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Be Certain You’re Prepared for Uncertainty

Top Nonprofits

Creating a fundraising plan based on the information gained through an audit will bring needed focus and prioritization, prevent potential derailment of efforts, and provide the flexibility that will enable you to ‘pivot’ when external forces require it. Have you asked them for a major gift, a multiple year pledge or even a planned gift?

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How to find donors online – 22 ideas that work

Whole Whale

” Online donor acquisition is essentially about creating new relationships with people by getting them to donate during a specific moment or campaign, or by acquiring emails (and the permission to keep the relationship going) from people that may go on to donate to your organization in the future. 22 Online Donor Acquisition Tactics.

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Smart Fundraisers are Prepared for Uncertainty

Top Nonprofits

Creating a fundraising plan based on the information gained through an audit will bring needed focus and prioritization, prevent potential derailment of efforts, and provide the flexibility that will enable you to ‘pivot’ when external forces require it. Have you asked them for a major gift, a multiple year pledge or even a planned gift?

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8 Nonprofits Championing Environmental Sustainability on Earth Day

Classy

Volkswagen, GM, Amazon, and the USPS pledged a commitment to green vehicles. Organization Mission: The Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) believes in creating a diverse community of change-makers across sectors and disciplines to drive an equitable, decarbonized, and resilient energy ecosystem. Podcast: Broken Ground.

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Free (and Cheap) Mass Texting for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Text-to-give/Text-to-donate/Text-to-pledge tools. These tools are narrow focused tools that let nonprofits collect donations through texting either via pledge, mobile webform or through direct from mobile bill. We didn’t believe this so we did a podcast interview with the CEO of Give Lively. Organized by pricing.

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AI for Fundraising Today: Voice Activated Fundraising & Chat Bots for Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a great way to create and test a prototype for your nonprofit to see how a chat bot works and understand the work flow. This episode of The Nonprofit Innovators Podcast interviewed Direct Relief’s Thomas Tighe about success of Direct Relief’s customer service bot and the process for developing it.

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The Best Donation Platforms for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Their founders cover the overhead cost to keep the Forever Free Pledge going, and as such they’ve been able to share the wealth with the Malala Fund, Girl Scouts, StoryCorps, and March for Our Lives. Founded: 2014 Give Lively builds tech for peak fundraising experiences on both the donor and nonprofit side. For Getting Fancy.