NetWits

AUGUST 11, 2011

Register for our monthly Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. The seven event fundraising techniques or “best practices&# described here emerged from analyzing data and interviewing nonprofit event and development staff. Register Now ! Recruit team leaders.

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JUNE 23, 2011

— When creating any fundraising campaign there are two items that should always be on your short list list. So, what are the 2 key elements of successful fundraising campaigns? Oh, and improved fundraising results. Increase YOUR Fundraising Results by 10%. We’re looking forward to the webinar Brian!

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2012

It’s also spreading around the fundraising and nonprofit world. Some people are starting to call it “Crowdsource Fundraising” But haven’t we been doing “crowdsourcing” for a little longer than 5 years in the event fundraising space? Fundraising Page Badges. Email Signatures.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2012

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. Download the report now! . For a large portion of the nonprofit sector December is a critical time of year. But should it be?

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NetWits

AUGUST 8, 2012

Download the full Multichannel Fundraising Report. to learn more about the turn to online fundraising, the need for a multichannel approach and how direct mail is still alive and well. Taking a strictly intuitive position on online giving can actually be harmful to nonprofits overall fundraising efforts. Download Now!

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NetWits

MAY 15, 2012

Download the complete 2011 Online Fundraising Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. With that in mind, here are four online fundraising tactics that every nonprofit should have in place.

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Have you ever thought to yourself, “ hummm, I wish I could turn my non-fundraising participants or low-dollar fundraisers into money raising superstars! ”? Register Now ! Sounds familiar, right?

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NetWits

MAY 17, 2012

Download the complete 2011 Online Fundraising Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. Online Fundraising has become a popular and successful method for nonprofits trying to increase revenue and acquire new donors.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

End-of-year is a very busy time for fundraisers. Lots of ideas are bouncing around, campaigns that have been run for years are spinning up, and new end-of-year fundraising campaigns are coming to life. That said, do you ever wonder, “how do I make my end-of-year fundraising campaigns stand out from the crowd?” Competition.

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NetWits

JUNE 26, 2012

As fundraisers we are always looking for new and innovative ways to increase donations. It’s not surprising that one of the questions I get asked most from the nonprofits I work with is “ what’s next in fundraising ? Historically most fundraising programs have been organization to donor. So what’s next?

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NetWits

JANUARY 17, 2013

As a nonprofit focused on fundraising, you’ve likely started making resolutions … It’s 2013.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Many summer peer-to-peer fundraising events will be opening registration in the upcoming months (hopefully, yours included). Superstar fundraisers respond differently than those who raise the minimum.

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NetWits

MARCH 4, 2011

Is it how to engage and inspire your participants to fundraise more effectively? But I happen to think what matters most to event fundraisers is your participant. How do you motivate and incent them to meet their fundraising goals? The average fundraising goal of the study group was $100.00-$199.00.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Click Here to Sign-Up and get 5 FREE Event Fundraising Whitepapers! Ok, on with the 10 expert event fundraising strategies and free recorded consulting … Turn Donors into Fundraising Machines.

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NetWits

APRIL 10, 2011

Fundraising via Social Networking. So, the question remains, Facebook is a great platform for many things, but is it useful for fundraising? By comparison only 70% of small businesses use Facebook as part of their online strategy. of non-profits were able to raise over 10k through Facebook in 2010.

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NetWits

JUNE 2, 2011

Register for our Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Events Newsletter and get a monthly dose of quality content. Groupon , Care2 , Zynga and the like are already using gaming elements to drive fundraising, engagement, word-of-mouth sharing and stickiness amongst other things. Are you ready to add a gaming element to your fundraising efforts?

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Register for our monthly Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. According to the Run Walk Ride fundraising council “The top thirty “thon” or event fundraising programs generated $1.65 Register Now ! billion in gross revenue for charity last year, up $28.1

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Which means Social fundraising (peer-to-peer fundraising with a social media twist) is gaining more traction and attention. These social networking platforms coupled with the ability to leverage them for fundraising creates incredible possibilities for both nonprofit organizations and people who want to change the world.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

Whether it’s your first fundraising event, or tenth, helping supporters be great peer-to-peer fundraisers is always on the mind of successful event fundraising organizations. Giving them the tools they need to be successful fundraisers is important, but beyond that there’s so much more that can be done.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Armed with a fundraising page and email tools, peer-to-peer fundraisers turn their family and friends into donors. So, I thought I’d share five ways your organization can increase peer-to-peer fundraising revenue. So, I thought I’d share five ways your organization can increase peer-to-peer fundraising revenue.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Guest post by Bill Connors , author of Fundraising with The Raiser’s Edge: A Non-Technical Guide. — Recurring Giving - The #1 way to create steady fundraising revenue. One of the ways nonprofit organizations are meeting this demand is by placing some of their focus on building successful online fundraising programs.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

Every fundraiser knows the role that social media users played in delivering dollars to the American Red Cross for disaster relief in Haiti and to Planned Parenthood for mammogram screenings in the wake of the Komen Foundation’s withdrawal of funding, but actually how social media delivers such results has been a bit of mystery.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For the past 30 days I have been participating in Movember : a worldwide team fundraising campaign to fight men’s cancer. While the dogooder in me loves a great cause, I also relish the opportunity to learn more about online fundraising and why people give. What I Learned About Online Fundraising. Email is Still King.

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NetWits

JULY 18, 2011

It’s a great time to start fundraising contests if you’re managing or helping run a fall fundraising event. While this is not an outright fundraising ask, it will result in dollars raised. When it comes to fundraising, what we’re really trying to do is get participants to take action. Now it’s your turn!

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NetWits

MARCH 8, 2012

And because fundraising continues to shift from offline to online nonprofits are faced with a growing need to find new and innovative ways to do fundraising through online sources. The move towards a multichannel fundraising approach (online and offline) is becoming more and more critical to long-term success.

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NetWits

APRIL 19, 2012

Download The 2011 Index of Higher Education Fundraising Performance Report to learn more about the 6% revenue growth and other key performance indicators of annual funds at more than 100 public and private institutions. Overall, like other fundraising areas, Higher Education fundraising is bouncing back to pre-recession levels.

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NetWits

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I’m often asked “Why are you such a fan of peer-to-peer fundraising ?”. Well, I describe my love for P2P fundraising with one word “Forgiving”. Losing or not meeting your goal never feels good, but if you learn from your mishaps you’ll be a better fundraiser. Let me explain. Free 1 hr Webinar.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

Social fundraising continues to drive millions of fundraising dollars each years, but can it work if you’re not a large healthcare organization. YouTube is the worlds second largest search engine, but does Googles nonprofit program make video a useful fundraising channel? Don’t sweat it.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Year end fundraising is a big deal. About one-third of all charitable giving …

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Register for our Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Click Here to Sign-Up and get 5 FREE Event Fundraising Whitepapers! Experience shows us that only 40% of your 2011 fundraisers will return for next year’s event. That’s a challenging number to digest.

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NetWits

MARCH 24, 2011

This interview was initially published in our monthly eNewsletter – Strategies, Tips and Best Practices for Event Fundraising Professionals. We’ll be delivering information and resources for event and team fundraising professionals on a monthly basis. Make sure to subscribe to get future issues.

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NetWits

MAY 24, 2011

Today I want to spend a little time thinking about the most important type of participant in your fundraising event (i.e. You cannot be a semi-established NPO or run a moderately successful fundraising event without them. So, how can you harness the power of your most effective fundraisers? Run, Walk, Ride, etc). Organize them.

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NetWits

MARCH 31, 2011

and how the future of online fundraising is heavily tied to peoples social networks. As you’re watching remember … using social media as part of an overall fundraising strategy is still fairly new to the non-profit world. Neff talks Social Media Fundraising with Frank Barry. Watch the Video from SXSW 2011.

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NetWits

OCTOBER 26, 2012

This year, one of the strongest fundraising trends we’ve seen is for nonprofits to cultivate “third …

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NetWits

JUNE 1, 2011

Register for our Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Newsletter and get a monthly dose of quality content. Now that we are all “believers,” the next step is to know how it is affecting us and our online fundraising. Now that we are all “believers,” the next step is to know how it is affecting us and our online fundraising.

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NetWits

JULY 9, 2012

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. No matter how well an organization is doing with its online fundraising, it will eventually hit plateaus and declines.

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NetWits

APRIL 13, 2013

That’s the hashtag we’ll be using when I start talking about the impact of social media on fundraising with John Haydon , Farra Trompeter from BigDuck, Carie Lewis from HSUS and Casey Golden from SmallAct at #13NTC. The most engaging person on twitter will win a bound copy of our new npEXPERTS fundraising and marketing eBook.

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