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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, Alley Cat Allies’ Cat-alyst Society – Monthly Giving Program : This page should have a URL that can be easily promoted in print newsletters and postcard campaigns, such as alleycat.org/givemonthly. It’s also worth sending a postcard campaign to your one-time donors asking them to become monthly donors.

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Winning YMCA Fundraising Campaigns

Bloomerang

That doesn’t mean that’s the only time they invite donors to give, since YMCAs may also participate in the YMCA Day of Giving , GivingTuesday, end-of-year fundraising , or a capital campaign. Worst case, executive and board leadership may look at fundraising as something they “have to do once a year for the annual campaign.”

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10 Essential Tools for the Nonprofit New Media Manager on the Go

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Beyond adding your nonprofit on the desktop site, most of the ROI from using Foursquare comes from using it on an iPhone, Android phone, or Blackberry. For those that prefer using mobile sites over Apps, a good mobile browser will help you bookmark and organize the sites you use most. Most haven’t considered it. Foursquare.

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Great reads from around the web on January 24th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). We learned so much while running that campaign, but we also made lots of mis-steps along the way. Besides average gift amount, what might we expect?"

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How Many Donor Databases Are There?

Robert Weiner

This list came from my head, my bookmarks, and lists compiled by NTEN and Idealware for their donor management software surveys (and I’m not certain all of these are actually donor databases). Campaign Management Systems. ROI Solutions. It does not include custom systems, of which there are many. Micro Solutions!

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Guest Post by Allyson Kapin: Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Add This: A widget that allows website visitors to share your content via 50 social networks and bookmark communities. Spend 15 minutes a day talking to the community and cross promoting your campaigns, news, etc. Care2’s Petition Site: Start a free petition on the Petition Site to rally support around one of your latest campaigns.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. The My Barack Obama community was built around Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The Pink Chaddi Campaign leveraged Collective Action. The Obama Girl.