Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Whether it’s rethinking how they contact their donors, the language they use on donor calls, where they ’ re direct ing their funds, or even how they ’ re partnering with students to drive donor engagement. She emphasized the importance of reaching out to students in a way that works for them and texting is helping her meet that need. .

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

“Our volunteer program plays an important role in providing the MacEwan student body with much-needed resources, services, and programs that would otherwise be unattainable without the support and commitment of volunteers,” said Tosheena Thompson, Volunteer Manager for Students Association of MacEwan University.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2019

How do you engage with former students beyond asking them for money? Alumni engagement is particularly important right now as advancement offices accommodate the effects student debt has on alumni philanthropic capacity. Everyone is talking about alumni engagement. For many institutions, the topic raises more questions than answers.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

At this point, nearly every university in the US has run or is considering starting a giving day. Of course, this trend started or was inspired by #GivingTuesday and some universities do participate in the day. However, there’s a successful example at nearly every type of university in the US and several in Australia, so why not yours?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

A location-based social network is a social networking platform that is built around the idea of " where you are " and you use it on your mobile phone. Harvard University did an experiment with having students use it to explore the campus. Your status updates are your physical location with a brief shout out or tip.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

Watch the donorCentrics® 2018 Annual Report on Higher Education Alumni Giving featuring Shaun Keister, PhD, vice chancellor of the University of California-Davis, for the online presentation of the Index of Higher Education Fundraising Performance. .

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. Across the US and Canada, the pandemic forced technology adoption at breakneck speed. School districts scrambled to get Chromebooks to students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

While I was there, I got a tour, visited some classrooms, and talked to a few students. In one classroom, I queried the students about their social media use. Carl , an assistant professor of communications studies at Northeastern University and researcher to find out what was underneath this. ???You

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Sending direct marketing pieces or starting your phone calls too early will draw attention away from your other fundraising activities. Be sure to connect nostalgia and fun social sharing activities with messaging that demonstrates the impact of their gift on students today. Adjust your goals as needed. Want even more tips?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. In 2004, the United States passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , requiring schools to provide special education services to eligible students.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

An advanced CRM software system is multifaceted, but its central purpose is to track every outbound communication—phone calls, emails, meetings, letters, and proposals—and every inbound response from constituents, such as purchases, donations, attendance at events, engagement, and correspondence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

Many early adopters in nonprofits got started this way - outside of the firewall. Tate's Mobile Blog is collecting audience input on the new building design at the Tate - via mobile phones to blog - or mob blogging. online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2019

The Traditional Phone Model is Shifting. Over the past ten years, our research shows that there has been a 50 percent decline in donor participation rates in phone programs. One of the most significant contributors to the declining phone program is lower phone effectiveness among middle-aged prospects. Fewer phone donors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2016

Dosomething.org launched a genius anti-bullying campaign to high school students before the start of the school year via a text message called The Bully Text. The text presented students with a game-like scenario in which students were bullying, or being bullied, or watching someone being bullied. Educate Through Texting Tips.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2015

One such participant was Erik Goebel, a 29-year-old University of Minnesota graduate student studying chemistry, a self-described geek who "likes to experiment with new technologies and try new gizmos and gadgets." mobile mobile phone fundraising donors mobile phones' It was pretty awesome. Dave Landry, Jr.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Do you get heart palpitations when you pick up the phone to make an ask for a philanthropic gift? 2002 research by Stephanie Brown, University of Michigan and NIH : Longitudinal research showed people who give live longer, reducing their risk of dying by nearly 60% compared with non-giving peers. 5 Benefits of Giving.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

Actually, they’re digital-native, so they’re on TikTok, they are really used to, you know, FaceTime, and they’re being on their phones all the time, which actually means that they crave and appreciate face-to-face communication, which some people think it’s the opposite. They mainly do fundraising.

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