Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2015

We help the people who most need it, not those who can most afford it. We need help in the following areas: Marketing and communications Fundraising Software development Recruiting Accounting and finance Community management To us, a wildcard position is a new, unexpected better option for accomplishing our social mission. Are you someone who is burning to make a difference? Someone who values doing good over a whopping salary? Do you want flexibility in your job?

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VisionLink

MARCH 22, 2020

Deployed by the State of Colorado, a new site for volunteers and donors is engaging helpful people across the state--by the thousands--who are heeding the Governor's call to volunteer and donate. You can join them here. Or catch up on the announcement from the Governor, and stories in the press.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2020

As we look at change being the new normal for the f oreseeable future, we wanted to provide resources for social good professionals to continue to be resilient and effective in their jobs, and for organizations to continue to navigate in a way that helps them have an even greater impact.

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EveryAction

JUNE 6, 2019

By better empowering them to use actionable data and innovative tools, we help them to do more good,” said EveryAction CEO Stu Trevelyan. They have helped organizations like Common Cause, Plan International USA, and The Children’s Defense Fund raise more money with greater efficiency, including through leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning. EveryAction has the right team and vision to enable DonorTrends to help nonprofits do all three.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Join us and hundreds of fundraising and marketing professionals at the Washington Nonprofit Conference, a two-day event where you will exchange innovative marketing and fundraising ideas, generate insightful solutions and think creatively to help you make the relationship with your donors even stronger. With guidance from content leaders, keynotes, and solution providers at the 2019 Marketing, Membership & Communications Conference (MMCC), we can help find the solutions you crave.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Big data analytics tracks individual performance, automates assessments, boosts knowledge retention, and increases training ROI. Here is how you can deliver personalized learning with Big Data Analytics

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 9, 2018

A thriving volunteer program can help maximize your organization’s impact. Your co-workers and current volunteers can help you identify all of the ways that you can grow and upgrade your operation. Touch base with every department to identify what your organization needs more help with. These job descriptions will be great tools during recruitment and training, helping your team set clear expectations with volunteers.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2020

How Stock Donations Can Help Nonprofits. For instance, Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, used stock for his recent $1 billion donation in Square stock to several nonprofit causes, including helping in coronavirus relief efforts.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Effective Tips to Help Make Your Payroll Processing Easier. We want to help. The post Effective Tips to Help Make Your Payroll Processing Easier appeared first on GlobalOwls. Are you looking to make your Payroll processing easier? Check out our tips below and work smarter.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 25, 2020

Here are more insights and resources, including the brand new 2020 Virtual Events Research Report, to help you continue to engage members From running virtual events to raising funds online, many organizations have adapted well through a variety of digital initiatives in August.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The right type of enewsletter content can help strengthen donor relationships. While nonprofits are challenged with retaining donors, one overlooked cultivation tool may be the enewsletter. Content Marketing Email Marketing Interactive Mobile Online Fundraising Social Media annual giving communication email eMail marketing Enewsletter fundraising nonprofit nonprofit social media Social Media for Nonprofits

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VolunteerMark

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Often, young people see older adults in positions of power and success and think that in order to effect change they have to be of a certain age and status in society. But that’s not true at all. It’s time we start teaching young people that they can make a positive and lasting impact in their community and society-at-large

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EveryAction

MAY 8, 2019

The team, led by CEO Patrick Kane, is widely respected as one of the smartest software teams serving nonprofits, with deep understanding of the key outcomes for its client, and with passionate commitment to helping nonprofits achieve their goals. Innovative Talent and Digital Product Add to EveryAction’s Rapid Growth. Washington, D.C., May 8, 2019 – EveryAction, a leading provider of software serving over 15,000 nonprofits, announced today that it has acquired We Also Walk Dogs Inc.,

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 20, 2020

How Email Marketing Can Help (or Hurt) Your Fundraising. Using it effectively is how you can ensure it will help your fundraising. In this guide, we’ll walk through the qualities of email marketing and how those characteristics can help or hurt your fundraising efforts.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Fundraisers often lament that board members are shirking their commitment to helping fundraise. Set Clear Expectations When you’re introducing prospects to your organization, you explain how their contribution helps the organization carry out its mission. Experienced board members can help mentor new members. Once your board understands how their help fundraising connects to the success of the organization and you’ve provided clear support, it is time to start working.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

It's powerful workflows are meant to help nonprofit fundraisers ditch spreadsheets once and for all, and track major gifts like never before. #7. No more data silos - your offline and online fundraising, events, advocacy, email, and organizing data can be all stored in one place - and EveryAction helps make that data actionable. #22.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Helping a nonprofit company is beneficial in more ways than merely boosting business; it shows a dedication to helping causes and people less fortunate than ourselves. It shows a willingness to help the community in which you live in, and gives you a face out of a crowd of businesses. Helping a nonprofit organization will bring you the right kind of publicity, and if done right, more customers in the door. David Good helping nonprofits marketing

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

HSF also seeks to give its Scholars all the tools they need to do well in their course work, graduate, enter a profession, excel, help lead our nation going forward, and mentor the generations to come. Hispanic Heritage Month, officially founded in 1968 , occurs each year from September 15 to October 15, a period which includes the anniversary of independence of eight Latin American countries. During National Hispanic Heritage Month in the U.S.,

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Testing several versions of your donation page will help you ensure the maximum amount of conversions. Testing the number of options and they way they are displayed can help you find the most persuasive balance for your supporters. There’s no secret trick to instantly improving digital engagement for nonprofits.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 15, 2018

They’ll ask you open ended questions to help them understand the problem they are trying to solve. Surveys help us understand problems quantitatively and allow us to collect data from large groups of people. We're always looking for ways to incorporate user feedback in our product development process. That’s why we’re launching the Product Feedback Group , to connect EveryAction users directly with our product team.

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EveryAction

MAY 22, 2015

The way people give is constantly changing. People may care about your cause, but it doesn’t mean they will donate. So what drives them? software nonprofit technology CRM

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 10, 2018

For even more helpful tools for maximizing the money you raise and , check out our. Highlighting sustained giving options for your supporters (such as monthly or quarterly giving) helps you reap the benefits of Giving Tuesday throughout the year. Our Development Program Planning Guide includes great strategies for donor retention to help you maximize your investment in Giving Tuesday donors. #GivingTuesday is right around the corner!

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EveryAction

JUNE 10, 2019

EveryAction has seen multi-step forms help nonprofit’s increase their conversions by at least 5.9%. Mobile is an increasingly valuable medium for nonprofits. According to the M+R Benchmarks Reports , in 2018 mobile accounted for 48% of all traffic to nonprofit websites. Despite this increase in mobile traffic, up from 44% last year, mobile users accounted for just 30% of gifts, and 21% of revenue. Part of this can be chalked up to the conversion rates on mobile.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 11, 2012

This past week, we had a poetry contest about helping others in your community. For a chance to enter future fun contests focused on nonprofits, community-building, and helping others, like us on Facebook or follow us on twitter. The winner of our poetry contest is (drum roll please.) Synthia Laura Molina of Central IQ, Inc.! Feel their pressing needs, Offer soulful remedies. Servant leader leads.)

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VolunteerMark

JUNE 1, 2016

Nonprofits rely heavily on the generosity of donors. A common, but detrimental, practice of charities is to return to the same small pool of supporters over and over again to ask for funds or volunteer hours. A major challenge charities face is how to connect with new and repeat donors in fresh and current ways. One way to do this is to capitalize on the power of the referral and the power of online giving through volunteer-run crowdfunding campaigns

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

As people are taking most of their shopping online because of COVID-19, it’s time to stock up your virtual store with meaningful gifts to support your cause. Here are the top five digital product formats for inspiration

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Solid social media tools are a must for nonprofits going into 2019 - database tools such as social media matching and social share tracking will help you identify your supporters on social media and determine the content that resonates with them so that you can make educated assessments and plans for social media content. This October 31 st , it’s not ghosts and ghouls that most nonprofit fundraisers are worried about.

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EveryAction

DECEMBER 18, 2018

From GOTV to grassroots organizing, their efforts have helped create unprecedented levels of engagement from young people. In the 90s Rock the Vote actually helped pass the NDRA that expanded voter registration to all federal offices. How does having this encompassing view of your supporters help you talk and engage with them? Rock the Vote has been mobilizing the youth vote for almost 30 years.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here’s how you can help with disaster relief efforts today and every day. Another way to help disaster victims is to join the fundraising effort. The federal government sets aside money in case disaster strikes, but their funding decisions are made with the assumption that civilians will help provide financial aid. If you’re strapped for cash and still want to help, look into volunteering opportunities. Keep helping.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2015

I strive to help others join in. It became clear that we did understand that success could be had by helping the world, not dominating it. It’s a place that believes in good and helping good take over. It’s in academic research, uncovering new advancements that will help human kind. Help good take over. Good is a huge part of my world. Seriously. I think about good, the concept, all the time. I talk about good. I work to do good.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Susan the sustaining donor believes in your nonprofit’s mission and she gives regular, recurring gifts to help support it all year long. Once you’ve gotten the 411 from your prospecting efforts, your donor management platform should be able to help you use that information more strategically. The ability to sort major donor reports by score helps your development team refine and prioritize its outreach strategy, allowing for an even more personal touch with these important contacts.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 2, 2020

If you're facing unexpected challenges at the moment, here are some resources to support you and your organization as you adapt. You'll find information on running online events, working remotely, online fundraising, and more

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EveryAction

AUGUST 29, 2018

Budget effectively The consistency of annual campaigns will help your nonprofit more accurately project the income that you can expect to generate of the course of the year and when you’ll raise it, allowing for more effective planning and budgeting. Whether it is an industry-wide annual campaign like End of Year, or a sustainer push that your organization does every year, knowing when to expect donations to come in helps leadership and staff across a nonprofit plan accordingly.

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VisionLink

APRIL 9, 2020

culture is the immediate outpouring of offers from volunteers and companies urgently wanting to help those stricken by misfortune. But, the new coronavirus pandemic has brought out another aspect of American society— the tenacity and ingenuity to work around obstacles to helping that until this point in our lifetime were unseen, namely that of social distancing. Our technology-powered services help organizations create great environments for their workers, partners, and customers.

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EveryAction

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This helps shift the reader’s perspective from the impact of the past year to what they can help accomplish in the future. Annual Reports are a staple of nonprofit life, but are they worth it? When used correctly, they can be a powerful tool for communicating your impact, but it's important to create them in a way that makes them easy to understand, conducive to sharing, and persuasive to a wide variety of reader perspectives.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Here are a few criteria to help you decide: 1. Opting in to confirm an email not only helps you overcome email addresses that don't exist, it puts you at less risk of continuously sending an email to someone who never wanted to hear from you in the first place. Building out an email list is a science; each factor from your subject line to the length of your email body, to the timing of your send can contribute to your list growth.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Display Powerful Images Often images are more powerful than words when it comes to communicating how a donor’s gift can help others. For more helpful information about getting the most out of your year-end campaign, click below to download the full guide! Improving your website donation pages is the single best way to raise more money during the year-end giving season.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2020

If you are new to managing, or if you are struggling with a management dilemma, ask for help. There is no shame in asking for help. So, ask for help. Asking For Help Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management LeadershipSeek the guidance of a colleague at work. Reach out to a mentor at or away from work. Turn to an online resource. Consult a book on managing. Whatever you do, don't sit back and do nothing. Managing even one employee can be challenging.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Employees want tools that offer them choice and that help them seamlessly share their cause with the world. Crowdfunding helps you understand what your employees care about. Forward-thinking companies understand that both their employees’ purpose and their community’s social good needs play into their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Creating and running a successful CSR program these days is no longer a “nice to have,” it is the new expectation.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

As people are taking most of their shopping online because of COVID-19, it’s time to stock up your virtual store with meaningful gifts to support your cause. Even better, starting in December, you can offer your members and customers a variety. website-and-technology

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AFP Blog

MAY 18, 2015

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap helps Nepal earthquake response | Opensource.com : " One interesting effort has been from the crowdsourced mapping community, especially on OpenStreetMap.org, a free and open web map of the world that anyone can edit (think the Wikipedia of maps.)

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

They are charged with making the digital numbers go up, but they are never put in a position to help the broader organization listen to the data. Data can help you make better decisions. Data and analytics can play a big role in improving nonprofit strategy. It usually doesn’t though, and that’s because most nonprofits are using their data wrong. It’s time we had a little talk about strategic objects.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 28, 2018

This data will give you real-time knowledge of confirmed attendees, and help you follow up with supporters to make sure you get as many attendees as possible. Call time will help secure commitment, but you should follow up by email with confirmations as well. Lower-level asks like these help you get maximum value from the event. Send notes to everyone that chipped in and helped make the event a success.

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