Double the Donation

JANUARY 28, 2022

You stumble across the idea of corporate philanthropy and, more specifically, employee giving. Quickly, you realize that this one concept can help you meet your previously stated goals?—and By offering them an employee giving experience that prioritizes their wants and needs and is as simple a process as possible! Let’s begin!

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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. By November 1st : Set Goals And Make A Plan. Set a Goal: Hopefully, your nonprofit or charity has a clear, board-approved budget that you follow.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

It’s your job to remind folks who’ve not yet renewed or fulfilled on their pledges that it’s time to do so. 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. . Please put it on your calendar for next year as a ‘must do.’

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Our auditors later told us the gifts should have been recorded as pledges, with the payment showing as being applied in the new year. Once completed, the donor cannot cancel this; hence the donation is deemed to have been made in the calendar year of the transaction. The donor completes a gift via text.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

There’s a plethora of seasonal themes to base your fundraisers around that can help you entice your supporters’ giving spirit into full bloom. Fitness challenge Help your supporters with their fitness goals by hosting a peer to peer fitness challenge!

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2021

What are you asking people to give for? Keep in mind that if you ask donors to give for something specific, you’re obligated to use the money on that specific thing. You’ll need a strategy to welcome new donors onboard and be prepared to finally make money the second or third time they give. What’s your offer?

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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. Nonprofit marketing tools give your donors real-time updates on your projects and involved with your mission. Key fundraising tools. Online donation forms. Nonprofit CRMs.

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CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

Spur Local blew it out of the water last year with their Give Local Together Campaign. We sat down with Amanda Liaw, Communications and Marketing Manager, to discuss their giving day success and how partnering with CauseVox helped engage donors more effectively by leveraging customized fundraising tools.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 10, 2011

You probably already know, but it bears some discussion of terminology since there are many gifts that fall under the broad designation of "recurring giving.". Pledges are donations made to an organization for a specific period of time (until the election) or for a specific project (help us accomplish this goal during the next two years).

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s face it: consistent funding is the lifeblood of nonprofit work – without it, we cannot create the impact we want in our communities; and from individual giving to foundation grants and everything in between, there are so many different ways to go about fundraising.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

What's at Cost: This is an all-or-nothing platform , meaning that if you don't meet your set goal for funds, you don't get to keep any of the donations. based projects, pledges are processed by Amazon Payments. If you don't meet your goal, there are no fees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Beth's Birthday Cause I was listening to a story on Marketplace on NPR this afternoon with Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell who reviewed their 2008 financial goals and graded themselves on their accomplishments. Chris Farrell set a 2008 goal to make his charitable giving a monthly activity, not a mad rush in December.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So we have three key goals for our conversation this afternoon or morning depending on where you are. So what we’ll share in the next slide, is that in 2020, giving reached a record-breaking $471.44 And the headline was that this $471 billion was a new record for charitable giving in the United States.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The final months of the calendar year bring out the best in all of us. This is why so many people like to give to their favorite nonprofits during the end-of-year giving season. However, end-of-year giving can sneak up on nonprofits that don’t have a plan. Why is an end-of-year giving plan important for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. Says Perrone, “We will also look at app users who came into the BFAS fold over time (email database, do they keep giving, etc).

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Think of it as your roadmap to success, guiding your organization not only in compensating for any lost funds but also in meeting your current goals and reaching your long-term destination. To kickstart the planning process, define specific and measurable goals aligned with your organization’s mission.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

What's at Cost: This is an all-or-nothing platform , meaning that if you don't meet your set goal for funds, you don't get to keep any of the donations. based projects, pledges are processed by Amazon Payments. If you don't meet your goal, there are no fees.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Charities that have traditionally focused on offline fundraising have also learned in recent years the importance of online giving. In fact, the end of the calendar year is also a significant source of the funds raised online for nonprofits. Online giving has actually developed a consistent and predictable cycle.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Facilitating online donations, sign-ups, pledges, and more. What are your goals for your site? Your calendar and sign-up or registration forms. Optimizing the frontend of your website is essential for giving your supporters a positive user experience when interacting with it. Is it performing well? Creating Wireframes.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you get kids in on the fundraising fun, you have a great opportunity to teach them important values like leadership, responsibility, goal-setting, team building, and community engagement. For an even more involved challenge, get a teacher to commit to shaving their head when you’ve reached a fundraising goal. Pictures with Santa.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 10, 2015

Or, consider offering a silly pledge—like throwing a pie at your executive director—each time a fundraiser meets a specific goal. Building Your Communications Calendar. Give fundraisers time to get to know each other. Enter top fundraisers into a drawing for a prize. Announcing Your Campaign. Tracking Your Progress.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

And regardless of what you hear or think about online giving, most gifts still come via the mail. This post will give you tips for: Drawing donors in to the letter. Donors say they will give liberally but only after they know what their first gift accomplished. Establish a monthly giving program. Thanks Gail!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2023

Have your athletes reach out to their friends and family in the weeks leading up to your event and ask for donations or pledges. You can also ask people to make pledges based on how well your team scores over a certain number of games as well. Team calendar sales When the new year arrives, so does the need for a new yearly calendar.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

I made that pledge, but I didn’t return the envelope. A typical match program will get a high-net-worth donor to conditionally pledge some money, say, $75,000. They will pay the pledge if you can get another $75,000 to match it. So they were over their goal. But not now. When I get around to it. I will get to it.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As the end of the calendar year approaches, your nonprofit is probably preparing for its annual end-of-year appeal. They work across county lines with the goal of saving the greatest number of lives possible through strategic, creative, and impactful programming. As a result, donors delivered and raised an additional $3,000 over goal.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

You then invite them to give $3,000 that can be used as a match as you raise money for the laptops. Psychology comes into play here – the supporter who might have scrolled by pauses, reads about the need, and gives $25, knowing their donation turns into $50 with the match. Heck, they might even give $50 that turns into $100!

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Steven: You got a spot on the calendar every year. I want to give some kind of flat out areas where I see the most money left on the table, and perhaps maybe give you some ideas on what to do instead. Okay, so I’m going to give you a quick flyover today how my methodology works. And I’m a goal setter.

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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. Offer a recurring monthly giving option to retain the worldwide reach . Give social media sharing options on individual participant fundraiser pages .

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We had Giving Tuesday this week, but it’s awesome to see a full room. . If I was in the office, I would hold up Harvey’s great new book on monthly giving, which is behind my desk and really awesome. So monthly giving if you’re interested in that, please, get that book. ” I love this topic.

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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. Set Clear and Measurable Goals.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Actually, you’ve been coming on since last March just to kind of give us an update on what’s going on in the grants world, which I know people have been really appreciative of. And that’s just something to kind of give us a level playing field to understand what we’re working with. Steven: This is awesome.

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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. Give us the weather report. Steven: Listen, there was only one person that I wanted to invite to do a year-end giving session. “Give.”

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And in order to do an audit and assessment, you have to know what your baseline data is so that you can create some goals around that and then benchmark against those goals. All right, so identify loyal donors who may be prospects for major and planned giving. So following a large campaign pledge, sometimes. Yes, right?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 3, 2023

When it comes to being able to effectively analyze your donor’s giving patterns, and generating accurate fundraising reports, utilizing a consistent and well thought-out strategy of coding the gifts that your nonprofit receives is imperative. What kind of gift did they give, and in what amount? No two fundraising programs are alike.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

And it gives your supporters a new way to get involved with your mission! SOS Children’s Villages of Illinois ran their annual holiday giving campaign through CauseVox for the first time in 2020. These campaigns run for a fixed period of time and have an overall fundraising or impact goal. Team Fundraising.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

And it gives your supporters a new way to get involved with your mission! SOS Children’s Villages of Illinois ran their annual holiday giving campaign through CauseVox for the first time in 2020. These campaigns run for a fixed period of time and have an overall fundraising or impact goal. Team Fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. This website allows your supporters to pledge to donate with each Facebook Status Update or Tweet they post on Facebook or Twitter. Donors can pledge as little as $.01 It is a must download!

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