Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Prepare for donor questions. Track and incentivize successful conversations. Here are the key components to any phonathon script: Introduction: Answer the most basic questions: Who are you? See how they respond when a donor has questions about the campaign, voices objections, or is looking to complete their transaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. Reply to every (rational) question. Source: Skelliewag. Effective or annoying?

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

Knowing the answers to these questions can help you nurture and cultivate donors to reach higher giving potentials. Conversely, if a particular communication style or event invitation is exciting a donor, the AI system learns and replicates this approach in future interactions.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

This is not only a disappointing experience for your visitor, but it can also lead them to ask a series of questions about your organization as a whole. These are not the types of questions you want your audience to ask about your nonprofit. For instance, large text should have at least a 3:1 contrast ratio. Contact information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. Conversation starters that link alumni to the current school experience can spark tons of engagement. Connect Alumni with Current School Experience.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

As far as the partnership conversation referenced above, this is a terrific way to help your volunteers understand exactly what it means to be in the volunteer role they’ve agreed to fill. What matters is that you should be prepared to have difficult conversations when needed. Remember the partnership conversation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

A place to quickly get a range of responses to questions, rapid research for blog posts, and social presence. I do share URLs to my posts, but try to link to a conversation. Generally, she uses Twitter to take the community's temperature and get rapid feedback on questions. Twitter As A Conversation Tool.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 2, 2018

You know, “the false conception that financial ratios are a proxy for overall nonprofit performance.” Cause Camp 2018 saw us having that difficult conversation about diversity in the workplace. Most of all: have those conversations about representation and diversity. Overhead myth. Yes, we went there.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They raise interesting questions about the Tate''s collection and the imperfections of collections data. Florian''s blog post centers on the question of why there are so many pieces by William Turner in the Tate''s collection. Jim''s post suggests some fun but somewhat silly conclusions about the height/width ratio of artworks.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

So now, let’s go a little deeper into the question, what are the most important measures that leadership should look at to determine financial health? A lot of our inquiry is based more on trend analysis than ratio analysis. The first is the months of cash ratio. Steps to Calculate Months of Cash Ratio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

"An Offering to the PHP Gods" Alexandra Samuel just coined a new word, bloggespondence , for the back and forth conversation we've been having about social bookmarking from our respective blogs. That's the term she gave JOTS in her response after reading my response to her answer to my initial question in the comments of this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

For example, you could collect number of fans or the post to like or commenting ratio – without having to survey other organizations. If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. Nonprofits can change the "overhead" conversation.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

Post your comments in the form of a question. Try calculating a ratio of how many people comment and/or like and/or share your posts divided by how many like your page. So maybe that gets you an “engagement” ratio. Conversions? Advice abounds about tricks and tips for engaging the social sphere. Pin things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

She puts the what to measure question in context from hits, to views, to engagement. There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations. I happened to see a wonderful remix of this from Buzz Canuck called " The 27 Types of Twitter Conversations." And, the whole point is about improving relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? Having negative conversations with yourself in your head, gossiping with others, or venting only drains precious energy. Take a trend-line view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? What did you learn from the conversation? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . What's the tone, formal or informal?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.), new that was the metric/goal to track and 6 months later there was only 18% negative ratio. WeAreMedia Project ([link] has a listening toolbox!

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

While these questions aren’t always easy to answer, you can chunk it down: What is one of your organization’s goals? Tangible measurements are easy to calculate and can fall into any number of ratios and equations. Landing Page Conversions. Fortunately, the technology exists to help us answer some of these questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I happen to catch the question above from the Idealist. And then I remember answering a similar question during the Convio Webinar last week. If you want learn the fine art of having a conversation on Twitter, follow and observe the masters. The worst thing you can do is ignore people who ask you questions or share comments.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

That begs the question: how can you consistently add new subscribers so that you can offset email list churn and ultimately grow your donor base? You find a way to introduce yourself, ask for their name and other questions to get to know them. Following question one (what is your guiding principle?),

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 21, 2022

Fundraising communications is meant to be a conversation – not a one-way street. Have you ever had a conversation with your television? There are no invitations to the donor to connect, no opportunities for them to ask questions or share ideas. If good donor communication is a conversation, how are you doing with that?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 5, 2021

Clicks and Conversions Matter. A high open rate to click-thru rate (CTR) ratio helps you determine the efficacy of your content. A high open rate for an email sent on X day at X time can help you decide when your email will attract the most opens (and hopefully a higher conversion rate). Open rates are helpful with A/B testing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? " Michelle Murrain hints at a possible solution: "I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

It's an experiment that merges two of my greatest interests: finding novel, easy ways for visitors to contribute content to museums finding questions that draw such compelling responses that random peoples' answers would be worth browsing To participate, all you need is a phone. To find questions that yield amazing visitor-created content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

What conversations did you have within your employer about starting this? m sorry, this is the question I???m I notice Tesco has started selling extra-large ones, which would seem to me to destroy the whole chocolate/raisin ratio, but that???s Is it an organizational blog or personal blog? What do you see as the value?

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

Elana Wolowitz, the Communications Director and voice behind the @wellstoneaction profile, took some time out of her hectic schedule to answer a few questions. If I were to put a ratio on it, I wouldnt want to exceed 30% self-promotional content to about 70% links to other things. Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter?

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

To understand how the Microsoft Ad Grant can benefit your nonprofit, we will answer the following questions: . Attracting donors and volunteers to your website, increasing conversions, and enhancing supporter communications are a few to keep in mind. Increased Conversions. What are Microsoft Ad Grants? Website Engagement.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

Ask these questions as you review the page: Are the images clear and fully visible on the page? If you answered no to any of these questions, review and edit your donation page in the mobile view of your content management system. Businesses usually match at a 1:1 ratio, but some match at a 2:1 or even 3:1 basis.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Although it’s straightforward and concise, petitions tend to have a very low conversion rate (the amount of people who take action), typically ranging between 0.3% On the other hand, online courses boast the highest average conversion rates, falling between 6% to 10%, and sometimes even reaching 20%.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2017

This blog post will help you get prepared by arming you with planned giving terms and examples to help you carry the conversation! Most conversations about planned gifts don’t start with technical questions; rather, they center on donors’ wishes to have an impact on the organization’s needs.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Supporters will navigate to a donation page, but if it’s too lengthy or asks too many questions, they may end up leaving the page without donating. You can always send out a survey to supporters after they give or include a couple of optional questions for them to answer on the gift confirmation page to collect additional information.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The topic was “4 Simple Steps Simple Steps to Raising All the Money Your Nonprofit Needs.&# We had SO many questions from listeners that we didn’t get them all answered. I grouped the questions by category, since many were similar. A: Great question. Keep it conversational – write like you talk.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Before the demos, compile questions you have about using the software solution. These gifts can be matched at a 1:1, 2:1, and even 3:1 ratio. Fundraise Up Fundraise Up is an online donation platform that provides donation page software that your organization can use to increase conversions from your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

She recommends that you don't go into your analytics or stats program without composing a specific question first. I've been advocating this approach for a long time and offer you a set of data points and questions. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments section? What’s the tone—formal or informal?

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fusionSpan

OCTOBER 4, 2013

They’re tuning you out, and the next time you release an operating ratios report for your industry, they aren’t going to be listening. What other suggestions do you have for Rachael to help her member conversations shine? Have an association membership or marketing question for Betty? What about you, Gentle Readers?

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