Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Text-to-give is a powerful donation tool that offers donors a way to easily give to their favorite nonprofits right from their phones. However, in general, the text-to-give process looks like the following: With your text-to-give platform, you’ll set up a shortened phone number, known as a shortcode.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Some tools are free, at least to start. With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. Both tools offer some free storage and, for about $10 a month, you can get significantly more. Wave is a free accounting app for basic accounting functions.

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CauseVox

MAY 16, 2022

This guide will walk you through a step-by-step process for planning a ticketed event with loads of great free tools and templates to make planning smoother. Decide On Event Format: Virtual, In-Person or Hybrid? When raising funds virtually, avoid Text to Give : Text To Give involves too many steps for the donor.

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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. For more on year-end planning, get your free ticket to the Year-End Fundraising Fair on 11/4! Ready to get started building your own year-end fundraising calendar?

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 1, 2011

After reading reviews and getting opinions from friends on social media, as well as time spent just playing with different phones in the AT&T store, I decided on the Samsung Infuse 4G. It’s incredible how light and thin this phone is. Calendars & contacts were synced in what felt like seconds. Many free choices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Part-website, part-smartphone app, this tool enables free group texting between small groups of people.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2020

Set an operations calendar. Make sure names are free of grammatical errors (such as all lowercase or uppercase letters), so you can properly personalize and address your communications. We recommend building a content calendar that outlines which messages you want to communicate on each day leading up to your annual campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Sound familiar?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

They can’t be expected to keep track of their giving status–especially if you’re on a fiscal year and they think in calendar years. . You can organize this as a live or virtual phonathon and enlist your board and other volunteers to help. Please put it on your calendar for next year as a ‘must do.’

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Would you be available this week or next for a phone call? I like to suggest both a phone call and a coffee date, and see which one the donor feels more comfortable with. For a phone call, you can literally have these in writing in front of you. Phone or In Person? Or, even better, would you like to meet for coffee?”.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. As you reflect on these questions, feel free to update the answers accordingly in your fundraising plan. If you already have a plan in place, it’s time to pull it back up and review the hard numbers.

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Twenty Hats

MARCH 9, 2021

When the calendar turned to 2021, we all knew COVID-19 was not going to disappear. Based on the survey responses, I set up individual virtual meetings, or interviews, to learn more about their availability before matching them with an event committee. It’s not easy! Step 3: Put the “Meet” Back in Meetings.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

For example, an animal advocacy organization with the goal of homing more pets than they did the previous year might have a mission statement like, “We work to reduce the number of homeless pets in the community by offering free rescue services and housing animals with volunteer foster homes.” Be clear about shift times and locations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

It could be done face-to-face or as a virtual or hybrid meeting. A shared calendar? Some people might prefer having live discussions in-person, over the phone or via video chats, and others might prefer email or instant messaging. You can download a free copy of the agenda for this process from Lucid Meetings.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

Find constituent phone numbers. Check and identify constituent phone numbers annually – and cell phone numbers biannually. Tons of organizations are offering free training – including Blackbaud! Schedule time on your calendar monthly for training so it doesn’t drop to the bottom of the priority list again!

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Once you have your keywords, contact lists, and messages planned, a text fundraising campaign can be a hassle-free way to pull in donations on Giving Tuesday. Plus, you’ll get free publicity for your campaign and tap into a whole new group of supporters—the news station’s audience. Here’s what their event page looked like: 10.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

There are many great online solutions that help you plan and manage in-person, virtual, or hybrid events. Use social media, an often free resource, to get the word out about your nonprofit. When was the last time you didn’t have your cell phone on you? How to Create a Fundraising Calendar. Check out similar nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

With Lync, users can share their desktops and calendars and do live audio and video conferencing. Lync also integrates with Microsoft Exchange , Office 2013 , and SharePoint , and can incorporate an entire organizational phone system. It's a free, light version of the application that takes up very little hard drive space.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Store their contact info like email addresses and phone numbers and easily track donor interactions when they make a donation or volunteer for your organization. Keep supporters updated with email blasts about fundraisers they can participate and set up a social media calendar to easily post across social media platforms.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We'll be raffling off an Apple iPad, solar cell phone chargers, a t-shirt that lights up when it detects a wi-fi signal (how convenient!) It doesn't have to be difficult or even expensive; it can even be free. It's completely free to your organization, and to your members as well! Oh, and did we mention there will be prizes?

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

Now anyone can create and edit video from their phone … yet it still seems to be the final frontier in nonprofit marketing. After all, many nonprofits found that they made more through their virtual fundraisers last year. Plus, using either service is free. Finally, OBS is another free—but more robust—livestreaming tool.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. Their iCloud online storage was targeted, and hackers stole personal data and photos from their mobile phones and iPads.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The new Huddle Donation Program at TechSoup offers a donated, cloud-based collaboration tool (admin fee: $99 for up to 25 users for one year) that takes this scattershot system and integrates it through: Project management (organize calendars and assign tasks). The above image shows a calendar within Huddle.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We'll be raffling off an Apple iPad, solar cell phone chargers, a t-shirt that lights up when it detects a wi-fi signal (how convenient!) It doesn't have to be difficult or even expensive; it can even be free. It's completely free to your organization, and to your members as well! Oh, and did we mention there will be prizes?

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

Every Wednesday, Gartner does a free webinar on a variety of topics. Disruptive Technology #1: Virtualization. . There are lots of benefits to virtualization, chief among them, the power savings. Virtualization helps reduce the number of servers used, decreasing power consumption. AND, it's the green thing to do.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With so many tools out there to choose from, your opportunities for customizing your organization’s tech stack are virtually limitless, especially when it comes to fundraising apps. With both nonprofit-facing and donor-facing technology, they make it easy to manage all aspects of your next event right from your phone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Lots of research shows that donors don’t want the organization to spend money on free merchandise. Design them free on Canva. Swag or merch: calendars, printables, planners, notebooks. Personal phone call from the founder, chair, ED. Phone call to the donor from a person impacted by the nonprofit. Welcome packet.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not only that, but with the move to more and more online giving (there was a 32% increase in online revenue in 2020), events like #GivingTuesday have become an even more important part of your fundraising calendar. This year, we’ll see a lot of hybrid events: an in-person with virtual attendance options.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The easiest way to see what online collaboration is all about is to check out some of the new, free cloud computing services that are out there. All of the tools mentioned allow you to do things like store and share documents, calendars, project management schedules, and presentations online at no or low cost.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

It’s one of the best ways you can spend your time, and truly, it doesn’t take a ton of time for a short phone call with a contact. Having both of these elements saves on the number of emails you need to respond to, phone calls to answer, or voicemails to return. Schedule Keep a work calendar and update it so it’s always current.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Save those 10 minutes you spent fumbling through paper while on the phone by clicking on a computer file. Plus: We’ll walk you through reducing your paper usage in this free webinar. system and integrates it through: Project management (organize calendars and assign tasks). More economical. More accessible information.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But most importantly, I know a lot of you have already done this, but please feel free to chat in during the session we’re going to save some time for Q&A at the end. And when you are kicking off your fiscal year or your calendar year, set those expectations high so people know what they can do to be helpful.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

With a chatbot on your Facebook page or website, donors and members can easily ask questions about how late you’re open on Thursday, their membership benefits, and much more – saving your staff valuable time they might otherwise spend on phone calls and email correspondence. Just imagine having a virtual assistant or sidekick!

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

What else is on the community calendar? Check on community calendars: Is another nonprofit holding an event the same weekend you’re considering? Events Virtual Fundraising Galas & Big Events 4 min read Read Now 9. Should you follow those invitations with a phone call? But how will you do that?

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Achieve

JULY 23, 2020

Host virtual stewardship events. . HOST VIRTUAL STEWARDSHIP EVENTS. Nonprofits have been moving toward virtual strategies for a while now. you’ve probably moved many of them to occur virtually. . We recommend the following strategies as your nonprofit works to perfect your stewardship plan during these tough times: .

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any questions or comments along the way. Picking up the 500-pound phone and calling donors was a big struggle for me. So I consider myself an introvert, and as an introvert, there are a lot of things that I really dislike about the phone, right? I hate phones.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

There are more people attending their virtual “put a face on it” experience than they ever had coming into their healing center. This is the giving page for the campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. So Free Arts Minnesota, I gave them $100 gift. So emails, social media, your website. “Fighting for 25 years.

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