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What Hocus Pocus Can Teach You About Major Gift Fundraising

Bloomerang

Steward donors and encourage them to become loyal to your organization. . Well, donor loyalty is the biggest factor in determining and stewarding potential major donors. The donors who are most active and engaged with your organization are your best major donor prospects. . Take good care of Dani, Max.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan’s argument is that because NTEN is in a leadership position in the field, it should lead in showing transparency by publishing its web stats.

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What Kate Spade and a Dog Named Sarah Can Teach Us about Giving Tuesday Emails

Connection Cafe

Besides the surprise from Sarah, the content of the email was great and included stats about their #GivingTuesday efforts: number of donors, participating states, furthest state to donate and number of #MDSPCAselfies. When I opened the email, I pleasantly surprised to learn Sarah wasn’t a person.

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Relationships That Raise Funds: 5 Tips for Creating Successful Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers

NetWits

First and foremost, determine which existing audiences you wish to engage (board members, major donors, past event fundraisers or attendees, all donors, volunteers, etc) in your fundraising and how you will reach out to them (email, social networks, mail, phone, on-site events, etc). Understanding the Value of Team Captains.

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On appealing year end appeals & being pitch-erific

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Are you understanding how social media disrupts your donors decision-making? While some appeals favor stories while others lean toward stats, the pitch is fundamentally the same: help us make the world a better place by supporting our work. Erica teaches at the University of Washington. It needs to be pitch-erific.

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Tools to Tell Your Digital Story Available Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

Fortunately, TechSoup’s generous donors offer the following range of tools to create powerful digital stories. You can use Citrix’s webinar tools to teach your team how they can contribute to digital story development. You can even discover your best photos by looking at your image stats.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second part of the morning included a brief presentation about the principles of social media strategy based on what I’ve been teaching for the past 5 years. Hashtag Stats. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises. Geoff Livingston did a great live blog post on the content.