Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

At some point in your professional fundraising career, you’ve probably heard the importance of storytelling when crafting your nonprofit’s donor experience. No matter your experience, a crucial aspect of storytelling is helping donors understand what your organization does and showing how, or who, you’re helping.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Bloomerang, the complete donor management solution for thousands of small and medium-sized nonprofits, announced they welcomed Ann Fellman as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Company Adds to Leadership Team to Accelerate Delivery of Solutions for Nonprofits.

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CauseVox

JUNE 29, 2022

Alas, that’s not really enough to inspire donors and bring in more donations for your mission. Luckily it doesn’t take too much time or work to create a donation experience that captures your donor’s attention and brings in increased donations. Example #1: Salt’N’Light Ministries Keeps Donors on Their Branded Donation Page.

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CauseVox

MAY 6, 2021

Whether you’re creating a receipt for a general donation form on your website or for a specific a fundraising campaign, one of the essential components is creating a donation receipt that will get automatically sent to donors following their donation. A sincere thank you to your donor. Campaign’ Donation Receipt.

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TechImpact

JUNE 19, 2014

Image courtesy of University of Minnesota. If, for example, you want to increase the number of Twitter followers your nonprofit has, or the number of donors donate to your organization per year, start there. In previous years, knowing whether or not anyone read your blog was impossible to know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Go Minnesota! This incredible online fund raising event raised more than $14 million last year, and we’re hoping to raise the bar higher this year by engaging more than 40,000 donors to donate to any of Minnesota’s more than 26,000 nonprofits using GiveMN.org. by Jeff Achen, GiveMN.org. 16 at www.givemn.org.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

T he Minnesota Council of Nonprofits found that 50% of about 300 nonprofits surveyed said they've struggled to hire new employees, while 40% are dealing with significant staff turnover. As a result, nonprofit employees have quit their jobs at record levels since the start of the pandemic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Here at GiveMN , we’ve harnessed the power of our networks to raise record amounts of money online for nonprofits in Minnesota and engage record numbers of people in an annual, one-day giving event— Give to the Max Day. All told, Minnesota nonprofits collectively raised $10,041,021 in one incredible day. Survey remains open.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Areas served: Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin. Our Fund Foundation promotes a culture of responsible philanthropy by uniting donors with organizations supporting the LGBT community to make South Florida the most livable community in the country for LGBT people. Alliance for Full Acceptance. Horizons Foundation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2022

Community partners, donors and volunteers can see when an organization is not being holistic in their DEI practices. Since then, she has been living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her two cats. Brittney Riedinger is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Giving Day’s) like those held in Minnesota, Colorado, Pittsburgh, Ohio and Texas have raised tens of millions of dollars and generated significant publicity for their nonprofit communities. Prizes were given out from a $148,000 award pool that consisted of: One set of Grand Awards that rewarded nonprofits for garnering the most donors.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the other hand, new grant opportunities came to light, and if you were good at identifying them, you made your case to individual donors. Now ask yourself, what changes are going to stay attractive for your donors? Not wanting to end all donor communication, you shifted into email and social media, but it was all DIY.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

million raised for over 4,300 nonprofits and schools by more than 53,000 individual donors. Based on our post-event survey of more than 9,000 individual donors, 67 percent heard about the event via email, 23 percent via Facebook, and 4 percent via Twitter. GiveMN 2012 by the Numbers by Jeff Achen, GiveMN Digital Strategist.

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CauseVox

APRIL 20, 2021

Ease of use: when you’re running a virtual program, you have the option to add donations directly to your page so that donors and fundraisers never have to leave to make a donation. Autism Society of Minnesota’s Brunch @ Home virtual event + livestream. Easy for you to set up and easy for your donors to navigate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

  It goes "Minnesota from"where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." " Let's add  "and where the charitable donors are extraordinarily generous."   However, Minnesota has set the bar pretty high!

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

When hand-written notes are as personalized as most people get these days, a thank-you video can help your nonprofit stand out from the crowd while making your donors feel extra-appreciated. Otherwise known as the “Before and After” video, journey videos are a great way to show how donor dollars are making an impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

#TechFail #GenerosityWin on Minnesota’s Give to the Max Day: Understanding social media’s role in damage control and crisis communication Guest post by Jeff Achen, GiveMN Digital Strategist. Thousands of Minnesota nonprofits and schools were lighting up Twitter and Facebook with posts about the need for support and requests for donations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

That power is that they are able to pass along a benefit to their donors, or at least the ones that itemize their individual income taxes. In fact, my family gives to some nonprofits each year only because of the charitable deduction, or because of the generous tax credits available to Arizona donors. Hager earned his Ph.D.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So when their day job employer, the Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM), decided to start using CauseVox for their peer-to-peer fundraising, Zephyr was all in. Zephyr’s biggest tip for small and medium nonprofits is to empower your fundraisers and donors. Read on to get an inside look or watch it in webinar form here !

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On the other hand, making an initial connection, engaging in nonprofit storytelling over coffee, giving a tour of what your nonprofit does, introducing a program director to your prospective donor, and even saying thank you once the gift is made can all take hours and hours of hard work. Mary’s University of Minnesota.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Give to the Max in Minnesota Day. GiveMN a new online resource that hopes to encourage more Minnesotans to give and help create a stronger nonprofit community for Minnesota. I've been noticing a social media spin on making charitable donations in your community, regional, or state. Here's three recent examples. 1) GiveMN.

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

The Autism Society of Minnesota hosted an interactive brunch livestream for their A Toast to AuSM event, holding virtual demonstrations from local chefs so that participants could follow along at home. On your CauseVox page you can highlight that match in your header image to make it even more obvious to donors.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM) has hosted a gala for the last four years, but in 2020 and 2021 they knew it wouldn’t be an option. But success in an online fundraiser goes further than just getting the attention of potential donors. They brought the fundraiser to their community instead of asking donors to come to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Giving Days have been a proven technique to raise millions of dollars and generate attention for the local nonprofit community. The grandfather of all Giving Days – Give the Max Day in Minnesota has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Fort Collins, Colorado: Tech4Good in Fort Collins: Donor CRMs. Chicago, Illinois: Engaging Your Donors for Lifelong Giving. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Communications Networking Lunch: Fostering Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Your Communications. Naples, Florida: How Do You Move Forward with Google AdWords for Nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Blogger Conference | by Get Social Events, the Social Media Breakfast Folks ($25). Austin, Texas: Engaging the Millennial Donor. Chicago, Illinois: It's Never Too Late: How Your CRM Can Save End-of-Year Fundraising. Seattle, Washington: What You Need to Know About Board Governance.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

Operations at Headwaters Foundation for Justice , a foundation that invests in grassroots organizations across Minnesota, were humming along well. The social justice organization supported Black and Indigenous people through grantmaking with an annual budget between $2 million and $3 million. Then 2020 happened and community needs spiked.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 1, 2017

How can we develop more reliable decision-making to reduce the risk of failure and increase the likelihood of building a cadre of faithful, committed donors? If you can’t relate to your typical donor, get to know someone who can be a mental surrogate for the donors, and then consider each decision in light of that person.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Can local fundraising campaigns like Give to the Max Day , which is modeled after the successful GiveMN day in Minnesota help boost funding and brand awareness for DC metro area nonprofits? It’s no secret that the struggling economy is hurting many nonprofits financially, especially in the DC metro region.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: DIY Donor Management System Selection. Saint Paul, Minnesota: State Legislative Preview for Nonprofit Organizations. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Tuesday, January 3, 2017. Naples, Florida: Ingredients of a Successful Video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It’s not as easy as selling a product or service, it’s charitable, and often involves education and relationship building with donors. to provide nonprofits the information they need to best serve donors and advocates with meaningful conversations and dialogue about their causes. Now that social media has become increasingly dominant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The one-day fundraiser is modeled after the very successful Give to the Max Day that was launched in Minnesota in 2009 and raised over $14 million in one day for local nonprofits, but also incorporates a contest that will give some extra motivation for nonprofits for getting the most donations or donors. as a first time donor.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

Operations at Headwaters Foundation for Justice , a foundation that invests in grassroots organizations across Minnesota, were humming along well. The social justice organization supported Black and Indigenous people through grantmaking with an annual budget between $2 million and $3 million. Then 2020 happened and community needs spiked.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

These Give to the Max days are 24-hour races in which regional nonprofits compete to raise the most money, and the events have raised awareness and funds for organizations from Greater Washington to Minnesota to Alabama, as NPQ noted earlier this year. Since 2007, Razoo has helped 14,000 organizations collect a total of $100 million.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 2, 2011

One area with great potential for increasing nonprofit revenues resides with greater contributions from individual donors. The state of Minnesota recently passed a State Government Bill that contains a provision for a $20 million pilot for human capital performance bonds , and other states like Massachusetts are also considering this idea. [3].

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Care2

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Major fundraisers like GiveMN which raised over $30 million for Minnesota based nonprofits and DC’s upcoming Give to the Max Day take this approach. Frogloop’s own Allyson Kapin highlighted the need for organizations to focus on thanking donors. Donors give for a lot of different reasons.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2012

Check out what The University of Minnesota has done with its YouTube channel. This approach of appealing to multiple audiences with a wide array of content has translated into nearly 6 million views of videos on The University of Minnesota’s channel, including one video – The Science of Watchmen – that has won an Emmy.

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