Judi Sohn

JUNE 17, 2011

I posted my disappointment at this news on the Dreamforce App (a community for Dreamforce attendees) and someone suggested I email Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff about it. We've had a nice little email chat. But I'm saddened that he and his staff who responded in the email conversation don't quite get it.

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Qgiv

MAY 14, 2021

Email continues to be an important tool in a nonprofit’s peer-to-peer fundraising toolkit. But even as email technology has become more sophisticated, many organizations still send generic recruitment and fundraising emails to their constituents and participants. Send targeted recruitment emails. Keep your data clean.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 17, 2011

I posted my disappointment at this news on the Dreamforce App (a community for Dreamforce attendees) and someone suggested I email Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff about it. We've had a nice little email chat. But I'm saddened that he and his staff who responded in the email conversation don't quite get it.

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EveryAction

JULY 31, 2023

This empowers qualifying individuals to double the impact of each dollar they give, ultimately enabling nonprofits to do more with the funds they raise. This may include some combination of email marketing, social media posting, direct mail, and your nonprofit’s website ! Follow up on previously-made and match-eligible donations.

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Qgiv

JUNE 7, 2021

Email continues to be an important tool in a nonprofit’s peer-to-peer fundraising toolkit. But even as email technology has become more sophisticated, many organizations still send generic recruitment and fundraising emails to their constituents and participants. Send targeted recruitment emails. Keep your data clean.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Nonprofit-facing fundraising apps are those that your nonprofit staff members use to raise money on the go. 25+ Fundraising Apps for Your Nonprofit to Consider Fundraising apps can be powerful tools for raising more for your mission, but each one is different and will provide different benefits to your organization. Merchandise sales.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 5, 2023

An annual awareness calendar can offer your nonprofit lots of great promotional ideas throughout the year. These issue-focused events offer great ideas for promoting your nonprofit, raising awareness and support for your cause, fundraising, and shedding more light on the great work that you do every day.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

When we flip the calendar to a new year, many of us become gripped by the desire to build some new habits. If that’s a challenge, aim to send a quarterly email update and a bi-annual mailer to those donors for whom you do not have emails. Check out our last installment here ! Drink more water! Read more books!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2020

Supporters will be able to effortlessly raise money for your cause once your charity is enrolled with major crowdfunding sites. Don’t forget to encourage supporters to make an extra impact by starting a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign before the event to raise awareness and donations for your charity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

World Water Day is the best know cause awareness day for online fundraising success and # GivingTuesday is the most successful giving day fundraising campaign at $168 million raised in 2016 (700,000 online donors, average gift of $107 USD, 1.3 68 million was raised in 2015. Be sure to create a custom email banner (600 x 200).

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 23, 2024

It usually shows up in one or more ways, like these: Declining donations Lower total amount raised through an appeal Declining open rate on emails Declining click through rate in emails Increased number of lapsed donors Fewer large gifts If you’re tuned in to your donors and how they feel, you may also have a gut sense that something is wrong.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

By Wendy Mercurio , Content & Education Specialist at Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. At Qgiv, we’ve used AI and machine learning to help detect fraud, suggest dynamic giving amounts, automate thank you emails, and more.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

I guarantee you that every nonprofit you see raising big bucks has a plan. Carve out some time free of distractions to draft a plan that will carry you through the year, one that will give you the confidence to make the Asks and work the strategies to raise money all year long. How much money do we need to raise?” .

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it. If this is the case, then you should have a clear idea about how much you need to raise for the next fiscal year. Don’t hesitate to use this budget as a guide for your year-end fundraising efforts.

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Pamela Grow

MAY 10, 2023

Whether it’s International Women’s Day, Earth Day, or World Mental Health Day, nonprofits can create campaigns that raise awareness about relevant issues and engage supporters in conversations surrounding these often-overlooked holidays. Network for Public Education celebrates Teacher Appreciation Week.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

If you want to raise enough money to fully fund your programs, you need to use more than one tool. Are the same fonts and colors being used on my website as in our print pieces, emails, and social media? Detailed activity calendar. It’s easier to raise money when you’re proactive instead of reactive.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2021

To get your supporters excited about joining your event and helping you raise funds, you need a compelling story that’s easy to share with friends and family. What will the funds raised from the campaign help our organization accomplish? For example: Review funds raised based on your top fundraisers’ connection to your organization.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

1) Save Time Using A Calendar App For Meetings. ” Four emails later you still haven’t landed on a meeting time. Your contact simply compares their calendar to your published availability and self-selects an agreeable time. Email Forwarding. Most task-related software offers an email forwarding function.

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Media Cause

JUNE 22, 2021

We leveraged organic social, paid media, email, and a website lightbox to drive over 2,000 petition signatures and raise over $2,500 in supporter donations post-action. In 2020, Action Center actions drove over 5,700 supporter signatures, at least 700 new email addresses, and over $5,000 in direct revenue post-action.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

The emails would keep rolling in and the projects would keep moving ahead—this time without me. But you look at your overflowing email inbox and overloaded calendar and wonder—When?! Review your calendar and see how many meetings you have scheduled next week and their combined length. Start with your top two.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Reflect and analyze Review your results from GivingTuesday , including the total amount raised, donor demographics, and the success of your different approaches and social media channels. Send personalized thank-you messages, emails, or letters to acknowledge their support—even if you have an automated email acknowledgement message.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Look at your 12-month calendar. So, get your heartiest supporters ready to take the plunge and raise some funds! November: Giving Tuesday and Thanks for Giving Send a gratitude-themed letter, postcard, or email. How can you start? Block off whatever month is the peak of your annual fund campaign.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

My calendar and ‘To Do’ list were written in a notebook. Google Calendar has many rivals in the marketplace, but for meeting the scheduling needs of a busy nonprofit, I can’t imagine a more effective tool. When you accept invitations via email, the meeting gets automatically added to your calendar. With a pen.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 28, 2022

To get supporters excited about joining your event and helping you raise funds, you need a powerful story. What will the funds raised help our organization to accomplish? To keep people’s interest in signing up to help raise funds, it’s important to make it easy for them to find and understand information. Do a soft launch.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

But through shared documents and calendars via cloud-based platforms, the Executive Director of the horse rescue has the extra help they need to get everything done. Don’t assume a nonprofit virtual assistant is limited to basic clerical work like data entry and responding to emails. For most, these are accounting or tech-related.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Nonprofits with online shops can tap into these trends on social media to reach mindful shoppers and raise revenue in support of their mission. Cross-channel promotion and syncing up your email, website and other marketing channels with your social media calendars is recommended for Shop promotions.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Download Our Free 2021 Year-End Fundraising Calendar. Creating a comprehensive calendar will keep you organized this year-end so that you can focus on bringing in donations! Download the free 2021 Year-End Fundraising Calendar: 2. Develop A Comprehensive Email Strategy For Your Year-End Campaign!

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

Retaining your donors is the most sustainable, cost-effective way to raise money. Some of the data you’ll want to collect is fairly simple: Their name and email address will be important, as will the knowledge that they donated to your GivingTuesday campaign. After reading a Facebook post? Visit the GivingTuesday Resource Center 2.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This widget will show you the number of new, retained, reactivated, and lapsed donors during the calendar year. For a more detailed look at your statistics, you can add the donor retention statistics widget , which will show you the same categories of donors during a calendar or fiscal year, plus the total revenue from each.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Did you know that nearly one-third of individual fundraising happens during the month of December and 12% of giving happens in the last week of the calendar year ? . You don’t want to blow this opportunity to raise what will likely be a significant amount of your nonprofit’s yearly revenue! Spend some time crafting your subject line.

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2023

The data in your CRM can help you raise more money, improve your donor retention, and even attract new supporters to your cause. For instance, you might find that people who are invited to an event after making a gift are more likely to make a second gift within the calendar year. Truly, the sky’s the limit with segments.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

You are on the right track with a lot of solid, proven ways to raise money, but you are focusing on the money and not the donor. Do you make it easy for them to contact you by putting your email address and phone number in plain sight? Email Marketing . When your email marketing campaign flops, you can easily look up analytics.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Take a look at your fundraising tech stack – do you have a peer-to-peer fundraising platform in place that allows for simple sign-up, easy fundraising page creation, and convenient fundraiser management, such as sending requests via email or social media? Bonus – if you have Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®, you can integrate the two products.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

So, consider creating a communications calendar from GivingTuesday through December 31 st and using email, snail mail, social media, telephone calls, and even SMS messages to connect with donors and remind them to give. For some of your donors, giving on GivingTuesday may not be the right time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 1, 2011

She's also the Founder and CEO of Raising Change. Raising Change helps organizations raise capital to advance social change agendas, and helps individuals create Generosity Plans. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Raising the money you need to fully fund your budget doesn’t happen by accident. It’s easy to get tunnel vision about money, and spend all your time thinking about money and how you’re going to raise it. How much money do you need to raise? Block off time on your calendar for fundraising planning. Believe me, I get it.

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Qgiv

MAY 8, 2023

It is important to think about all the different ways you can communicate with your donor base – email drip campaigns, social event calendars, social media posting (Instagram, LinkedIn), and your own registration website. The first email you send should be a “save the date” style.

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