Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

We’ll cover five best practices you can use to improve your texting strategy and earn more for your mission: Ask every supporter to opt in. Keep an eye on your metrics. Any nonprofit can benefit from these best practices, even if you’re new to text marketing or have limited resources. Keep an eye on your metrics.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Learn how your organization can take full advantage of social media in this guide! You can also run fundraising campaigns directly on social media, encouraging your followers to share and donate to make the fundraising process more collaborative. Branding best practices Branding is how your supporters recognize your organization!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the need-to-know information and steps of creating a major gift fundraising strategy, including: What is a major gift? Assigning responsibilities ensures that everyone is clear on their role in the major giving process. Why are major gifts so important for nonprofits?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Tools like Canva and Adobe Spark offer free templates and editing options to make this process easier. For social media content, focus on metrics like likes, shares, comments, click-through rates, and follower growth. Invest in creating visually appealing graphics and videos that showcase your work.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Whether you’re crafting an emergency plan to react to unexpected external circumstances or creating your strategy for the next two to five years, this guide will help your nonprofit get the most out of its strategic plan. When it comes to strategic planning, there are a few common hesitations that nonprofits voice throughout the process.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

In this guide, we’ll review the importance of year-end giving and the best strategies to use to plan a successful campaign. Also, make sure to follow writing best practices by keeping your paragraphs short and using bolded text strategically to draw attention. Round up metrics such as your: Fundraising total.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

Whether we like it or not, many traditional fundraising practices create an inner circle of supporters. That doesn’t mean that a high ROI is a bad thing, or that these fundraising practices should be retired. Therefore, we recommend taking the following steps to apply DEI best practices for your nonprofit: Lead From the Top.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this buyer’s guide, we’ll cover everything you need to find the right fundraising software for your organization’s needs. Your online giving platform should be backed by a reliable, secure payment processing system. This resource was made for nonprofits like yours! A matching gift platform.

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

No matter the strategy, the best way to optimize your donor communication processes is to leverage donor data. This guide will walk you through the top ways you can leverage donor data in your communications with the help of fundraising tools. Make sure you’re collecting metrics such as email open rates and response rates.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2023

To make fundraising a little easier for nonprofits, we put together this list of nonprofit fundraising best practices. Each of the items below is a best practice your nonprofit can use to raise crucial funds for your mission. To learn more about nonprofit storytelling, check out our comprehensive guide to nonprofit storytelling.

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.orgSource

APRIL 25, 2023

“Whether you are developing a job description or trying to improve the vetting and selection process. When my clients need to make important decisions, I always recommend that they use data to guide their thinking. HR analytics can bring objectivity to what is frequently a highly subjective process. I love that answer.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Create Internal Efficiency: Creating standardized and documented practices around moves management can streamline operational efficiency. Automate as much of the process for the gift officers at the initial stages as possible. Step 7: Track and Review Your Metrics. Data Mapping: Prepare for implementation.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Practice with mock calls. Practice with mock calls. Consider these four components of effective matching gift phonathon training: Materials: Document how callers should ask about matching gifts and the process by which they should share company rules, guidelines, and instructions. Create a standardized script. C: Come prepared.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Goals and success metrics. In addition to goals, establish a set of online community metrics to help you track progress toward your goals and find opportunities for improvement. These metrics tell you how many of your members have joined the online community and how many are using it. Read the guide. Content strategy ?.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. Here’s everything we’ll cover in this guide. Sales Operations Process. Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. Performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Now, you might be wondering, “how do we practice empathy in our leadership styles?” It’s the counterproductive practice of sending after-hour emails or direct messages, causing unnecessary panic, or scheduling meetings during universal time off. Leaders need to set an example and hold themselves accountable.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

In this process, it can be particularly helpful to conduct a SWOT analysis. This guide reviews the steps of creating a nonprofit SWOT analysis , including when to use this type of analysis and how to put your insights into action. You don’t have a clear system for tracking metrics such as donor retention rates.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 7, 2024

As this gets to become a regular practice, you’ll see your open rates climb. Storytelling Email As in all donor comms — including your emails — let storytelling guide you. A Reactivation Email If your nonprofit has an email list that you’re mailing to consistently, you’ll want to make a practice of cleaning your list regularly.

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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. What is email deliverability?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. Guides to Civic Tech Assessment. Hone in on your true scope of influence.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

Just as you’ve finally settled into the shift from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and started to get a handle on its new metrics, Google has yet another deadline for organizations to meet. This guide will assist you in exploring the available options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together. This is a design aspect called “ Transformative Capacity Building ,” where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better results.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. But is this the right question?

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Whether you’re looking to take an improved approach to your existing strategy or design a new plan from scratch, this guide will steer you through the process of building a fundraising strategy. A well-developed fundraising strategy will accomplish the following: Gives your team a guiding blueprint for decision-making.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Today brings a new book and step-by-step guide for specialists, professionals, managers and independent contracts who want to achieve success in their work. It provides diagnostic tools and supportive practices and even offers advice on how to find a positive interpretation for results that don’t conform to your anticipated outcome.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Enhancing Your Current Processes Even the most well-oiled finance teams can improve their processes with new technology and new partnerships. From Chart Organizers to Dashboards, you’ll leave with practical ways you can automate and simplify your fund accounting. Let the Machines Work so the People Can Think!

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

When you manage constituent relationships, interactions, and outcomes through a case management process, understanding the key data points at play will allow you to analyze the bigger picture of your performance over time. Funders may also explicitly ask for impact assessment data as part of their grant application and reporting processes.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore how you can to leverage this data and grow your monthly giving program: Determine your objectives. Before you begin any project involving data analysis, start by clearly outlining your goal so you know which metrics to analyze. Understand donors’ giving behaviors. Monitor data and adjust your appeals.

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2021

As you make your way through this guide, keep in mind that your GivingTuesday strategy shouldn’t only focus on the day itself. Start your planning process by reviewing your current fundraising strategy and performance. Key fundraising metrics like donor retention rate, donation frequency, and fundraising return on investment (ROI).

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Collecting information on when your volunteers are available to work is essential to the scheduling process. You can collect all this information during the sign-up process using a volunteer management software like Bloomerang. Metrics matter! This keeps the volunteer work schedule accurate and reduces last minute no-shows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!” And the nuts and bolts questions like, “Given all the Facebook changes , what do I need to understand about the new Facebook metrics and the Insights analytics program?”

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

Seamless payment processing. Build trust with donors using Bloomerang Payments , a best-in-class payment processing platform. View reports such as campaign health metrics, recurring gift volume, and total donations. Leverage peer-to-peer and crowdfunding capabilities to bring supporters into the fundraising process.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It’s marketable, it’s ripe for good storytelling, and can ease the process of coming up with a fresh campaign concept. This guide will help you to outline and develop a year-end fundraising campaign that works for your organization and your donors, specifically curated to your needs in 2021. Download your #GivingTuesday planning guide.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

However, once nonprofit technology entered the equation, it drastically optimized the process. In this guide, we’re going to focus on one of those outlets in particular: email. With that in mind, we’re going to explore nonprofit email marketing, the types of campaigns available to you, and the best practices to truly excel.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 15, 2024

By taking advantage of more traditional methods as well as leveraging social media and peer-to-peer fundraising best practices, you’ll be on your way to hosting a winning event! It’s therefore important that you keep your marketing efforts organized so your donors are excited to kickstart the bidding process and know exactly how to bid.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

You can pull in different report metrics and filters to get the information you need to make decisions. Most reputable providers of configurable solutions offer online communities of peers with whom you can exchange best practices and read about new and innovative ways others are using or configuring their system.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Major Gift Fundraising Strategies for Every Phase of the Process In this guide, we’ll take you step by step through every part of the major gift fundraising process and provide you with tips for securing more (and larger!) After all, this is a group of people who already support your work. major gifts. Why Implement It?

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