The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

JANUARY 14, 2019

Rapid technological developments over the past few years have left many nonprofit professionals scrambling to stay up-to-date with the newest tools and techniques without wasting time and money on passing fads. Some of the biggest trends that emerged in 2018 include: 1. High Quality, All the Time. Rapid Response.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Nonprofit marketing is one of the key components of getting your organization seen by potential supporters! While many may think of marketing as a for-profit pursuit, it’s also the backbone for nonprofits connecting with supporters and spreading awareness about your mission.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 25, 2022

Research from Community Brands consistently shows that members place high value on networking and staying up to date on industry news, trends, and regulations. Establish guidelines to set a standard for how members should interact in the community and to define under what conditions certain interactions might be moderated.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ll also explore the strategic intent of GA4 as well as explore its potential in adaptive techniques, robust machine learning algorithms, and powerful predictive analytics. While the actual sprint produces a prototype in 5 days, we’ll explore the building blocks in 60 minutes. Vote for this session!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. Content is king.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Let’s take a look at some fundraising ideas – the fifteen most effective donor acquisition and online fundraising techniques used by top nonprofits. Make sure to set the date range back a year or two, so that you can look at the trend over time. They’ve used strong imagery that supports their reason for giving.

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2022

Donor stewardship—also known as stewarding your donors—is the act of building relationships with supporters after they make a donation to your nonprofit. When new donors give only once, you experience a loss on the initial investment to acquire those new supporters. This is where donor stewardship comes into play.

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Everyaction

JUNE 11, 2018

And it's not just websites that are affected by the trend toward mobile - more and more communication now happens through cell phones. Here are five things that all nonprofits should be doing in 2018 to keep up with mobile trends. In 2017, mobile list sizes grew by 35%, and this number is expected to continue increasing.

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Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

Here, we outline the latest trends your nonprofit needs to know in the ever-evolving world of data privacy. It’s time to consider other ways to genuinely attract customers and supporters to your business or nonprofit, as it becomes harder to follow them around. What is Privacy-First Marketing?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2013

Let’s take a look at the fifteen most effective donor acquisition and online fundraising techniques used by top nonprofits. Make sure to set the date range back a year or two, so that you can look at the trend over time. They’ve used strong imagery that supports their reason for giving. 1) Go Mobile, Now! Are you ready?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

In order to have long term fiscal sustainability, nonprofits must be considering future generations as potential donors and supporters. Baby Boomers and Generation X have fiscally supported nonprofits for decades, now Millennials are the next generation that must be courted.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2017

In order to have long term fiscal sustainability, nonprofits must be considering future generations as potential donors and supporters. Baby Boomers and Generation X have fiscally supported nonprofits for decades, now Millennials are the next generation that must be courted.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. I wasn't surprised that the worst trends had much more pick up than best. In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1. Yet, the market couldn't support the many, many museum studies graduates that came out.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 23, 2021

You may find yourself struggling to keep supporters engaged or to maintain fundraising momentum amid the ongoing uncertainty and ever-changing landscape of the pandemic era. Here are five tips to help you raise more for your mission: Be transparent with your supporters. Keep supporter relationships at the forefront.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Keep an eye on trends in employer information. Creating a detailed and interactive script can help ease the nerves of new callers and standardize your donor’s experience. Listen for matching gift asks during calls and provide guidance to improve techniques. Prepare for donor questions. Equip callers with matching gift resources.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Your charitable organization has probably fielded questions from curious supporters and internal audiences on the ways it might be leveraged. Whatever the reason, ChatGPT makes for a fascinating human-AI interaction. Use it once, though, and you’ll discover the need for improved prompt techniques to get the responses you want.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

For nonprofits, data segmentation means dividing a donor or supporter base into groups of individuals that are similar in specific ways. The most common segments tracked past donor interactions, not demographics. Segments can vary wildly, depending on the cause that a nonprofit is supporting. Image 2 : VKA / Shutterstock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Celebratory interactions should be a consistent part of your engagement and content calendar, so set up systems to capture and share alumni personal, social, and professional news. Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To engage and discuss techniques and tips for using Facebook effectively for nonprofits. To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. My experiments were quite granular: What gets more interactions - sharing video or photos or links?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

We're reflecting a larger trend in business, government, and IT to pay more attention to the plumes of information our websites, databases, PCs, and mobile devices are generating. At the same time, there is a trend among funders to be more data-driven in their quest for more evidence-based giving.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2014

John Haydon said This Scientifically Proven Fundraising Technique Will Shock You , and he was right. This simple technique conflicts with the majority of fundraising advice you’ll find, but the meta-analysis of over 22,000 (42 studies) suggests that giving the option of NOT donating can actually boost your fundraising results.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Natural language processing is concerned with the interaction between computers and human language. NLP techniques can be used to understand and generate text, translate, and perform other language-related tasks. That makes understanding current and emerging trends critical. AI can reason and support decision-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It’s a design challenge.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Fort Meyers, FL/ $445. The purpose of the Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium is to highlight current best practices, lessons learned from the field, and trends in effective nonprofit and philanthropic board leadership, as well as board recruitment and retention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

But it is also theme of a panel that I’m moderating at the Innogive Conference on Monday, April 2 that will focus on how this trend is and will continue to impact nonprofits’ communication strategies. Text4Baby :- National mobile health campaign, interactive and somewhat customized SMS messages. Why should you use it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

A growing trend among organizations is to get out of the business of owning servers entirely. Another emerging trend is cloud-based computing , which enables organizations to pay only for processor cycles, memory, and storage as it's used. avatar), interact with others, and even conduct business transactions.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

Engaging supporters (and attracting new ones) with storytelling techniques. Does it make it easy for new supporters to learn about your work and then get involved? The ‘frontend’ of your organization’s website is the publicly-visible part that your donors and supporters interact with. Is it performing well?

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Programming supports professionals from every type of institution and at every level of experience. Keynote presentations, workshops, roundtable sessions, and interactive forums will cover a variety of topics across nine training tracks. You can attend one or both days.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We have new support from foundations and individuals who care about innovation in audience engagement—and even more importantly, participants who are excited to experiment with us. I look forward to more strategic partnerships that support community development broadly in our county. Conflating financial trends with financial position.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc. Communities take time to grow and needs change over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

My workshop was in a fixed seating theatre, but I managed to make it interactive and I think a little fun. In the afternoon, we took a deep dive into the listening techniques. Secret Sauce: Chicago Workshop Final Slides View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. I taught two workshops ( notes are on the wiki.)

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Using the social web to market your cause, communicate your services, and interact with your audience is an important part of the. Here are several techniques you can use to strategically listen to and interact with the people you are targeting online: Know What People Are Saying About You. Keep Records and Identify Trends.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Prospects and stakeholders who interact with you online have only your online communications to evaluate your organization. Are you up-to-date on the latest tactics and techniques in your area of focus? Tracking user trends is vital to understanding if your online communication efforts are succeeding -- or not. Are you credible?

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Consider donating to support our mission. Sharing stories about your volunteers, beneficiaries, staff members, and other stakeholders can introduce potential new supporters to what your mission is all about and facilitate a positive connection with your nonprofit. You’ve probably heard of the narrative technique “show, don’t tell.”

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

How do new trends, tools, and norms affect how nonprofits should approach their SEO strategy in 2024 as they try to rank well for important keywords on Google and other search engines? Regularly update your content to reflect the latest industry trends and changes. Google, in particular, considers PageSpeed as a ranking factor.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Free webinars and other educational materials can keep you up-to-date with fundraising trends and best practices in the digital era. With expert knowledge in crafting compelling posts, tweets, and pins, your team can better promote your mission and interact with your community on new levels. Enriched knowledge. Optimized fundraising.

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