Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

Look for donors who have a history of regular giving, long-term involvement, or a personal connection to your mission. I always test my written and/or visual messages with a small group of five to ten trusted colleagues before disseminating them more broadly. Here are ten practical steps to help you navigate the process: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Someone sent out a tweet wondering if London’s Natural History Museum and Science Museum went to war, which would win. Twitter Doubles Character Count: Twitter officially doubled the character count for all users last November, 2017 after testing it. One museum said they have dinosaurs; the other said they have robots.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Common segmentation criteria for nonprofits include such as age, location, interests, communication preferences and donation history. Use language and tone that reflect their preferences and communication style. Regularly testing and adjusting your approach will help ensure your fundraising efforts remain effective and relevant.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

If you were paying close attention when GDPR came around in 2018 and your organization is confidently GDPR-compliant , you are probably in good shape beyond some updates to privacy policy language. Using wealth screening regularly on NY or CA residents if you are a large (+$25M organization).

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This person will take the lead in convening internal stakeholders, making plans, testing the waters internally, setting parameters, and liaising with foundation leadership. Share requirements and expectations for participation, time, and any technical skills needed, including internet access, device, and language requirements.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. These histories can be built on but there is a risk they begin to drift from the original prompt and even forget key elements. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

But we weren’t sure that this level of effort was making a difference (or even potentially depressing response)—so we tested it! . This fall, another M+R client, LCV Victory Fund, tested advertisements targeting mid-level donors and prospects. return on ad spend, and they don’t even have a donation ask! .

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Previously, CAP has served clients in education, human services, youth serving organizations, religious organizations, and arts, culture, history, and environmental. Want to get your site checked for inclusive language before the end of 2021? Focus Fundraising. Website: [link]. Click here to learn more about our Inclusivity Tool!

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

This data includes real estate holdings, giving history, assets, and more. You can send your donor lists through these sites and get back in depth information about their wealth and giving history, to help you understand who might be ready to move from donor to major donor. Case for Support.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

Corporate email programs have focused on delivering value—they test offers, messaging and more. A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. Test Subject Lines And Calls to Action, For Starters. Should nonprofits follow suit and test these elements? How to Test.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

The wonderful thing about email marketing is you can do A/B testing. If you want to test whether your emails perform better when sent on Sunday night or Tuesday morning, send half on Sunday and half on Tuesday and see for yourself. Language about your annual campaign or broad fundraising goals won’t cut it. We need money NOW.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 8, 2008

It's great to go to completely different places, spending time learning about history, politics, issues and culture from new perspectives. The Marshall Islands are still suffering as a results of atom bomb tests. I saw aspects of American and Japanese society overlaid on a societies trying to preserve their traditions and languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Carie Lewis explained that the Humane Society worked often and early to build buy-in: “We wanted the upper management to speak the social language, we wanted to get them online. Does it have a history of trying new things? When testing out new social platforms, take some time to experiment and do it well before giving up on it.“.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Use language and conversations that are reflective of what learners will encounter. This isn’t the time to take a deep-dive into your nonprofit’s history. Include a pre-test to required courses. In a course about soliciting donations over the phone, don’t have the donor say “Hello. Thank you for calling my telephone.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Philanthropy and knowledge work have a long history, from demonstration projects to evaluation to the encouragement of learning communities and grantee learning networks. What is the history in the question? What is the history in the question? There is history in every question. This is where history comes in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

Quite the opposite: failure that comes from planned, methodical testing is simply how you learn. Thus, performance management was a way to drive activities, not results. It’s critical to move through the build>measure>learn cycle as quickly and as frequently as possible.To will lead to small-f failures, but you can’t punish that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I remember a Spanish-language version of Eva Luna, and a biography of Lance Armstrong. When history dictates that the vast majority of all East African orphanages are Christian founded and funded, the (obvious) result is Christian children. In the years to come, I spent endless hours in that cramped space. They had left them behind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s. Scientists design the test questions, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. John Russick of the Chicago History Center runs the annual label contest for the American Alliance of Museums , and those entries are always worth reading. But I couldn’t get there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Here are my notes and I've added some of my own notes and links for more context: Overview: Facebook is in 30 languages, with 200 Million Users (want some demographics on users, check out Nick O'Neil's Demographic Page ). More interactive content is better - the Wall is a history of interactive. Profiles VS Pages.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 17, 2016

Details about campaign performance, donor history, gift amounts, last gift date, and preferred channel will allow you to understand who to ask for what amount and deploy messages that are more relevant. First things first, before you can target your donors and speak to them in a way that resonates, you need to know something about them.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We tried and tested and played and worked our way forward, and we’re still doing it. It’s been a wild and wonderful year—without question, my most challenging and stimulating yet.

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2011

Simple segmentation focuses on descriptive segments, such as demographics and donor history, and tailors your communication based on what you already know about that person. The language that you use can point to this knowledge: “Our renowned Foundation researcher, Dr. Smith, is signing her latest book at the Borders right in your backyard.”

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

It may include researching individuals’ giving history, political affiliations, and philanthropic interests, as well as analyzing publicly available data and market research. WealthEngine: This database provides comprehensive wealth and lifestyle information on individuals, including their philanthropic history and giving capacity.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

For example, this could include personalizing email campaigns or making targeted recommendations based on their giving history. Functionality : It’s a natural language processing (NLP) platform that comes with an easy-to-use interface and drag-and-drop functionality. It also has the ability to support multiple languages.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

For over 20 years, EveryAction has provided technology to support nonprofits working to make the world a better place, and we’re honoring that history through our product roadmap and commitments. Our purpose is to power those who power social impact, and we came together for a reason: to better meet the needs of our customers—the doers.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A donor database is a software solution that nonprofit professionals use to access insights into their supporters’ engagement histories, track key fundraising metrics, and measure success. Use robust profiles to manage information about your supporters, including their donation histories, volunteer hours, sponsorships, grants, and more.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. It also won the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture a Silver Vega Award!

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

But segments don’t just have to refer to giving history. Donor-Centric Language When you’re telling the story of how your nonprofit has made an impact over the past year, put your donors at the center of that story. After all, the community of people like them has helped make these positive impacts possible.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

The more data points you have on your donors—from email and street addresses to job titles and company names, giving capacity, philanthropic history, contact preferences, and general interest—the more you will be able to target your asks and create fundraising campaigns that speak directly to them. You won’t know until you test!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

Consider three very different talkbacks in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History''s fall exhibition, Santa Cruz is in the Heart: cocktail napkins, rear view mirrors, and refrigerator certificates. I''m curious what "single measure" tests you are using to compare projects and improve your practice. Also, a sidenote.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. It also won the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture a Silver Vega Award!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Earlier this year, I encountered a similar confusion while working with creative amateurs in virtual concept design of real-world interactives for The Tech Virtual Test Zone. But what staff thought of as "being open," the teens saw as "hiding" the real needs. There, we had clear criteria--but the criteria changed during the project.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Finally, test everything before you launch your campaign to make sure it’s working correctly! Go ahead and write the thank-you email that automatically goes out when people give. Both the thank-you page, and the automatic email need to reference the Giving Tuesday campaign so that everything is tied together.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. His specialty: user testing. A move to Benetech’s quality assurance team was a great fit.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. Our group enjoyed several hours of lively, interactive conversation and I walked away with some interesting ideas about how MIM might test some international appeals or campaigns.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. Our group enjoyed several hours of lively, interactive conversation and I walked away with some interesting ideas about how MIM might test some international appeals or campaigns.

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