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Infographic: Understanding Mobile Donors

TechImpact

'Do you know your donors? No, I mean do you REALLY know your donors? IF you don’t, it’s time to start paying closer attention! Knowing who’s giving to your nonprofit imbues you with the information you need to not only increase donations, but help your nonprofit inch closer to completing its mission. With the advent […]. The post Infographic: Understanding Mobile Donors appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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12 Nonprofit Donation Pages That Don’t Suck

EveryAction

'In our last post, we explained why donation pages on nonprofit websites are repelling potential donors. Whether they''re lacking responsive design, a streamlined, secure webform, or transparency as to how donations are used, most online donation pages are failing to meet fundraising expectations (or even making it harder on your nonprofit staff.). Now we''re back with a list of nonprofits that are doi ng online donation pages right with the 12 Best Nonprofit Donation Page Examples guide.

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2014 MedSurplus Alliance Conference

VisionLink

'On November 3 rd and 4 th , more than thirty representatives of Medical Surplus Recovery Organizations (MSROs), donors of surplus medical equipment and consumables, and academics met to explore the challenges and benefits that building a working alliance may have for individual organizations, donors, recipients, and the field of medical surplus recovery over all.

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Recruiting Members For Keeps – Free Expert Webinar

Wild Apricot

'Here are the details about our next Expert Webinar session: Recruiting Members for Keeps – Thurs. December 11 at 1:00 PM (Eastern).

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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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What 5 Factors Help Predict A Future Donors’ Giving?

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of Nonprofit Information. Have you and the decision makers at your nonprofit ever been sitting around a table trying to decide which demographic you should target during an upcoming donation campaign? Well, predicting your nonprofit’s fundraising potential is not a mystery. Future prospective donors can be predicted with surprising accuracy based on a handful of factors.

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Over a Hundred Gather for EveryAction First Look

EveryAction

'Last night, over a hundred of our friends and colleagues joined our team at Studio Theatre for EveryAction First Look. We’re so excited that finally nonprofits have a tool that will help them raise more money and build more support for their cause. And our team is here to help empower those nonprofits with our unified platform for engagement with supporters, online and off.

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Mission-Driven Volunteering: Your Questions Answered

Wild Apricot

'You asked and our webinar presenters answered! Here are the questions and answers from our Mission-Driven Volunteering webinar.

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30+ Custom GoogleAnalytics Dashboards For Nonprofits

TechImpact

'Google Analytics helps nonprofits understand their website. Period. It’s visual representations of data makes the task of aggregating and crunching data much easier and less time consuming. From knowing what time of the day your website get’s the most traffic, to the part of the world those impressions are coming from, Google Analytics is an invaluable tool for your nonprofit.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping.

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3 Exercises to Help Bring Confidence to Your Work

See3

'Storytelling, setting limitations and "killing your babies" can help make great video, and give you a confidence boost in the office. The post 3 Exercises to Help Bring Confidence to Your Work appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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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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Should Your Organization Take The "Gratitude Challenge"?

Wild Apricot

'Since it''s the season of giving thanks – is it time your non-profit or charity took the "Gratitude Challenge"?

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The 4 Building Blocks For Happy Volunteers

TechImpact

'Are your volunteers taken care of? No, I mean REALLY taken care of. If you were to ask all of your volunteers, how many of them would say they were given everything they needed to be successful? Or that they were satisfied with their experience working for your nonprofit? 50%? 70? 99? Chances are, your volunteers are what makes your nonprofit go. They’re the heavy lifters, the guys and girls on the ground.

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Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 million for nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Community Block Party attendees check out participating nonprofit organizations during the event. Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. Note from Beth: It’s Giving Day Season! I’m working with a network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting giving days as the facilitator. The peer learning exchange is experimenting with best practices for Giving Days.

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate the New Media Landscape

NTEN

'In 2009, Clay Shirkey predicted , “For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special cases.” Meaning, as print news becomes obsolete, nuanced approaches to information-sharing will emerge that will meet the intended goals of journalism; consumption of information will change; and reporters will no longer be the only ones who are breaking news.

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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 Be a Web Developer’s Dream Client

See3

'Being a great client can help your web project stay on time and on budget. Read 4 easy things you can do to create a great relationship between your organization and an external web team. The post How to Be a Web Developer’s Dream Client appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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10 Content Marketing Stats That’ll Make Your Jaw Drop

TechImpact

'Image courtesy of lmsShortSales. Only recently has a definition of content marketing been widely accepted. Before, content marketing was a loose collection of ideas, thoughts and conjectures about the way consumers MIGHT respond to a new marketing models. The marketing and advertising purists balked. The idea of offering consumers thoughtful and researched and relevant content for nothing seemed like a great way to spend a lot of time and resources to get nothing direct in return.

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The Ultimate Tool for Managing Your Organization’s Social Strategy: LightBox Collaborative Editorial Calendar 2015 Edition

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

'Note from Beth: Last week I was in New Orleans for the National Assembly of State Arts Councils meeting. I facilitated a peer session with Public Information Officers and a Mini-Workshop on managing and measuring a social media presence. We covered strategy, especially identifying audiences through personas and key objectives. Most importantly, participants began to think through their content and engagement strategies.

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Disruption: The New Normal

NTEN

'Josh Schukman. Business Development Manager. VolunteerMark. It's true that the only true constant is change, but then how can nonprofits plan? Disruption is the new normal. Institutions and industries that have existed for generations are being crushed by the onslaught of technology and its propensity for exponential growth.

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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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The Ten Golden Rules Of Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'This month saw the release of the new book, The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership: Classical Wisdom for Modern Leaders. As you dig in, you''ll step back in time to learn philosophies of the past and how to apply them today. Authors M. A. Soupios and Panos Mourdoukoutas offer a fresh approach to becoming a great leader by learning from antiquity''s great thinkers, such as Aristotle, Hesiod, Sophocles, Heraclitus, and others.

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30+ Custom GoogleAnalytics Dashboards For Nonprofits

TechImpact

'Google Analytics helps nonprofits understand their website. Period. It’s visual representations of data makes the task of aggregating and crunching data much easier and less time consuming. From knowing what time of the day your website get’s the most traffic, to the part of the world those impressions are coming from, Google Analytics is an invaluable tool for your nonprofit.

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5 Techniques to Get Your Community Ready for #GivingTuesday

Tech Soup

'With #GivingTuesday only weeks away, hopefully your fundraising campaign plan has taken shape and you're feeling prepared for the big day. You've got your appeal solidified, communications materials drafted, and partners on board. But does your community know your plan? You may think that because #GivingTuesday is a 24-hour challenge, you don't need to give your community advanced notice.

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Empowering Communities in Land Use Development Projects

NTEN

'Jeb Ory. CEO. Phone2Action. The power of community engagement is in your hands. Behold, your phone. Through utilizing mobile engagement tools , consulting firms are now making it easier for community members to get involved.

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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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8 Specific Actions To Show You Value Your Employees

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'There are eight specific actions business leaders can take to show that they value their employees , according to Andrew Leigh , author of the book , Ethical Leadership -- Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Business Culture. Those eight behaviors are: Attention -- Pay attention to what people say to show your interest. Listen -- Make time to hear what colleagues, peers and employees have to say to show you care.

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How to Hire a Fantastic Development Director

BoardAssist

'Having the right Development Director leading your nonprofit’s fundraising efforts is critical. But finding that fundraising superstar may be quite difficult. For pointers on how to hire that perfect Development Director, guest blogger Amy Eisenstein weighed in this week with her very helpful thoughts on how to meet this challenge and more. Thanks Amy!

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Tech Impact Helps Nonprofits Open a Door to the Cloud

Tech Soup

'Jason Samuels is the director of innovation and technology at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Minneapolis. NCFR is a professional association for the multidisciplinary understanding of families. Its goal is to bring together theory and academic research in the field of family science with practitioners who are working directly with families.

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The Impact of Your Donation: Karen Borchgrevink, 14LCS Scholarship Recipient, Shares

NTEN

'Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships. To whom did the scholarships go, and what was the impact of your donation?

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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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4 Questions To Ask An Employee When He Quits

Eric Jacobsen Blog

'As a leader, it''s critical that you understand the real reasons employees leave your company. To do that, you need to ask specific questions that may not be ones you currently include in your exit interviews. Fortunately, Richard Finnegan , shares in his book, Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad , four key questions you should include in your exit interviews : Why did you decide to leave us?

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Building Your Nonprofit Marketing Plan [INFOGRAPHIC]

NonProfit Hub

'This infographic originally ran in our Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a free bi-monthly magazine dedicated to providing focused content on a particular topic. In our November/December edition, we explored how to build your 2015 marketing plan. To reserve your free copy of our January/February issue on donor retention, sign up today. . ————————————————. Managing your nonprofit marketing plan can feel a whole lot like the game Tetris.

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Psssst! Your Website Is Trying to Tell You Something

Tech Soup

'Our charity and nonprofit websites can potentially bring in a goldmine of information about our audiences. Web analytics tools gather data that can help nonprofits better engage stakeholders, drive donations, and measure the success of their online presence. But you do need the right tools to gather and understand that information. Unfortunately, according to a new study by the Nonprofit Times and data analytics firm, Cardinal Path , nonprofits may not be making the most of the data our website

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The Impact of Your Donation: Paul Webster, 14NTC Scholarship Recipient, Shares

NTEN

'Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships. To whom did the scholarships go, and what was the impact of your donation?

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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.