Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

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. Though it’s startlingly articulate, AI doesn’t think, and it doesn’t know your nonprofit’s goals or supporters as well as you do.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Q: Tell us a bit more about The Alford Group TAG: The Alford Group is a national, full-service, equity-forward consultancy serving nonprofits in nearly every state in the country. TAG: Both The Alford Group and Qgiv are members of The Giving Institute, an association of nonprofit consultancies and service providers. TAG: Ah, so many!

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s critical to actively track and measure your website traffic against your goals. Identify Your Goals First, identify your business goals. For example, your goal might be to maximize your donations and revenue so you’re better able to get your message to the people who care about your cause. leads) it’s bringing in.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 18, 2021

Test test test! Here are some of the things we do during the test period: In house testing – grab a bunch of people from your company to browse through the website and find bugs. M ake a spreadsheet of hard-coded event tags and location after migrating them so that you can keep track of them all.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Run NCOA and address standardization, test email addresses, remove deceased record — this is a year-round effort, but extra important for a big end-of-year push.” Pay extra attention to tags on top donors and reach out to those who haven’t given in a while or haven ’ t been contacted lately. Is there drop off? If so, where?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

If your goal is to have a conversation, then why not pick up the phone and have one? This is not to say that there's no place for social media; rather, I think that the phone test can actually help you articulate the purpose of any communications tactic, be it a fundraising letter, a donor event, a print ad, or a Facebook page.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Road-Tested Tips for Designing a Learning Program. Tag @SalesforceOrg to extend your reach. As we cross the milestone of having 1 million Trailhead badges earned, now is a great opportunity to reflect and share key takeaways on what our team learned through the process of designing and implementing a learning program on Trailhead.

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Qgiv

MAY 8, 2023

Clearly communicating the goals of the event to potential sponsors, helps make it an easier “yes.” If you are requesting raffle items, explain the fundraising goal amount, what you are looking for, and how you will promote it. The goal is that the business “shares” your post and gives you a wider range of donor opportunities.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

Add Alt Tags to Your Images Alt tags, also called alt text or alt descriptions, are snippets of copy that describe an image. These tags will show up in the place of an image if the image does not load or, on some websites, they’ll show up when a user hovers over an image. Other headers can be tagged as H3 to H6!

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Perhaps it was a multiple-choice final exam or an essay-style test printed in double-spaced Times New Roman. For example, learners in a communication course might take a grammar test at the end of the course to measure how well they retained information about various grammatical rules and standards. This tests knowledge acquisition.

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Greater Giving

MAY 28, 2021

It is their largest fundraiser of the year, with as many as four hundred guests and a typical goal to raise $160k or more. Their flexibility, creativity, and hard work paid off by garnering $17K—over $10K more than their goal! The funds collected went toward the many worthy programs they offer the city’s children throughout the year.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Any social media platform can help you achieve these goals. Keep in mind that this feature is currently in beta testing, so it may still be a little buggy. Nonprofit organizations use social media to raise awareness and gain donors. Below, we explain how to leverage the untapped potential of TikTok for nonprofit marketing.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

These profiles include relevant information based on your goals, such as contact information, interests, engagement history, and more. For instance, the Ahern Audit runs the “you test” and grade-level tests. Customized reports Reports provide an in-depth view of your nonprofit’s progress toward your goals.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

OneCause — Top Fundraising App for Mobile Bidding OneCause offers multiple mobile-optimized tools that can help your organization achieve its fundraising goals for events. Plus, tag expenses for fundraising, programming, and administration in order to make filing your Form 990 at tax time that much easier. Split URL testing.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Tag your nonprofit’s location in posts so your content can appear in social search results Make sure you’re using your keywords. Instagram Your social profile should be filled out in its entirety. Don’t leave valuable space unoptimized. Include industry and brand keywords, location, and relevant backlinks!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Engage with your audience by responding to comments Participate in conversations Be authentic and avoid highly polished replies Track your top 10 or 20 followers and tag them to help share your content Ask followers to opt in to your email list for more direct communication, Pro Tip: Befriend the algorithms with inspiring content.

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Classy

JUNE 16, 2021

and then moves into reassuring the fundraiser that they can be successful with their goal. By saying thank you and expressing support for the fundraiser’s goal upfront, The Salvation Army sets the tone for the rest of the toolkit. Encouragement for the fundraiser to be their first donor to show others their commitment to the cause.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A successful peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising campaign requires thoughtful planning and a strong understanding of how to motivate your fundraisers to meet and exceed their goals. Be thoughtful about your campaign pages, goals, and timeline. Using past campaigns as a benchmark, we set our goal at $50,000.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 23, 2021

Whether or not lead retrieval is your main event marketing goal or part of a bigger marketing strategy, one which includes thought leadership or brand awareness, a hybrid event or a virtual event can create opportunities for your brand to develop more distinct brand personas, categorize your target audience, and test out email marketing campaigns.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

You can achieve all sorts of goals, whether you want to increase advocacy participation, boost volunteer registrations, or promote resources to your beneficiaries. Using Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, they’ll keep you in the loop on performance by creating live dashboards and reports that you can reference at any time.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Even through such a challenging time, a third of nonprofits report exceeding their fundraising goals in 2021 and 87% of respondents that invested in technology reported it as impactful. Went through lumpectomy, countless blood tests, heart scans chemotherapy, radiation, a year of Immunotherapy, and 5-10 years of hormone blockers.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And with a $0 price tag, it’s a tool that your nonprofit can’t afford not to maximize. Enable Demographics and Interest Reporting, set goals and turn on Enhanced Ecommerce Tracking. Set goals in Google Analytics to maximize your conversions. Google Analytics is a powerful tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We at the Diabetes Hands Foundation started the Big Blue Test in 2009 with a simple premise meant to raise awareness about the importance of physical activity for diabetes management: testing your blood sugar, exercising 14 minutes, testing your blood sugar again and sharing the results with the community. They become viral.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2020

Choose two or three goals you’d like to achieve and build your strategy from there. Is your data up to date and tagged correctly? You’ll also want to segment your data if you haven’t yet, and update the tags for each contact. Try testing small amounts, even as low as $50. Put together a campaign strategy. Keep it tight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a high level engagement task, to take a photo and tag it on Instagram. But Instagram users seem to be responding, with over 280 posting gorgeous photos with the tag. “Tags (hashtags) are also a great way to discover your community and encourage them to spread the message on Instagram. Snap, Tag, and Share.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 9, 2021

Depending on the industry you are in, the level of marketing your summit can handle, and the virtual event platform that you use, your online summit has the power to increase revenue drastically, grow brand awareness, provide meaningful (and lucrative) networking connections, and support broader business goals and marketing campaigns.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

One nonprofit used online channels to surpass their year-end fundraising goals. Heading Tags. Image Alt Tag. This is because the closer your keyword is to the title tag the more weight it carries with search engines. Insert keywords into your heading tags. Add your keyword to an image alt tag.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Let’s start with a few quick reminders… Test your DipJars before your event and charge your portability kits. Spark allows you to engage and educate your donors when you display the dynamic goal-drive campaign on a screen near your DipJar. If you don’t have portability kits, consider purchasing one before your next event.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Let’s start with a few quick reminders… Test your DipJars before your event and charge your portability kits. Spark allows you to engage and educate your donors when you display the dynamic goal-drive campaign on a screen near your DipJar. If you don’t have portability kits, consider purchasing one before your next event.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2010

So, here are some changes that I want to highlight that I hope deliver on that goal: Featured Resources : This rotating box at the top of the home page showcases resources that may have previously been buried in the site. Phase 2: Identifying Goals, Needs, Direction. Phase 4: Building, Testing, Tinkering. About the Redesign.

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Kindful

APRIL 12, 2021

Not only will it check one of your weekly or daily social media posts off the list, but it will also likely be the post that gets the most engagement out of all others, especially if you tag the person you’re highlighting because it will show up to their connections as well as your page followers. Recognize the donors on donation pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. The goal was $1,000, or one dollar per follower. It was a fairly arbitrary goal and I had no expectations. However, I’m still slightly disappointed I didn’t make the goal. Sure, I did not reach my goal. Here is what he learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The bottom line is that it is a fun addition to our Invisible Dogs campaign and our first test into the mobile app world.” Goal: Increase Facebook engagement to create a more educated online community that is ready for more tangible calls to action. ” The Android version is coming soon!

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Creating an year-long strategy with clearly stated goals/. What are your goals? Once you’ve ironed out your timeline and key goals, it’s much easier to plan strategic campaigns and upcoming content calendars. . Does it ladder up to our goals? Exp: tagging sponsors, creating Facebook events with co-hosts, etc.) .

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2023

Consider incorporating a digital element, such as asking participants to share photos from each location on social media, tagged with your organization’s hashtag. Best Practices for Fundraising Success Start planning early and establish a clearly defined goal for your fundraiser. Waiting Til “Peak Season” to Fundraise?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I had the pleasure having lunch with Avinash over at the Googleplex. The chapter that caught my curiosity was Chapter 7: Failing Faster - Unleashing the Power of Testing and Experimentation and we discussed it in the video above. I've summarized a couple of the tips he offers about methods for testing. (1)

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AccelEvents

MARCH 23, 2021

Whether or not lead retrieval is your main event marketing goal or part of a bigger marketing strategy, one which includes thought leadership or brand awareness, a hybrid event or a virtual event can create opportunities for your brand to develop more distinct brand personas, categorize your target audience, and test out email marketing campaigns.

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