NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The open rate for our August newsletter was down 5% because of Hurricane Irene. Discover lessons you can learn inside of your reports to continually improve your newsletter. One tip I can give you right now: don't send anything out before a major natural event. At least, I'm hoping it wasn't the content.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

When you consider that texts have a 45 per cent response rate , it makes sense for nonprofits to invest in expanding their SMS database. The average mobile pledge fulfillment rate is 84 per cent, which is aided by SMS reminders. Members open texts at a rate of over 4 times more than they open emails.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Through this approach, Blackbaud achieves much higher than the average participation rates of 9% for year-round matching programs – in fact, in 2017 22.7% This made budgeting for the program pretty straightforward: I set my participation rate goal for the year and multiply the number of employees that goal reflects by the program maximum.

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fusionSpan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Popular and well known cities offer a lot of amenities and are attractive to attendees; however, there is more competition for event space, so you often won’t have competitive hotel or meeting room rental rates. Also, cities such as New York, San Francisco, and Boston can have much higher rates for coffee, labor, and etc.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

A "disaster" doesn't necessarily have to mean a fire, earthquake, hurricane, or other natural occurrence. The Rockaways, in the borough of Queens, was one of the hardest hit areas during Hurricane Sandy. When Laurence Copel moved to New Orleans in 2010, the city was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Make sure forms are short and display any third party verifications of your effectiveness or legitimacy in the effort such as including VeriSign , Charity Navigator ratings , Charity Watch ratings , or Better Business Bureau status. If you have a social media effort, put it to use.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Survey results suggest a seven-year increase, on average, in the rate at which companies are developing digital products and services. “Identify and then eliminate the obstacles standing in the way of the desired behavior.” — Kurt Lewin. Digital product acceleration is trending across businesses worldwide. .

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

She leads City of Hope’s evolving 100-plus year fundraising platform, all the while maintaining its status as a Charity Navigator 4-star rated organization .

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2017

As it turned out, sales of strawberry Pop-Tarts increased seven times their normal sales rate ahead of a hurricane. It may illuminate which attributes lead to better email response rates. They analyzed petabytes of data and something popped in the results: Pop-Tarts. Specifically, strawberry Pop-Tarts.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Our thoughts are with those impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. Be sure that the cables are rated for the device and appliance to which they are connected. If you have additional tips and advice please share them in the comments.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Even though February was the smallest month for online giving the first three months of 2009 had a 60% year-over-year growth rate in online revenue. These nonprofits had a 21% year-over-year median growth rate in online revenue. The two largest months for online giving were December and May. Year End Online Giving Trends.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

We're all familiar with it, a message saying "Help the recovery from Hurricane Sandy. The annual discounted subscription rate is $576.00. The annual discounted subscription rate is $1,176.00. Text MUTUALAID to 69866 to donate $10."

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Even though February was the smallest month for online giving the first three months of 2009 had a 60% year-over-year growth rate in online revenue. These nonprofits had a 21% year-over-year median growth rate in online revenue. The two largest months for online giving were December and May. Year End Online Giving Trends.

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Haiti Trend Online Giving 68

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. As we saw with the Haiti response, language can be a huge barrier to response rate as we rely on people to help translate messages at an un-approachable rate.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

Although the rate of change may vary, just like tidal ranges and patterns differ depending on your location, the basic concept remains the same. The rate of change in the nonprofit world has been steadily increasing over the past decade. But it has also been driven by major events like 9/11 , the Asian Tsunami , and Hurricane Katrina.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

” Cite examples where you will use the funds, e.g. in response to natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes. Use language like “Donations to this fund go to emergency relief work.” Make it clear where funds might be used: worldwide?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Maybe your organization helped over one hundred hurricane survivors find temporary housing. Track your success rate. There’s plenty you can do to improve your return rate and find donors who want to help through direct mail. Your letter must address what your donor wants to know and what warms her heart. That’s great!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We’ve seen the reports of Arctic glaciers that are melting at an alarming rate. And we’ve watched helplessly as hurricanes and tropical storms have intensified in frequency and strength. We’ve seen the heartbreaking news stories over the last few years about how the American West has been ravaged by drought-fueled wildfires.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2013

In 2012, it is estimated that corporations gave $131 million to support Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, and that individuals gave $236 million. Giving USA estimates $54 million in contributions to public-society benefit organizations and $223 million given to human services organizations to support Hurricane Sandy relief efforts in 2012.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

laughs] But at any rate, we filled up an entire warehouse full of stuff. We got so well-known for doing this that we began to look like Sanford and Son driving around downtown. You could almost hear the theme song in the background. My boss at the time said, "You need to get rid of this stuff."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

David got really involved in nonprofit database work just after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. After the hurricane displaced hundreds of thousands of people, online survivor registries began appearing on multiple websites. He believes that technology is really just an amplifier or enabler for change.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Hurricane Katrina was such an event for VisionLink, as was the more recent tornado through Joplin Missouri, which caused a 400% increase in system demand. Packages and hourly rates sound great during the selling cycle, but in reality your staff will change and you may not have discretionary resources to train up new staff as the need arises.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2017

The upside is that episodic donors can help boost fundraising performance , but the downside is that they tend to have poor donor retention rates. When there was a flood, hurricane, or other natural disaster, people made a conscious decision to give to causes that were there to help others in need. The internet empowers online giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

In case your curious, the response rate was 20% and most notably, the research was done, fast, with results given that same day. *. Objective : Provide a home site for of CDC’s mobile information about hurricane preparedness and the flu season. The second example offered a product to those working to stop smoking.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

you know, when Puerto Rico had that hurricane, you know, that was huge here. A, we understand how horrible it is to go through a hurricane, and B, a lot of people who live in Florida have family members in Puerto Rico. Living in Florida, like I do, there is. It was huge. All of that matters. So they are responding slightly different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2008

The video bloggers have learned that the school is actually located on top of the Agriculture Street Landfill, an infamous Superfund site in New Orleans what was used as a dump and incinerator site after Hurricane Betsy. It was sold as an opportunity for African-Americans to buy a piece of the American Dream.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

I mean, we’re used to hurricanes, tornadoes, you know, fires, wildfires. And what I’ve seen so far, every time monthly donors get an email, the open rates go up, the click-through rates go up. The other thing is the retention rates go up. Who would have thought we were in the middle still of a pandemic?

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5 But what they also tell us is there is still time, if we do act.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If we go higher than this, we are looking at huge rises in sea levels, complete collapse of ocean ecosystems and more and more unpredictable extreme weather events like hurricanes and tsunamis. Eleven years to keep climate change under 1.5 But what they also tell us is there is still time, if we do act.

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Care2

JUNE 29, 2009

Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005. Retention rates decreased by a median 1%. Reactivation rates fell by 6.5% The study also showed that for the first time since Target Analytics released its initial study in 2002, overall revenue per donor declined by 2.1%. However, things rapidly changed from Q4 in 2008 to Q1 in 2009.

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