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15 Lessons Learned from Donating Online to 32 Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To celebrate @NonprofitOrgs reaching 800,000 followers on Twitter, Nonprofit Tech for Good donated $800 to 32 nonprofits, specifically $25 each to the Africa Wildlife Foundation , Alley Cat Allies , Amazon CARES , Animal Defenders International , CARE , Conservation International , Doctors Without Borders , Dolphin Project , Elephant Sanctuary of Tennessee , Families Against Mandatory Minimums , Global Sanctuary for Elephants , Greenpeace , Human Rights Watch , International Anti-Poachi

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6 Things Wrong With Your Nonprofit Donation Page (and How to Fix Them)

EveryAction

End-of-year fundraising and #GivingTuesday are around the corner , so it’s time to pull up your donation page and make sure it’s up to scratch. Once someone has arrived on your donation page, it’s your job to make sure the experience is as painless and quick as possible. Here’s 6 things wrong with your donation page right now, and how to fix them.

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West Virginia VOAD Receives the Governor’s Service Award

VisionLink

VisionLink would like to congratulate the Member Agencies of the West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) on receiving the Governor’s Service Award. The award honors WV VOAD’s dedication to service and acknowledges their commitment to volunteerism throughout West Virginia. The West Virginia VOAD connects various organizations enabling them to work together during disaster, providing response, relief, and recovery.

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Robert on the (Internet) radio

Robert Weiner

This Friday, October 16 at 1 pm Eastern time, Nonprofit Radio will be broadcasting a discussion with me, Tracy Kronzak of Bright Step Partners; Marc Baizman of the Salesforce Foundation; and Dahna Goldstein of Altum. We'll be talking about how people and processes can be the real culprits behind technology problems. Links to listen live or get a podcast are posted at [link].

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Does Your Nonprofit Have A Wellness Strategy for Staff?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This photo is from an open space session during last week’s Funders Learning Lab: Investing In Network Leadership. I proposed a session with a title, “Going from Self Care to We Care” to talk about how do we scale a culture of self-care in networks. The networks, nonprofits organizations, and movements are filled with people who are passionate about social change work, but often work hard and long with few resources and many just keep going without giving a thought to self-

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Tis the Season: Making it Easy to Give Year-End Donations

Byte Technology

As any non-profit guru or, for that matter, financial analyst will tell you, the fourth fiscal quarter of any year—October, November and December—is the hottest time for garnering monetary support from your donor base. After all, people are anxious to max out those yearly tax write-offs, and the general aura of the holiday seasons lends an air of generosity and caring.

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15 Fundraising Success Metrics to Start Tracking

Donor Search

This post was written by Bill Tedesco, CEO of DonorSearch. Measuring your performance is a crucial step that nonprofits must take to succeed. There’s no better way of isolating and troubleshooting any ongoing problems. And worry not, there’s no shortage of methods of measuring performance.

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The One Secret To Better Virtual Meetings: Empathy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. 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.

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How to Secure Relationships with Millennial Donors

See3

For nonprofits, it is essential to consider that even though millennials have the smallest disposable income today, they will eventually reach higher levels of employment making it easier for them to donate more to causes they believe in. The post How to Secure Relationships with Millennial Donors appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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Samaschool Uses Tech to Empower Low-Income People

Tech Soup

Summer was usually quiet here in San Francisco, especially with our beloved World Series Champions looking less likely to repeat their wins (it is an odd year, after all). For some of our other neighbors in the SoMA district, it has been anything but quiet, with the loudest sound coming from that of the gavel. In June, the California Labor Commission ruled that an Uber driver was an employee rather than an independent contractor.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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3 Determiners of Donor Giving Capacity

Donor Search

Although most of us wish it were a science, determining donor giving capability is more of an art form. Prospect research reveals pieces of data about donors and then does the difficult task of analyzing what those data points mean. That meaning, a prospect research output, is donor giving capability.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Fishbowl Facilitation Technique

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I participated in the “Funders Learning Lab: Investing in Networks and Network Leadership.” The participants included both funders and practitioners with expertise in networks, leadership development, philanthropy and social justice. The goal was to add to our collective understanding about investing in network leadership and networks.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Beth Kanter is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. Beth is an internationally recognized trainer who has developed and implemented effective sector capacity building programs that help organizations integrate social

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5 Questions To Help You Find Your Nonprofit’s Brand Voice

See3

Have you ever scrolled across a branded tweet or Facebook post and fondly thought, “This is something I’d say to my friend” before you liked or starred the post? If you have, you experienced brand voice doing exactly what it does best: giving brands and organizations a personality that people can relate to. The post 5 Questions To Help You Find Your Nonprofit’s Brand Voice appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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How To Pump Up Employee Involvement

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are 10 tips for how to maximize employee involvement : Have active ways to listen to your employees. Check often with employees to see if the information you are sharing with them is what they need and what they want. Share information about customer satisfaction with employees. Discuss financial performance with your employees and be sure everyone understands the importance of profitability and how they can contribute to profitability.

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Check Out the Fresh, New Look of TechSoup!

Tech Soup

You might have noticed a fresh, new look for TechSoup — new logo, new website design for TechSoup.org. We are excited to have a "look and feel" that will better communicate who and what TechSoup is. We have approached our new branding with the nonprofits we serve in mind, limiting our investment to focus on what will enhance your experience and make it easier for donors to work with TechSoup.

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Ding, Dong, the Facebook Dislike Button’s Dead

Care2

While some nonprofits on Facebook have been excited by the new Facebook "Dislike" button, we’ve got some news – it’s not coming to fruition. Bloomberg reported that the Dislike button would “inject negativity into a social network fueled by baby photos and Corgis waddling at the beach.” While this news may be a relief for some nonprofits, it could be frustrating for others who were planning their campaigns around constituents’ Disliking things like Congress’ inaction on issues like gun violence

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Your Nonprofit Website is an Investment, Not an Expense

NonProfit Hub

Did you know that nearly 75% of nonprofits with a website designed their site in-house or they use a website solution that was free or donated by a volunteer or a public agency of some sort? Think about what this means. Three quarters of all the websites in the nonprofit sector were done on the cheap. It’s all about doing more with less. We’ve heard this expression in the nonprofit world many times—we have to “do more with less.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Why Mentoring Should Be A Two-Way Street

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In his new book, Discover Your True North , Bill George reminds us of the importance of making mentoring a two-way street. He explains that, "the best mentoring interactions spark mutual learning, exploration of similar values, and shared enjoyment. If people are looking only for the help from their mentors, instead of being interested in their mentor's lives as well, the relationship won't last for long.

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A Nonprofit's Guide to Antivirus Software and Malicious Program Defense

Tech Soup

This blog was originally published on TechSoup Canada and was written by Corbin Hartwick of Techboomers.com. We wanted to share it with our audience as a part of our larger online security series. As you may recall from our first post in the Internet security series , we reviewed safe online practices for your nonprofit. In this second installment of the series, we are going to delve deeper and showcase key antivirus software to protect your nonprofit and show how to avoid harmful malware.

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6 Steps to a Successful CRM Strategy

Donor Search

In an effort to bring our readers the best information available on prospect research and its surrounding topics, we like to sometimes highlight posts from outsides blogs that provide valuable insights and information regarding the nonprofit sector. Today we’re featuring one of those posts.

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Email Marketing Know-How: Get More Opens, Avoid the Trash

NonProfit Hub

Sending out emails can be frustrating, especially when you look at open rates. You put your sweat and blood (stupid keyboard) into writing the perfect email. And some people have THE NERVE to not even open it?? How dare they. You can’t force your audience to open your emails, but you can increase the likelihood that they’ll click your perfectly-crafted subject line and stay engaged in your killer copy.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Be Willing Top Say These Three Statements

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In Brian Tracy 's and Christina Stein 's new book, Find Your Balance Point , they point out the necessity and power of being willing to say these three statements : 1. " I was wrong." - The authors comment that it's amazing how many people make a mistake and do or say something that they know to be wrong, but because of their egos, they cannot admit it.

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6 Ways to Keep Your Organization Secure

Tech Soup

Like most nonprofits, your organization likely deals with a lot of data: donor contacts, details about the clients you serve, and data collected in the field. What if that data was compromised by malware, a virus, or a hacker? The right combination of security tools can help your organization stay locked down without getting in the way of your other tasks.

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The New Normal: Reputational Risks are Bigger than Ever

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Alexandrea Roman Social Media Specialist, Copy Writer Azeus Convene. There’s a saying that often refers to personal relationships: Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair. But think it over for a bit, and you’ll soon see that it’s quite applicable to management, too. It takes time for an organization to build a good reputation, but it takes only one publicized issue to ruin it.

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Are You Following or Leading at Your Nonprofit?

NonProfit Hub

Pamela Grow is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. She has raised tens of millions of dollars for her clients, readers and members. She’s the author of Simple Development Systems | Successful Fundraising for the One-Person Shop. . _. Have you ever been in a situation where you knew what to do—what’s more you knew the right thing to do—but your efforts were getting bogged down by the higher-ups?

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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When To Be A Coach And When To Be A Counselor

Eric Jacobsen Blog

A good manager is both a coach and a counselor. Generally, coaching should precede counseling. As a coach , a manager: identifies an employee's need for instruction and direction and this need is usually directly related to his or her performance or career goals. Coaching is collaborative. It relies on mutual, progressive goal-setting, personal feedback, and an ongoing, supportive relationship.

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Drive More Revenue with Email Marketing from Informz

Tech Soup

TechSoup is proud to announce our newest partner, Informz. Informz is an online email marketing service that allows you to send and track email communications. It includes professional email templates, marketing automation, and transactional capabilities, all designed for nonprofits. TechSoup offers three Informz products: two donations for new and renewing subscriptions and an access to discounted rates product.

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Use This: Audience Research in Rotterdam Provides a Template for Smarter Segmenting

Museum 2.0

Imagine a concise, well-designed report on audiences for cultural activities in a large urban city. Imagine it peppered with snappy graphics and thought-provoking questions about connections to research and audience development in your community. Stop imagining and check out the Rotterdam Festival's 2011 report on five years of trends in audience data and related audience development efforts.

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Drowning in Marketing Data? 3 Steps to Take Control

Connection Cafe

We know a lot about what is working in today’s multichannel world. We know that engaging and supporting our constituents throughout the Customer Journey and personalizing donor communications create long-lasting relationships. But, to engage donors in this way, we have to know them—and we do know a lot about them. In fact, we have so much data to analyze and interpret that it can be hard to know where to start.

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.