3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

While we use terms like “donor” and “constituent”, they are “consumers” too. We can learn a lot about reaching donors more effectively by keeping an eye on what our corporate retailing counter parts are doing to reach consumers. I also included two Tweets from orgs that did use outcome data.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Although they are not an IRS requirement, compelling annual reports can sway potential donors and show current donors how their money is helping your organization to make an impact. DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. Donate Life America.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. Is it worth it to spend the money?

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Double the Donation

APRIL 29, 2021

With 360MatchPro, the most robust matching tool by Double the Donation, Community Funded clients will now be able to educate their donors about their employers’ matching gift programs and empower those same donors to drive their matches to completion. . The best part? No complicated IT work required. .

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Who remembers the days of charities arguing with local United Ways over the donor data? “We own the workplace giving data,” was the typical United Way response to charities wanting to know more about the donors supporting them, “because they are United Way donors – our donors.” The result?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

This guest post was authored by Dennis McCarthy, director of enterprise sales at Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company. org, causes.org, and change.com. There are three channels that work well for converting advocates to donors: email, direct mail, and telemarketing. Convert to Donor.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

Donor acquisition is all the rage, but did you know nearly 3 out of 4 new donors leave and never come back. Blackbaud’s latest Charitable Giving Report sheds light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. The average donor retention rates for first-year online-only donors is 22%.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

Donor acquisition is all the rage, but did you know nearly 3 out of 4 new donors leave and never come back. In 2013, Chuck Longfield was on a mission to shed light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. If the ten-year trend continues, we’ll eventually end up with donor retention rates under 20%.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

On a four-inch smartphone screen, a potential donor scrolls to the far corner of the youth outreach program's webpage. New and existing donors, volunteers, and others could be frustrated with perhaps their first interaction with your organization, miss out on particular initiatives, or never return to your site. It's Here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

She says that Google Analytics will give you a crystal clear picture of how many visitors are using mobile phones. “You can see how many of those people leave the site quickly. lost potential donors) to justify the cost.” He shared a write up of strategies for converting donors from mobile. Work the project plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

I was honored to be invited to cover this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum , a community of donors and social investors committed to international causes. Nonprofits and donors find it time consuming to find and analyze meaningful data to help outcomes. He compared nonprofits to the business sector. Global Pulse @rgkirkpatrick.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2012

Fundraising Analytics : Using data to support your donor-centric organization. Forces of Good: 6 Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits : Drawn from a survey of CEOs and study of a dozen high-impact nonprofits, tips to make your org more effective.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

At DNL OmniMedia , we offer a complete range of nonprofit technology, marketing, and analytics services, making us a full-service choice for organizations in all nonprofit verticals. Custom analytics and strategic planning projects. Meyer Partners also provides: Donor cultivation and upgrade campaigns. Donor list rentals.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

But, here are some guardrails to be extra wary of given these new acts: Buying donor lists from a third party and using them to add personal information to existing lists. If you have no privacy policy language, or language doesn’t include any of the Google Analytics, Facebook, HubSpot or other tracking software being used.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 26, 2011

The principal finding was that adding online communications to a direct mail-only treatment improved donor retention rates, increasing frequency and consequently lifetime value. More than 50% of the $20M+ orgs are only considered Juniors (in the participant categories), just beginning their journey with integrated marketing.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 13, 2008

They did this by creating a Cause and a Fan Page for the org, and by forming a relationship with an ecology oriented game on Facebook, (lil) Green Patch. Using tools readily available on Facebook, the organization has raised almost $48,000 in the first six months of their social-networking effort.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

There aren’t enough donors/supporters/email subscribers to go around.) Look how well that other org is doing, we need to catch up.). In this article , Reb Rebele, the research manager for people analytics at The Wharton School, summarizes that: . What was our goal, and why did we set it? . What was our motivation? Comparison?

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Neon CRM

JULY 28, 2023

Neon CRM Neon CRM is a comprehensive online fundraising and donor management platform designed for nonprofit teams who do it all. It streamlines donor data management, allows for efficient fundraising campaign creation and management, and offers a whole host of tools for events, volunteers, grants, and more.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

December donors are always suppressed from receiving additional appeals after they’ve donated. What is the ideal length of a year-end campaign to avoid donor fatigue? I don’t believe in donor fatigue. I think donors get tired of boring, cookie-cutter solicitations that don’t align with their interests. Brock .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

How odd is it then to teach Google Analytics to nonprofit techies but then say that site statistics had nothing to do with a nonprofit’s mission? Properly used, web sites are more than just a payment solution for credit card bearing donors. Why bother having a web site at all? Your site, zenofnptech.org, is already on Quantcast.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. So if your audience groups are volunteers, donors and alumni, you want to make sure you include a few participants from each group. Introduction.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Nonprofits have donors, volunteers, event and class attendees, patrons, and other kinds of supporters—but they don’t really have customers. While donors are usually the system’s primary focus, those aren’t the only kinds of supporters it will track. That’s why the term “CRM” starts with “C” for “customer.” It stands for “Constituent.”

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Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2023

While understanding your donor’s lifetime value or your email open rate is great, these numbers alone won’t give you the insight you need to engage your constituents. With the right system, you could even narrow down the points where your donors abandon the form—zeroing in on exactly what the problem is.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

To give the audience an idea of what ads can be used for, Google shared just a few tactics adwords could help any given org do including: Solicit donors. Enroll subscribers. Recruit volunteers. Promote events.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Analytics and Insights: Consider platforms that offer analytics and insights into website performance. As a port of the Neon One ecosystem, Neon Websites offers a cutting edge, user-friendly experience for nonprofits and donors alike. Top Nonprofit Website Builders in 2024 It’s 2024. Every nonprofit needs a website.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are also a provider of donor-management software. That’s what Bloomerang is, it’s a donor database. Their donor database, it’s fantastic. You want to have a connection with the donor, with the volunteer. We love doing these webinars.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2017

Map your needs to a strategic plan: Leading indicators in our tech investment research that points to an org’s level of effectiveness is whether you can point to the need for tech in their strategic plan.” – Steve MacLaughlin , Vice President of Data and Analytics at Blackbaud and author of Data Driven Nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

You’ve got 3 kinds of donors – the True Believer, The Casual Fan, and The Reluctant Tagalongs. More and more donors are giving online, especially towards the end of year. Yes, even your older donors! There’s a lot of talk about attrition rates, and what nonprofits must do to keep their donors around.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

The key with all of these ideas is to be human, and to look at your analytics to see what is working. We love how quickly orgs like Stand Up 2 Cancer can turn these out on Instagram. If your muse is stuck in traffic, however, here are some of our favorite social media post ideas to get you started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Deep into the analytics peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing. Teach chapters to document their own disasters on their own newsrooms so we can aggregate a national picture of data of how much the org does in a day when you won’t hear a word about it. Not just linkbacks here but something more.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

Donor Database/CRM. On a website, you can see analytics and quantifiable email metrics that you can assess and know what’s been achieved to a certain extent. - (Natalie) These are all tactics in larger campaigns. Some website tools: 1. Content management system 2. Email: Email is a critical channel, not talked about enough!

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