Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

6,057 donors completed the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Survey and based on their responses, the donor community worldwide is made up of primarily women (65%) who have a liberal ideology (53%) , characterize themselves as religious (72%), and give between ($101-$1,000 USD) annually (43%). 20% say Instagram, and 13% say Twitter.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

An integration between your customer relationship management (CRM) platform and online fundraising platform is a simple time-saving solution that can help you collect all of your donor data in one place. It’s much more difficult to create an effective fundraising strategy or growth plan when you lack a firm grasp on your donor data.

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Qgiv

MAY 2, 2022

The Windermere Foundation is dedicated to supporting low-income and homeless families in their communities. With careful placement of images, they draw attention to various places on their donation form to encourage donors to complete their gift. Who they are. What you can do. Your nonprofit can design donation forms meticulously.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

It can be goods or services and can come from individual donors, corporations, or small businesses. When you think about an inkind gift, you may think of stuff, such as bottled water and packaged snacks for events or hotel-sized shampoo and conditioner for a shelter serving homeless families. Or a billboard for an ad.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

Keep membership data clean Board members can help you keep your donor data clean. They can also reach out to donors and ask for their cell phone number or birthday month to be appended to their record. Later, your organization can encourage the donor to run a birthday fundraiser. This is a perfect task for a board member.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 24, 2023

Self-service tools let your donors manage various parts of their engagement, such as how often they give, what activities they want to participate in, and how they prefer to be contacted. Self-service tools are far more practical for enterprise-sized organizations with thousands of donors. Reporting templates. Automatic alerts.

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DipJar

MARCH 9, 2021

They rotate the placement of their DipJar, dubbed ‘Phoebe’, at different partner locations to attract new donors each month. Not only does this allow them to engage new donors, it helps create more partnerships with local businesses! During this campaign, they were able to raise $36,000! Spark More Engagement.

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2021

Founded in 1949, Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region is the largest animal welfare group for homeless and abused animals in Southern Colorado. Throughout March and April, we began sending an email every day to keep donors updated and engaged with us. As an open admission shelter, no animal is ever turned away. Moral of the Story.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2017

An effective nonprofit website can build a strong brand, drive more donors to your site, and increase your volunteer recruitment efforts. Whether your audience is looking for background information about your organization, bios of your leaders, or contact information, visitors depend on an intuitive navigation menu to drive engagement.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your vision for your new organization probably includes vibrant programs, happy donors, tons of community support, and the opportunity to change lives. Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. What is your vision?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Impact,” by definition, is the action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another. And while this definition may make you think of car accidents or meteors, that’s exactly what your organization is doing—you’re coming into contact with the people who need it most with a force for good. Defining impact. Measuring impact.

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Qgiv

JULY 8, 2021

Once a donor entered a donation amount, they were given a drop-down of four furry valentine options: Once the option was selected, donors were prompted to enter their valentine’s name and email address and then were prompted to add a personalized message. The Outcome.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

If you are the only donor and you determine what the organization needs, it starts to become a Board of One, and that isn’t how nonprofits should run. In other words, if you can no longer pay for everything yourself and you haven’t built a donor base, where will the money come from to support the nonprofit going forward? Things change.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? Phones also provide a reliable contact method for people who have no permanent address. It also uses Twitter to “find, counsel, and direct as many homeless people as possible to help.” Cloud Storage Price Wars Update.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Great for capturing leads/data from a “Contact us” form on a website. Email Marketing: Pardot , MailChimp , Constant Contact. nonprofit dedicated to ending chronic homelessness, needed a custom solution for one-time, recurring, or in-tribute donations. Pricing and level of effort: No licensing costs; included with Salesforce .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

As more and more donors are being exposed to crowdfunding for products and services, they’ll expect your fundraising to shift towards those approaches as well. The Yale researchers George Newman and Jeremy Shen, found that contrary to expectations, rewarding donors cut donations in most situations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

I’ll be talking about the next generation of donors and how they use social media, mobile, and other technology to raise money for causes they care about. This guest post is part of many recent posts you have read from my about Generation Z. Help them set up and manage their campaign.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Read real-life accounts of how technology is improving lives and communities with support from TechSoup, its global partners, and its generous donor partners. where donated Adobe Creative Suite software empowers homeless people in St. Each spot on the map corresponds to the unique story of an individual social benefit organization.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2012

Read real-life accounts of how technology is improving lives and communities with support from TechSoup, its global partners, and its generous donor partners. where donated Adobe Creative Suite software empowers homeless people in St. Each spot on the map corresponds to the unique story of an individual social benefit organization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 28, 2012

These are the people who cannot only help you find jobs or partnerships, but can potentially recommend you to employers and connect you with donors. With nonprofits fighting for resources, it only makes sense that we would want to meet as many people who can connect us to donors, funders and experts in the field.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Build your campaign contact lists. Make sure you’re tailoring your messages to different groups of people by creating multiple contact lists, like a segment of new supporters and a segment of longtime supporters. A traditional telethon is a fundraising event broadcast on television during which donors can call in and give to a cause.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Spend time building your donor base by doing things like online fundraisers, fundraising appeals, starting a monthly giving program, and asking folks within your network for donations. Perhaps it’s a program grant to cover costs of running your homelessness program. Now, if you’re not quite ready to go after grants, that’s ok!

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Then, donors can click on the items on your site, “buy them” as a gift, and have them delivered directly to the community members in need. John Center for Homeless Men recently hosted their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent. House parties. BONUS – See this idea in action! Pledge drive.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Not only is it an engaging donor experience, but peer-to-peer fundraising is often the push you need to reach essential fundraising goals. For example, let’s say your faith-based organization is also an outreach ministry for shut-ins and the homeless. That’s where peer-to-peer fundraising comes in.

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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. Every nonprofit should be using email to both cultivate donors and make fundraising asks. Start a list of all of your supporters and donors.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

That’s why nonprofits need donor segmentation. In this guide, we’ll cover what donor segmentation is and strategies your organization can use to reach your target audience and engage them with your mission. We’ll use the following questions to walk you through the ins and outs of donor segmentation: . Of course not.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

These recurring donations can really add for education nonprofits, since monthly donors give 42% more in one year than one-time donors! Your first step is to choose a fundraising platform that is both easy-to-use, and let’s your donors participate in the way they choose. that encourage participation. Keep Up Engagement.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

For example, an animal advocacy organization with the goal of homing more pets than they did the previous year might have a mission statement like, “We work to reduce the number of homeless pets in the community by offering free rescue services and housing animals with volunteer foster homes.” Offer ongoing support.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are mobile phones a lifeline for homeless people? Homeless people use mobile phones to break their isolation, find food and shelter, and connect with the people they care about. Just like any single thing, mobile phones are a help, but not a cure for homelessness. Assuredly they are.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. It’s okay if the donor wants to remain anonymous. Be sure your contact information is right there.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2016

The good news (pun intended) is that all nonprofits can use this strategy to increase their visibility and get in front of current and prospective donors. Here’s an example, let’s say that your organization has a homeless shelter and the city that you live in has recently cut funding for local homeless shelters. Have an Ask.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2011

As part of her Monster Ball tour, she partnered with Virgin Mobile and Volunteermatch to give free premium concert tickets to volunteers who gave eight hours or more lending a hand to organizations serving homeless youth. Her call to action inspired over 30,000 hours of community service and a new wave of attention on homeless youth.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? The winner will be awarded a refurbished tablet supplied by a donor. The individual or group’s contact person individually will have no right to the prize. Ready to enter?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

As a charitable donor, Ive become so fickle its almost embarrassing. When we investigate motivations for charitable giving, we arent only concerned with what motivates a donor to write the first check to a charitable organization, but also what inspires them to become a regular, ongoing donor.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Volunteers help nonprofits expand their donor networks. This means that volunteers can help you find new donors (and other volunteers) as they spread the word about your work to their family, friends, and professional connections. Try direct messaging a donor on Facebook and asking them to volunteer.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Kari Trent Stageberg, MBA and Jackie Smith will equip you with easy, practical, and actionable steps to help you win back your lapsed donors, including learning how to identify, qualify, and communicate with them. We are here to talk about how to win back your lapsed donors. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. That’s right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. Human contact leverages passion that sometimes gets lost online. It re-energizes and inspires. It reminds us why we do what we do. And am I ever energized.

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