Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Once you have a core group of volunteers, word-of-mouth can be one of your best channels for finding new volunteers. When determining how to communicate, use a variety of communication channels to build strong relationships with your volunteers. Have a shift change? There are many ways to recognize your volunteers.

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NetWits

JUNE 13, 2011

Although the findings of the recently released 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report haven’t changed much since the last edition three years ago, its release has (re)fueled the conversation fire in the #nptech community. It’s a great guide for making the most of your channel-surfing donors.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 11, 2024

Integrating Online and Offline Channels Diversify your approach by combining online and offline fundraising channels. Analyze key performance indicators, gather feedback, and stay agile in response to changing circumstances. Learn how to let the data-driven insights guide you in your planning.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 8, 2023

In 2022, online giving grew by 12.1% , motivating nonprofits to find more ways to connect with their supporters through digital channels. We’ll explore a few strategies for integrating your digital and direct mail fundraising strategies to reach donors across various media channels. Let’s get started.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Is data helpful if you can’t change it? When looking at all of your various metrics, be sure that you are measuring things you want to impact and that you are focused on the data points you can and will change. Why are you measuring or tracking something that you can’t (or don’t want to) impact?

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Communication is the most important tool a project manager and their team has to help clients achieve their goals, especially in the ever-changing landscape of the current workplace. To ensure effective project communication, keep in mind these best practices for groups communicating in these virtual channels.

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NetWits

MAY 22, 2012

In fact, online donors are worth a lot more than offline donors. Typically they’re first-time donors who shell out nearly double the amount that offline first-time donors do - to the tune of $62 versus $32 on average, according to our 2011 Multichannel Fundraising Report. 2) Tie Offline Contact Directly to Online Gifts.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 28, 2022

The overarching goal of this next phase is to humanize the customer experience with new AI-powered conversational intelligence, mobile offline access, and innovations to the Customer Data Platform. . As a result, many commonly used Salesforce products have been rebranded with name changes. Why the change? Par-dot or Par-dough?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

For the past few years, I’ve been teaching a workshop called “ Leading on Social Channels ” for nonprofits that want to leverage the personal brands of their leaders. Adding social media leadership skills to the mix, they can become the more trusted voices who others turn to regarding their sector’s social change issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Transmedia – Making Change Across Mediums by Danny Alpert, Executive Director, Kindling Group and Executive Producer, See3 Communications. I became a documentary filmmaker to tell meaningful stories that explore social issues and inspire change. ” Enjoy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The discussion about the recent changes on Facebook has focused mostly around what it means for individuals, particularly the tension between openness and privacy. Many people are wondering what it means for nonprofit brands using Facebook as one of their marketing channels. Flickr Photo by Lululemon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2019

The larger opportunity of social fundraising is when you actually get your supporters to spread the word on your behalf through their own social channels. Leveraging the power of social fundraising doesn’t mean you have to stop posting on social media or change your strategy altogether. Move offline activities online.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I’m passionate about changing the world through community building because it is only by empowering and supporting communities to form, to network and collaborate, and to make real change that we can truly change things. You do, though, change the scale and the opportunity. What is changing and why?

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2011

But what if you don’t have the budget or staff to focus on eight (or eighteen) different giving channels? Join us on Wednesday, June 29 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET for Multi-Channel Fundraising: Magic or Myth? How can I leverage online and offline giving for better fundraising results? We can help! Please register now!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2012

Multi-channel! Multi-channel! Multi-channel! Not financially committed to a second channel. Second channel constitutes 5-20% direct response revenue. Separate databases for online/offline. Thematically integrated, some consolidation of data across channels. Take the multi-channel quiz here!

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

You can create and run an online campaign to support an offline appeal or an event. You’ll need to write several versions of your Ask for several different channels, and you’ll need to write several different posts. Tell stories about how lives have been changed and show powerful images of your work. Write your copy.

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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Promote your event Implementing multi-channel event marketing tactics for your nonprofit benefit concert is the key to a successful event. You can also market your concert offline as well. Your concert doesn’t need to be a huge event to be a success, as long as it helps your nonprofit create a meaningful change in your community.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2022

To meet rapidly changing donor expectations, we need to adopt a digital-first mindset to keep our organizations relevant and grow our missions. It reduces change felt by gift officers and (more importantly) doesn’t require yet another username and password to remember. How Corporate Gift Matching Can Change The Way You Fundraise.

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Kindful

APRIL 28, 2021

To say that 2020 was a year of change is an understatement. Put simply, a hybrid fundraising event simultaneously or asynchronously combines offline and online experiences. Simply live-streaming your in-person event technically qualifies, but a stellar hybrid experience is one that is multi-channel and interactive.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Is it easy to see how to give offline? You can always add or subtract platforms as you grow or your audience behavior changes. . Online giving is the fastest growing giving channel per research by M+R. It’s still a much smaller percentage of giving than offline giving, but you don’t want to ignore it. A phone call?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with important information on the organization’s website, social media sites, YouTube channel, and other assets. Be familiar with the organization’s case for support, annual reports, theory of change, and other collateral materials. Approach area businesses to donate items to an online or offline silent or live auction.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

While beautiful charity galas and creative offline campaigns still gather support for nonprofits’ causes, they slowly slip away from donors’ focus. Being able to give with a minimum of effort and enabling donations with just a few mouse clicks or taps on a smart device has changed the way we want to act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. This post covers the benefits and provides some ways to effectively cultivate thought leadership through social channels. Thought leaders drive conversations – online and off, influence others, and shape perceptions in their field.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2022

To meet rapidly changing donor expectations, we need to adopt a digital-first mindset to keep our organizations relevant and grow our missions. It reduces change felt by gift officers and (more importantly) doesn’t require yet another username and password to remember. This is a requirement now for any new system we consider.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

While a large majority of donations are still made by check (79 percent), online fundraising is the fastest growing donation channel. – Median revenue per donor for multichannel supporters was $339 compared to $88 for offline. This is one of my favorite tips from Alia Mckee over at Sea Change Strategies. – Blackbaud.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Let me also suggest that we need to stop placing a wall between offline and online giving strategies and tactics. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. of total sales. It’s in our org charts.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

They also want to engage with the channel and experience they prefer. At the same time, recent trends show a changing landscape in the banking and fintech sectors with significant innovation, like digital wallets, payment links, and open banking.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Maximize Your Digital Marketing Channels Even if your event is taking place in-person, your marketing efforts should be primarily happening online. With everyone spending hours a day glued to their phones and computers, digital channels will be the best way to reach them. And in order to do that, you’re going to have to go old school.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Digital fundraisers are busier than ever, reaching more people through digital channels than ever before. There is a lot of learning and experimenting going on in digital fundraising, which is fueling new innovations in how to raise money across the whole spectrum of digital channels. Mobile list size grew by 35% in 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The challenges: Explosion of online media channels. Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. I gave the example of charity:water that tells the story about how clean drinking water can change people’s lives in development country. A multi-screen world. Stories are social. Transparency. Aspiration.

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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. The end-of-year online fundraising opportunity only underscores the importance of this channel as a giving source. Research by Target Analytics looked into donors and the channel flipping that they do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. It is also about reconnecting with those who have already graduated. Social media is an important channel for both these groups. Networked Nonprofit and Social Media Maturity of Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2013

Sustaining a content strategy requires establishing a good pipeline of content and engagement across channels. It starts, of course, with identifying your audience and objectives and gets better with measurement. Ask: What existing content can be re-purposed for social channels? Review ideas in your “Idea Dashboard”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

This panel will dramatically demonstrate how the practice of measurement, social media, social change, and networks have evolved over the past 5 years. ” The thesis: For nonprofit organizations there are two key processes that lead to social change: To become networked, and to use measurement. You can vote for our session here.

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Kindful

AUGUST 19, 2021

They can be reached through: Either online socially or offline socially, including the online advocate program, events or speaking engagements (church or other places). Just remember, the more you know about your ideal donor, the more likely you are to pick the right channel, the right time, and the right message to reach them.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. What does it mean for community change?" " How do your social media channels fit in your organization's emergency communications plan? New networks are emerging everywhere. Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

If your community meets offline at a local watering hole to share opinions and make plans, don’t bother setting up a Twitter account with the purpose of influencing them. Changes, new functionality, and platform iterations will continue indefinitely— for better or worse.

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