Greater Giving

JUNE 17, 2021

The world of nonprofit fundraising changed dramatically in the last eighteen months. We’ve detailed many of these shifts, and the lessons learned from them, in the recently-published The State of Nonprofit Fundraising report. Virtual events dominated the space formerly occupied by staple annual fundraising galas.

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Care2

MARCH 14, 2011

One of the key questions I get from nonprofits is, “How much money should we be raising online?&# It’s a good question and hard to answer, especially if your online fundraising program is new and you have little data. Online is the fastest growing fundraising channel for nonprofits! Advocacy supports fundraising.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2022

As fundraising professionals, we are on the frontlines of the digital revolution. In this blog, I’m going to bust some common myths about major giving to show how a digital-first mindset can benefit even the most analog of fundraising practices. Giving fundraisers a new tool is often met with desperate sighs.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Constituent relationship management systems (CRM) are a great way to automate data collection, aggregation, and build financial, business, and operational reports–all of which are going to help you the next time you meet with your board.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2022

As fundraising professionals, we are on the frontlines of the digital revolution. In this blog, I’m going to bust some common myths about major giving to show how a digital-first mindset can benefit even the most analog of fundraising practices. Giving fundraisers a new tool is often met with desperate sighs.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2012

In January of last year I wrote up a quick summary on how some of our clients' end-of-year fundraising campaigns did vs. the prior year, and I thought it’d be nice to repeat the exercise to see how nonprofits fared in 2011. A ton more gifts – 93% saw an increase in the number of gifts made.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 22, 2018

At EveryAction, we know that major gifts officers and other development professionals need to have as much information as possible about their prospective donors in order to fine-tune their "fundraising asks.". What is WealthEngine? The Integration. Interested in learning more about the new WealthEngine + EveryAction partnership?

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Image courtesy of Fundraising 123. Salesforce allows you to log and aggregate every interaction your nonprofit makes with a donor, prospective donor, or organization in one easily accessible place. Fundraising Tech donations donors nonprofit npTech Salesforce tech tracking' How is all your donor information saved?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. If you have no idea who you might approach for capital gifts, and/or no history of major gift fundraising, you’ll be hard-pressed to make good use of purchased wealth modeling and research tools. . Have a question for our Fundraising Coach? See here.].

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2017

It can simplify your administrative work, allow for 360 degree view of your organization, and even help you raise more money. Automation, however, makes aggregating the information nonprofits need to make high level decisions simple by syncing it between otherwise separate apps. See how you can integrate your fundraising software!

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 17, 2016

Like most nonprofits, you’re going to spend a lot of time, attention, and money on fundraising to reap the rewards of a giving season that’s expected to see more than $30 billion in donations. And, like most organizations, I’m guessing you don’t have a lot of extra time or money. Aggregate Your Fundraising Data.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2022

You could include page tabs like Nemours did but also include a thermometer widget on your FundHub page that will aggregate the totals from your peer-to-peer and auction sites into one goal that makes it easy for supporters to see your combined progress from both events. Make the most of your additional page tabs!

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The only way to truly know what works to raise more money through your email appeals is to test. We’ve run nearly 600 online fundraising experiments , and we’ve learned that there is no perfect subject line formula that will work for every audience. With each type of email (like fundraising, advocacy, personal, etc.),

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

49% of nonprofits have no idea how much money their organizations will lose to donor attrition each year. 80% of nonprofits recently surveyed claim their organization does not spend enough time preparing for and launching fundraising campaigns. 49% have no idea how much money their organizations will lose to donor attrition each year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I've been experimenting with online fundraising in an age of social media since 2006. Last week, I wrote about Twestival , the most recent example of fundraising on Twitter and a networked fundraiser of a scale we haven't seen before. It is evolving from individuals leveraging their personal networks to groundswells.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In some cases, money also exchanges hands such as in innovation challenges where you might be seeking a solution to a complex R&D problem and provide an award to the solver. If speed is a goal, crowdsourcing may not be your best option, however, saving money and freeing up staff time can be reasonable outcomes. You raise $9,000?

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2011

Industry news on your topic – Don’t just regurgitate the news for them, they can set up a Google e-alert for that, but rather, aggregate the news in a way that is engaging by asking them what they think. Ed Norton Talks Social Fundraising, Crowdrise, and Hope for Haiti. Here are a few of her tips. Read more here.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2014

The second saw the rise of crowdfunding and platforms that allowed supporters to rally around a cause, engage their peers, and take more ownership over the fundraising process. Giving is so much more than just money and people should be empowered to see and feel good about everything they give. Fundraising'

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Chatbots can help with customer service and routine requests, such as how to contribute money, address a budget question, or learn about upcoming programs. Fundraising. The cognitive insight intrinsic to AI parses the data for fundraisers. Chatbots can even schedule appointments. If it can be measured, can it be managed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. It probably isn't too early to start thinking about that busy year-end online fundraising season.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

And, those who wanted to make money would head to Wall Street. That’s changed. I explained that the idea of looking at your aggregate networks was to look for gaps related to strategy – not facilitate communication about management issues. They want to combine both. That they have a “Do good where ever attitude.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." Proclaiming that fundraising using Facebook Causes was a failure based on a calculation of dollars per donor. . My fundraising colleagues concur.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 28, 2023

Think back to your team’s last fundraising campaign. Would you consider the fundraiser a success? Did you find it easy to juggle your team’s schedule along with fundraising activities? Or, were there fundraising tasks that took far longer than they should have? Limited pool of donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I think too many times people are raising money without a specific objective in mind. Sure $5,000 sounds like a fantastic fundraising goal, but what if I told you by meeting that target, a local cause would be able to launch an evening food program for the homeless, or make much needed repairs to a home for abandoned girls and boys.

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Neon CRM

JULY 28, 2023

Online fundraising is the future of nonprofit fundraising. As the digital-native generations—that’s Millennials and Gen Z—age and enter their prime giving years, having an online fundraising platform for your nonprofit is going to be a must. Let’s get started!

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

For example, using Social Actions (which aggregates actionable opportunities from across the web), you could pull all of the actions related to your organization’s specific environmental focus and push them out via Twitter or your website, and so on. what is happening and 2. lessons learned from the work. What do you think?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This is all understandable — but it leaves a massive amount of money on the table. This points to a truth that many planned giving professionals know, that their bosses often miss: In aggregate, middle- and upper-middle-class donors have far more potential for planned giving that do a few of an organization’s top benefactors.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

In general, the consensus seems to be that Facebook is not the place to pin all your fundraising hopes. After some time on our list, Mathew pulls the information by source and aggregates what they gave, factoring in the cost of acquiring them. The truth is, ROI can be calculated in a variety of ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Don’t Expect People to Pay: I’ve written before about my belief that social media users are great for spreading a message and awareness, but largely ineffective for raising large sums of money. Causes on Facebook has raised a lot of money in aggregate, but a pittance on a per-user basis.

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NTEN

JUNE 19, 2014

Big goals in addition to iterating on the products and getting them adopted widely: By 2016, they will solidify their business strategy, aggregate a mentorship program of 100,000 students around the world, and plant a million trees. They fundraise via their network and then transfer the total amount to an institution.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The evidence flies in the face of some underlying, pervasive assumptions: namely, that people work primarily for money and that the best incentives to keep people motivated and productive are financial. It turns out that most people do their best work when they are motivated by something other than money. We’ll be sending it out soon.

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Classy

JULY 1, 2021

Year-round, or DIY peer-to-peer fundraising , allows your supporters to raise funds for your organization at any point in time. There are numerous creative ways to ask supporters to fundraise on your behalf, from endurance challenges to birthdays to personal milestones. Option 1: Use a Single Classy Campaign Page for DIY Fundraising.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 31, 2016

Too often, data is aggregated, and many groups are lumped together, making for data that is not only inaccurate, but also potentially harmful. A fascinating tidbit: Although most people won’t admit it when asked, studies show that donors are 80% more likely to give money next year if they’re publicly recognized.

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NTEN

MAY 24, 2010

Look, we all know that social media isn't "the answer"for nonprofit fundraising. AllysonKapin reviews 3 new tools that could help your organization and supporters raise money and/or awareness for your cause over on the Care2 blog. The total value of the prize could be up to $7,200.

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Classy

APRIL 5, 2021

Offering these year-round fundraising and donation options is a great way to generate sustainable revenue, diversify your fundraising portfolio, and keep supporters engaged with your mission. Download these six quick tips to unify your offline and online fundraising. . DIY Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. Main Donation Page.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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)

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

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)

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