Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This is a great time to set up your GivingTuesday donation page, plan a few publicity blasts, and start approaching donors about commitments. Whether it’s your first year or your fifth year, make sure you have a GivingTuesday-specific online donation page. You won’t be able to accept donations without one! Email Marketing.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

Website analytics: help us track donation page interactions and web traffic. Email marketing analytics: help us track open rate, click-through, and donation conversions. However, you find that those who open and donate through email marketing are aged 40-60, female and live in a suburban area.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hint: SEO will be the best value over time followed by the Google Ad Grant. There will be a temptation to spend 90% of time on social media, consider investing more heavily in good written content on the website that will drive search traffic over time. Steal this chart and use it to frame where your digital work/investments are going.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

If you’re unfamiliar with the term, Google Ads is the platform that displays ads on Google’s search results pages and other websites. If you’re in the United States, you need to be: A registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in an eligible country (Hint: If you’re in the U.S.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Hint: A great time to do this is when you are creating your annual budget and marketing plan. Increase online donations? Hint: I typically recommend posting 3-4x per week per channel as a starting point. new website launch for FPLManatee Lagoon. Fortunately, the solution is simple – be strategic! What are your goals?

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Forum One

MAY 5, 2022

Hint: If you use a CRM, you’re likely already paying for automation tools! Drip campaigns,” or a series of timed emails triggered by actions like sign-ups or donations, are a common way organizations use automation to provide steady, responsive information to audience members right when they’re ready to engage. Marketing automation.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 14, 2022

This guest post was contributed by Double the Donation. For example, let’s say your fundraising team is looking to increase your matching gift efforts and collect more corporate donations for your cause ( hint: you should be !). Promote matching gifts throughout your nonprofit website. Online donation form.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 9, 2022

As we approach the end of the calendar year, many of your donors will be thinking about end-of-year donations to your organization. Taking content that you have already created, and pushing it through multiple formats (postcard, website, video, text message, etc.) Consider Accepting Non-Traditional Donations.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

” 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. Content lockers.

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

One of the best features was that they embedded the livestream directly onto their CauseVox page so that viewers could watch and donate all in one place. Louis (hint: this is a great place to use CauseVox’s peer-to-peer fundraising capabilities). Charge a flat entry fee or suggested donation for attendees. Donation Match Drive.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Guest post blog submitted by: Donately, a nonprofit technology provider. It’s time to step into your donors’ shoes and work to optimize their experience on your website. . A major part of that process will be making sure your site holds your donors’ attention and gives them access to easy-to-use online donation tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

During the US Thanksgiving holiday, Tweetsgiving asked people around the world to use Twitter to share something they were grateful for and include the link to the Tweetsgiving site (where people could donate to help build a library, classroom and more for the benefiting school in Tanzania). Looking at all of you readers, hint hint!).

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Connection Cafe

MAY 28, 2013

. — It’s very easy to become paralyzed by the variety of opinions about how to optimize donation forms. Take a look at your website (go ahead, right now!) 2. Don’t distract from the act of donating. Ensure that the primary call to action is the only one that matters on the donation form. Don’t distract them!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

UPDATED 4/3/12: If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for March 2012 revealing that Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than Twitter will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!). e-Newsletter.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2013

This is the fourth part in my series about learning how to test the usability of your online donation form and website with real donors. Moreover, usability testing is an invaluable tool for improving your website design and increasing donation conversions. Observing participants drive your website (without helping).

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of your donations will come in as pledges and some number will drop off over time. Check out this great donation tier chart example from the Capital Campaign Toolkit. You’ll want to write down the tiers of donations or pledges you believe you can reach and how many of each you think you can reasonably fundraise.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 6, 2022

As an animal-related nonprofit, you often compete with other similar organizations, not to mention thousands of other deserving causes, for every donation. Pet stores often have long, comprehensive lists of customer contacts who love animals and have money to donate. In-kind donations. Make donating easy and rewarding.

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

I’m sure some retailing consultant is telling the businesses that we visited – and the ones that bought the data related to our website visits and purchases – that they should contact us again and again and again. I’ve already hinted at the answer in this blog post: You need as much data as you will USE.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Use your website, in particular, and other Internet outposts as a way to build relationships with donors online. Give five friends $10 each and watch them make donations via your website. Use this information to improve the functionality of your website and make it easier for donors to engage with you. .&#.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2009

When a user surfs to a website and registers for an event, donates money, becomes a member or writes a blog, this information has become digitized. Hint: You’ll always be the first to hear about Net2 Think Tank topics by subscribing to Net2 News , the enewsletter with updates, jobs, and more!).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2017

Do you wake up in a cold tech sweat when you know you'll have to adjust an image of your executive director for an annual report, post photos on your website from an event, or create an invitation to your organization's gala affair? Hint: it does not mean really great breadsticks.) Please visit the site to view this video).

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2016

When I came on board, the company’s first website had just launched, and my role was to create the first email newsletter and set up the site to accept online donations. We learned that website traffic was earned, not a given, and effective email marketing required advanced skills and forward thinking. 3) DONATION PAGES.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

If you are interested in online fundraising but don’t have the resources to build a custom platform for donations like charity: water, there are applications that help nonprofits get started with online fundraising quickly, including Salsa and Network for Good. Social proof is particularly powerful when famous people are setting the example.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Your sitemap is a visual representation of the structure of your website. Ultimately, the sitemap will be what’s represented by your website’s navigation. Purposes for the Sitemap include: Defining each tier of navigation for your website. Showing a comprehensive view of your website to ensure all content has a logical home.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2016

For nonprofit marketers in particular, tracking conversion metrics on supporter behavior is what you should probably be focused on — versus just viewing vanity metrics of how many people have visited your website. How long a visitor stays on your website. And of course…actual donations. Event registration. Need some help?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The value of a volunteer who donates is also on average much higher than a donor only prospect (About 10 X Higher). In other words, your nonprofit would need about ten donors to match the average value of a volunteer who donates. Volunteers are more likely to donate if they see these qualities in your nonprofit.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. It’s typically the first step in our User Research phase, providing a good overview of the visitors to a nonprofit website and how they behave on the site. What content on the website is most popular? Overall site visits.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Hint: it's all about managing password managers and two-factor authentication. " James Wadsworth , product owner, product donation platform, wanted a password manager for all his devices. I use very few password-protected websites, so I can do it. It’s a free non-cloud password manager on the SourceForge website.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Each month, I look at dozens of nonprofit websites and hundreds of nonprofit emails. The foundational elements of effective online communications are your website and email communications. Are you proud of your website and able to keep fresh, interesting content flowing that matches your stakeholders interests? I know I would.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Auctions and raffles are a fantastic approach to sell things that get a lot of attention and generate significant donations for your cause, but using the latest in online software, there’s no reason you can’t simply set up an online shopping page to raise funds as well. 8) Digital download donation rewards.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2010

Hint: it's about organizational strategy, not operating costs, people! Member organization Azavea announced a new look for their website, and made this video to help introduce it. Let's get started: Thanks, Nancy Scwhartz , for taking the recent Russian spy saga and turning it into a nonprofit marketing lesson. Nice example!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2015

So with that in mind, let's explore how you can build this kind of meaningful relationship with your supporters by taking a few hints from the best friends ever, Sam and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Website Design.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 15, 2017

To jumpstart the selection process, check out this list of top nonprofit executive search professionals compiled by Double the Donation ! Since applicants may not be very familiar with your organization, this is your chance to give them a hint of your personality, values, and overall brand. Your nonprofit website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

It goes a long way in helping readers get to know Rani and consider donating to help kids like her. They’ve played up different aspects of the narrative based upon the unique features of each platform, capturing their followers’ attention and creating more donation opportunities. Partners in Health: Fanta’s Story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. Hint: It’s the XYY Soup Kitchen.” Create a donor appreciation page on your website that exists year-round.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2011

When scanned using an app for your smartphone, they automatically take you to a website, image hosted on the web, calendar invite, series of text, or other types of content. There are a bunch of websites and mobile apps that’ll whip one up for you in seconds ( check out this list for a few of the best ). Check it !

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

In 1999, Blackbaud pioneered the nonprofit technology market by introducing reliable, secure, and donor-friendly online donation forms. Hint: Donor behavior is consumer behavior.). For example, 65% of charities still do not pre-select a mid-range gift on their donation forms even though the data shows this approach performs better.

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