NTEN

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

For nonprofits, taking part in #GivingTuesday can be an effective boost to your annual campaign fundraising efforts. In the two years since its inception, #GivingTuesday campaigns saw a 90% increase in online giving, and 40% increase in average gift size. Companies are also getting involved in the effort.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Fundraising expert Steve MacLaughlin says developing a multichannel strategy is like baking a delicious dessert: It’s the combination of every “ingredient” that makes a campaign work — just like your grandma’s apple pie recipe. It’s worth spending some time here, because segmented campaigns get 14% more opens. Peer to peer.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For the past 30 days I have been participating in Movember : a worldwide team fundraising campaign to fight men’s cancer. The mustache becomes the ribbon for men’s health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for cancers that affect men. And the average gift was larger. Email is Still King.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Fundraising expert Steve MacLaughlin says developing a multichannel strategy is like baking a delicious dessert: It’s the combination of every “ingredient” that makes a campaign work — just like your grandma’s apple pie recipe. It’s worth spending some time here, because segmented campaigns get 14% more opens. Peer to peer.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This can be anything from a gift certificate, branded swag, or just bragging rights. The purpose of no-shave November comes from cancer awareness. More specifically, it’s a fundraising concept that began in the 2000s to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer. Of course, don’t forget the prizes.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2016

Setting Up Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign. Increasing your proceeds through P2P fundraising relies heavily on proper setup of your campaign. Though your ultimate goal will be to increase proceeds and donations for your fundraiser, try to prioritize one or two secondary goals for your P2P campaign. Set Your Goals.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

Part of a personal fundraising page for the Cannonball Kids’ Cancer Foundation ‘s Gold Gala 2021. This method can work especially well in the last hours of your peer-to-peer fundraising campaign as you approach your goal! Matching gift grants or a matching gift integration.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 12, 2022

ALSAC , the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude drive the survival rate of childhood cancer patients from 20% to 80% since the hospital was founded in 1962 — how’s that for impact? They’ve raised tens of millions of dollars by creating fundraising campaigns inside virtual gaming worlds. David Jacques, CIO, ALSAC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

In the early crowdfunding days, I helped launch a crowdfunding campaign with the American Red Cross and SXSW that raised $120,000 in 10 days. Your goal aligns your team and supporters with your crowdfunding campaign. What is the average amount that we have raised in a campaign or event? Rethink Rewards and Donation Tiers.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Is there a long-term need for your nonprofit, or could the issue be solved with a smaller-scale fundraising campaign or project? For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. The answer could be “both.”

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

That means there is ample opportunity to leverage this day of gift-giving to bring joy to mothers around the world AND make an even greater impact for your organization. Raise dollars, build awareness, and gain names and addresses for future mailings all-in-one! Select a few to print using a service like Shutterfly. Count your Peonies.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Often the sales funnel is part of the visualization: Awareness Evaluation or Consideration Engagement or Decision Action or Donation Advocacy or Loyalty Michael Johnston, co-founder and president of HJC New Media , encourages nonprofit organizations to take a page from the mapping playbooks of for-profit enterprises. “And

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2014

Over the past several years, you’ve likely heard a lot about the importance of sending a multi-channel end-of-year campaign. And how people give larger gifts. It may simply be nonprofits raise more online in December because they’re sending more email (along with driving more traffic from multi-channel campaigns ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Note from Beth: I’m planning a year-end campaign for one of my favorite charities and wanted some good tips on incorporating video. Adding video to your end-of-year online campaigns can help you achieve, and even exceed, your year-end fundraising goals. American Cancer Society saw a 10:1 return on investment from this effort.

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Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

Whether supporters are donating through text or accessing your online donation page on their smartphones, it’s imperative that your organization has the tools, resources, and best practices to conduct a successful mobile fundraising campaign. Here are some tips we recommend: Avoid generic terms like “Donate” or “Gift.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Day. A number of nonprofit organizations are promoting Valentine's Day giving opportunities, here's a few: A Day for Hearts is an opportunity to raise awareness about congenital heart defects, a lethal constellation of birth defects of the heart that affect millions of newborn infants and children worldwide.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2019

cardiovascular disease, cancer), an emotional tugging on the heartstrings (e.g. Can you imagine the donor experience for a donor who is made aware through a “transactional” word of how a charity views them? You’re competing with multi-million-dollar campaigns- across boundaries, across nations, across mediums, across time-zones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why GoFundMe is a Fundraising Game-Changer: While the GoFundMe platform can be used to raise money for any cause – like funding a vacation – charitable causes are some of the most successful campaigns on the site. With Booster we can raise money and awareness with a t-shirt that our supporters are proud to wear.”.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

billion on gift-giving, flowers, and chocolate on Valentine’s Day 2017. Toys for Tots does an amazing job of capitalizing on the toy purchasing to give deserving kids gifts. The May holiday might call to mind breast cancer awareness or newer contenders like #EveryMotherCounts. Americans spent around $18.2 Mother’s Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

But donating money to a charity, even a small amount (or in-kind items ) can certainly help with part of the need and raise awareness in others. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts. What about a gift in their honor to celebrate the special day. The American Heart Association also does a Valentine's Day campaign.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The American Cancer Society: When prospects explore ways to give on the ACS website, they see a clear statement about what they can expect for their donation. Your gift means we can continue to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families. However, the organization had little brand awareness and a small donor base.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Thinking of running a crowdfunding campaign for your nonprofit? After seeing thousands of successful nonprofit crowdfunding campaigns, we’ve seen what strategies work the best to drive more donations for your nonprofit. That means any time you’re soliciting your donors for a particular campaign or project online, you’re crowdfunding!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The biggest challenge for a virtual event is promoting the campaign and creating an enjoyable user experience online that keeps participants engaged. UNICEF’s Trick-or-Treat campaign at Halloween did this successfully and brought in $110,000 through 1,315 gifts. In 2009, the event was in five cities, and raised nearly $600,000.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Nick Bilton, a tech columnist for The New York Times , wrote that we could find ourselves in a situation where a medical AI that is programmed to eliminate cancer decides that the way to do it is by exterminating humans who are prone to the disease. However, today, we have Zuckerberg discussing a privacy-focused future on Facebook. .

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

international, and worldwide holidays as well as cause days and awareness events like Women’s Equality Day (August 26), Suicide Prevention Month (September) and Giving Tuesday (December 3) that are relevant to a wide range of nonprofits. Holidays can be another useful peg for a campaign, depending on your nonprofit’s scope.

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Classy

APRIL 7, 2021

Creative messaging and clear instructions helped the organization exceed their campaign goal and expand their donor base to engage for similar campaigns in the future. Their Classy campaign featured language that explicitly called out how someone could become a virtual runner regardless of where they were located.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And in 2018, as you saw, as I hurriedly got on to this to this presentation, I was diagnosed with cancer and I felt I needed to retire. So when I’m talking about giving generously, board members need to make their own personal gift. I may drop off a gift. People ask me all the time, “Why do you include that in there?”

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Find more major gifts. See how Qgiv can help you with your fundraising campaign! Make sure you’re tracking KPIs like average gift size or email open rate to help you best determine how your fundraising strategies are working. Because giving is often a sacrifice for your donors, they want to make sure you got their gift.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

After seeing thousands of fundraising campaigns, we see that peer-to-peer fundraising typically raises twice as much as compared to other digital fundraising campaigns. Grows Awareness Organically. SOS Children’s Villages of Illinois ran their annual holiday giving campaign through CauseVox for the first time in 2020.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

After seeing thousands of fundraising campaigns, we see that peer-to-peer fundraising typically raises twice as much as compared to other digital fundraising campaigns. Grows Awareness Organically. SOS Children’s Villages of Illinois ran their annual holiday giving campaign through CauseVox for the first time in 2020.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

After seeing thousands of fundraising campaigns, we see that peer-to-peer fundraising typically raises twice as much as compared to other digital fundraising campaigns. Grows Awareness Organically. SOS Children’s Villages of Illinois ran their annual holiday giving campaign through CauseVox for the first time in 2020.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2021

According to the Global NGO Technology Report, 94% of NGOs worldwide agree that social media is effective for creating online brand awareness. Too often, nonprofit social media campaigns are still focused on the numbers game – collecting the most Likes on Facebook and Instagram, counting Twitter followers, obsessing over views on YouTube.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Peer-to-peer fundraising is an incredible opportunity to leverage your supporters’ personal networks and expand the reach of your campaign. To conduct a peer-to-peer campaign, you’ll need a dedicated peer-to-peer fundraising platform. 100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try Out. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas. in 2019 increase to $108.62

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The campaign encouraged individuals to virtually fundraise their own way and grew in popularity with over 60 personal pages created and 1,200 gifts made. It generates brand awareness and allows new supporters to get connected to the important work we do at the North Texas Food Bank.” —Lexi Kay, Annual Campaign Manager .

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2014

Even if all the emails were not specifically focused on #GivingTuesday, it’s clear that many organizations wanted their appeals to take advantage of heightened awareness happening on December 3rd. This year’s most common words were “gift” and “Holiday” with “GivingTuesday” also being used a lot.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Dan Pallotta would go on to invent the multi-day charitable event industry with the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Days. million, and the Human Rights Campaign has a $25 million budget to combat issues specific to their mission. million on advertising and marketing as part of the “Incredible Edible Egg” campaign.

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