M+R

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Apple recently released a new operating system update, iOS 17, for iPhones in mid-September. Included in it are updates to how the operating system will handle link tracking, which Apple calls Link Tracking Protection (LTP). TL;DR: Digital advertisers might see some turbulence, email fundraisers should be fine. billion people.

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Track Digital Change Fundraising 104

sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

This can cause problems when tasks fall through the cracks or emails go to inboxes that no longer exist. Action items not assigned to an active team member can lead to phone calls, meetings, and other crucial tasks not being completed. Evaluate the tasks the new user will perform regularly before handing over keys to the system.

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Data Blackbaud Policy Database 74

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

TechSoup's newest offering is a green technology and our first discounted phone system package for nonprofits and libraries. The pre-negotiated discount package includes Cisco VoIP phones, hosted Voice over IP, and virtual PBX phone service. It's a complete "unified communications" office phone system.

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Phone System Cisco Global 56

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This can take the form of vehicles like written mail, face-to-face or phone conversations, electronic communications, or any combination of these. With Bloomerang, it’s a cinch to create, edit, and send high-quality personalized emails to your donors and supporters.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Your team should start by listing which grant types your organization uses and then program them into your grantmaking system. Once your admin builds those grant types into the configuration of your system, team members will be able to catalogue each request you receive. This could be by phone, letter, or email.

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Grant Process Management Technology 95

VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Whether they are communicating by phone, text, or chat, or through public facing directories of resources and services, or through translators and assistive devices, these specialists perfect the art of listening well, understanding the expressed needs and the needs that may not be so easily apparent. Email us at contact@visionlink.org.

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National Childhood Homeless Disaster 130

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

Simply enter a few details to guide it in the direction you want your email to go, and it will generate email and/or letter copy based on what you entered. By using ChatGPT, you can save time on writing promotional emails, recruitment posts, and even on-site signage copy.

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Tools Fundraising Analytics Analysis 361

Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 24, 2022

When strategizing your plan, consider how your data drives your association, how long you should keep certain records, and how often you should clean your system. To guarantee your association’s systems are secure, implement a password vault and a password generator. Optimize all password practices. Don’t avoid software updates.

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Associations Practice Data Tips 124

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Whether you’re implementing a new CRM or looking to refamiliarize your staff with an existing system, these insights will help you pursue your data-driven endeavors. Provide guidelines on how employees should handle and store data within the CRM system to maintain data integrity and confidentiality.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

How can you connect with your donors despite all the other ads, social messages, texts, and emails that are vying for their attention? Knowing what channels to use—like whether you need to email donors versus posting on Facebook—is one thing. paragraphs in your emails. What Is a Donor Engagement Strategy?

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Donor Strategy Nonprofit Phone 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Mobile Phone Access. These days, this means making sure that you’ll be able to get the CRM on your mobile phone, which has become an increasingly important part of both our private and work lives. In fact, it’s estimated that 71 percent of workers access company information from their phones. Integrates With Other Software.

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Associations Organization Software Track 294

EveryAction

AUGUST 30, 2023

Create personalized messages or schedule in-person meetings or phone calls to highlight the impact of individual donors’ previous contributions and connect them to the organization’s larger goals. Utilize workflows and automations to send out emails and remind your fundraisers to reach out to better engage with your constituents.

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Donor Gift History Virtual 179

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

By Christy Smaglio , Instructional Writer at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Set up a drip email to do the work for you. To use a drip-email campaign, determine what your end goal is, or your call to action. This will keep your emails concise and focused.

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Retention Donor Gift Rate 339

Greater Giving

JULY 18, 2023

Your donor data may include phone numbers, emails, birthdays, donation history, and even meal preferences. Here are the key pieces of information we suggest gathering: Contact details: Gather donors’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, and postal addresses. The provider enhances your data. You’ll receive your data.

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Data Donor History Demographics 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Your NGO’s mobile and social media campaigns will produce lackluster results at best unless you understand first how mobile and social media has significantly altered website design and email marketing best practices. System Requirements on a PC: Internet Explorer 7.0 System Requirements on a Mac: Safari 3.0

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Practice Communication United Kingdom New York City 268

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

Your email thank-you should arrive immediately after a donation is made online. You can automate this with your online donor management system. If yours is a young organization and still uses a spreadsheet, consider getting started with a low-cost donor management system now. Just make it part of your system for thanking donors.

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Gift Donor Language Donation 119

CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

For instance: Customer Relationship Management systems (CRMs): help us track donor interactions and giving histories. Email marketing analytics: help us track open rate, click-through, and donation conversions. However, you find that those who open and donate through email marketing are aged 40-60, female and live in a suburban area.

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Audience Donor Survey Demographics 82

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

By Stephanie Kanak , Content Strategist at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. They depend on the quality of the data collected in their donor management system. Like you, many of your constituents are also working from home, using their personal cell phones and email addresses.

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Survey Virtual Nonprofit Sponsor 337

Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2024

Organization Perhaps the most obvious, and really the most important, use for an event software system is that if used correctly, it can keep all financial aspects of the event organized and easily accessible. Improved Guest Experience When running my own event without a software system, the checkout lines were so long!

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Software Support Fundraising Registration 52

Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

You should be able to easily share the page using social media and email to get the word out. In a text-to-give campaign, donors will text a keyword to a phone number assigned to your nonprofit. Your online giving platform should be backed by a reliable, secure payment processing system. Text-to-give software.

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Software Guide Fundraising Platform 87

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2023

Phone call. For some donors, nothing replaces the connection of speaking to another person, which makes a phone call a great way to communicate with them. As a classic donor message format, emails are useful for communicating with donors of all ages. How frequently does the donor give? Volunteers for your nonprofit.

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Communication Personal Donor Nonprofit 59

Candid

MARCH 5, 2024

Simultaneously, make sure your nonprofit has in place a clearly stated mission, vision, and values , as well as sound infrastructure: a qualified team, internal governance and management systems, technology, and partners. If face-to-face is not an option, a phone call is your next best bet.

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Donor Tips Nonprofit Course 98

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One of the greatest benefits of the Bloomerang Payments system is fraud management and protection. Fraud management is included in the system, so nonprofits aren’t charged extra for this service. KeelaPay Best for: Nonprofits looking for a payment processing system that integrates with the Keela CRM and fundraising tools.

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Process Paypal Method Nonprofit 82

Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 9, 2022

This is a time when you want your systems to fade into the background – they should serve your needs and provide all the relevant information, but you should not have to think about them at all. . In order to make that possible, your systems – especially your Salesforce org – have to “be ready” for the big push.

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Giving Org Interaction System 91

The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 8, 2023

Your donors are at an event, phones in hand, sharing the experience, live-tweeting your powerful speech, or simply engrossed in a captivating presentation. Your donors are already on their phones, browsing, texting, and connecting. Imagine this. What if they could respond to that urge then and there with a simple text?

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Generation Donor Giving Nonprofit 52

Volunteer Hub

APRIL 3, 2023

Our volunteers would fill out a form, I would copy the information and paste it into Microsoft Access, and then I would have to send an email to the background check provider we previously worked with. We needed automated emails so that we could mass communicate with volunteers, at a very fast pace. The ROI is huge.

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Houston ROI Audio Volunteer 75

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Name, address, phone number, email, medical records, financial information. Data is everywhere—in every filing cabinet and software system—making it more critical than ever for schools and nonprofits to manage it properly and use that data to make more informed decisions. How are you collecting, storing, and accessing that data?

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Data Management Denver Policy 76

TechImpact

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In fact, most Americans have a cell phone, smart phone, or tablet that they use to keep their schedule straight and stay in touch with their large and diverse networks of colleagues, friends, family, and acquaintances. So why not engage volunteers where they spend most of their time–on their mobile phone.

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Mobile Volunteer Tech Program 212

Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

At this time, you should also establish business contact information including location (can be a residential home) and email address. This form can be completed by mail, phone, fax, or online. The turnaround is immediate online or by phone. Determine your fiscal year and type of accounting system (cash vs. accrual). .

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Organization Files Nonprofit Grant 128

sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

This is a story about acknowledging how there isn’t one piece of software that can solve all your problems, which is why the extensibility of your systems is so important. You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do. You did it!

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API Script Calendar Blackbaud 91

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

I received a flurry of emails, calls and texts from partners and current eTapestry customers after Blackbaud sent out the following email in July 2016: Subject: Is your organization outgrowing eTapestry? We’ve added color, added processing power, added reporting, added email, web forms and API integrations.

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Organization Blackbaud Indianapolis Ipod 98

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I don’t give to people who can’t even tell if they’re boys or girls,” an irate long-time donor said before slamming down the phone. The people deeply invested in achieving social justice often lack the financial resources to fund their mission because of the systemic barriers they face.

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Donor Lesson History Sound 104

Robert Weiner

MAY 10, 2013

We get updates and information from multiple sources which can only benefit the departments who use our system. We do phone and email appends. We track those who do not wish to be contacted either by mail, phone, email or not at all. We do NCOA, wealth and deceased screenings. We get Google alerts.

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Database Chicago Mail Phone 162

Nimble AMS

MARCH 22, 2020

They try to get people to share information, click links, open attachments, and visit false COVID-19 information websites and malicious online artifacts in order to gain access to systems, information and sensitive data. Phone calls claiming to be a CDC, WHO, state, or government representative or an emergency responder.

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Communication Help Tips Calendar 78

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2019

Dig into your constituent relationship management (CRM) system and see what trends and opportunities you can uncover to improve your fundraising results. For example, use data from previous campaigns or events to add personalized notes to your recruiting emails and tap into the loyalty of past participants. Reach out directly.

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Campaign Fundraising Software Platform 223

Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2010

Despite having gobs of phone lines to help handle calls from nonprofits and libraries, our systems are overloaded due to über high call volume from the many, many fine folks trying to make donation requests before tomorrow's fiscal year-end. This is a quick note on behalf of our Client Services and IT teams.

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Phone FAQ Library email 54

Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

As mentioned above, a lot of this work is done online, in this case through your social media presence, email campaigns, and website traffic. Several online fundraising solutions can be integrated into email campaigns, text-to-donate drives, and more to make your marketing plan more effective.

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Practice Strategy Guide Fundraising 52