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4 Text Messaging Strategies that Boost Donor Stewardship

NonProfit PRO

Text messaging is an important — and largely underused — donor stewardship tool. As texting has become the primary form of communication for many of us, it’s time to embrace texting as a central piece of your larger donor communications strategy.

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[Free Webinar] Understanding the Donor Journey: Insights and Best Practices for Fundraising Growth

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Time: 1pm EDT / 10am PDT. Cost: Free. Presented by: Robert Friend , Nonprofit Solutions Specialist at Eventgroove. How deeply connected are you with your donors’ experience? Are you aware of how often they engage with your organization – not just your most supportive donors, but the myriad who only connect and give to you once or twice annually?

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How Do You Get Your Board on Board With Monthly Giving? 

NonProfit PRO

I’m baffled that board members still need to be convinced that monthly giving is a thing, and that monthly giving is a great way to provide ongoing sustainable revenue for the organization.

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[Webinar] Major Gifts: Asking in the Age of Zoom

CauseVox

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, major gift work revolved around in-person donor visits – and for many of us, that’s how we would prefer to make those big asks. But, even before the virtual shift, this approach was creating significant barriers for smaller nonprofits as well as wear-and-tear on traveling major gift officers. The pandemic brought both donors and development professionals to a new place, demonstrating that major gift work can, indeed, take place online.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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How to Double Your Donations in 15 Minutes

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits lose 99% of their website visitors, which means that only 1% of them become donors. So, how can you win over more than just 1%? Your success will stand or fall by the donation experience delivered to your visitors. You can make it effortless for them to donate by adding Donsplus’ friendly and engaging website widget in less than 15 minutes.

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Here’s How to Boost Your Summer Fundraising Revenue Stream

Greater Giving

How high-tech tools and some creative thinking can turn a slow fundraising season into a regular revenue stream. The nonprofit industry has typically relied on Fall and Spring fundraising galas for event revenue, but the last two years have left some gaps. Nonprofits are returning to big, in-person galas this spring. However, many are still searching for new revenue streams to make up lost ground and better prepare for an uncertain future.

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7 Best PayPal Alternatives for Nonprofits (By Category) [Updated 2022]

Donorbox

There’s no doubt that PayPal is a popular option for processing all kinds of payments. Many nonprofits rely on PayPal to collect donations. However, while it might seem like a convenient option, PayPal comes with some limitations that can hamper your fundraising efforts. To start with, it lacks fundraising features and branding opportunities. While you […].

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Is Your Nonprofit Ready for AI?

NonProfit PRO

In this edition, we challenge the status quo with cutting-edge tools, insights, and strategies designed to help nonprofits better engage with donors and take their fundraising to new heights.

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[Webinar] Why Should I Give to You? | 4 Keys to Answering Your Donors’ Most Fundamental Question

CauseVox

“Why should I give to you?”. Your donors ask or think about this question every time they consider giving. When a donor says it out loud, most nonprofits are ill-equipped to answer it. Do you go through your programming? Ask the donor more questions before responding? Try to find even the slightest connection to the donor with your nonprofit? Maybe all of the above?

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5 Easy Fundraising Ideas Perfect for Small Organizations

Achieve

Community nonprofits, PTA fundraising groups, and thousands of other small fundraising teams struggle with the same issue: finding easy yet effective fundraisers to power their mission without breaking the bank. . After all, many of the most popular fundraising ideas seem like they take hundreds of volunteers and thousands of dollars in initial investments to pull off.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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[Webinar] The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in a Tech Automated World

CauseVox

Smart tech helped nonprofits to pivot to suddenly remote and digital delivery of programs and services during the pandemic, it may also enable us to turn the page on an era of frantic busyness and scarcity mindsets to one in which nonprofit organizations have the time to think and plan — and even dream. As smart tech becomes more embedded in nonprofits, making decisions for and instead of people, it must be adopted in smart, ethical, and responsible ways to reap the significant benefits.

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7 Ethical Dilemmas Facing Nonprofit Organizations [Updated]

NonProfit Hub

*Updated March 24, 2022. If ethics were cut and dry, there wouldn’t be ethical dilemmas; we wouldn’t have to use our moral compasses. Unfortunately, life is a little more complicated than that. In the nonprofit sector in particular, there are various ethical and moral dilemmas that could creep in and bog down your goal to do more good. At the AFP Mid-America Conference on Fundraising, Robbe Healey spoke to seven ethical dilemmas nonprofits will face.

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[Webinar] Connect with Your Audience in Six Seconds or Less with Video

CauseVox

You’ve hit a wall with your marketing strategy. You’re struggling to connect with your target audience and gain or retain their support. You’ve tried the social media thing, but your engagement is lower than you’d like it to be. You’re frustrated and tired. Something needs to change, but you don’t know where to start. Well, this webinar is where to start.

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7 Tips on Asking for Donations — It’s Intimidating, We Get It [Updated]

NonProfit Hub

*Updated March 24, 2022. When it comes to asking for donations, most of us head for the hills. We get it. It’s intimidating to ask other people to part with their hard earned cash. They might ask, “Why?” And we might not have a great answer. At its heart, fundraising is helping others connect an existing passion directly to your cause. We don’t convince donors.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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All You Need to Know About The Church Board

Donorbox

Church boards hold a great responsibility on their shoulders. Members accept the responsibility of providing spiritual and emotional support for the congregation while overseeing the church’s financial and operational activities. Outsiders may assume being a pastor is the most stressful role, but board members can become almost as overwhelmed with their responsibility.

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How To Communicate Effectively

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are the 12 golden rules of effective communication from Paul Falcone , as highlighted in his book, 2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals. Always remember to: Recognize achievements and accomplishments often. Celebrate success. Deliver bad news quickly, constructively, and in a spirit of professional development. Praise in public, censure in private.

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All You Need to Know About The Church Board

Donorbox

Church boards hold a great responsibility on their shoulders. Members accept the responsibility of providing spiritual and emotional support for the congregation while overseeing the church’s financial and operational activities. Outsiders may assume being a pastor is the most stressful role, but board members can become almost as overwhelmed with their responsibility.

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How To Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Equity , the book by Minal Bopaiah , is a timely guide to help leaders create more inclusive organizations using human-centered design and behavior change principles. The book is based on research and provides engaging, real-world examples for taking impactful next steps. Most important, Bopaiah explains that equity is different from equality. She shares, “ equality is when everyone has the same thing.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Taking Your Marketing Automation To New Heights: Marketing Cloud vs. HubSpot

Cloud 4 Good

Marketing Cloud or HubSpot? This is a loaded question, asked by many marketers, with several variables weighing in on the final ruling. I’ve worked extensively with both tools throughout the 11 years of my marketing career, most of which took place within the Salesforce ecosystem, and if I had to give you a recommendation right now, it would be Marketing Cloud.

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