Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email is a powerful marketing tool, but to get results you need to learn how to write fundraising emails that connect emotionally and inspire people to give. It takes careful strategy and deep knowledge of your donor to get the results you’re looking for. Nothing about your fundraising email should be left to chance.

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Candid

MARCH 21, 2024

At first glance, it would be easy to put a gloomy headline on the Council on Foundations ’ most recent CF Insights field survey tracking trends in community foundations’ 2022 asset growth, giving, and the activity of donor-advised funds (DAFs). Still, at $112.7 billion, total assets in 2022 were well above 2020 totals.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

That's where time tracking comes into play. Rather than simply tracking time for compliance or "because someone told you to," successful nonprofits take advantage of the incredible data created by tracking employee time. Time tracking makes fund and grant reporting easy.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

There are simple steps that organizations can take to obtain even better results. While nonprofits are aware that setting up their account the right way can improve results, they often don’t realize that improving their website can also help lead to better results from Google Ads.”

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of the most valuable assets that any nonprofit can have is consistent marketing and paid advertising data—this is especially true in the midst of a major crisis or shift that deeply impacts society, like tough financial times or global events. It may seem counter-intuitive, but it’s also the best time to take strategic risks.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Peer-to-peer fundraising often leverages social media and tech platforms to share campaigns, collect payments, and track progress. Create Urgency With Limited Time Challenges Creating urgency within your peer-to-peer campaigns motivates people to give, and give now. Here are a few tools and platforms to explore: Social media.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 31, 2023

Web design is still a relatively new field that’s changing all the time, but the resources available to your nonprofit make it easier than ever to transform your site into a conversion machine. If your CMS has a survey tool, consider using that to keep track of your event attendees. This way, you can easily monitor your guest list.

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CauseVox

MAY 4, 2021

How can you re-focus, re-prioritize, and get yourself back on track with your social media marketing? Her passion is to get organizations and change makers to stop spinning their wheels and start getting real results using digital tools. It is no longer business as usual. And in this live training, we will show you how to create one!

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EveryAction

JUNE 19, 2017

Organizations need a structured and effective way of following their grants throughout the grant's lifecycle so they can easily manage this very important revenue stream and track these funds in the same place as major gifts and other sources of revenue.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

With no real sign of AI slowing down or fading away, it’s worth taking the time now to prepare your association for the impact and influence AI will have on your members and employees. A simple first step would be to complete a time study of all your tasks to determine what you might want to automate. The results?

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Neon CRM

MAY 17, 2024

For example, research conducted by fundraising expert Penelope Burk suggests that first-time donors receiving a thank-you call from board members within 24 hours led to a 39% increase in the size of that donor’s second gift. For best results, donors should be called anywhere between 24-48 hours after their gift.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

The resulting data can help identify where members are in their journey, which members might be falling through the cracks, what opportunities your association can take advantage of to improve membership offerings and benefits, and so much more. Finally, you’ll want to consider the time decay of your offered activities.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 23, 2024

In that time, I’ve grown and led transformational, multi-national teams of over 200 team members. Bob Proctor once said: “Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result,” reminding us of the crucial role accountability plays in achieving success.”

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

If you’re struggling to find someone to share your data woes with, we’re here to help you decipher the signs and get you back on track. This leads to better communication, and over time, a more organized set up so you won’t be overwhelmed by where to go for the data you need in the moment. Probably not, right? Unsure where to start?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

How much time do you spend thinking about where your donors are coming from ? Leave the game of chance for another time. UTM s stands for Urchin Tracking Module (nothing to do with sea creatures ). UTM s are an extremely effective way to both track fundraising campaigns and measure their success. What are UTM s?

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

11 Digital Marketing KPIs That Every Nonprofit Should Be Tracking. Without tracking how your digital marketing strategy is performing, you can’t know how to improve or where to invest next to see results. Analytics tracking takes the guesswork out of important decisions around fund allocation, investment and marketing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Nonprofits have assets but instead of owners having equity in the balance sheet, net assets are tracked for a nonprofit. At a nonprofit, a donation must be tracked throughout the accounting process, and if the funds are restricted, supporting documentation is required to prove that the funds were only used for the stated purpose.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a nonprofit technology consultant, I spend a lot of time talking with people about their systems, staffing, and business processes. Every month, Barbara’s team had to do hours of detective work to find a missing pledge payment, or correct coding errors, or ask Alan’s team multiple times for reports on event sponsorship purchases.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Once you invest in some of these strategies, it’s important to track what works to engage with potential members. You can track metrics that will help you identify what’s working, including social media engagement, impressions and reach, database growth, event registration and attendance, and website visits and sessions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

You can also track engagement in different aspects of the organization. Track Engagement. You will also need to make sure that you’ll be able to track engagement with your messages. You can use this to determine the kind of communications that will deliver the best results. This can end up saving you a lot of time.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

And even when measured, it can be tricky to know how to use engagement scores to improve member experience and operational results. On the flip side of the Double Down strategy, IAEE was also able to identify activities and projects the team was spending time on that didn’t offer much return on investment.

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sgEngage

MAY 28, 2024

The process behind automated payments is similar to what finance teams follow today, but some of the steps are done by the system—reducing time for processing and resulting in faster payments. Invoices are paid, with a clear trail in the system for tracking. Reduce human errors and discrepancies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

The platform streamlines important processes like onboarding, voting, and creating agendas, so you’ll have more time to discuss the issues that really matter. Many of today’s nonprofits have remote or hybrid work setups, which means that directors are likely to be working in different time zones or locations.

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EveryAction

JULY 31, 2023

from our friends at Double the Donation The final few months of the year hold great significance for nonprofit organizations as a critical time for fundraising. In fact, Double the Donation research indicates that mentioning matching gifts results in a 71% increase in response rate and a 51% increase in average donation amount.

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Greater Giving

MAY 21, 2024

Conquering Donation Procurement: Track, Thank, and Triumph at Your Next Fundraising Event As fundraising professionals, we know the magic of a well-stocked fundraising event. This post will equip you with the essentials of procurement , from building a strategic wish list to tracking donations with ease. Fear not, fellow fundraisers!

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

Even though unrestricted funds don’t have mandates on how they should be spent, tracking and reporting on them is still important for both your donors and for your organization’s financial decision-making. Behavior: what people did differently as a result. Impact: what material change came about as a result of that behavior.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Each year Nonprofit Tech for Good features a new set of niche online fundraising tools that are timely and relevant for the year to come. GivePanel empowers nonprofits to better use Facebook Fundraising Tools by providing an easy way to thank all fundraisers, collect contact details, and track results.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

However, I encourage you to take some time to analyze your online fundraising campaigns to optimize your overall fundraising results. Reviewing your campaign daily, weekly, and monthly allows you to adjust the campaign for optimal results. It seems often easiest to “rinse and repeat” last year’s campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Time: 1pm EST / 10am PST. Instead, we will provide you with tactics and guides to improve your current strategies and results and show you how to determine what is working for your specific donors, your specific event, and your specific organization. How to track your efforts and use data to make smarter marketing decisions. <<

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Whole Whale

JULY 18, 2022

In fact, many fail to produce the desired results. If you keep track of your supporters’ key information in a central database (you should), you can use the donor data to make the ask personal whether it’s their name, length of time they’ve supported you, or where they’re located. Strategies for Great Appeals. Emotional journey.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 28, 2021

Some critical aspects are how often employees are surveyed and asked for feedback, how the quantifiable measures of success will be tracked, and how well the offerings are promoted. This might be a simple gesture, but the result guaranteed satisfied staff.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2019

What you expect the end result to be. You can use your Donor Management System to keep track of grants from donor-advised funds along with the recommending donor with these helpful features: Soft Credits for Charitable Sponsors . That way, these gift records are linked together for easy reference, tracking, and reporting.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 14, 2022

The results gave us a clear picture of the benefit of both Brand Awareness and Promotional Broadcast campaigns for Flourish. Timing is everything! Next, we created a marketing dashboard tool for scheduling and tracking social posts, email marketing blasts, and blog posting.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 25, 2023

That conveys it’s making an impact and is worth the invested time, energy, and money you’ve put into it. When Can I Expect to See Results from Google Ads? Then, you would track event sign-ups to measure the ad’s success. Then, you would track event sign-ups to measure the ad’s success.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Track your own data. Remember: Averages are a useful starting point, but there are all sorts of reasons why your results may deviate from the norm. The same is true for ongoing vs. first-time donors. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . Let’s say you’re a food bank.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Who or what are you going to compare your results to? The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2024

Smaller and medium-sized nonprofits lack the staff larger organizations have, which means fewer resources for keeping track of and engaging with past donors. Here’s where a robust donor relationship management (DRM) solution can help to support relationship building with new and one-time donors. It’s not easy to keep track of manually.

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