Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. Here are fundraising strategies that proved effective across the sector: Healthcare – Investing in capacity. K-12 – Driven by data.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2013

Peer to peer fundraising events like runs, walks and rides have become a staple for nonprofit fundraisers, and often bring in more revenue than any other fundraising campaign throughout the year. What are you doing to ensure your fundraisers have the tools they need to be multi-channel in their outreach efforts?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2014

Whether you are monitoring your event progress week to week until you reach the big day or you are reviewing your results, your fundraising event success depends on monitoring your metrics such as participant solicitation activity, average gift, as well as your middle to outlying fundraisers. Self-Donations and Average Gift.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

million for 520 South Florida nonprofits, with a total of 19,245 gifts. Working with a cohort of local partners , including Knight Foundation, The Miami Foundation helped incentivize community giving by making a bonus gift for every online donation between $25 and $10,000 received on Give Miami Day. Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Now, in your 6th year, drum roll, tell us Give to the Max Day by the numbers : Total raised: $18,316,626.42 (7% increase over 2013). Total gifts: 120,664 (13% increase over 2013). Total organizations: 5,544 (a 25% increase over 2013). Total donors: 62,607 (a 20% increase over 2013). Fundraising' Stay tuned!

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NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2013

Haven''t renewed your 2013 NTEN membership or thinking of joining? From July 1 through August 30 you can join or renew for 2014 and get the rest of 2013 free! The 2013 Millennial Impact Report was recently released by Achieve, which seeks to help nonprofits better understand and engage with this group. Help out with a study!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013. Create Once, Publish Everywhere: This tip is a nod to the need to use multiple channels – email, web site, offline, mobile and social. Social Media is great for this sort of thing,especially if you can say thank you shortly after they make the gift. Fundraising'

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

The last three years, in particular, have shown how online giving continues to be a growth engine for fundraising in the nonprofit sector. Since 2016, online fundraising has grown 17% among nonprofits in the United States. of total fundraising revenue. Do not confuse the channel of engagement with the channel of the transaction.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Michael Johnston is the president and founder of the global fundraising consultancy, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc), which has offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, and Cordoba. The increase in use of mobile devices has led us to a place where mobile fundraising can no longer be ignored.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Throwing back to the 2013 Benchmark Study , we witnessed an explosion of growth of sustainer giving – a 27% increase over the previous year. Online sustainer gifts accounted for 8.59% of total online fundraising, which represented an 8.08% increase over previous years. . Hungry for more?

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

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. Staffers must not stray the course to focus on “fundraising” versus “development.”

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2014

in 2013 and has been growing by double digits ever since. Though it still doesn’t represent a massive amount of total giving, it’s well worth the effort to optimize your online channels in order to get the best possible performance out of it. Getting a one-time gift is great, especially if that gift is a big one.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

A fundraising strategy should be integrated across many channels, but with a slightly different emphasis by generation: Gen Y (b. They are also comfortable making a mobile gift – but more so through a website or app than text. They are truly multi-channel donors, and they want to hear about the impact of their donation.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2014

million raised, a 63% increase in total donations over 2013 according to the Case Foundation. Additionally, CCS didn’t just use one channel to market their #GivingTuesday campaign, they shared a consistent and targeted message across their social pages, email lists, and website banners. Build upon the Buzz. Share in the comments below.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As a fundraiser, you pour your heart and soul into preparing the year-end campaign, but by the time the champagne has popped, the new year is off to the races before you have time to catch your breath. That may sound cold, if not ruthless, but you’re a fundraiser first. Choose your channels. Channel coordination.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Post by Michael Beahm, Channel Marketing Manager at Blackbaud. 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.”. Connect with him on Twitter!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Overall fundraising revenue for 334 churches, synagogues and other faith-based organizations representing nearly $1.2 target="_blank">The Blackbaud Index that tracks fundraising revenue for congregations and other faith-based organizations. percent for the three months ending October 2013, compared to the same period a year earlier.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Johnston is the president and founder of the global fundraising consultancy, Hewitt and Johnston Consultants (hjc), which has offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, and Cordoba. LinkedIn use rose 24% from our 2010 study to 48% in 2013. He has helped raised over a billion dollars for his clients. Let’s dig deeper, shall we?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

You can insert personalized content that: Cultivates (thank recent donors/volunteers; report how gifts were used). I cover more —mobile, channel integration, messaging, structure—in a recent AFP webinar, which you can watch here. Blackbaud’s 2013 Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits. How to Personalize Your Emails.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

They gave Dozer a ceremonial finisher medal and set up a fundraising webpage for Dozer. Dozer’s fundraising page raised over $25,000 for cancer research that first year. Dozer had an official role in the Maryland Half Marathon in 2012 and 2013. Social media channels are essential tools for extending your reach.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) billion in 2013. billion in 2008 to $29.8

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Your blog is your gift to them, as well as to yourself. Yes, even your older donors!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2014

This is the 2013 edition of my annual review of year-end email subject lines that started in 2011 and continued in 2012. I analyzed 320 email messages sent to me from 55 nonprofit organizations between December 1st and 31st, 2013. Nonprofits sent a median of 5 emails during the month of December 2013. Email Frequency.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Email is one of the most important communication channels for your nonprofit. It also happens to be the top driver of online donations , generating 35% of gifts. If your list is 14,000 people, you could expect 10 gifts per email. So you can send one email and get 10 gifts, or you can send four emails and expect 40 gifts.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2021

However, we are suggesting that you consider ways to reach people who you don’t reach with direct mail, as well as to take advantage of the shift to digital channels that has been accelerated over the past 12 months. 4 Ways to Use Online Fundraising to Encourage Gratitude on Doctors’ Day. Send a virtual thank you card.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

Best Interactive Campaign – Heifer International – Heifer International needed to develop a fundraising campaign that would stand out among others and engage donors during the busy 2012 holiday season. Read the case study. Read the case study. Read the case study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

I’ll be talking about the role of hyper-connected donors based on my experience and some recent research that shows how valuable these champions are for crowdfunding and social fundraising. 9237 is the average amount raised when groups are working on a team to fundraise. Set realistic fundraising goals. I love serendipity!

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2017

For more than a decade now, there has been much debate about whether online activists would ever turn their clicks into gifts. We are seeing how actigiving is accelerating how people move from just hearing about the causes they care about to quickly supporting them with a gift. Goodbye, slacktivism. Hello, actigiving.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

bbcon 2013 , Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits concluded last week, and as I remember some of my favorite moments during the conference, one tops them all. Joseph’s Indian School wanted to determine which group of donors it should focus on for renewals, reactivation, sustainers, and major gifts for the highest return-on-investment.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

That is significantly below average gift amounts through online donation forms. The Right Donor Data Transfer There is a lot of time and attention on what goes into getting someone to make an online gift. Apple could do a lot more good for the nonprofit sector by offering special discounts to organizations or gift-in-kind programs.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

For a refresher, my 2013 piece Non-Technology Trends for the CIO and a 2011 white paper for the Association of Fundraising Professionals on similar topics may be good places to start and worth a read as well.). And, for better or worse, this New Normal is not going away anytime soon. Working Smarter. Maintaining top-line growth (e.g.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2013

The trick is to find the right people, make the right offer and steward gifts strategically. Fraser will profile your best HERO prospects, what their giving potential is, what will trigger big gifts - and what you need to do to keep them giving big to you. Fraser is a gifted writer and a sought after public speaker.

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