Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The average Facebook user has 338 friends, so if just one of your supporters shares information about your event you can increase awareness of your event significantly. Keep text brief but informative. Make it easy to make an informed and convincing ask. Want to go the extra mile?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. This was in the era before Facebook and there was far less information available compared today. This was in the era before Facebook and there was far less information available compared today. (My

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Their donation history. Their volunteer history. For community-based nonprofits, try searching for local employers that offer giving programs, like matching gifts or volunteer grants. Their donation history. Their volunteer history. Again, you may also want to look to other local nonprofits with similar causes.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

Research The first step is finding as much information as you can from your existing analytics. For instance: Customer Relationship Management systems (CRMs): help us track donor interactions and giving histories. Annie is active in her involvement at local animal welfare initiatives.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Embarking on Your AAPI Heritage Month Journey Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, celebrated every May in the United States, provides an important opportunity to honor the history, culture, and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Track participation data to inform future outreach efforts.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

This ensures seamless data transfers between the platforms, providing access to accurate information like the spelling of donors’ names or their giving histories. 75% of donors who give regularly seek information about the nonprofit’s impact. Explain the impact of donations.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. Celebrating a Region Rich with History. New stories surface, like arrowheads long buried, providing constant shifting of information that gives vitality to history."

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Prospect research allows you to evaluate donors’ capacity to give using information such as business affiliations, stock ownership, and home value. The other type of data nonprofits collect as part of prospect research is philanthropic data, including personal information, past giving, and nonprofit engagement history.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 23, 2024

On the flip side, community foundations and local nonprofits can organize citywide or regional giving days, like Spur Local’s Give Local Together Campaign , rallying entire communities in support of various causes. Creating an attractive, informative site is the first step in exciting supporters to rally behind your cause.

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

By integrating Raiser’s Edge NXT with VolunteerHub, nonprofits can better leverage two sources of constituent information and gain a more comprehensive view of each individual’s engagement and contribution history. What is Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Here’s how you can get started on this fundraising idea: Begin by diving into your fundraising data and analyzing the giving history of your donors. Use these insights to inform your nonprofit’s year-round fundraising activities. Joining the local affinity group you’ve been hearing about from your network.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

By automating your emails, your nonprofit can access these key benefits: Enhanced personalization : When you use an email automation tool that integrates with your donor database, your tool will automatically fill in emails with donors’ information. In total, we raised [$Total Revenue] to support the local animal shelter.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

TechSoup offers many donated and discounted products for nonprofit museums and history organizations, such as historical sites and societies, of every type. Your donors and members trust that you will keep their information safe. Get the tech you need to realize your mission!

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 4, 2024

Standardize practices such as auditing and appending data so no important information falls through the cracks. For instance, if you’d like to boost voter registration in a certain local community, you can send more voter information communications to people in that area. 3 engagement strategies for supporter mobilization 1.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Meet Sarah, a passionate and dedicated supporter of your local Humane Society, an animal rescue organization. They highlighted her history of giving, emphasizing the impact she had made over the years. Sarah likes information on the organization’s sustainability and wants to know what priorities are ahead.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The program — and the site itself — inspires and provides DIY planting solutions for anyone to both support local wildlife and address climate change directly, helping you to do good in your own backyard. She loves hiking and discovering the natural history of the Chesapeake Bay watershed with her husband and two sons.

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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Not only do your donors get to rock the night away, but you can use the concert to provide information about your mission and what you can accomplish. Many benefit concerts become annual events or make history for their cause. A good place to start looking for performers is with local musicians. What is a benefit concert?

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Neon CRM

MAY 23, 2023

Whether you’re looking to contact your congressional representatives or donate to a local nonprofit, here are four groups you’ll love (plus a resource for finding tons more). You can connect with a local chapter— take a look at their chapter directory to find the one nearest you.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

Here are some ideas: Share Community History – Non-organizational community groups and nonprofits that focus on a specific locality can create hyperlocal community engagement through pictures and documentation. It’s a way of interacting with other people, other places, and other times from anywhere you are.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. Learning can be formal or informal, designed or serendipitous, individual or collective.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. If you’re a new organization without many resources or contacts, you may have more luck working first at the local level.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

The State of Babies Yearbook is an annual report that provides a narrative of the data collected on the developmental needs of babies and toddlers that is shared with policymakers and caregivers to inform legislation and improve outcomes for babies and toddlers. National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For example, if your town is known for gorgeous cherry blossom trees, offering paintings with these trees by a local artist can inspire bidding. For example, a local bike shop could donate a bike, helmet, and a voucher for a free tuneup. Look for B&Bs in unique locations, such as beachfront or mountaintop locales.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks. For example, perhaps your nonprofit’s mission is to refurbish local community parks.

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

By integrating Raiser’s Edge with VolunteerHub, nonprofits can better leverage two sources of constituent information and gain a more comprehensive view of each individual’s engagement and contribution history.

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Integration Synchronous Blackbaud Module 52

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Commit to a shared measurement system: Common metrics hold the cohort accountable and informs future action. In every locale in which it is used, participating entities should adapt its application to its particular context. The first step to local adaptation is involving affected populations in the community’s story of change.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 17, 2024

With this information, you’ll have a concrete understanding of what you need to do to ensure your marketing efforts go off without a hitch. For example, you could feature event information on your website’s homepage, in your email newsletters, and on your social media. Promote your event through multiple marketing channels.

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2024

Next, if your CRM allows it, create smaller lists based on details around their history with you. Also, remember to include information about the different channels where they can donate. Use your donor management software to identify donors that haven’t donated in the last year. That group is your lapsed donor segment.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2023

While women’s role in philanthropy has recently gained visibility due to high-profile philanthropists like Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott, we must also recognize that women, particularly women of color, have a long history and diverse expressions of generosity. Women give broadly. Women give holistically.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

But first, a brief history of “the office” as a concept. They moved into one of the earliest examples of purpose-built office space in Britain and in doing so, “They created the bureaucracy to process information and make decisions about things that were taking place thousands of miles away," according to Swansea University's Huw Bowen.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Additionally, board members often have high-level connections in business, education, or even local and state government. They could help you coordinate a corporate volunteering day or connect you with a local club that is seeking a volunteering opportunity. Collaborate with local businesses. Connect with civic groups.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Once you have a supporter’s contact information and permission to text them, you can use texts as a critical touchpoint for building relationships that lead to more donations and increased involvement. RSVP here to join us for a fun day out in support of our local after-school program. We couldn’t make a difference without you!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Each of these partners has established deployments, an active community and a demonstrated history of creating transformative impact. Making Mifos more transparent by empowering staff to more easily use client information for document generation and reporting. Please join us in creating this transformative impact.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 23, 2023

Their giving history should determine how you talk to them. Based on this information, you can segment the list, tailor the messaging to engage each segment in a way that would be most compelling to them, and determine how much you ask that they give. Where did they give—was it through a peer-to-peer fundraiser? A one-time event?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 4, 2023

The letter should be personalized with each donor’s name and ask amounts calculated according to their unique giving history Outer window envelope with tease text, logo, and return address Pre-addressed reply envelope with a code to track the mailing. This letter puts all donor information on one sheet of paper. No labels needed!

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Neon CRM

MAY 1, 2023

It would also be strange to solicit a $1,000,000 donation from a major donor prospect who had no history with your organization. For example, say a library organization wanted to restore a historic local library. They may decide to hold an informational event at that library to engage individuals who are already connected to it.

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