Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

A well-crafted year-end fundraising plan helps nonprofits define clear and specific fundraising goals, identify potential donors, and tailor their messaging better to resonate with their supporters. 1) Multi-Channel Strategy Employing a multi-channel strategy helps nonprofits reach a wider audience with their year-end campaign.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 24, 2023

GiveCentral will launch its 20 for 20 Campaign to help nonprofits increase their engagement and giving by 20% in 20 weeks beginning Q4, where the most charitable giving happens. The campaign will capitalize on giving strategies around calendar events, holidays, and social media holidays in Q4.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

According to our report, Navigating the Unknown: 2020 Findings to Future-Proof Your Fundraising , social media posts were the number one driver of charitable gifts in 2020—ahead of email and direct mail appeals! We’re here to help! Sprout includes content approval tools, social media analytics, and a shared content calendar view.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 13, 2023

From GivingTuesday to the start of the new year, nonprofits are focused on communicating with donors, sharing the organization’s successes and plans for the year ahead, and meeting their fundraising goals so they can be ready to power their purpose when the calendar flips. 24 through 31.

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EveryAction

JULY 31, 2023

Many donations remain eligible for matching until the end of the calendar year, so year-end matching gift marketing empowers organizations to make the most of recent and past donors to match and secure additional funding. This may include some combination of email marketing, social media posting, direct mail, and your nonprofit’s website !

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

Back to that summer of 2020, I had a calendar script running that populated student and teacher Google calendars with their class schedules. Stale” calendars or no calendars? “No No calendars” wasn’t going to fly now that folks had seen the benefit of pre-populated calendars. It wasn’t great. What is better?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Either way you choose to go, the steps below will help you start bundling your donor communications right away. You can use a calendar, whiteboard, Excel sheet , Word or Google Doc, or other resource to do this. Mail dates for each donor communication. Now is the time to make changes to your mail dates, topics, etc.—not

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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! Our fundraising timeline will help you stay focused on your goals and objectives. Download the free 2021 Year-End Fundraising Calendar: 2.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Fundraising apps are helpful tools that drive your nonprofit’s fundraising campaigns by empowering you to pull in more donations, and there are hundreds to choose from. This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Direct mail is a major workhorse for all nonprofits. And regardless of what you hear or think about online giving, most gifts still come via the mail. This week guest blogger Gail Perry is back with her top tips to help us all raise more money by mail. 112 Tips to Raise More Money by Mail. Thanks Gail! Guaranteed!

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

It may make sense to hire someone to give you that help, especially if that person has the skills you need and can work remotely. 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. Nor should you.

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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Block it off on your calendar and record it on a project plan that someone holds you accountable to. The e-mail addresses, phone numbers and credit card numbers of those members? Is your data actually helping you achieve your strategic goals or are you just spending time cleaning it up, and not using it?

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Attracts new supporters and partners with information about how they can help change the world. Investing in marketing helps you build a foundation for growth, community engagement, and impactful change. And each approach has different strategies to help you maximize your marketing efforts.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

If you can find 10 good grant leads — we can usually find at least 10 hot leads when we do grant research for our clients—then you can fill your grant calendar and keep your grant pipeline full all year long. Create a calendar of Asks. And there is nothing wrong with using a paper desk calendar, if that’s your jam.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2016

Your ability to segment your email lists will depend on your CRM and your email communications software, but having multiple lists can help your nonprofit better craft your messages and fundraising requests. Add e-newsletter opt-in forms to online event calendars.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2014

Make a donor retention calendar to keep your donors loyal! Here are 4 Steps to help you focus on the things that matter: Step One: Don’t Focus on Everyone! Over $100 Check in the mail: Thank them with a phone call & letter. Over $1000 check in the mail: Call them up and see if you can go to coffee.

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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 ? . With that in mind, here are some year-end fundraising tips to help you make the most of your online fundraising efforts. Tip 1: Maximize your year-end fundraising emails.

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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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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Put together a master marketing calendar. To make your multi-channel marketing efforts successful, it’s important to implement a campaign calendar. Your communications across every channel you use should be included on the calendar. It also helps to give them a similar look. Direct mail. Make a posting plan.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

.” But, there’s a way out: “Small tweaks to your processes, simple automations, and some basic tools can help you shrink the number of small things taking up the biggest bites out of your day.” Luckily, there is a growing suite of free tools that help ease this pain. Let’s all help each other get more done.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The donor mails the check via the USPS. Since, as you point out, the donor can’t get the check back once the piece of mail is put under the control of the Post Office, delivery and donation occurs on the date the envelope is placed in the mail. So help your colleagues by asking away. This being said, there are exceptions.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2022

Held during the first week of April, Tartan Tuesday invites all members of the Maryville College community to support the programs and causes that are important to them and help the College earn challenge gifts. Create a clear work plan or communications calendar. Rally your Giving Day team. Planning a Giving Day is a lot of work!

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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. SMART goals help you streamline a reasonable goal for any situation. There are a number of ways you can tell your supporters “Thanks” on Thanksgiving, including: Social Media Email blast Direct mail.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The terms “LYBUNT” and “SYBUNT” are often used to segment communications to donors that have given before but not within the current calendar/fiscal year. How you SHOULD NOT communicate with lapsed donors Stop sending reinstatement and member renewal mailings to lapsed donors on auto-pilot. Do donors realize they’ve lapsed?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

Or maybe you sent your mailing out at a time when people are distracted with something else like vacations or elections or major holidays. But what you really want is to help people feel good. It is where you let your supporters know there is suffering going on and that they can help alleviate that suffering by giving.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

Direct mail is the most popular year-end giving marketing method. Wherever you’re coming from, here are 10 steps to help you make the most of the year-end giving season and reach your goals. This will help you strategize for your upcoming campaign and improve year-over-year results. start as early as September.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2022

These individuals can help provide feedback to ensure that your campaign is as successful as possible. What strategies can help you build upon existing connections with supporters and engage new donors? When thinking about your audience , consider the following: Who will read or view the communication and why?

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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. This boosts engagement and response rates and helps create authentic relationships. Segmenting your list can help make this possible. Generic, irrelevant messages often get skipped.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2021

Direct mail is a valuable fundraising strategy, but figuring out how to send a nonprofit appeal can be confusing. You’re just mailing a letter asking for a donation, right? If you’re a beginner at mailing fundraising appeals , it’s really important that you understand the strategy and psychology behind what makes a good letter.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Build anticipation: Plan some email reminders leading to the event, so everyone has a chance to mark their calendars. As your build our your membership engagement strategy, you’ll find that collecting and analyzing member data help you determine what’s working and what’s not.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

These letters can come in many formats, from direct mail to emails. Give statistics about your most successful fundraisers and provide updates about projects donors have helped to fund. The best way to do that is to include a donation form with all your end-of-year giving letters, whether you’re sending them by email or direct mail.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Among the notable dates on the philanthropic calendar, GivingTuesday stands out as a global movement that harnesses the power of community and generosity. Friends Help Reach Goals Activate your existing supporters by reaching out through email newsletters, engaging your mailing list, and mobilizing your community.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

In the following blog post, we will delve into practical strategies to help your nonprofit maximize its efforts during the crucial calendar year-end period. It goes without saying, but calendar year-end is a critical time for many nonprofit organizations. percent after inflation adjustments) for calendar year-end giving in 2022.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

Your database is probably home to people from a ton of different sources – your online donors, your direct mail donors, your volunteers, people who signed up on your website, people who registered for one of your events, people who fall into more than one of those categories, etc. Or sent them a handwritten card in the mail?

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In September, you decided on the story and wrote the first draft of your direct mail appeal. If segmenting your direct mail piece by donor type, consider adding a dynamic sentence or two (i.e., If segmenting your direct mail piece by donor type, consider adding a dynamic sentence or two (i.e., Since the direct mail is the.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 25, 2024

Here are a few best practices that can help you as you get started with your member newsletter and your communication strategy as a whole. Channel the audience reading your newsletter—what’s helpful to them? Use it to help members stay informed! Whatever you do, maintain a content calendar and be consistent.

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