Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In order to solicit donations, you’ll need to follow your state’s filing requirements and properly register before collecting donations. To help your nonprofit’s leadership understand and comply with online fundraising guidelines, this article will provide a crash course on the basics of maintaining legal compliance while fundraising online.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The articles in that (free) series present a clear, step-by-step plan you can use to raise more money during the final weeks of the year. Today, I want to present a sample year-end fundraising e-mail for a fictional non-profit organization. For many organizations, long (or super-long) snail-mail fundraising letters work.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, different states have different processes for filing articles of incorporation and the fees required. File for incorporation File articles of incorporation within the state your nonprofit will operate from. You can apply for an EIN online , or by mail or fax. Maintain state tax forms.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Also, the file is landlocked, unless the most recent version is emailed for reference. In an article posted originally on Beth Kanter’s blog , according to Tal Frankfurt of Cloud for Good, making the switch to Salesforce from an old outdated Excel spreadsheet aided him in doubling the amount of donations he received in a 12 month period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

I thought about this somewhat silly meme today when I was reading " Five Top Tips for Online Fundraising from a Direct Mail Dinosaur " 1. Segment your file 2. The article ends with a call to action "We must employ direct marketing techniques, both in the "new" and ??? Incorporate variable ask strings 3.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

The process required creating several Advanced Lists in Blackbaud SIS/LMS that detailed course lists and student enrollment and exporting them as a.csv file and importing them into my script. Unfortunately, it was still fairly labor intensive on my end and immediately “stale.” You can do it, too! How cool, right?

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 1, 2015

You keep mailing out newsletters and fundraising appeals. You keep adding new donors, new prospects and your mailing lists get larger. It applies to outcome measurements, web traffic, social media data, emails, image files, document versioning, backups, backups of backups, etc. Have you done the math on returned mail?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In this article, we’ll catalog ten nonprofit website best practices your organization can use to maximize your investment. If you want to learn more about the technical side of SEO optimization, check out the article below: Fundraising Nonprofit SEO: 10 Tips to Optimize Your Website 13 min read Read Now 4.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Switch MX (mail exchanger) records to re-route your mail flow. Export user mail to PST (personal storage) files. That Friday, I switched our MX records (they tell senders where to send email for your domain) to begin the process of routing incoming mail to Office 365. Create accounts and groups.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

Your nonprofit needs you working in your strengths , not setting up your newsletter in Mail Chimp or scheduling your next Facebook post. Password-protect human resources files and other documents and folders containing sensitive information. But look – you’re ONE person and you physically can’t do everything yourself.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Developing a digital donor acquisition strategy takes a similar approach as direct mail, starting with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift, retention rates, average gift, and if you have done previous online fundraising campaigns, cost per acquired donor. Use social media to drive traffic to your website.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 31, 2009

For example, if I download a magazine to my iMac, I can’t read the same file from my laptop. If I want to revisit an old article, Zinio’s site has a copy of every digital magazine I’ve ever received, all 532 of them so far, going back to August 2003. The big downside to Zinio is their ridiculously draconian DRM.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once. The site currently has 1.6

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 7, 2016

Incorporation: $100 state filing fee + minimum $50 county filing fee. Incorporation: $45 online or $50 by mail. Incorporation: $30 by mail or $45 in-person. Optional $350-$500 expedited filing service. Georgia Articles of Incorporation: $100. Incorporation: $50 by mail or $77.75 Check it out below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2008

An interesting article in today's New York Times called " Lost in E=Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast." " The article describes how some technology firms, including Microsoft , Intel , Google and I.B.M. , " The article describes how some technology firms, including Microsoft , Intel , Google and I.B.M. ,

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Then click the “Create Audience” drop-down and select “Customer File.” CSV file or MailChimp list to import. To test the theory, I recently ran a remarketing campaign on Facebook promoting my article, “ How To Get More Online Donations With Content Marketing.” ” It’s simple.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

Outlook.com now has 400 million active accounts, more than a quarter of which are getting their mail, contacts, and calendars on mobile devices via Exchange ActiveSync. Users of other services like Gmail or Yahoo Mail can set up a new @outlook.com address and have their other accounts forwarded.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Keep Files Safe. Adobe’s PDF creation software – Acrobat X Pro – lets you share secure PDF files between any computer, build PDF portfolios from a variety of sources and formats, and even import live web content. Growing Your Organization. These tools are just the building blocks of your young organization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The National Center for Charitable Statistics notes that 90 percent of these organizations have never filed any kind of return. I really liked this article.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. 8 percent of file are donors. Tags: E-mail Fundraising. Meg Murphy, Convio. [Ed. The most popular pieces will be featured in our newsletter. You can read all the details here. ]. Do these statements sound familiar? Built total housefile of 4,312.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

All of this is tied to a direct mail appeal, that can go out as early as mid-November or the beginning of December. Finally, we also configure the option for recipients to opt-out of receiving campaign emails all together, which is why a December e-news is important. When is the best time to send a direct mail newsletter?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

When PID is kept in different buckets, it’s harder to manage and create customized communication -- like when mailing addresses and emails are kept in separate systems, due to legacy databases or department requests. . Grab my mailing address and you can send more locally-focused messaging (or junk mail).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The potential for being overwhelmed by technology is magnified in the workplace by something called “ Collaborative Overload ” Rob Cross and Adam Grant in a recent Harvard Business Review article. You probably use cloud software to backup your files and share them with others on your team.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2014

Traditionally, a call to action has been to donate in response to a direct mailing or a phone call. For example, you can ask for something as simple as a mailing address or for the visitor to download a study about your mission. However, with new digital tools, you no longer have to ask for a donation at every interaction.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

As a typical 60-person organization we have file, mail, database, Web and remote access servers. Check out this video answering just that question from ZDNet and this article from TechSoup called Virtualization 101 for more. Virtualization provided the benefits of a smaller server room footprint and a smaller carbon footprint.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Check out this TechSoup article on figuring out which type of project management software fits your requirements. them, makes files accessible from anywhere, and it is fully integrated with Google Apps. It integrates across Google Apps , a nice bonus for users who are already using Google Mail, Documents. They equip. working on.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Human resources software can save you time, reduce paperwork, and help you get rid of paper HR files once and for all. We have a good collection of articles at TechSoup to help you navigate these waters. offers built-in word processing, mail merge features, and safeguards to prevent duplicate records.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

note: This article is part of NTEN's Member Appreciation Month spectacular. "Email marketing," as you may already know, is a rather broad term covering a range of electronic mail communications. Articles using clear, well-edited copy that's relevant to your readers (i.e. Denise Moorehead, Third Sector New England. [Ed.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2009

That was the lead sentence in an article Convio Chief Strategy Officer, Vinay Bhagat wrote for the Convio Connection newsletter last January titled, "10 Online Marketing Strtegies for Fundraising in Challenging Times." He wrote that: "In addition to the recession, we are also seeing some other troubling indicators.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 4, 2017

In this article, we’ll cover the basics of charity auction software and let you in on how you can: Plan your entire auction without leaving the platform. There’s no having to compile and print catalogs, which cuts down on both staff and volunteer time and printing and mailing costs. Receipts are mailed. “How?”

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2015

This would determine she is a good target for your next year end mail campaign. With this new information, would you still keep her in your annual fund direct mail campaign? Next, we add modeling with wealth information and ranking against your donor files. Within that article she talks about her passion for charities.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 8, 2013

This post is part 5 in a series of articles pointing out what’s cool about some of my favorite Salesforce apps for nonprofits. When you say “mail merge” and “Salesforce” in the same sentence, the next sentence is simply: Conga Composer. Common Ground has mail merge functionality built in.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

In selecting the number of addresses you can use a subset, such as all email gathered from a particular source or in a given year, or your entire file. However, if your organizations uses direct mail, telemarketing, and other methods for asking your online supporters for money this should be included. FAQs Q: How is drop-off measured?

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

In selecting the number of addresses you can use a subset, such as all email gathered from a particular source or in a given year, or your entire file. However, if your organizations uses direct mail, telemarketing, and other methods for asking your online supporters for money this should be included. FAQs Q: How is drop-off measured?

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

While traditional e-mail continues to be a successful tool, we have to prepare to supplement it with SMS, which is for all intents and purposes the mobile equivalent of e-mail, albeit shorter. But even e-mail is changing. Along with the increased use of SMS and mobile e-mail, people are sharing photos and video files.

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Care2

APRIL 15, 2008

1 Comment | by Share Article in Email Marketing , Marketing Research , Nonprofit Benchmark Studies Reader Comments (1) Thanks for introducing our study here, James. 60) Search « Google AdWords for Nonprofits: 10 Tips About Keywords | Main | Whats an Email Address Worth? Check out the full study here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Summit runs until Saturday and the correspondent reports and notes are being filed. An article called Free Software, Handpicked for Nonprofits by Tactical Technology Collective and iCommons just published on Techsoup. I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week.

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