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University of Oregon receives $500 million for Knight Campus

Candid

The University of Oregon has announced a second $500 million gift from Penny and Phil Knight in support of the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact. This gift allows us to achieve our larger vision in a very compressed timeline. The Knight Campus enrolls students who are?pursuing

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The Impact of the Oregon Nonprofit Technology Readiness Program: Taylor Smith

NTEN

Last year, NTEN launched the first cohort for the new Oregon Nonprofit Tech Readiness (ONTR) program. We want to introduce you to Taylor Smith , Technical Services Manager for the Oregon Food Bank , to share his answers to these questions and a few more. and, "What did it mean for them?” Apply here by March 13, 2015.

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3 Tips to Create Unforgettable Moments for Donors

Bloomerang

I love emailing a video to stand out in a donor’s inbox, and it can be a very creative way to thank donors, as seen in this thank you video shot by an independent school in Oregon. Give them the gift of being known by you. . Giving a bereaved donor who just made a memorial gift the same upbeat cheery thank you message other donors get.

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Preventing Fraud on our Online Giving Pages

Robert Weiner

Kirsten Williams , Associate Director, Gift Services. University of Oregon Foundation. The credit card scam/fraud attempt that many nonprofits have experiences starts with a very large online gift from an unknown donor. For example, if you tend to get 40 gifts overnight, you may see 400 or even 4000.). Warning Signs.

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5 priceless gifts board members can give their nonprofits

ASU Lodestar Center

And they can start by giving their nonprofit these five priceless gifts: Permission to talk about real costs. But board members could break this pattern by helping their nonprofit uncover, plan for and fund the staffing, technology, expertise and systems required to make the organization more effective at creating change. Like this article?

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Five Steps to Increase Online Giving with Basic Personalization

Forum One

Here are some examples to get the ball rolling: Increase overall online giving by 1% over the next six months Raise $75,000 online towards a capital campaign by the end of the fiscal year Get 50 new donors to make a gift online within four months Increase the percentage of online givers who give monthly by 5% over the next two years.

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Behold! The fundraising power of a little cultivation!

M+R

Especially when you realize that we did not include any gifts made directly via the cultivation emails themselves, unless those gifts happened after the first EOY appeals launched (the first appeal launched several days after the final cultivation email). Okay, so, now what?