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What to Do When Your Fundraising Methods Fall Flat

Get Fully Funded

Here are some things to look at when examining why your email did not bring in as much money as you expected: Look at the open rate of your most recent email. If you can’t even get a third of your subscribers to open your email, you need to work on your subject lines. Can you put a wine and cheese event on the calendar?

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How to Host a Virtual Fundraiser

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Participants take part from anywhere using a cell phone or laptop to connect to the event. Sometimes, you can get away with just a laptop with a webcam for a simple live-streaming event. This is another great question to ask because it determines what your communications calendar will look like. Open registration.

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6 Website Elements to Include to Drive Year-Round Donations

Greater Giving

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. This might involve browsing your event calendar, reading your blog, donating through your online giving page, or using your contact form to get in touch. Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX).

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If you're a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome

Judi Sohn

I live in Google applications (Gmail, Google Reader, Calendar, etc.) Click "tab" to open a new window that logs you right in. Makes it easier if I want to log in using my laptop while on the go. so it's almost a no-brainer for that reason alone. I also like that you can store your security token as well.

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Giving up, a little

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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Leaving Apple Behind

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. It does feel a bit weird to use Windows sometimes, considering my years as an open source advocate. A scary amount of my data (mail, contacts, photos, task lists, calendars, phone etc.)

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If you’re a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome

Judi Sohn

I live in Google applications (Gmail, Google Reader, Calendar, etc.) Click “tab&# to open a new window that logs you right in. Makes it easier if I want to log in using my laptop while on the go. so it’s almost a no-brainer for that reason alone. I also like that you can store your security token as well.

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