NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 11, 2019

Before you begin the process of seeking sponsorships, you need to know what your organization offers that can actually be sponsored. For example, if you regularly host fundraisers, consider having a company sponsor them. It’s also crucial that you know the demographics of your constituents before reaching out to potential sponsors.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

360MatchPro’s guide to corporate philanthropy explains that businesses can provide support in a variety of ways, such as sponsoring your event, providing in-kind donations, or even offering to match your donations. Use direct mail, email, social media, and other channels to reach and engage donors. Start promoting your next event.

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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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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Choose a day and actively encourage donations and sharing through all your social media channels, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. You can promote a match through all your frequent channels of communication whether it be social media, email, or a newsletter. Virtual Gala Fundraiser. Social Media Takeovers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

These local giving days focus more a community approach and help nonprofits build capacity in fundraising on all channels, while also promoting the idea of a Giving Day in the local community or geographic area. Other channels included TV news, radio, newspapers, websites, phone calls, and through friends or family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Global was the co-sponsor and it was great to catch up with long-time colleague, Marnie Webb , Co-Ceo. Organizations must begin with listening, but an integrated listening channel that includes social media and traditional marketing channels. 6: Use social media to close the loop between online and offline action.

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Classy

JULY 9, 2021

Communication Channels Have Changed. 6 Quick Tips to Unify Your Offline and Online Fundraising. The COVID-19 pandemic left some uncertainty with how individual donors and corporate sponsors would respond. It helps to have some local champions, but don’t rule out external expertise that might bring a fresh lens to your campaign.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In a study released earlier this year, Target Analytics found they have lower retention rates than offline donors. And when they do give again -- which roughly a quarter do, according to the study -- it may not be online but often offline. The trick is getting them to stay once they give.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

Participants can seamlessly track their activities through the app, which calculates and converts their efforts into charitable donations from corporate sponsors. What we love about Smartwaiver With an offline mode, Smartwaiver provides flexibility in collecting waivers, even if you don’t have an internet connection on-site of your event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Second, we looked at the problems that the market currently faces, lack of scale, lack of languages, lack of content, lack of reach and expensive distribution channels. Channels used: Twitter, Skype, Blog. Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr. So, our Twitter friend went offline and recorded a book in their Delhi studio!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel. . Last month, the Twitter community came together online and offline in over 180 cities around the world to raise money for charity:water with the highly successful " Twestival " fundraising event which brought in over $250,000.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

The site does have an internal system by which to do this but other methods used include deputizing members, allowing members to take collective action, and providing a customer service channel. Another facet of trust is respecting members and being consistent to the community’s core values.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2015

Sure, your website, social media, and crowdfunding are all important fundraising channels, but no other online medium lets you go out and actively communicate with your donors online like e-mail. DO Include Offline Contact Information. Email is the killer app for online fundraising. You get the idea…. DON’T Spam.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Use events as a springboard to develop stronger partnerships with sponsors and to create deeper relationships with your donors. Use All Available Online Channels to Promote and Manage Your Events. Don’t abandon all your offline communication—just be sure to support it with online efforts; you’ll get more bang for your buck.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Research into both the "Wired Wealthy" and other consumers shows they visit organizations' websites before donating regardless of whether the gift is given online or offline. In 2009, Convio's clients alone used the online channel to raise more than $921 million (up from $777M in '08), send more than 3.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

You know those bags tattooed with the sponsors' logos and filled with stickers, t-shirts, coupons, samples, and other goodies. is about building a bridge between two-way online communication and offline actions and impact. Synthesis of grassroots organization to channel social change. Ann Wizer, XSProject Founder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. They’re convening Barcamp-like unconferences called PubCamps all over the country, allowing local techies and citizen journalists to forge collaborative projects with NPR and PBS stations, both online and offline.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. He was able to fund his trip largely through corporate sponsors that he recognizes on the UnRoad Trip website. Diverse Goals. Boaz ran his trip as a free agent story teller.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2019

According to a recent DonorPerfect study , you can expect that multichannel donors will contribute triple the amount of online-only and offline-only donors. This is your chance to get your offline donors online – but you have to make it easy. How can you identify your multichannel donors? Reach them through a text message.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Email is a critical channel. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. This was a great way for EAC to create a meaningful channel into the discussions and to maintain transparency. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

Other good metrics to track are donor retention rate , matching gifts rate, percentage of recurring donors, total amount raised, percentage of major donors, and offline vs. online revenue. For any type of fundraising event, you’ll want to track your percentage of returning sponsors, and the income expected from these corporate sponsorships.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

If you only engage with your supporters via one digital communication channel, such as just Facebook or Instagram, you might find that you’re starting to repeat yourself or your post formatting is getting stale. Remember, a multichannel strategy requires considering every channel at your disposal — including direct mail. millennials.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. To some people, these events may sound like losers. They don't generate rental revenue (usually).

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

If you only engage with your supporters via one digital communication channel, such as just Facebook or Instagram, you might find that you’re starting to repeat yourself or your post formatting is getting stale. Remember, a multichannel strategy requires considering every channel at your disposal — including direct mail.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Email is a critical channel. They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. This was a great way for EAC to create a meaningful channel into the discussions and to maintain transparency. Idealware.org has reviews of many of these tools as well.

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CauseVox

JUNE 14, 2021

Along with first-hand testimonials, a speech, and a post recognizing sponsors, it mimicked the run-of-show for an actual event. Mirroring the look and feel of a live event, campaign donors were invited to become ‘virtual table captains’. The organization also provided updates in the form of powerful client stories. And guess what?!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

How do you socialize your offline event online? Add the hashtag to all your event day signage: sponsor banners, route makers, and directional signage. Tomorrow, my buddy Scott Gilman is kicking us off with a fun session on engaging your audience through Online Channels. I have one answer for you: Plan your moment!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2017

Fast forward several years— more nonprofits are now using digital channels to engage with donors, but there is still resistance (or maybe it’s a lack of understanding) to incorporating and building a major gifts strategy online. Checkout the podcast: The Intersection of Offline and Online Tactics in Major Gifts.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

She’s got an awesome YouTube channel where she does a lot of free trainings as well. And at the end, those who reached their goal, we had an incentive where they got another board member sponsor taking them out to a fancy restaurant where everybody wanted to go and we paid for the dinner and all of that. Steven: I love it.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year. We are mailing out dope boxes today, y’all. Well, thanks, y’all.

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Double the Donation

APRIL 24, 2021

You can even combine your Classy data with other online and offline data sources to create a more complete picture of your donors. Then, they can automate outreach across mobile and social channels to connect with donors. Track current and past donations. Through the app, participants can create personal fundraising pages.

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