Greater Giving

JANUARY 11, 2024

Whether it’s funding a specific project, expanding outreach, or sustaining ongoing programs, understanding these objectives lays the groundwork for a purposeful fundraising plan. Integrating Online and Offline Channels Diversify your approach by combining online and offline fundraising channels.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

nationwide digital inclusion project called Connect2Compete. We thought it'd be a good time check in with the new CEO of the project, Brian Vahaly, to see how it's going. One thing hobbling the project has been that it took place well after the flurry of U.S. How the Project Got Going. What Is Connect2Compete ?

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sgEngage

MAY 3, 2024

And you no longer need to spend time manually manipulating your financials offline or with mock expenses and additional journal entries. With the right fund accounting system, you can attach non-financial information, such as a grant award letter and reporting requirements, directly to the project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

You may be surprised to learn that multichannel donors contribute four times as often as online-only or offline-only donors. Their sizable gifts are what get your projects off the ground, so it’s important to prioritize them all year long, but also bear in mind that almost one-third of total annual giving happens in December.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Data hygiene projects This can range from cleaning and completing Salesforce, spreadsheet, CRM or other databases for stakeholders. Organize that neglected online/offline space Every organization has that room that has become a disaster. Make sure to create a dev copy and avoid letting interns edit live databases.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

No one wants to feel unprepared to lost in a project or task. Agnostic of the projects or tasks each volunteer will work on in, it’s important that each individual has an understanding of your organization’s mission to best represent the nonprofit no matter where they go, who they speak to, or what they work on.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They needed a mobile app that worked offline. How has participating with the Commons program helped this project? Getting fresh eyes on the project at every Community Sprint event helps us develop something that can be really useful for the community, not just what we want to build. TP: It’s the flexibility of use.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

While beautiful charity galas and creative offline campaigns still gather support for nonprofits’ causes, they slowly slip away from donors’ focus. With a big passion for volunteerism, Laura is actively involved in several social and educational projects. Guest post by: Laura Iancu, 123ContactForm.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Bloggers compete against each other to raise the most money for specific projects in low-income public schools. Check out the projects some BlogHers are raising money for. In addition to making an impact online, I'd like to see changebloggers meeting offline as well. Last year the campaign raised $62,925.12.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

At the beginning of the project, Dave Cormier agreed to be my " critical friend." (Here are a few resources defining critical friends - here , here and here ). But the short definition is: "A critical friend is someone who is independent of the project who asks. mmm… community. The challenge is how to keep the community engaged?

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Candid

JULY 26, 2022

An article on Forbes revealed stark statistics about projected nonprofit staff turnover in the next five years, including that: 45% of nonprofit study respondents “indicated that they will seek new or different employment in the next five years.”. When it comes time to cut overhead costs, some organizations start with staff salaries.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Highlight a specific goal: Funding a program, completing a construction project, or continuing your mission. This is a great opportunity to showcase past projects, and how you spend donor funds. Ambassadors are supporters of your organization that may have a broader reach, either online or offline.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

You should be sharing your nonprofit’s mission online and offline through your social media plan , donor newsletters, events, and other communications. And grants are usually available only for specific projects or needs. Limited support. Sharing your stories makes people want to get involved and help. Not hardly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Identify key influencers with audiences on social media, email, or via the news media and spend time cultivating the relationship with the goal of eventually seeking promotional support or a collaboration on a project. Approach area businesses to donate items to an online or offline silent or live auction. Earned Income.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Among them: Have a place to plan, reflect and think offline. Getting offline for thinking on paper and writing are known tools to improve our thinking and creativity. Having worked for over a decade with nonprofit professionals, I can think of several ways they can benefit from it. Reduce over-planning. BuJo is a personal tool.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 9, 2010

With all the buzz about social media, it’s easy to forget that offline media attention can be equally valuable, especially for community-based nonprofits who want to get attention to local projects or recruit local members and volunteers. Offline media attention is good.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But what could we have done differently to make this project a success? Earlier this week on Frogloop we discussed how four grassroots campaigns (1Sky, Clean Energy Works, the Energy Action Coalition and Focus the Nation) tried to build the Climate Network an unprecedented online community platform.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Whether it’s small communities coming together offline to train and share knowledge about using technology or it’s innovation projects competing in the same contest working together instead – we hope you’ll find this short paper compelling and share it with your networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

The article featured Malaria No More, and their vision of the project’s work: to end Malaria. We have thought of this more as a project than as an institution-building exercise, and the project is nearing its completion.”. Its goal is to end deaths from malaria, a target it sees fast approaching. “We

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CauseVox

JULY 14, 2022

At its heart, a capital campaign is a targeted fundraising effort that aims to raise large amounts of funds for a specific project or purpose. Are you interested in getting involved in the project? Do you support the project? Are there any concerns or questions you have about the project?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

There was a lot of buzz about crowdfunding in 2012: a video game called Star Citizen raised more than $7 million, Kickstarter banned nonprofits from using its platform (see #3 on that page), and a Tumblr popped up that takes aim at suspicious crowdfunding projects. Add your comments below.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Unfortunately, we cant just wish out projects through to completion. Office 365 offers offline file access, making it possible for your employees’ files accessible anywhere. Image courtesy of Pexels. They take time, effort, and a certain level of expertise. That is never more true than when talking about our tech implementations.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Luckily, folks like the Fundraising Effectiveness Project take time to dig into the nonprofit fundraising data over time and pull out insights that help the nonprofit sector continue to evolve their fundraising efforts. Here are a couple insights from the 2012 Fundraising Effectiveness Project. Online Donors vs. Offline Donors.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Because that revenue just rolls directly into our checking account, it’s just a matter of reconciling the bank deposit, which is easy.” — Christina Cutcliffe, Special Projects Manager, St. The ability to take payments on the phone or online has greatly decreased the number of payments processed here at the school.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 2, 2009

Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline in cities around the world at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. We are so thrilled to have these groups coming together to work on local projects and would love to have your city start a Net Tuesday group, too!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. This offline network, called Net Tuesdays, balances the work we do online to connect all those working at the intersection of technology and social impact. Like I said, I cannot wait!

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 26, 2024

While allocating marketing resources to various offline promotional strategies is perfectly fine, abandoning your nonprofit’s digital outreach is almost always a mistake. Share posts about your recent projects, campaigns, and events, and include links to important resources on your website like your donation page or your blog posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

And, I have to prepare some instruction in a completely different context, get organized to visit Sharing Foundation projects, pack T-shirts, AND finish the massives amount of work before I go. The jing project is their first experiment in the Mac platform. The project will eventually turn into something else.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For example, simply review the hundreds of ideas listed in NetSquared ’s Project Gallery and you’ll quickly see that people from around the world are hard at work leveraging all kinds of technologies to create positive change for communities tackling many different issues. Enter the Contest.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. To connect with supporters, organizations and individuals working on projects will need to be sure that data gets back to them. How are you encouraging your supporters all over the web to connect with you directly?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Tip 2: Send online and offline appeals. Keep in mind that, per the Fundraising Effectiveness Project , ongoing donors renew at a much higher rate (60%) than first-time donors (19%). You need to reach your donors where they are. For example, you may want to target donors who gave more than $100, $250, $500, or $1,000 in the past. .

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs." All 79 IDA countries, the lowest income nations, are included with the geographic locations of projects, financing, and sector identification such as water, transportation, governance, etc.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

Use GivingTuesday for donor acquisition Current research from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project shows that both donor acquisition and donations have decreased in the past year due, in part, to the rise of inflation. Use the GivingTuesday hashtag along with hashtags relevant to your cause to boost your challenge’s visibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. What we do know is that both the online and offline work of every non-profit can be enhanced by a dynamic online community in which organizations and users support one another.

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Classy

JULY 9, 2021

If your nonprofit is looking to make a big investment in a particular project, you may have wondered if launching a capital campaign is the right path for you. 6 Quick Tips to Unify Your Offline and Online Fundraising. Fund Your Nonprofit’s Next Big Project With a Capital Campaign.

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2014

We''ve heard in NTC evaluations and in our annual Community Survey that there was a need for a chance to come together, offline, for a conference that focused on high level strategies and included content for those who''ve tried some of the standard practices already and want to be inspired for new changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How do you fill in the gaps in your analytics with insights into your customers’ purchases, your fans’ offline interests, or your users’ reasons for liking what they like? We’ll share the results of three demonstration projects based on social media and survey data from 6,000 respondents.

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