Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

The typical return donor made a second donation around 349 days after their first donation. 29% of annual donation volume occurs from #GivingTuesday through the end of the year ( The State of Modern Philanthropy Report ). 29% of annual donation volume to nonprofits occurs from #GivingTuesday through the end of the year.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You see, if the email doesn’t get opened, you get no donations. Dismissing the subject line will cost you opens and it will cost you donations. Breaking: Record number of homeless people need help in Atlanta . Veterans at risk of homelessness. Avoid the numbers 100 percent or #1 because they may trigger spam filters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Jared Paul, the co-founder of a new nonprofit that has a focus on homeless youth and one of the winners of the $25,000 in the first phase of Chase's Giving Community Contest offered to share his thoughts. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2015

Include enough information for people to make a decision, then provide links for them to either make a donation or get more information from your website. One of the best tactics for getting people to donate online through an email letter is to tie your ask to something tangible. DON’T Spam. DON’T Ask for Large Gifts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam). Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

An important aspect of this is the opposite question: why do people stop making donations? We tune into causes through our relationships with others, whether its a kid from our neighborhood in a youth group, our sister doing a breast cancer run, or our friend organizing a reading night at a homeless shelter. That is great.

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