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How to Recognize a Suspicious Email

Tech Soup

As champions of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), we're kicking off our first week with a focus on email. Read on for facts and tips on email security from the National Cyber Security Alliance. Across the world, 269 billion emails are sent every day. Watch this video to learn how to spot email scams.

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How to Design a Fundraising Landing Page that Makes Giving Easy and Inspires People to Give

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Finally, at the bottom of the page after all the other options and the “Donate” button, give instructions on how a donor can send in a check if that’s their preferred method. Request their email, address, and phone number, but make the address and phone number optional. Include who to make the check out to and where to mail it.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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Peer-to-peer fundraising is one of the most popular fundraising methods for faith-based organizations. Now that you know the basics of peer-to-peer fundraising, how might your faith-based organization leverage this campaign method? To find volunteers, send an email to your entire member base to gauge interest.

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Thank You To the Max: Minnesota Give to Max Day Raised $13.4 Million in 24 Hours

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since our outreach efforts focused on providing nonprofits with social media resources, email templates and content such as a video PSA for use on their homepages, it would seem those efforts paid off when it came to driving traffic. Traffic sources to the Give to the Max Day webpage on November 16. Multiple answers were acceptable).

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Text-to-Give TweetChat Recap

Tech Soup

To begin with, the aforementioned high open rate applies to donor bases that might be otherwise hard to reach, such as teens and seniors. While text-to-give campaigns have proven successful, some causes seem better positioned to take advantage of this method than others. Advantages to Mobile Giving Campaigns. What Works?

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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. To control spam, Facebook makes it impossible to email more than 20 people at a time, so to email your friend list, you must break your list down into groups of 20.

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How Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ Raised over $10M in 1 Day!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Linked from an email = 5,966. Since our outreach efforts focused on providing nonprofits with social media resources, email templates and content such as a video PSA for use on their homepages, it would seem those efforts paid off when it came to driving traffic. percent said sending out email promotions worked best.

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