Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 1, 2023

This is the tenth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 9, 2012

In general, most direct marketing pitches and fundraising asks are ignored and increasingly an overuse or incorrect use of hashtags can do more harm to your nonprofit’s brand on Twitter than good. You tell us if you think the Twitterer is guilty of hashtag spamming: Tweet #1 :: Hashtag Spammer or Not?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

Fundraising Stats. of overall fundraising in 2018 came from online giving ( Charitable Giving Report ). of overall fundraising in 2018 came from online giving ( Charitable Giving Report ). The number of new retained donors dropped 14.9% ( Fundraising Effectiveness Project ). Email Fundraising. 9% via PayPal.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 15, 2011

At their best, these are way more entertaining than email spam -- lots of creative English, garbled syntax, and mixed metaphors ("gladsome to mature this website," "earmarks of the army has recruited on boob tube," "Lossing albatross is benificial," "your current article causes me completely happy"). Thanks For Share Robert L. Great write-up!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

By Kim Peterson , Content Marketing Specialist for Give by Cell , a technology company that provides mobile fundraising tools and text messaging services to nonprofits. Spamming is illegal, and often goes straight to a junk mail folder. In contrast, text message spam is almost always viewed, making it more annoying to donors.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 3, 2012

The following blog comment spams were left on my site on 12/21 - 23 in response to my posts " Lame spam as blog comments " and " More lame spam as blog comments." Weiner: Nonprofit Fundraising Technology Consulting » Lame spam as blog comments. Cheers like your More lame spam as blog comments Robert L.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2024

By Jennifer Wemhoff , Communications Manager at GolfStatus – the leading event management platform for golf fundraisers. It’s a good idea to combine standalone tournament marketing emails with your regular campaigns to maximize visibility and minimize spamming supporters’ inboxes. Email campaigns.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2021

You could make a few typos, offend someone, send too many emails, or land in the Spam folder. Smart fundraisers (I’m talking about you here, friend) know one of the greatest gifts we can give our donors is the gift of being known by us. . Myth #3: “If I send too many emails, I’ll go into the Spam folder.” .

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. I recognize so many snippets that have appeared in my spam folder over the years. { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. .|

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Just this month, Google made crucial changes to Gmail in an effort to combat spam and improve user experience. If your nonprofit engages in email fundraising, these are changes you’ll need to be aware of. Clear Spam Rate Threshold: Google is setting a clear spam rate threshold for mass senders, including nonprofits.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 14, 2014

One of the best weapons in a nonprofit’s fundraising arsenal is email campaigning. We are sending and receiving more fundraising emails than ever before, all vying for the attention of supporters to act on behalf of our cause. nonprofit email fundraising'

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 24, 2024

Keep Spam Rates Under 0.3%: Don’t be the annoying spammer in people’s inboxes. Now, let’s talk about spam rates – the real sticky wicket. High spam rates are like waving a red flag at Google and Yahoo. They’re on a mission to cut down on spam, phishing, and all those nasty emails. Take precautions.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

On February 1, 2024, Google and Yahoo will roll out new requirements, which include bulk senders authenticating their emails, making unsubscribing easy, and staying under a spam rate threshold. Low User-Reported Spam: Senders must stay under a 0.3% spam rate threshold or risk being marked as spam.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 11, 2016

We’re just over halfway through 2016 and, if we’ve learned anything so far, it’s that online fundraising has really found its stride in the nonprofit sector. So all is well and the end-of-year (EOY) fundraising push should be more profitable than ever! EOY Fundraising Implications. Great news, right?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 9, 2012

In general, most direct marketing pitches and fundraising asks are ignored and increasingly an overuse or incorrect use of hashtags can do more harm to your nonprofit’s brand on Twitter than good. You tell us if you think the Twitterer is guilty of hashtag spamming: Tweet #1 :: Hashtag Spammer or Not?

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 23, 2024

Keeping our valuable supporters in the loop, and ensuring our messages land right in their inboxes, not the dreaded spam folder. As of February 2024, they’re dialing up their fight against spam with a fresh set of sender requirements. Let’s Keep Those Spam Rates below 0.3% So pull up a chair, and let’s dive in.

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2023

Text fundraising is a great tool for your organization to increase fundraising and expand your audience reach by allowing supporters to donate through a simple text message. Benefits of Text Fundraising There are quite a few benefits to text fundraising, and one of the biggest is how quick it is to donate.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

If you feel a little unsteady about your nonprofit’s fundraising right now, you are not alone. Fundraisers have been through real challenges before.” Let’s dive into the basics of nonprofit emails so you can improve your fundraising results in any economy. Looking for technology custom-designed for your fundraising goals?

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TechImpact

JULY 16, 2014

Image courtesy of Fundraiser Help. This means that email campaigns lacked creativity, personalization, and users felt like they were receiving a spammed message, not a message that was sent specifically for them. Fundraising Tech donors fundraising nonprofit nonprofit technology npTech' Annual giving level.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

If you feel a little unsteady about your nonprofit’s fundraising right now, you are not alone. Fundraisers have been through real challenges before.” Let’s dive into the basics of nonprofit emails so you can improve your fundraising results in any economy. But take heart.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove – a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. Nikoleychuk predicts that search engines will release more spam and useful content updates in 2024 to try and weed out low-value content.”

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Online fundraising allows your nonprofit to earn donations from a wide audience, growing your network and raising more for your cause. Today, most modern nonprofits engage in at least limited online fundraising to engage supporters even while following social distancing guidelines. Applying to Fundraise Online.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 24, 2018

This October 31 st , it’s not ghosts and ghouls that most nonprofit fundraisers are worried about. As the End-of-Year fundraising season approaches and strategic planning for 2019 looms, technological advances, donor demographic shifts and nonprofit workloads all pose challenges for nonprofit fundraising professionals.

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Roundtree

MAY 17, 2023

Nonprofit Fundraising Ideas The best source for nonprofit fundraising ideas is nonprofits. And we're promising not to spam you. I recently asked a group of nonprofit leaders for some of the best ideas they’ve either used or seen. Email By subscribing, you're opting in to receive emails from us.

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M+R

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The big picture takeaway right now: most of our clients saw growth for Giving Tuesday 2023 and are going into end-of-year digital fundraising strong! Are they procrastinating on purpose just to stress us out while we refresh fundraising totals all morning? Dig we did — with 33 awesome M+R clients. Many donors give late in the day.

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DipJar

JANUARY 21, 2021

If only fundraising was as easy as ‘just’ asking for money, right? Additionally, encourage new donors to stay engaged by signing up for your email newsletter, following you on social media, volunteering, and attending your community events or fundraisers. (*We The Importance of the Donor Relationship. Potential Donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Events, Fundraising and Donations. ClassyPress – integrate Classy donation forms seamlessly into your WordPress pages, along with one-click popup forms, team leaderboards, and top fundraiser boards.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 23, 2018

When sending a fundraising email, nonprofit Digital staff are keenly aware of the metrics that they need to achieve; a high open rate means the most people are actually seeing the content of the email, and a high click rate indicates that the email's messaging was persuasive enough to move people to donate. The cost of poor deliverability.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A good fundraising email subject line can make or break your request for funds. Your fundraising email subject line has ONE job: to entice the recipient to open the email. Your fundraising email subject line has ONE job: to entice the recipient to open the email. Big mistake. Read that again. So take the time to get this right.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Thanks to Microsoft Citizenship Asia Pacific , I’ve had the great honor to present a series of online fundraising and social media trainings to over three hundred non-governmental organizations (NGOs) throughout Asia Pacific over the last three years. Facebook Fundraising Mobile Media Social Media NGOs'

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Wild Apricot

MAY 9, 2010

Does your nonprofit send out e-newsletters, fundraising appeals by email, and/or group “email blasts” to your mailing list? And do those messages sometimes get refused or marked as spam? If so, that’s a problem – but it’s one you can fix.( read more ).

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

For some things, spontaneity is highly desirable, but any fundraising professional will tell you that planning a campaign isn’t one of them. Having a detailed strategic plan in place before embarking on a fundraising campaign can be a huge determinant of its success, even before the first dollar is raised. Fundraising plan summary.

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Network for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Download How to Write Amazing Fundraising Appeals That Raise More , and check out these 5 tips to ensure your email reaches (and resonates) with your donors: Tip 1: Think Before You Write. Avoid sounding like spam. Not only does it look like you’re shouting, but it also makes your message more likely to end up in the spam folder.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 25, 2021

6 Trends in Fundraising Since 2015. For example, fundraising platform Fundly projects that the global crowdfunding market will almost triple by 2025. Here are some key things to know about fundraising online. Since Facebook’s fundraising tools launched in 2015, the platform has raised more than $2 billion for nonprofits.

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Achieve

MARCH 4, 2022

From fundraising legal requirements to digital privacy laws, it’s important to understand the rules to which your nonprofit can be held accountable. Regulation #1: The CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into US law in 2003, and it protects consumers from receiving emails that they never agreed to receive.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

That’s why we bring you a list of mistakes that you should avoid in your next fundraising campaign. Nonprofits lose about $15,000 per year of donations due to wrong targeting and missing out spam filters, which blocks the emails from prospects.”. One of the main downsides could be a poor response rate or spamming of your emails. .

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

How multi-year giving agreements impact donor retention According to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project , retention hit an all-time low of 42.6%. Savvy fundraisers have always kept donor retention top of mind. No more digging through your inbox or worrying that it got caught by a spam filter. Q3 itself saw a YOY drop of 7.6%.

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