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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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

MAY 12, 2011

Knowing that non-profit supporters around the world have been adopting the use of social networking in their daily lives we set out to figure out if the use of social networks had any impact on personal or peer-to-peer fundraising. This resulted in increased fundraising results by up to 40%. Twitter as a Multiplier.

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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

JULY 28, 2011

Register for our monthly Event Fundraising eNewsletter to receive more practical fundraising tips like these in your inbox. Looking to be a more effective fundraiser? Or, do you work for a nonprofit and need to find ways to equip those who fundraise on your behalf? Set a Fundraising Goal and Continue to Raise It.

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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

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

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

APRIL 10, 2011

Affiliate programs, organic search traffic and even offline advertising scored higher than social. Fundraising via Social Networking. So, the question remains, Facebook is a great platform for many things, but is it useful for fundraising? Social Networking Adoption by Non-profits.

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Facebook Fundraising Work Comparison 260

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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NetWits

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). They also have varying levels of commitment to your event and organization.

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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 But how do these organizations achieve such incredible success?

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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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NetWits

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

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. Make Top Fundraisers Part of the Family. Follow them on Twitter and retweet relevant posts.

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Fundraising Raise Gift Registration 170

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

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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Gift Program Online Fundraising 188

NetWits

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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Celebrate Effective Fundraising Social 155

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

JULY 6, 2010

One of the key messages your organization should convey when fundraising is clearly establishing the need – or the solution to a challenge you’re trying to address. As nonprofits have gotten increasingly creative with fundraising, some pretty amazing marketing has emerged.

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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

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

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

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? Organize them.

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NetWits

JANUARY 26, 2010

Blackbaud and Event 360 have released a new white paper based on a joint research project to better understand the common denominators of a successful programmatic approach to third-party fundraising.

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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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Social Media Media Social Fundraising 101

NetWits

JULY 27, 2011

Event based fundraising has grown in incredible ways over the years. According to the Run Walk Ride fundraising council “The top thirty “thon” or event fundraising programs generated $1.65 You might want to join even if you’re not doing this type of fundraising. million or 1.74% from 2009 levels&#.

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NetWits

JUNE 5, 2012

However, we were considering adding social media elements to our website, so we asked several questions about if they used social media to fundraise, if they wanted to, if they used social media in general, to help our organization understand if this would have a benefit for our users. Want to Learn More?

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Survey Fundraising Advice Social Media 127

NetWits

OCTOBER 9, 2009

I recently started to fundraise on behalf of Room to Read – one of my favorite nonprofit organizations. I was able to build my own fundraising page, set my goal, and blast out emails to my friends to inspire them to give to a cause. It’s been fun and I got a great first response to my email blast.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Target Analytics , a Blackbaud company, announced last week the latest Index of National Fundraising Performance for the second quarter of 2009. The index compares trends in key fundraising indicators from 77 organizations, including over 36 million donors and more than 68 million gifts totaling almost $2 billion in revenue.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

More specifically we discussed grass roots fundraising and the rapid growth of online platforms that allow people to raise money for the causes they support. Questions for you … Will the fragmentation of online fundraising effect non-profits? Check out the video. Watch the Video from #bbcon.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Fundraising Success is a prominent fundraising magazine for nonprofits that provides invaluable information to professionals working in the nonprofit space.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

I was honored to present a webinar for Fundraising Success Magazine with Rob Gerth, Communications Director of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. The topic was Web Design for Optimizing Fundraising Functionality: Transforming Obstacles into Opportunities. it’s a journey.

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Online Fundraising Map Director 100

NetWits

JUNE 24, 2011

To review more of the report’s findings and discuss how organizations are able to make the case for investing in online initiatives despite direct mail’s continuing dominance, I hope you’ll join me at Care2’s free web seminar on June 29 at 3pm.

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NetWits

JUNE 3, 2009

I recently had the pleasure of presenting with Sarah Hall, the Online Giving Specialist from Canadian Cancer Society BC & Yukon Division (CSS) about their success using Blackbaud Sphere for multi-chapter event fundraising.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2011

The tie between online advocacy and fundraising is significant. So significant that organizations who run effective online advocacy campaigns followed by timely and relevant fundraising appeals are seeing double the fundraising response rates. Connecting Online Advocacy and Fundraising: The 1 Key to Success.

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Giving Advocacy Rate Action 235

NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

However, many are confused about how Twitter can help advance their organization’s goals. While new organizations are joining daily, others previously registered while never fully utilizing. Social Fundraising. Looking to build a new event or fundraising committee and want to involve new constituents?

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