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How Canadian Cancer Society Increased Donations by 78% During #GivingTuesday

Connection Cafe

million raised, a 63% increase in total donations over 2013 according to the Case Foundation. I recently spoke with Mike Kirkpatrick, Director of Marketing at Canadian Cancer Society in Ontario who shared their story with me, and here are four factors I believe led to their success that you can use in 2015. Focus on the Follow-Up.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever – Guest Post by Joe Waters. A college grad researching a career in fundraising recently asked me what’s changed since I started in the field. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2000. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2004. Everything,” I replied.

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Last-Minute Boosts to Late-December Fundraising Emails

Connection Cafe

As a fundraiser, these may be your busiest two weeks of the year. Here are four last-minute tips to boost your December fundraising emails: Say More Than “Dec. How many Giving Tuesday emails did you receive asking you to make a Giving Tuesday gift on Giving Tuesday because it was Giving Tuesday ? 28-29, 2013.

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Lives are Changed when #bigkidsgive and how you can rock #GivingTuesday Next Year

Connection Cafe

Results collected from Blackbaud clients showed Online Giving was up 90% this #GivingTuesday, and the average online gift saw an increase of 40%, from $101.60 When we do fundraising… we should use few statistics and tell more stories.”. Get ready for some awesome fundraising ideas. in 2012 to $142.05 Novak of The Office.

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Is Social Media the Fund Development Professional’s Magic Bullet?

NonProfit Hub

Increasingly, board members are looking to development staff to devise a plan using social media to increase gift income. There were tens of thousands of people who never gave to ALS until they were specifically asked for a gift. Quite frankly, ALS is not a very wide spread disease like cancer or heart disease.

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Hidden TechSoup Product Donation Gems for Faith-Based Organizations

Tech Soup

Since the fall of 2013 when Microsoft made its product donations available to 501(c)(3) faith-based organizations including churches, synagogues, and mosques lots of faith-based organizations have been discovering TechSoup. You can see how this works at the case study: How the ACCO Used Crowdfunding to Help Kids with Cancer.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. Thus, organizations that do not adhere to data standards stand to lose fundraising dollars.

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