Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2018

A question I have often heard: should nonprofits focus on email or Facebook? ” In fact, the two channels work best when they work together — email and social CAN play as a team. Email Strengths: . In practice, email appeals have among the highest action rates of any digital channel. Email Weaknesses: .

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Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Communication: An online volunteer management system should also provide the flexibility of communicating via text and email, along with automating event confirmation, reminder, and thank-you messages. About a month before the launch, send out an email announcing your new system. Don’t let your online transition be a surprise to them.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

As fundraisers, we put a lot of stock into email housefiles. The larger the donor file, the greater the number of dollars raised. For years, we believed online revenue correlated to the number of emails on file. For the last seven years, the Benchmark Report measured total and usable email housefile size.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

MAY 15, 2019

This year's report addressed issues such as email list growth and churn, the rise of monthly giving, and the impact of social media's peer-to-peer fundraising for nonprofits. The big sound bite from this year’s Benchmarks Report is that total online revenue grew by only 1% in 2018. And honestly, 1% growth is not as scary as it sounds.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 4, 2023

But writing an email that will delight your donors can feel like a monumental task. That might sound a little silly, right? If you’re sending this via email (which you almost certainly are), you can also add their name to your email’s subject line or preview text. A quick note: These image files are larger than they look!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 11, 2022

If this sounds like you, maybe it’s time you implement a donor management system, or DMS. A donor management system is like a really big filing cabinet that lives in the cloud and tracks everything about your organization. Names, emails, tasks, deadlines, gift asks. And it’s only Tuesday!

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It may sound minor, but it’s a great opportunity to make your volunteers feel at home and answer any housekeeping questions they might have. Make sure you clarify whether you’ll connect via email, text, Slack, telephone, etc. If you need to provide your volunteers with an organizational email address, then get that started.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

Not only does the customer have to take the time to understand and sign a legal document before participating, but the organization’s staff then have to file the waiver or input the data to an electronic database. This process is cumbersome and inconvenient for the customer and the organization. The Bottom Line.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

The donor experience doesn’t stop with social media and email appeals. That sounds amazing. You should also run images through an image optimizer to reduce their file size. Banner images and background images will be larger files so it’s especially important that these images are optimized.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Organizational history, content, knowledge, and files may live with different people, in various email inboxes, or on different computers or file servers. Effort is often duplicated due to a lack of awareness of what knowledge or resources already exist, and multiple versions of files are being sent back and forth over email.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2017

It’s probably happened to anyone who has changed jobs in fundraising a few times – you inherit files that are less than helpful. I’ve recently been dealing with “inherited” files, and occasionally it has felt overwhelming. I’ve recently been dealing with “inherited” files, and occasionally it has felt overwhelming.

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Everyaction

JUNE 11, 2018

Send mobile friendly emails. More than half of emails are opened on a mobile device , so mobile optimization should not stop with your website. We’ve all opened an email on our phones, only to find an image so large that the screen must be zoomed out to see fully, making the text too hard to read.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Here’s an example of a SMART year-end fundraising goal: We have a goal of raising $15,000 from #GivingTuesday through December 31st through a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign and an email campaign. Spreadsheets and shared files (such as on Google Docs or Dropbox) are phenomenal ways to keep everyone on the same page.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

With CauseVox, Melissa is able to text and email donors the link to their #GivingTuesday campaign with confidence, knowing that no matter where their donors are, they’ll be able to donate with ease. We have an accounting team of one, and CauseVox helps us easily access the data we need in one downloadable file.”. Develop A Toolkit.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Personalize Donor Communication No one wants an impersonal generic email. Use personalized emails, handwritten notes, or phone calls to express gratitude and keep donors actively engaged. That sounds much more reasonable and impactful. Instead, focus on tailoring your message to connect with different donor segments.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The Causes event makes many of the inherent risks in such emphasis or dependency on the tools very clear, like: No access to data - whether it’s email addresses of supporters, actions taken, or anything else. If this sounds interesting to you, just come by ideablob.com. If you have any questions please contact hello@ideablob.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The Causes event makes many of the inherent risks in such emphasis or dependency on the tools very clear, like: No access to data – whether it’s email addresses of supporters, actions taken, or anything else. If this sounds interesting to you, just come by ideablob.com.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 6, 2014

One of my biggest business frustrations was keeping our server running and our email live. First, I (and when I say “I”, I mean our IT staff) moved all of our email from Microsoft Exchange to Microsoft Office365, an email service hosted at Microsoft. The files are stored on Microsoft’s servers. You read that right.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Save those 10 minutes you spent fumbling through paper while on the phone by clicking on a computer file. Save money on files, file cabinets, printer ink, and paper itself. computer and share materials with collaborators or clients via email or electronic fax. More economical. More accessible information. client meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Sound familiar? You probably use cloud software to backup your files and share them with others on your team. Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

BoxWorks is the annual conference for Box.com, one of the emerging cloud file storage and collaboration companies similar to Dropbox and Huddle. He used an example of a customer service representative who brings up a customer profile that includes everything about that customer — emails, documents, their contract. Everything.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 9, 2022

Review your donor files to evaluate the giving histories of your donors and identify your most loyal, faithful donors. For example, if a supporter has expressed interest in your food bank, you may send them emails when campaigns supporting this program are coming up. The recency of a gift is an important consideration here.

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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Not only does the concert need to sound good, but it needs to be accessible for your guests. Depending on your venue and the concessions you offer, you may need to file for certain permits or paperwork to avoid any legal complaints regarding the event, such as noise complaints or food safety.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2012

Keeping your email list alive and kicking is one of the keys to a successful online marketing program. It's critical to develop a sound strategy for growing and maturing your house file and to always incorporate best practices in your day-to-day management. Donations and sign-ups are automatically captured into your house file.

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Forum One

MAY 11, 2009

The call-in blogging event, in which 15 pre-invited bloggers listened and emailed in questions for real-time answers, produced coverage in at least three blogs, such as Social Earth. One blogger's cell phone battery died in the middle of the call, but she was later able to weave the rest of the story together by listening to the sound file.

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Forum One

MAY 11, 2009

The call-in blogging event, in which 15 pre-invited bloggers listened and emailed in questions for real-time answers, produced coverage in at least three blogs, such as Social Earth. One blogger's cell phone battery died in the middle of the call, but she was later able to weave the rest of the story together by listening to the sound file.

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Press Blogger Interview Files 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something? Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. Mention the donor in emails directly about the event they sponsored. Recognition/Appreciation.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. This method is great for its ease of use and immediacy but will not allow you to add any sound effects, music, or cut in other voices and input.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

From word processing to managing email and spreadsheets, these programs are the standard in office productivity software. Outlook integrates your email with calendars and contact information. Outlook integrates your email with calendars and contact information. Keep Files Safe.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2013

The spray-and-pray approach to email communication is slowly (though I’d argue at times, too slow) becoming a thing of the past. Organizations are getting smarter about email communication and seeing advanced segmentation strategies, often at the expense of increased number of messages, becoming the new norm. No, not exactly.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While this may sound like a perfect and easy plan, this method is typically suited for simple sites that do not rely on many contributed modules, as well as sites that don’t use custom modules to extend Drupal’s behavior. Email Address. A nifty feature the Migrate suite provides is the ability to ‘dry run’ the upgrade command.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Katherine told our Dulcey Bower that her churches use Microsoft Office for their email and documents, Dropbox. to share files, and sundry web applications for online communications. Church Tech Blogs is exactly what it sounds like: a blog aggregator site. Lauren Hunter has written a series of free eBooks.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Sounds good, but it is hard to do. Count people who received your services, including visiting your website and opening your emails. These might include emails, visits to your website, conversations on social media, etc. Case notes that are either digital or paper files. Measuring impact is the last thing to tackle.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 12, 2017

This one sounds a bit unintuitive, but let’s face it, asking people to donate money to your nonprofit is a buzzkill. Send an email to your email list. Share your broadcast date / time in your email newsletter. Send a follow-up email to subscribers. Viewers will no doubt want the same praise and recognition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

Jo Lee from CitizenSpeak emailed me to let me know that CitizenSpeak has a new sibling called RingTones08.com Jo says in email announcement, "A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes well-chosen short political sound bites can rally a cause, make us laugh, and even sway an election. RingTones08.com

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Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Email Address. Just this week (November 2017), Uber revealed that the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of 50 million customers were stolen. Trojans arrive under a variety of subterfuges—email attachments and file downloads are most common. A few examples of PII are: Name. Date of Birth. Social Security number.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Security research firm FireEye unearthed this new iOS security flaw, which can mimic authentic apps, including banking and email apps. Sure, it might sound like some sort of extraordinarily tasty treat, but it's actually an invasive tracking program. Supercookie, Super Creepy.

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