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12 Must-Know Stats About Social Media, Fundraising, and Cause Awareness

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Until recently the nonprofit pioneers of the Social Web had to mostly rely on their intuition that their social media campaigns were resulting in more dollars raised online, an increase in brand and cause awareness, and higher rates of volunteer recruitment and retention. Your instincts have served you well. Source: Avectra.

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Donor Data And Your Nonprofit

TechImpact

The truth is, without the help of data, effectively planning a fundraising strategy or maintaining high donor retention numbers makes a hard job near impossible. People get new email addresses, get married, divorced, have children, get sick, move to new locations and the list goes on and on. Where do you fall in these stats?

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Donor Data And Your Nonprofit

BoardAssist

The truth is, without the help of data, effectively planning a fundraising strategy or maintaining high donor retention numbers makes a hard job near impossible. People get new email addresses, get married, divorced, have children, get sick, move to new locations and the list goes on and on. Where do you fall in these stats?

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Crafting Impactful Narratives: The Art of Nonprofit Storytelling

CauseVox

You can see how they shared his story of going to rescue more children in the small text beneath the heading which makes him the hero of the narrative. Inspiring photos and videos of your impactful work in action is crucial, but so are the stats. You can transform your statistics and figures into narratives that stir action.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Crowdfunding: Best Practices and Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m at the AFP Conference where I will be on a plenary session about “ Social Media for Social Change ” moderated by Social Media 4 Nonprofit leaders Darian Rodriguez and Ritu Sharma, along with Carolyn Miles, Save the Children and Ben Rattray, Change.Org. Some key themes: the need to focus on measurement for impact.

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Donor retention rates are depressing. More than 7 out of 10 donors were lost.

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