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What fundraisers Need To Know About Next Era of Digital Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I keep coming back to a decade old quote from Clay Shirky, “When the technology becomes boring, it becomes socially interesting.” We need to get to that point of more adoption. I spoke about how the technology is evolving and future implications. Like any technology, there is both the benefits and the dark side.

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DIY Nonprofit Technology: 4 Steps for Measuring ROI on Your Next Tech Project

NTEN

Read the rest of article, and the complete issue on "Data-Driven" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Tanya Lee, Network for Good Let's say you've been asked to recommend a solution for your organization's next big technology investment. 2) Identify the Costs Questions to Ask: What are direct costs of this technology?

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How to Ask for New Technology for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

The median nonprofit technology budget is around 2 percent of our total operating budgets across all organization sizes these days. So it's no wonder that it's hard to ask your boss for the new technology your organization needs. In the larger IT world, the tool for doing this is an ROI analysis or return on investment case.

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Thought Leaders Blaze Trails of Discovery and Engagement

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Make it Easy Once you’ve identified a prospect, make playing on your team an opportunity that’s easy, fun, and offers some kind of ROI. For example, discounts on meetings or membership in exchange for an article or an appearance.) To sort your options, try creating a matrix like this.

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Are your online campaigns raising or losing money?

Get Fully Funded

Nonprofit budgets are often tight, and each of your campaigns should aim to hit as high a return on investment (ROI) as possible. To better analyze your campaigns, you’ll need to understand a few fundamental metrics, including ROI, cost per dollar raised (CPDR), and cost per acquisition (CPA). ROI = (Output / Input) X 100.

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Your Brain On Good Stories: Why Storytelling Matters For Nonprofits

TechImpact

While the ROI of storytelling is a difficult one to measure , what’s important to understand is that it does work. According to the HBR article, there’s a formula for effective storytelling, too. Fundraising Social Tech content marketing nonprofit nonprofit technology nonprofits npTech storytelling technology'

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Beyond Survival: Post-Disruption Nonprofit Digital Strategy

Bloomerang

We’ll break these down one at a time over this and two subsequent articles. A new survey from McKinsey finds responses to the Covid-19 pandemic sped business adoption of digital technologies by several years—and many of these changes will likely be here for the long haul. Those pillars are: . Donor experience.

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