer nuggets: Many organizations have seen good results from combining sustainer asks with premium offers.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 29, 2012

That's when CHOICES turned to Convio Common Ground. Here are just some of the results that CHOICES has experienced after implementing Common Ground: Freed up 10-15% of their staff time by consolidating to one "go-to" database, the equivalent of hiring an additional part-time employee for $30K. Donors have given over $13,000 online. "We

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

It's been a little over a year since I fully deployed Convio Common Ground at the Colorectal Cancer Coalition. Common Ground's utility makes it possible by marking and locking posted donations. A donation can't be edited after-the-fact in Common Ground once posted, which would throw everything off. Still no regrets. It was slow.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The question was whether or not, on a recurring donation form, to ask the user to determine the duration of their gift. The default configuration for a recurring gift form in Convio looks something like this: The suggestion was to simplify the form, making it look something like this: Truth be told, I’m a marketer.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 23, 2011

One of the things I do as Convio’s CMS Evangelist is spend a lot of time thinking about how to help nonprofit organizations use web based technology better. Are constituents supporting our organization’s objectives – be they learning, donating, or taking action? What does “better” mean?

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MARCH 16, 2011

As a result, the room is full from start to finish, so come prepared to talk to dozens of exhibitors and meet hundreds of conference attendees. Convio Interested in learning how your website stacks up against other non-profits like yours? Curious to know what kind of emails are driving donations? Z2 Systems, Inc.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2010

In less than a week, nonprofits using Convio systems have raised over $100 million through email appeals, websites and social media outreach and many other organizations are raising record amounts. Designate Your Investment – Generally, it is best to trust your chosen charity to spend your donation as it sees fit.

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