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Give Joy!

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If you’re looking for the perfect holiday gift for a colleague, consider joy. One of the first projects we supported was to build an Alexa integration into the database. The group asked for $50 for equipment (to buy an echo dot, a speaker that connects to Alexa) and three people for two days to do a hackathon.

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10 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2021

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Gifted :: gifted.com. Ideal for virtual parties, Gifted is an event invitation platform that allows party organizers to donate up to 100% of funds raised to select nonprofits in the United States and Canada. Bonfire :: bonfire.com. Bonfire enables nonprofits to easily design and raise funds by selling t-shirts online.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Make a “ stretch gift ” that is very generous and is outside your normal giving pattern. Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). It doesn’t have to be a gift. Then help implement these tools.

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The Top 5 Fundraising Trends in 2020

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As technology continues to evolve—think things like “Alexa, make a donation,” and the advent of driverless cars and essentially a “second living room”—we’ll only see more opportunities and integrations crop up that allow nonprofits to interact with consumers through platforms like Uber, Venmo, Shopify, and Twitch.

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How to avoid being solely an ATM machine on the nonprofit board on which you serve

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Example: Alexa joined a board where she was asked to commit “something personally significant.” Alexa was the only member of the board who earned more than $60,000 a year. At the end of the year when the budget gap was roughly $100,000, the rest of the board wanted Alexa to make up the difference.

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[DATA] The 10 Most Effective Digital Marketing & Fundraising Tools

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Smart speaker giving, such as Alexa Donations — 1%. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software 24%. Virtual fundraising events 22%. Giving Tuesday 22%. The 10 Least Effective Digital Marketing & Fundraising Tools. Giving through gaming — 2%. Podcasts — 4%. Online raffles or sweepstakes — 4%.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » How many site visitors do you have? Or is that the wrong question?

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There is an even bigger problem for companies such as comScore , Nielson/NetRatings and Alexa that are trying to tell us how many people went to a site when they don’t even have access to the server logs. Problem is, every program that parses my server logs does this a little differently. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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