Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2024

It should be mobile-responsive, attractive, and include features like: Online registration with secure payment processing Customizable text, imagery, and URL The ability to collect donations Sponsor onboarding and digital exposure Live leaderboards 1. It’s a snowball effect that pays dividends for your organization.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2023

The high ROI of planned gifts and their accessibility to wider groups of donors has always made them a smart investment of your time and development resources. You should instead focus on explaining the different types of gifts that your nonprofit can accept and what their positive impacts would be on your mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

And if your supporters don’t engage with your call to action the first time around, a well-structured follow-up is crucial. Mention the donor’s past involvement with your organization and the impact their previous gifts have made. Tell the story of your campaign and how each gift can get you closer to your goal.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2024

By creating an endowment or accepting endowment gifts from high-capacity donors, you can set your nonprofit up for growth and greater financial sustainability—all without extensive effort. Donors may place restrictions on their endowment gifts, limiting how you can spend the earnings. Decide how to structure your endowment.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 6, 2022

From major gifts to donations the price of a cold brew, contributions from individuals often make up the largest portion of Americans’ charitable giving. Sustaining gifts, or gifts that occur on a regular basis, are convenient, customizable, and fuel connections for long relationships with donors. What does the tone feel like?

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EveryAction

JUNE 19, 2017

Organizations need a structured and effective way of following their grants throughout the grant's lifecycle so they can easily manage this very important revenue stream and track these funds in the same place as major gifts and other sources of revenue. Keep in mind that the Grant Period End Date must be after the Start Date.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

This is particularly important when it comes to your online donation process, where lengthy forms and poorly designed interfaces can lead to page abandonment—the phenomenon where donors begin to fill out your donation form, but give up before they finish and click the ‘submit’ button. Keep your website organized.

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DipJar

JANUARY 10, 2022

Legacy giving programs can feel overwhelming, but when you know the step-by-step process of how to create one from scratch or grow the one you have, it’s easier than you think. You’ll leave with action items to work on immediately to jumpstart your program.

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Twenty Hats

MARCH 9, 2021

I came up with a process for matching volunteers with capacity-building roles that was very successful. The process boiled down to four easy steps: Step 1: Conduct an Assessment of Staff Needs. This process gave me a chance to better understand their story and their connection to our mission.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

The nature of capital campaign committee structures. Next comes a lead gift committee and a campaign cabinet or steering committee, followed by a range of additional ad-hoc groups assembled to tackle other needs as they arise in the quiet, kickoff, and public phases of the campaign. 4 elements of a successful capital campaign meeting.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Planned giving, often called” legacy giving,” is the process by which a donor or prospective contributor produces a financial or estate plan to donate something of value to an organization at a later time. Planned gifts are often donated through a will at an individual’s bequest so that the nonprofit receives the gift upon the donor’s death.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

How Automation Can Help You Retain Fundraisers Automating business processes saves time and resources so your team can focus on support for your cause and the more challenging elements of the job, instead of the repetitive, monotonous tasks that sap energy and so much of a fundraiser’s time. Many nonprofits are way ahead of the game.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Even though billions of dollars have been raised online since 1999, it’s surprising how many nonprofits make the donation process more complicated than it should be. According to the 2020 Benchmarks Report , revenue from monthly gifts increased by 22% in 2019 and now accounts for 17% of all online revenue for nonprofits.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2023

After a fundraising career of making solicitations for three different institutions of higher education and now serving as a trainer/consultant for a wide range of nonprofits, I’d like to share several fundraising lessons on what to do after your major gift ask is turned down. Very often donor prospects will ask for more time.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The amount will of course be different for every organization, but it’s still a standard expectation for board members to be engaged and push the campaign forward in whatever ways they’re able, including making a gift. However, asking a board member for a personally meaningful gift can be awkward. Your executive or.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This is precisely why some hospitals retain an auxiliary to run the gift shop, while also maintaining an entirely separate volunteer corps, managed by staff, to fill patient care roles. Having an outside facilitator helps to ensure that all voices are heard and that the process keeps moving forward. Lessons from the Field.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

So how do we stay motivated and engaged throughout the process?” This skill can be actively honed and developed in three parts: A model to give feedback on how they are impacted by behaviors, the clarity to ask for the change in behavior they need to see, and the capacity to hear and receive feedback as a gift and not an indictment.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

You want to try asking a donor for a bequest gift for the first time. You meet with the donor, explain that your organization is exploring new types of giving programs, and ask if they’d be open to creating a bequest gift in their will. Why is it more beneficial for your nonprofit than an immediate gift of cash? Take your time.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Once Candid collects data from these sources, we clean, code, structure, and enhance the data to make it more accessible and useful. Candid has been a pioneer of using AI and machine learning to scale up the amount of data we can process. Myth 2: Candid’s newer data is 100% web-scraped and auto-coded. based foundations.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. Facilitate this information-gathering process by enhancing your site’s user experience (UX). Simplify the donation process. Inspiring calls to action. Mobile-friendly formatting. Let’s dive in!

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Nonprofits encompass organizations of all sizes, varied organizational structures, unique missions, and a limitless range of fundraising priorities. Yet for all that may be different between organizations, shared fundraising challenges seem to endure, especially when it comes to identifying more opportunities for major gifts.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

The best gift a nonprofit organization can receive is unrestricted cash, but an inkind donation of something your organization needs and would have otherwise purchased is also a high-value gift. In reality, the van or other gift you receive is not exactly what you would have purchased. And it’s called an inkind gift.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

It was great to be able to extend a Thank You gesture to our most dedicated volunteers (and we’re in the process of designing and implementing a more comprehensive Appreciation Program). What a wonderful gift!! What a wonderful gift! :D D Your note and the gift of getting a book into the collection has made my day.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

Types of fundraising software to consider When you think about fundraising software, you probably first think of online donation platforms that allow nonprofits to facilitate online gifts. In peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns, supporters create personalized fundraising pages and collect gifts on behalf of a nonprofit.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

From office supplies to clothing to cooking utensils, nonprofit organizations often depend on these in-kind gift s to meet their day-to-day operations and program needs. Additionally, when you make this type of donation, you can deduct the value of the donated items on your taxes—and clean out your house in the process!

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Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2023

After a fundraising career of making solicitations for three different institutions of higher education and now serving as a trainer/consultant for a wide range of nonprofits, I’d like to share several fundraising lessons on what to do after your major gift ask is turned down. Very often donor prospects will ask for more time.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In the process, I was exposed to a number of organizations whose boards struggled with a variety of issues. Such processes, if they even exist, are often too informal and lack clear expectations of what it means to be accountable for a nonprofit organization’s success. Reality 2: It’s all work and no pay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Consider using Google Analytics dashboards for nonprofits to help simplify the process of gathering data and drawing meaningful conclusions. But the more difficult you make the process, the more people you’ll lose along the way. When’s the last time you went through the process of making an online donation to your nonprofit?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

If it’s already in process or in the mail, excellent work! At a minimum, consider these goals: The largest number of gifts possible (exactly how many would that be for your nonprofit?). The highest possible gift from each donor (what is your typical average gift size?). You still have time, but you need to get on it now.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Philanthropy is often an important part of any company’s structure. Matching Gifts With a matching gifts program , employees make gifts to nonprofits and the company matches each donation dollar for dollar. In fact, 84 percent of donors say that they’re more likely to donate if a matching gift is being offered.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

And since nearly everyone on a fundraising team works within the system, all affected roles should be part of the decision-making process. Gift processors enter the gifts. Does our current coding structure support these metrics? Establish the Coding Structure. A standard coding structure is like goals.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

Funds typically come from three main sources: major gifts , corporations, and grants — with the bulk of the money coming from major gifts. Smaller gifts from individuals, events, and items like engraved bricks help support the campaign toward the end, when a small amount is left to reach the goal. New major donors.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

While the demands of each activity may vary, the advancement is a step-by-step process. Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. So, if a leadership role interests you, look no further than the approach you bring to the position.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

This trend poses two important questions: Will people embrace and use it to make complicated processes (like writing grant proposals) easier? Since the height of the pandemic in 2021, gifts from individual donors declined by 6.4% Or will the biased side of generative AI become more dominant?

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Founded: 2014 Quiks works in both the nonprofit and corporate worlds as a mobile payment app that cuts the costs of processing ACH payments and donations. The fee structure for nonprofits, however, is competitive: $0.50 That means straight transactions from a supporter’s bank account to yours; no middle ground. Platform Fee: 4.9%

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

It’s a good practice to celebrate reaching milestones so everyone involved in the process feels valued and motivated to continue. Your narrative should inspire donors by showcasing the impact of their gifts. Encourage donors to consider becoming monthly supporters by emphasizing the long-term impact of their recurring gifts.

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CauseVox

JULY 14, 2022

This guide will introduce you to the concept and walk you through the process of planning and executing your own capital campaign. Why would you want to set aside a long chunk of time to fundraise in a way that’s outside of your typical structures? That includes: Board members Community leaders Staff members Major gift donors.

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