sgEngage

JULY 6, 2022

Experts and popular advocates will support the organizations they care about on social media and market that organization to their thousands — or in some cases, millions — of followers. This trend has been made popular on networks like TikTok and Instagram. The concept, however, is effective on any marketing channel. Don’t make this mistake!

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Whether it’s providing employees with volunteer time off or starting a company foundation, there are plenty of ways for your company to get involved with giving back. But if your company is new to philanthropy, a great place to start is by starting an employee giving program! Why should you consider starting an employee giving program?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Over the past several years, much has been written about the rise of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Fundraising. However, with end-of-year fundraising quickly approaching, a new flavor of peer-to-peer fundraising is becoming more popular: using social ambassadors to amplify traditional online campaigns. Another $2.5

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Greater Giving

MARCH 4, 2021

Looking back at the results of the past year proved that virtual fundraisers can work. Let’s dig into the lessons of 2020 and use those to make 2021 an online fundraising success. This is highly important, as a break in the internet connections or a unseen speaker issue can make or break a virtual fundraiser.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Second, year-end giving gives nonprofits an opportunity to use a big chunk of their resources to meet their annual fundraising goals, and it gives donors a last chance to get a tax-deductible gift out the door. We want to help nonprofits that implement year-end fundraising campaigns be successful. Goals don’t come out of thin air.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For your nonprofit, this means the holiday season opens the door to opportunities for fundraising success— and there’s no better way to kick off this successful year-end fundraising push than to participate in Giving Tuesday ! When is Giving Tuesday 2021? Giving Tuesday 2021 is on November 30, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

At this point, your organization has probably already created a Facebook page, amassed a decent number of supporters following that page, and perhaps even used Facebook Ads to expand the reach of your social media-based fundraising efforts— such as running ads to promote any upcoming virtual fundraising events or peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

With #GivingTuesday only weeks away, hopefully your fundraising campaign plan has taken shape and you're feeling prepared for the big day. Think about a way you can acknowledge or thank them for being an ambassador for your cause. Corral Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Team Captains. Give a Sneak Peek.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Yeah, engaging those board members to be fundraising ambassadors. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started?

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

This blog was originally published on. When I was leading fundraising efforts at a national nonprofit, the focus of everything I did was the individual donor. That has a lot to do with the emergence of social networking and peer-to-peer (P2P) models. How has this changed the job of the professional fundraiser?

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Achieve

AUGUST 27, 2020

Useful Tools to Support Your Virtual Fundraising Events. ?. peer fundraising. Panel Discussion: ?. Hosting an Engaging and Successful Virtual Event. ?. August 26, 2020. ?. ?. Part of the Professional Development Workshop Series brought to you by. Junior League of Boca Raton. and hosted by. Nonprofits First. ?. ?. Melisa Poole.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 20, 2014

Before a board meeting, have a conversation with the board member you feel will be your greatest ambassador to the rest of the board. Earlier this week we asked social media pro Caroline Avakian to share her thoughts with our readers on how to entice your board into the social media waters. Otherwise, why are they there.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

In this blog series, we're focusing on how Higher Educational Institutions use technology to communicate with and engage their students and alumni. A database built for managing major gifts can streamline and organize this process, allowing alumni fundraisers to save time and effectively target and maximize the asks made of alumni.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

In this blog series, we're focusing on how Higher Educational Institutions use technology to communicate with and engage their students and alumni. A database built for managing major gifts can streamline and organize this process, allowing alumni fundraisers to save time and effectively target and maximize the asks made of alumni.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2016

No longer does multiple-channel fundraising mean a home page mention and few Facebook posts during online campaigns. Multi-channel fundraising has evolved to include more donations driven from a nonprofit’s home page, digital advertising and social ambassadors. Social Ambassadors. Home Page Pop Ups.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Update Your Year-end Fundraising to Make It Really Count. Are Your Fundraising and Marketing Staffs Working as a Team? It's when a majority of people are inspired (or habituated) to think about giving. Not a time your nonprofit wants to miss out on. If you've already begun (yay!), A few of the more common missteps include.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. Wait for maturation?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. Learn how Qgiv can help you and your volunteers make the most of your fundraising efforts! Clearly, volunteers are essential to your nonprofit’s ability to move its mission forward.

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2023

Peer to peer fundraising revolutionizes the way we give by empowering individuals to create their own dynamic campaigns to collect donations from their personal networks. Table of Contents Why is Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Effective? What Does a Peer to Peer Campaign Look Like?

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 11, 2023

When it comes to marketing campaigns, peer-to-peer marketing still rises above as one of the most powerful ways to spread the word about your nonprofit. Your organization’s volunteers can be a valuable untapped resource for peer-to-peer marketing campaigns. Provide guidelines for promoting your organization.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2023

Charitable giving is essential to your nonprofit, but fundraising can be one of your most daunting tasks. With donations and goodwill on the upswing, it is critical to understand how to fundraise for a nonprofit. Every organization has unique goals and methods, but all fundraisers for nonprofits use common terminology.

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Qgiv

JULY 11, 2023

Major donors are key players in helping your organization increase fundraising across the board, and building a major gift pipeline streamlines the process of finding and keeping major donors for your nonprofit. Major gift pipelines help you track your efforts in cultivating and stewarding new major donors. Passion for your cause.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Power of Diverse Fundraising Revenue Streams In the ever-evolving landscape of nonprofit fundraising, diversification is the key to unlocking a broader donor base and ensuring sustained success. Let’s take a look at 15 Fundraising revenue streams your nonprofit can utilize when planning your annual fundraising calendar.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to our fundraising statistics , charitable giving is expected to increase by 5.1% In addition to offering easy-to-use fundraising tools, we’ve also come up with these tips for supercharging your fundraising efforts: Use your data. Leverage text fundraising. Plan exciting fundraising events. Get creative!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

Michelle, was a participant in the Measuring Networked Nonprofit peer learning groups supported through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. In less than a day, it has over 1 million views. The app lets you take photos of yourself, and uses facial recognition magic to find your dog match.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They are your advocates, champions, ambassadors, and worker bees. Volunteers are superheroes! They fill many roles in different capacities, bringing diverse skills as board members, committee leads, exhibit guides, ushers, admins, and more. million people volunteered for a nonprofit organization in 2021, contributing $122.9

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In this article, we’ll walk through 21 end-of-year giving best practices to help your nonprofit end the fundraising year with a bang: Start planning your campaign early. Incorporate text fundraising. Ask your supporters to fundraise for you with a peer-to-peer campaign. Analyze your results from last year.

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Double the Donation

APRIL 12, 2021

Our Favorite Fundraising Platforms for GoFundMe Charity Users. As GoFundMe moves to officially sunset the GoFundMe Charity solution, you may be on the lookout to transition to a new fundraising platform. If you’re having a hard time deciding where to start, we’re here to help! The best part? Don’t have 360MatchPro yet?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you’re reading a blog post with the words “capital campaign” and “board” in the headline, you might be spiraling through questions that are keeping you up at night (hopefully, it’s not 2 a.m.): Did we set appropriate capital campaign goals with our board? Is our board on track for the public phase? How can we get our board more involved?

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 12, 2023

Tap into the power of peer-to-peer marketing. Blog Posts: Your blog is likely full of news about your organization, member spotlights, event recaps, and more. Sharing your blog content can demonstrate just how active your organization is. There are many ways that you can work to reach new association members.

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Socialbrite

AUGUST 4, 2020

With people retrenching and the economy contracting at a historic 33 percent annual rate in the previous quarter, it may be the right time to focus on relationship building rather than fundraising and revenue generation. Photo by smarko/Pixabay). Post by Alma Causey. Social media marketing during COVID-19. Foster relationships.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

By using data and analytics to track donor behavior and preferences, you can tailor their communication and fundraising strategies to better engage and retain your donors. Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit? We’re going to share how it’s done. Sound good? Then let’s get started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitated a peer exchange of community foundations that are hosting GivingDays using the Knight Foundation GivingDay Playbook , a guide with templates, tips, and examples hosting a successful day of giving. I’m also an ambassador for GivingTuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the very first bloggers I started reading and having conversations with about social media was Alan Levine (aka CogDog Blog ). Over the years, we have supported each other’s professional work and personal fundraisers before ever meeting in person. Social Learning In Webinars. I struck out.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Jacobwith will show you five powerful and simple “must do’s” to cut through year-end fundraising noise, help increase your Giving Tuesday success, and increase donor retention. We are here to talk about Five “Must Dos” for Year-End Fundraising Success. Yes, it is year-end fundraising season. Lori: I think we should.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

As young professionals who have served both as members and staff managers of these groups, Sarah Willey and Corinne Austin will lead you through the research on Next Gen supporters, challenges to anticipate, and steps your organization can take to start a new young friends board from scratch OR to maximize the potential of your existing group.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2017

In short, you need to cultivate your influencers because 1) you already have them, 2) they can reach a ton of people for your next event, fundraiser, etc. There’s a good chance you have hundreds, if not thousands, who would gladly share your campaign message with their social networks if you did one thing—asked them (and not in a wimpy “p.s.

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