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70% of US College Students Say They Aren’t Politically Engaged

Care2

Only 11% of 18-29 year olds donated money to a political campaign or cause.8% Houston We Have A Problem. The majority of college students don’t consider themselves politically active and they rarely donate money to campaigns or causes, or volunteer for candidates or issues. In the last 12 months approximately.

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Getting Social with Your Local Nonprofit Tech Community

Tech Soup

Austin, Texas: Microsoft | How to Obtain a Donation and the Benefits of Microsoft 365. Cleveland, Ohio: Sharing Your Story — How to Run an Effective Multi-channel Campaign. Houston, Texas: Monthly Meetup with Awesome and Never Before Heard of Topics/Speakers to BE! Startups Give Back: CSR at Growing Companies.

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[VIDEO] 3 Steps To Closing $10K+ Gifts By December 31

Bloomerang

I’m originally from Houston. This is a chance for you to inspire your donor to make the donation now. ” I mean, help the donor make the donation? Send all kinds of channels. I’m like, “Oh, you’re based in Houston. I’m based in Los Angeles. This is me talking. You got this, Carol.

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The Most Generous Online Giving Cities in the U.S.

Connection Cafe

Online fundraising continued its double-digit growth in 2013, retaining the mantle as the fastest growing fundraising channel, growing at 13.5% Additionally, online donations grew by 31% from 2012 to 2013, from nearly $6.4 according to Blackbaud’s most recent Charitable Giving Report. million to more than $8.3 million. . Midwest – 7.

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[VIDEO] The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

Bloomerang

But don’t do that right now, don’t mosey over onto our website because we are going to have a great presentation from my good buddy, Kristal Frazier, joining us from beautiful Houston. Super, you know, active in the nonprofit community, down in Houston. Kristal, how’s it going? You doing okay? Why is this important?

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Objective : Provide an alternative route to collect donations for those not wanting to donate online via credit or debit card. Cool Factor : Mobile as a fundraising channel. For this organization and through this campaign, SMS donations was the most successful mechanism with 59% of donations being made through text. *.

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New And Old Techniques Target Donor Pipeline Expansion

The NonProfit Times

Planned Parenthood is recognizing younger generations’ approach to contributing to nonprofits, which often focuses less on financial donations and more on volunteerism. “A Our midlevel program tends to skew a little bit younger than our more traditional direct mail channels,” Dinn said.