Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I use Canned Responses to provide HTML signatures when needed, and also forward all of my mail to gmail, then send out mail as other identities. (I’ve Another important tool, which I use in my personal life as well as consulting life, is Evernote. Evernote rocks my world. I also access Evernote on my Android phone.

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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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2014

Outlook calendar chaos. Here's how to avoid being a Pavlovian dog and checking email every time there’s a reminder: Go to Outlook Options (images are from Office 2010), select Mail and uncheck. Outlook calendar chaos: Two (very) easy ideas for your Outlook calendar. Does any of this sound familiar?

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Achieve

JULY 21, 2022

Your organization’s name, mailing address, and website (if applicable). Keep an eye on the calendar. For reference, Form 990 is due on the 15th day of the 5th month of each calendar year. It is an electronic document that can be submitted to the IRS through its website. These are the main sections you’ll encounter on the form:

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 5, 2010

I tested PocketMirror, CompanionLink, Go Contacts Sync, gSyncIt, Google Calendar Sync, and Evernote. Calendar: Google Calendar Sync. gSyncIt would probably be fine, but I already had Google Calendar Sync working before I found gSyncIt. That's not ideal -- it doesn't respect the manual mail sync frequency I had set up.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

One way to track those is by setting up a grant calendar. Join the Stonewall Community Foundation mailing list to get notifications about future grant opportunities. Maine Community Foundation works with donors and other partners to improve the quality of life for all Maine people. Areas served: New York City.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Look through your calendar and make a list of friends, family and co-workers whose birthdays are in November. If any of your birthday pals live far away, you might want to make a note of when to mail the card, so it gets there on time. Write and address your note in sparkly pen, add a stamp, and drop it in the mail box.

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Achieve

MAY 19, 2022

is prioritized over hosting simple, straightforward events that are easy for your team to bring to life. Such is the life of a nonprofit fundraising professional! This could involve email, direct mail, video, social media, and more. Creating a. stellar guest experience. productive. !) Set parameters around item procurement.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

There are year-end fundraisers and volunteer appreciation events to attend, donors to thank, holiday cards to get in the mail, and last-minute appeals to send out. According to the calendar, we’re supposed to start counting our blessings around Thanksgiving and work our way up to total and complete joy by New Year’s Eve. Chesterton.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Collaborative overload is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. Research has found that after hours emails contributes to the blurring of work/life boundaries. Sound familiar?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

Through direct mail?) Tying donors’ financial support to real-life outcomes will make your supporters feel good about their donation and make them more likely to give again in the future. Once you’ve gathered your ideas, add them in as a regular part of your communications calendar. After reading a Facebook post? Been a client?)

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 24, 2018

I often cringe at the thought of going through old mailing lists, donor banks and other databases, and I would venture to guess you do, too. It’s also important to keep the information on your site—your mission statement, your “About Us” page, your events calendar—up to date.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

There’s so much ground to cover when you’re planning an engagement strategy for much of your target audience’s life. Use an editorial calendar to help manage what you want to share with prospective students and their families. Follow up with mail. Direct mail is still a closer. Here’s where to focus at every stage.

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Classy

APRIL 2, 2021

To design a successful virtual event, it isn’t necessary to rinse and repeat your in-person event calendar or create “virtual versions” of your usual event experiences. Bring Signage to Life in a Virtual Setting. Download Now: The Virtual Events Toolkit. Challenge Event Assumptions and Ask, “What Is the Goal?” .

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And yet the most charitable giving that happens in all of the calendar year is December 31st. Momentary discomfort is worth the life change that, that gift will create, isn’t it? Does the calendar year matter to you? ” “Does the calendar year matter to you in your charitable giving?” ” Right?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

See how Qgiv can help you bring your Giving Tuesday campaign ideas to life! You might even offer a small branded item, like a t-shirt or calendar for the coming year, to motivate your supporters to give. Twitter, on the other hand, is a more casual social media platform where people share life updates of 280 characters or less.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. A great source for free icons to use on your website, blog, Facebook Page, in your e-mail newsletter, etc. It is a must download! GreatNonprofits :: greatnonprofits.org. that you can sign up to claim and and update.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Schedule a power hour of calls on your calendar and start dialing. You will likely get voice mails but be surprised how quickly it takes and what a meaningful impact it can have on end of year giving and donor retention. Your donors made a difference, let them know! Your donors are the hero of your story. Featured in CosmoGIRL!,

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2012

When you focus on one-off marketing campaigns (even if they are done through multiple channels) that don’t have a long shelf life, you see a quick bump and everyone at the organization is jumping for joy. Develop a One-Year Campaign Calendar. But once the marketing has stopped, everything goes back to normal.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2011

Guest blog alert: Donna from Charity Dynamics (a Convio Solution Provider ) is sharing an real-life example of how integrated marketing and fundraising helped a nonprofit increase online revenue by more than 100%. As a result, online revenue originating from direct mail integration increased from 12% to 28% from 2009 to 2010!

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 17, 2014

To boost your nonprofit brand’s buzzability, you have to give your brand evangelists something worth talking about beyond the latest direct mail drop or email blast. Nothing generates buzz better than a story about a changed life or someone who benefited from your organization. Here are five ways to get tongues wagging. Other people.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 26, 2016

We have officially crossed the mid-way point of the calendar year! This might include direct mail letters, email appeals, Giving Tuesday , telemarketing and more. With the rise of more video based social media channels like Snap Chat and Facebook Live, people are embracing the authentic and unscripted moments of life even more.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Capture, manage, and cultivate the life-cycle of our constituents. Team and employee scheduling - Share a calendar for staff, scheduling, due dates, medical follow ups, and events. Fundraising - Mail merge, email marketing , newsletters, anniversary dates. For larger organizations - customer relationship manger.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2011

When I was Chief Development Officer at the American Cancer Society, our worst calendar quarter overall was Q4. Our best was Q2 because that is when our largest special event (Relay For Life) was held each year. This has me thinking a lot about timing of fundraising promotions – mail drops, events, and campaigns.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

One organization spent 10 hours a month maintaining an online calendar. When we reviewed their website statistics, we found that nobody ever visited that calendar. Real-life Examples. We planned our campaigns in advance, coordinated email with direct mail, and targeted our messages to what our supporters wanted to hear about.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 31, 2015

You want people to converse about your event, ask questions and talk up how life changing it will be. Let it play right into direct mail, flyers and any other creative way you decide to advertise your event. Let it play right into direct mail, flyers and any other creative way you decide to advertise your event. Click Export.

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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. Gone are the days of sending cash or a check through the mail or needing to show up in person to make a gift to the causes your donors support.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Before you create your annual campaign calendar or set fundraising goals, make sure you take time to assess, assess, assess. Develop a calendar of fundraising initiatives when your colleagues will not be overly distracted, inundated or adjusting to significant change. If you aren’t able to get things done formally, go informal.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

because this tool has transformed my life as a nonprofit fundraiser, and I believe it will do the same for you… Have you ever been faced with writing something and wished that you had an assistant to do the work for you? As citrus farmers, we've been blessed with a simple life with lots of time to spend with family and friends.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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. We’ll craft talking points and you know, do you have an event calendar or prospect list? Here’s our event calendar. I like to use the calendar. I always like to set.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 18, 2022

Maybe they aren’t direct mail responsive, meaning they don’t give through the mail. I don’t recommend renting lists to mail to until you know what you’re doing because even with the right list of prospects, mailing a fundraising letter is tricky business. Maybe they don’t care about your cause.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 10, 2015

Sending an email and direct mail to your current and past donors is a good way get the word out and recruit supporters to fundraise for you. Building Your Communications Calendar. Have someone speak about the impact of your organization on his or her life. Announcing Your Campaign. But, why stop there?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. So I’ll do something like calendar year-end appeal 2020, calendar year-end appeal 2021, and make sure the naming conventions are consistent. Many mail houses and data systems. We pay attention to our mail.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By thinking through your fundraising strategy before October 1, you can collect your stories and integrate your efforts, keeping your messaging and images consistent through mail, email, social media, events, and any other channels you may use. In between your snail-mail appeal and end-of-year appeal, you can do a #GivingTuesday campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I had an e-mail exchange with a museum staffer who started an account for their museum and began to follow 500 people in a manner of days. If I'm a museum staff person and want to connect with my peers on Twitter, what's the best way to do that? Look to see who follows these users and whom they follow and start adding people.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2005

As in so many other areas of life, first make sure you are using the right tool for the job. I'm talking about tools for building catalogs calendars forums polls and surveys newsletter mailings frequently asked questions download pages member logon and the like. The tool for this job is a content management system (CMS).

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

But during the past year and a half, people have really been questioning the meaning of life and their own mortality in unprecedented ways and kind of wondering, “Well, what will my legacy be?” It’s really part of the circle of life. ” or, “what would you like to see in the autobiography of your life?”

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