Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e., We believe that all ebooks should be fully accessible, so that a person with a disability can effectively use the exact same ebook that somebody without a disability gets on their Kindle or iPad. What about yet another order of magnitude beyond that?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2014

The 2014 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report was released last week and one of the more interesting findings was that donor retention remainsa lower priority. As my colleague Frank Barry mentioned, most nonprofits stink at donor retention. Nearly 3 out of 4 new donors never make a second gift.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Social Media and Its Relationship with Online Fundraising by Carie Lewis , Director of Emerging Media at HSUSA. The Science of Email by Steve MacLaughlin , Director of Ideas Labs at Blackbaud.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2014

The 2014 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report was released last week and one of the more interesting findings was that donor retention remainsa lower priority. As my colleague Frank Barry mentioned, most nonprofits stink at donor retention. Nearly 3 out of 4 new donors never make a second gift.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2014

I work as the Donor Relations Coordinator at Lena Pope , an agency that serves children and families through counseling and education. We impact over 10,000 lives each year, and in 2013 we had a donor retention rate of 43% ( compared to 27% ). Over a 5 year period, we’ve gone from retaining 29% of our donors to 43%.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As more and more of our lives move online, nonprofits need an optimized, well-designed website in order to stand out and engage donors—and to justify the expense of maintaining one! As your organization grows, you’ll probably want to move to an option that connects directly with a donor database. Others do, too!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 20, 2018

If you want to raise more money and retain more donors, start by looking at your collective mindset toward philanthropy – that’s where a culture shift begins. They are five steps in the cycle: Identify potential donors, connect them to your cause, Invite them to invest, Thank and recognize them and Steward them.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2014

The subject which I was asked to write about was donor retention and, seemingly, these two things should really have nothing in common. At its core, Wish You Were Here is really just about peoples’ inabilities to engage with one another, which is entirely relatable to the way in which donor retention is often approached.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 10, 2010

I’ve helped Executive Directors build their Boards and build better relationships with their Board Chairs. I’ve helped Development Directors put fundraising plans in place and raise thousands of dollars. I’m throwing the doors open on my library of ebooks and ebook/audio combos, and marking them all half off.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2015

Sixteen nonprofit tech experts (including NTEN Members: Jeff Shuck , David Neff , Donna Wilkins , Frank Barry , and NTEN''s Amy Sample Ward ) share their ideas and fundraising best practices in Blackbaud ''s new free ebook, The Future of Fundraising. Direct service can teach you a lot about digital strategy.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

What if the executive director tweeted about the upcoming gala? She is the co-founder and volunteer executive director of Paper Darts , a literary arts organization, and currently serves as vice chair of the board of directors for the Twin Cities chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 6, 2014

For guidance on this topic we turned to Pat Callihan, Executive Director of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact, and asked how nonprofit board members can help improve tech efficiency at their organizations. I moved data to an online platform for donor management and migrated our accounting package to a hosted virtual desktop.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Valerie Harris will focus on what is required when you commit to attracting and maintaining major donors, understanding how major donors think, and how to optimize your communications for this important donor segment. We are here to talk about major donor stewardship. Major donors equal your most significant givers.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 13, 2010

As a consultant to nonprofits, my blood just boils when I am asked by executive directors or board members, “So, we are thinking about hiring a development officer, how long it will take before this person is raising more money than the salary we pay them?” I recently asked a group of fundraising professionals about their biggest challenge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Even though Benetech doesn’t have donor funding for this, our VP of Global Literacy, Betsy Beaumon, and I thought it would be worthwhile to attend this meeting. I was surprised that the Director General of WIPO, Francis Gurry, actually presided over the half-day formal meeting: the effort was obviously getting priority from WIPO.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

About De’Yonté Wilkinson: De’Yonté is the Director of Site Builds at Cornershop Creative. From the moment donors land on your homepage to when they click that submit button on your donation form, your website’s design, navigation, and content influence how they will connect with your organization and your mission.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

PDF Viewer to look at PDF documents and also eBooks. Rosette Nguyen, Communications Senior Manager and Tim Suttle, Director of IT Infrastructure. Julie Navejas, Donor Program Coordinator. This app has stuff to distract my kids, without disabling some of the things I want to have still work.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Librarians are uniquely qualified to identify and respond to those needs because we interact daily with community members from all walks of life,” said PCL’s library director, Laura Marlane. Offer a subscription to an eBook program for kids so that librarians can use iPads to hold story times.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Of course we could talk about how to apply the science of persuasion to many different areas of our lives, but let’s stick to the topic of improving your fundraising appeal (download the ebook ). Once a person has taken these small steps in support of your nonprofit, you can cultivate that supporter into a more generous donor.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In the realm of charitable giving, finding new donors is like discovering hidden gems that fuel your mission’s growth. In this article, we’ll navigate the terrain of donor discovery together, accompanied by insights from a luminary in the field – Chris Barlow. Rarely are they actively searching for nonprofits to support.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Existing donors?Prospects? Your best spokesperson won’t always be your CEO; sometimes it might be the program director or someone who has been impacted by your organization’s work. Download the new eBook to craft an end of year appeal that drives action! Who are you targeting for this online campaign? Volunteers?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This means that that most effective fundraising starts by growing your subscriber base and using email to turn those subscribers into donors. 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? How can you help potential donors?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2014

What happens when 14 nonprofit experts come together to share tried-and-true donor retention strategies, tips and ideas? You end up with an extremely useful resource for any nonprofit professional looking to improve donor retention rates. Chapter 2 : Beat the Statistics by Falling in Love with Your Donors. By Roger M.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Kari Trent Stageberg, MBA and Jackie Smith will equip you with easy, practical, and actionable steps to help you win back your lapsed donors, including learning how to identify, qualify, and communicate with them. We are here to talk about how to win back your lapsed donors. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. That’s right.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

Wondering how donor support will fare in the face of federal and presidential political campaign competition? We dove deep into data from the 2012 presidential race to provide fundraising insight you can use during the 2016 election year, including: The charitable giving habits of 400,000 political donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

At first glance, it may seem impossible to recreate some of these types of events in a virtual format, but with a little creativity and the right fundraising event tools, you might be surprised at the high-quality experiences you can offer for your donors virtually. How can you convince your donor base to join an online event?

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

[Event-ebook-top] There are plenty of ways to raise money, but one of the most popular (and let’s face it: fun!) For example, if your event is part of a capital campaign, you might host it toward the beginning of your campaign to kick off the fundraising and inspire major donors. Stewarding existing donors.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We'd like you to meet Linda Widdop, Tech Impact’s, Director of Technology Services. As Tech Impact grew, I transitioned into Director of Technology Services where I now provide technology advice and solution development to nonprofits around the globe. Once again, Cloud solutions top my list of recommendations in this area.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang besides the webinars, we are also a provider of donor management software. And we’ll actually send you after this a copy of an ebook that Steven and some of the Qgiv folks worked on that talks pretty in-depth about retaining peer-to-peer participants and donors.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2014

In my weekly coaching email I wrote about the single biggest donor retention mistake I see new nonprofit leaders making. Whether they’re new CEO’s, Executive Directors, CDO’s, or Development Directors, they all say the same thing: ” Well, I’m not going to ask on the first date !”. Get donors and get revenue.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2020

Mission + Operations: Giving donors something they can feel good about. In a recent webinar , I chatted with Steve MacLaughlin, VP Data and Analytics Strategy at Blackbaud , Katrina VanHuss, CEO at Turnkey , and Jen Shang, Co-Founder and Co-Director at the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy. Surveying donors.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

If anyone wants even more information, I just posted a new free 20-page eBook--Best Practices: Nonprofit Web Site Design--a few days ago. I refer to my program directors as kitchen sinkers in that they would like every word posted on the web as they write it. Receive monthly updates 12 Comments | by Share Article in Misc.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

If I’m a donor heading to your site to make a year-end gift, here’s what I’m thinking: Don’t Make Me Give You My First-Born to Donate. This is an experiment that the Texas State Historical Association conducted on a landing page for an eBook download. The Nonprofit Value Proposition Index Study), and The Midlevel Donor Crisis.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

But, if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are also a provider, primarily a provider, of donor-management software. ” Big Duck has a free ebook that will help you with this. You could say, “We want to reach,” you know, “major donors and get them to make a gift of $5,000 or more.”

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

After years of fundraising in the “trenches,” as well as coaching and training thousands of organizations to raise money from individual donors, Lori L. Lori has found that one thing creates a successful individual donor fundraising program. Why donors will pay more attention to nonprofits with great landing pages.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

“Your primary focus should be making sure that your organization has a clear accountability structure for compliance, rather than a “let’s make a deal” culture in which issues are addressed only after they have become bigger problems.” — Lucy Morgan, Founder and Director, MyFedTrainer.com, How to Build Trust with Strong Internal Controls.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

with your board, staff, and your donors. But if you don’t know what Bloomerang is, if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we’re donor management software. Maryanne: Yeah, I put on a Donor Attraction Forum and it was awesome. One is this ebook. that’s a good combo. It was great.

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