Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. million phones were stolen in the U.S.,

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To illustrate our point, take a look at two possible phonathon script introductions: Phonathon Script Introduction #1: “I’m calling on behalf of University X to raise money for our annual phonathon campaign. Would you consider making a donation of $100 to the university’s endowment fund?”. Create a standardized script.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Whether it’s rethinking how they contact their donors, the language they use on donor calls, where they ’ re direct ing their funds, or even how they ’ re partnering with students to drive donor engagement. Recent data shows that total commitments and donor retention are both down in 2020. So how do we combat this?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Be sure to feature your mission and vision statements, impact on your community, and contact information. The SOAR Model comes from the Libraries of the University of Missouri and focuses on reviewing your organization’s strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results. Grant writing isn’t as complicated as you might think.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Be sure to feature your mission and vision statements, impact on your community, and contact information. The SOAR Model comes from the Libraries of the University of Missouri and focuses on reviewing your organization’s strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results. Grant writing isn’t as complicated as you might think.

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2019

When you start your awesome email with a great subject line, you’re more likely to increase your open and click-through rates. No matter where on the spectrum your conversion rate lies, half of your email campaign should be dedicated to cultivating prospects and funneling them towards event registration. PLAN A DRIP CAMPAIGN.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

If you're an NTEN Member -- or have been lurking around for awhile -- you know that Universal Broadband Access is an issue we care deeply about. They're doing some fabulous organizing around universal access and have provided some basic talking points for comments to the FCC. It's essential that they hear from us.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2013

For many nonprofits, in particular schools, colleges, and universities, summer is a great time to do the all important “summer cleaning” that no one has time to do in the spring. Appending phone numbers is critical to the success of any major and planned giving program, as well as annual phone-a-thon programs.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

from the MIT Media Lab), GlassUp , and iOptik augmented reality contact lenses. Google Glass is by far the most famous of them and is a set of cyborg looking eyeglasses (now in five colors) that like many wearable devices, works in cooperation with an Android phone or iPhone. It also makes phone and video calls.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Look what I can do with my phone! Emerging tablet computing devices, such as the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy, promise the benefit of mobile access with a larger form factor than a phone screen, making it much easier to do work in the field. Advances in mobile technology are significantly changing how we live and work.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 31, 2016

According to The Able Altruist, 46% of supporters prefer a personalized letter, 35% prefer email, 11% prefer a social media post and just 8% prefer a phone call. ” —Rory Green, Associate Director of Development for Simon Fraser University. What’s our retention rate? What’s our acquisition rate? Find Donor Interests.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

For 2008, the CPS put the Arizona volunteering rate at 25 percent. The ASU Morrison Institute presents both numbers and asserts that both survey methods have strengths and weaknesses, likely leaving the true rate somewhere “between these two estimates.&# One in four. That’s a pretty big difference, between 33 and 25.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

Mobile phones stay on. So, as a first step, organizations should be at least collecting mobile phone numbers in their databases. that someone could punch in a number on their cell phone and make a donation to a charity. People were calling cell phone 5 or 6 times to make a donation. did a lottery via mobile phones.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2015

For example, try a reference librarian, approach an experienced individual in the private sector, or contact a university extension department. Offering an incentive for completion can improve your response rate. This involves learning but you are not alone – there is help available.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

To host remote guests, use a SkypeOut connection to call a phone line and Pamela or HotRecorder to record the audio. When encoding your mp3 file, two important considerations are the ID3 tags and the bit rate. The bit rate determines the quality of the audio. The ID3 tags help identify the file when it is being played.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Note: These rates are not for nonprofit organizations – they are the standard rates. Nonprofits are charged much lower rates (see comment below.) Unfortunately, I don’t qualify for those rates. In your above comments, you have quoted our standard, list rates for ReadyTalk services. Wish I were!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Real-time updates produce a slight increase in your acceptance rate. And that does not figure in the cost savings on follow-ups and phone calls. We have a motto in the advancement office at Manchester University: Do more with less,” said JoHanna Young, director of advancement services. We saved $2,500 in just five months.”

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

And I have the honor of teaching the fundraising courses for both Temple University and their 10-week online certificate program and Messiah University for their undergraduate courses. They’re afraid that they’re going to write down a name and tomorrow morning you’re going to pick up the phone and say, “Hi, Joe.

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Allegiance Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Contact Us! While managing volunteers used to involve lots of paperwork and phone calls, now, with volunteer management tools , all your volunteers’ data, such as contact information and availability, can be stored in one place. Contact the GivingDNA team for more information. Contact Us!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2019

The Traditional Phone Model is Shifting. Over the past ten years, our research shows that there has been a 50 percent decline in donor participation rates in phone programs. One of the most significant contributors to the declining phone program is lower phone effectiveness among middle-aged prospects.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 7, 2021

In Sri’s case, this meant consolidating 10 million records into a single view, enabling personalized messaging that doubled their click-through rates. This temporary instance allowed CCS to steward thousands of contacts by phone with a single cross-Canada team working remotely in the midst of a pandemic. Watch the session here.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Like I said, as the senior director of stewardship and communications at the University of Pennsylvania. As Steven said, I’m Valerie Harris, lately of the University of Pennsylvania, now of vharrisprojects.com where I provide courses, workbooks, webinars, and other resources for fundraising professionals. Relationship-building.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The core of a CRM system is a database that holds individuals’ records, with information like their name, phone number, address, etc. It tracks donor contact details, donation history, communication preferences, event attendance, and more. Once you get above 1,000 contacts, there are no more revenue caps.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Sometimes, its worth contacting a local university or technical college to see if your video would fit as a student project. Has research been done to measure conversion rates, and, if so, what has it concluded? Did someone actually answer the phone when you called? d) Is anybody home?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey: As most nonprofits have these days is that renewal rates have been declining and that’s been consistent. There’s less personal contact, more virtual communication, and there are consequences for this. If you invest that money in fundraising, the rate of return is going to be 10 times what it is in the stock market.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2019

That was particularly useful for this setting because we could overlay information such as win-rate and schedule to discuss the impact those variables had on the fundraising trends overall. For example, one participant with fluctuating donor counts and renewal rates explained that reseating hasn’t historically been tied to the fiscal year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The growth rate of groups has slowed significantly in recent months. especially if you are a location-based nonprofit such as a health clinic, an animal shelter, or a college or university. Android, iOS and Windows Phone – in that order. Rarely used, LinkedIn has discontinued the Answers functionality.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

When a donor gives to your organization, you likely collect a good amount of information in your CRM, including their name, contact information, and address. Some nonprofits like to include optional questions on their form to find out how donors found out about the organization or how they prefer to be contacted.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

The growth rate of groups has slowed significantly in recent months. especially if you are a location-based nonprofit such as a health clinic, an animal shelter, or a college or university. Android, iOS and Windows Phone – in that order. Rarely used, LinkedIn has discontinued the Answers functionality.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2011

The most effective signature lines include: name, title, organization name, phone number, web address, tagline (organization mission, specific event notice, campaign, etc.), social media contacts ( Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn ), and graphical elements such as a logo or a banner ad for a program, event, or campaign you're marketing.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 25, 2015

Contact Info. Phone number. Email open rates. Direct mail response rate. Documenting and sticking to one universal process for data will ensure that all of your donor data is formatted consistently and easily accessible by all members of the fundraising team. Age/Birthday. Marital status. Household income.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 25, 2015

Contact Info. Phone number. Email open rates. Direct mail response rate. Documenting and sticking to one universal process for data will ensure that all of your donor data is formatted consistently and easily accessible by all members of the fundraising team. Age/Birthday. Marital status. Household income.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Mary’s University of Minnesota. But the one universal global thing is that data, data is just bad. So you have the most up-to-date address for each of your contacts. So you have that continuity of contact. And you know what the average open rate is? I’m a certified fundraising executive. Look at that.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2016

George Washington University did a study of the text campaign and found that the receivers were three times more likely to feel adequately prepared for motherhood than those who hadn't participated in the texting campaign. Bottom line: increased open rates = increased participation. Promote Fundraising Events via Text.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Well, that 80%, 60% of that money goes to large institutional organizations like hospitals and universities, and large cultural institutions, like museums, zoos, and libraries, and religious organizations. And then look at first-rate performance and impact. Eye contact. So your personal brand is important. But get this.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 26, 2007

Here is the phone number: 1 (800) 235-2883 The line should be staffed Mon – Fri 5 AM – 6 PM (PST) Or you can send an email by clicking here. In numerous studies, too much IGF-1 is associated with higher rates of breast, prostate, colon, and lung cancer in humans. Again, thank you for contacting Starbucks.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

A new nonprofit Greenpeace report entitled: Clicking Clean: How Companies are Creating the Green Internet rates the big cloud computing companies on how much renewable energy they’re using to power their data centers. TrashOut is a free mobile app for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone. Jim’s Pick for Green App of the Month.

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