Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2021

When you’re determining who to cultivate for your major donor portfolio, do you simply look at everyone who gave more than $1,000 (or whatever your major gift amount is) and dump them all into your portfolio for the year? Who Gets an Individual Major Donor Portfolio Cultivation Plan? . Tier your donors. I didn’t know any better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

The Foundation is offering webinars and publishing white papers for nonprofits. Two recent papers that caught my eye were: ” How to Use Social Media for Social Good ” and “ Building Meaningful Engagement.” We migrated from Excel to Salesforce and doubled our income from donations within 12 months.

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NTEN

JUNE 8, 2011

Flickr photo: ibarir I know only the biggest nerds have favorite white papers, but we've already established my nerd street cred, right? Well, my favorite white paper of 2009 just became my favorite white paper of 2011! Donors acquired by direct mail very rarely convert to online giving channels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Some organizations use donor perks or benefits to do this. One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. Many sponsors and donors want recognition for their support.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 8, 2023

When it comes to receiving communication from nonprofits, donors have a clear favorite: Email! Our latest research uncovered that 48% of donors cite email as their preferred method of communication from nonprofit organizations. An example of a nonprofit lead magnet could be for example, a research white paper.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

360MatchPro by Double the Donation , the leading provider of matching gift automation software, integrates with the best school and university fundraising platforms. Custom Donations. Talk to the double the Donation team to take advantage of matching gifts with these awesome platform integrations. Community Funded. GiveCampus.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2021

In the second article, I explored the importance of building a donor experience that resonates with today’s constituents. . Donor experience. Here’s a white paper from the Veritus Group I find particularly on point and an excellent one from Simone Joyaux. . I’m not suggesting you stop being kind to donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

When staff at SOS Children’s Villages International , which cares for children impacted by the Syrian refugee crisis, learned a five-year-old in Syria needed critical heart surgery, they used the cloud storage service OneDrive to quickly assemble photo and video assets into a pitch to international donors.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Access to data alone won’t increase donations to your cause but understanding which reports to analyze and reacting to donor behavior can. A goal represents a completed activity on your site, such as signing up for your organization’s newsletter or clicking ‘Donate Now.’ Google Analytics is a powerful tool.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2014

Here is (yet another) compelling reason for your organization to leverage digital channels: the next generation of donors are engaging more on digital platforms and are increasingly looking for a way to support and donate through these channels. Care2 and Parachute Digital teamed up to create a White Paper explaining just that!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Download the full white paper or share it using this link: [link] Below are notes from my remarks. Donors could communicate with the students, and they thanked participants directly – building lasting relationships. The internet is not new. The last few years, though, have been dramatically impacted by the real-time web.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Imagine what your organization could accomplish in 2022 if you began each initiative with streamlined donor records, an arsenal of canned reports to track key metrics, and a solid plan to prioritize each donor segment individually. Social media is known for its generous donations, enthusiastic volunteers, and passionate advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If, however, that leader deeply embraces their service role seeing themselves as the chief celebrant , rather than celebrity , of their donor community, their personal brand becomes an extension of the non-profit’s higher purpose. Leadership: There are several reasons to build a strong personal brand to help support your non-profit brand.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2015

Now that you''ve secured those holiday donations, it''s important to cultivate your new donors. PicNet offers techniques for turning your holiday donors into year-round supporters. Plus, Carolyn Appleton looks into a crystal ball and makes her fundraising predictions for 2015 and beyond. Innovation is not the problem."

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 11, 2014

The timing couldn’t be better for nonprofits ready to explore technology investments because Blackbaud has just released the white paper, Making the Pitch to Nonprofit Leadership: How to Convey and Sell the Need to Invest in Fundraising Technology (I know it’s a mouth full!). Let this white paper help.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Nonprofits can expect 60% of their donations to come in between Christmas and New Year’s. Optimizing your donate page by limiting form fields and capturing the most essential information. Care.org is a great example of an intuitive and well organized donate page that also illustrates how their expenses are allocated.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2005

PRESS RELEASE Sabre Foundation White Paper Offers New Digital Paths For Philanthropy To Make Nonprofits Self-Funding - Yahoo!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on where to find new donors and how to approach them: Dear Charity Clairity, Where do you look for donors, and what’s the best way to approach them? — Where to Begin Dear Where to Begin, You’ve nailed the two challenges of donor acquisition on the head: Who do you target?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

While high dollar donors comprise less than 2% of total online donors, their gifts make up 18%+ of funds raised ever year. Chances are, your organization doesn’t have a 4-digit donor strategy as part of your online fundraising program, but organizations may want to start experimenting with one.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Anecdotally and intuitively, you know that changing demographics and technology are driving a shift in your engagement with donors, volunteers, event participants and other people your organization relies on to fulfill your mission. Chart 1 below shows that the next generation of donors, Gen X and Boomers are truly multi-channel.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

I’ve been fortunate enough to work with several nonprofit organizations that weren’t part of a national charity, university system, or hospital, which have attracted multimillion dollar donations. So, how did they raise multimillion dollar donations? They did it through strong branding, awareness campaigns, and outreach.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Roger Craver classifies the conventional wisdom about ask strings as being akin to flat earth fundraising - and advocates for using a different paradigm when choosing how much to ask donors to give. Read the post, and the linked white paper about the research and testing that went into this sweeping declaration.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Managing the sudden increase in donations requires careful planning with regard to controls. Although the biggest threats generally are related to cash, other risks for not-for-profit organizations include misuse of funds by not following donor restrictions, cybersecurity and protection of confidential donor data.

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Forum One

MARCH 31, 2009

Warwick is very positive about the prospects for non-profits to continue to receive donations today despite the economy, and he insists that we continue our fundraising activities. t afford to stop recruiting new donors. t cut stewardship (donor cultivation, things that make our donors feel happy.) Do you know them?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

This can come from an internal database analysis, wealth screening, predictive modeling project, a peer/board review, or just plain discovery of a prospective donor from a staff or volunteer member. Acknowledging and thanking the donor for the gift happens at this stage. Identification. Assignment. Stewardship.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2015

Its program, the Trail Keeper Club , aligns donor giving with the organization’s mission to turn unused rail corridors into public trails. When developing your program, you must decide how to reward your recurring donors. What events will donors be invited to? Decide what benefits to offer. Will you offer premiums?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2015

In fact, despite careful planning , your sustainer program may eventually hit a plateau—making it seem nearly impossible to raise more money or acquire more donors. To convert one-time donors into lifetime givers, you must make it simple. Defenders of Wildlife uses an upsell lightbox to convert one-time givers into sustaining donors.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Polls and surveys indicate that people are more likely to donate to a cause that they know is making a difference, but the question is: How do you let people know, without a doubt, that your nonprofit is succeeding in its mission? As you’ve probably guessed, infographics can be a huge asset in your cause marketing campaign.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

A big question remains for nonprofit marketers as to when it's best to make the first donation appeal: do you hit up new subscribers for money immediately or wait and cultivate them first. So far, Common Knowledge says the RDC program has demonstrated a 15% increase in average gift size and an 83% increase in donor conversion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

These include: Encouraging donations from donors and potential donors. Building a donor base or subscriber base by collecting contact information from those subscribing to newsletters, white papers, and other resources that you make available. Donating a contribution. Submitting a contact form.

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

At the booth, pick up a complimentary copy of Acxiom’s “Finding Your Next Best Donor” white paper and receive a free drink pass! Come learn why so many rely on Sage’s fund accounting and fundraising solutions, hosted services, and donation processing tools and enter for your chance to win an iPad. Salsa Labs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. Lucy Bernholz reports that embedded giving - in which a charitable transaction becomes part of any other financial transaction, such as checking out of the grocery store and making a donation to diabetes care - has gone web 2.0

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Struggled to translate a bunch of boring spreadsheets into a visual format that's easy for your board, funders, or potential donors to understand? Picture a spreadsheet with a long list of individual donations. Now think about making a chart comparing donation amounts for the past three years. " Have you ever.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2019

Over the past ten years, our research shows that there has been a 50 percent decline in donor participation rates in phone programs. Fewer phone donors. Phone programs have seen an average reduction of 3,500 donors per school over the past 10 years. On average, increasing to seven solicitations will net 90 percent of donors.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

But the board chair said something surprising: “I don’t just want donors! These small donors give at modest levels but do so year after year. households donated to a charity in 2018,” according to a study released Tuesday. households donated to a charity in 2018,” according to a study released Tuesday.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Older donors don’t give online Wrong. A higher percentage of donors 45 to 54 and 55 to 64 give online than offline. 25% of donors aged 65 and older give both online and offline. Major donors don’t give online Wrong. Online donors don’t give offline Wrong. One donation form is all we need Wrong.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are also a provider of donor-management software. That’s what Bloomerang is, it’s a donor database. Their donor database, it’s fantastic. You want to have a connection with the donor, with the volunteer. We love doing these webinars.

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