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It’s Not Too Late: 3 Strategic Year-End Fundraising Tips

Bloomerang

For donors who pledge or make a donation, send them a donor acknowledgment as soon as possible. Here’s a sample script you can use: . “Hi! I know it’s a busy time, and hopefully I can make it easy by taking your pledge or even your credit card payment over the phone.”. Tip: Train folks regarding what to say and when to call.

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How to Set Up Recurring Donations for Your Nonprofit in 9 Steps

Neon CRM

Unlike a pledge—where a donor promises to make a gift later but not in the present—a recurring donation means funds are donated right now and then again at regular intervals. This is a great time to run some reports in your donor database and see what kind of gifts your supporters are already making. Then test it again. Did it work?

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Customer Story: Woven Health Clinic’s Virtual Awards Ceremony Raises 2x Their Fundraising Goal

CauseVox

Woven Health Clinic didn’t start with a big database of potential donors or fundraisers. She found that it was incredibly simple to add any donations that came in via pledge, cash, or check to the CauseVox site and export all the information for her accounting team when the campaign was over. This was truly a grassroots campaign.

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Adding to your Board? Top Ten Questions to Ask when Choosing a Board Recruiting Service

BoardAssist

BoardAssist has over 20,000 NYC candidates in our database. And the majority generate a multiple of what they financially pledged. Or do they provide a short sample of some boards they have helped? We thinks its important to work with the service that knows, and can deliver for you, the top candidates in your city.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. For example, they partnered with groups like Focus the Nation and 1Sky so that they could share a backend database ensuring that they were then able to share calls to action and garner far more numbers together than as competitors. You can read her poem, Untitled, here. What is a movement?

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Innogive Conference Panel Resources: Mobile is the Needle, Social is the Thread

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The panelists include: Amy Sample Ward – Amy is an author and speaker focused on the way social technologies can be used to support social impact by nonprofit organizations and community groups around the world. The DOT is a pledge to Do One Thing to help the environment – and cool the climate. Ace: Do One Thing.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Interested in knowing how to prioritize resources, analyze a donor database, create mobile applications or visualize community indicators? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Care2, Inc.

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