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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). Stay in regular contact with newsrooms and pitch stories to help the organization reach a larger audience. bulk mail permits, rules and regulations, mail houses).

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5 Tech Best Practices Universities Should Use To Keep Alumni Connected

Everyaction

With so many other influences vying for their time, attention, and financial support, it can be difficult for Alumni Engagement offices to ensure that alumni are retaining a sense of connection to the university. The key to running a cost-effective direct mail program is effective testing. Digital communication that stands out.

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5 Tech Best Practices Universities Should Use To Keep Alumni Connected

Everyaction

With so many other influences vying for their time, attention, and financial support, it can be difficult for Alumni Engagement offices to ensure that alumni are retaining a sense of connection to the university. The key to running a cost-effective direct mail program is effective testing. Digital communication that stands out.

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Reigning in shadow databases

Robert Weiner

The following story, posted with permission, was sent to the FUNDSVCS list in response to a question about how to reign in schools and departments at a university that keep their own shadow databases of contacts. In the process, I discovered that they had mailed to 5 deceased people. We do phone and email appends.

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Text-to-Give: The Ultimate Guide to Mobile Fundraising

Bloomerang

Text-to-give (also known as text-to-donate, text-to-pledge, or text fundraising) is a form of mobile fundraising that asks donors to send a keyword to a text fundraising phone number. You choose a unique keyword and are assigned a phone number for supporters to text. Supporters text the keyword to your phone number.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Digital Wallets.

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How to Find Major Donor Prospects for Your College or University

Connection Cafe

If your college or university needs to fundraise (and they all do), then it relies on finding a steady stream of new donors. Bill Gates may be fond of your school’s educational methodology but unless someone from your college can pick up the phone and call him, he’s not a good prospect for your institution).