Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2024

Lapsed donors are a valuable group of supporters. There are many opportunities to reconnect with this group of supporters—but how can you persuade a lapsed donor to give again? That group is your lapsed donor segment. See Neon CRM in action by checking out one of our group demos —no sales conversations required!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2017

I also ask for recommendations for local charities from colleagues. The last one is tricky if you are not local to the area, but I’m grateful to have a great network of people who work in the nonprofit sector and can make recommendations. There are many more local nonprofits, focusing on animals, elderly, children, and more.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. At our first in-person design sprint*, the group challenged each other to bust orthodoxies that hold us back from reducing hunger. What Were The Results?

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

How many times have you seen a local shop serving as a drop-off point for donations to a homeless shelter or food bank? Or donating a percentage of their sales to a local charity? These efforts pay dividends to the business while benefiting said non-profit and improving the quality of life in the local community.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

They may not want to give you a grant if they see your animal welfare nonprofit is living off of your adoption fees or your homeless shelter is solely running on a large government grant. The local restaurant wants to host a chicken wing night and donate 20% of all sales to your nonprofit! Has this happened to you?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Additionally, board members often have high-level connections in business, education, or even local and state government. They could help you coordinate a corporate volunteering day or connect you with a local club that is seeking a volunteering opportunity. Collaborate with local businesses. Connect with civic groups.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, an organization that supports homeless families could have an Advisory Board made up of formerly and current homeless people. Assembling a group to travel to one of the organization’s work sites and volunteer. How will communications with the group work? Making an in-kind donation of equipment or supplies.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Crisis Group :: @ CrisisGroup. National Coalition for the Homelessness :: @ NTL_Homeless. And if you are an influencial blogger in your local community, state, or country, may I suggest you create a similar list of nonprofits to follow relevant to your corner of the world. Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2015

If you’re organization is using a non-profit software platform, check to see if it allows for a donation tool—it will help keep users on your site throughout the donation process and give your group a positive image.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

If building a haunted house seems far too difficult, consider partnering with a local haunted house for your event. Stock up on pumpkins from the local pumpkin patch, or make the event a BYOP affair, keeping a few extra pumpkins on hand for guests that weren’t able to bring their own. Haunted Hike. Halloween baking class.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Reach out to the chef of a popular local restaurant or send a call out to any supporters who are baking aficionados to host a virtual cooking or baking class as a fundraiser. Have your local wine expert guide you all through the different wines via livestream to complete the experience. Virtual event fundraising. Virtual craft fair.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Lisa Narodick Colton , See3 , is working with a group of homeless organizations to increase awareness about issues and feel grateful for what they have. PeaceWorks Technology Solutions is turning #GivingTuesday into a team building event that supports one of their local clients, as well as the local community.

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DipJar

MARCH 9, 2021

In offering different donation amounts, it allows visitors in larger groups to choose the DipJar set to a higher amount! Not only does this allow them to engage new donors, it helps create more partnerships with local businesses! During this campaign, they were able to raise $36,000!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Misunderstanding from those working outside the minority group There are many reasons why well-meaning individuals within this sector who stem from the majority of society (like myself) find it difficult to understand the profound issues faced by those outside of that homogeneous group.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Has your mission pivoted due to a global or local event? You might still see yourself as a local animal shelter, but if 80% of your programmatic impact reports focus on one cohort of service (in this case, dogs from Tijuana), some of your donors may not feel the same connection to your mission. Are you working with new demographics?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. Your local United Way or similar organization may have a bank of qualified people seeking Board roles, saving you some time and work to find the right person.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks. For example, perhaps your nonprofit’s mission is to refurbish local community parks.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

Ransom, MBA President & CEO, The Rayvan Group. Honestly, whether you’re in nonprofit or for-profit work, remembering the reason you’re serving a particular group is vital to moving the organization forward. posted by Jarrett R. If Skip the resolutions and let’s talk about goal setting for your nonprofit. Cheers and Happy New Year!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Managing Director, Nonprofit Group, Accenture. Jennifer Anderson. Executive Director, Trellis for Tomorrow. Amit Patel.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. Tuesday, October 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

An example of impact-driven fundraising gifts are hand-sewn scarves from a family who started a local business as a result of your donor’s micro-finance loan or a personal letter from a child who you sponsored for her education. For example, Project Renewal helps homeless people get off the streets. They raised $28,000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised $2 million in 24 hours using the Razoo platform. Razoo has promoted local giving days, including Twive and Receive and recently announced reaching a milestone of raising $100 million.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

You can, however, join your local Giving Tuesday movement to localize your efforts. Make sure you’re tailoring your messages to different groups of people by creating multiple contact lists, like a segment of new supporters and a segment of longtime supporters. Team up with local news. Build your campaign contact lists.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. Some of the goals your organizations has for the community and the future are shared by that same community and other groups.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 13, 2018

service day was a great example of us working together to provide resources, or even just some friendly conversation to the homeless communities around the Valley. Some of our group members have never done outreach like that before so it was nice to see us all helping and supporting one another. “It The Martin Luther King Jr.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2020

I recommended six grants for my 2019 year-end distributions and the entire process required an investment of twenty minutes of my time; and what a wonderful feeling it brought me to know that my local food bank, animal society, homeless shelter, and others will have much-needed, end-of-year support for their missions.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

that] allows local affiliates to innovate solutions to poverty. Founded in 1999, Corazon Ministries is a faith-based charity that operates in the heart of downtown San Antonio, serving its homeless and marginalized neighbors. In addition, it offers prayer groups and Bible study. I learn new and wonderful things every day!

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

They're also a useful way for nonprofits to connect with local developers if they're interested in building an app. Prashant and his co-founders identified a need for local data about buildings and real estate in Detroit and discovered that the city was under-resourced when it came to the technical tools needed to collect it.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Ready to enter?

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

The group participating in the mission trip, such as the Youth Group or Adult Ministry, are the participants raising funds for the mission trip. For example, let’s say your faith-based organization is also an outreach ministry for shut-ins and the homeless. Continue the momentum of a capital campaign for a major project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations. In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

For the basics, you’ll need a dedicated peer-to-peer fundraising platform and a group of volunteers who are passionate about your cause. John Center for Homeless Men recently hosted their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent. BONUS – See this idea in action! In the last year, the St. Geocaching.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

A few years ago, a nonprofit executive was bragging to me about a fundraising breakthrough he had when he had gotten a new $5,000 donation from a local foundation and how much effort he, his board, his development director, and others spent wooing and making their case for the contribution. Protecting Arizona's Family Coalition. Get another!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

There is always a full menu of networking sessions, affinity group meetings, conference panels, activities, and of course, The Day of Service. I got to work with a colleague and provided on-site training for a local environmental group on how to use excel, word, and powerpoint! Every year we also do a group community project.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. If you're holding monthly events that gather the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Feeling overwhelmed? and the globe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Jared Paul, the co-founder of a new nonprofit that has a focus on homeless youth and one of the winners of the $25,000 in the first phase of Chase's Giving Community Contest offered to share his thoughts. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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