The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 5, 2020

If you want to know how to run an amazing year-end fundraising campaign (both online and offline) for your organization, check out our three part series How to Do Year-End Fundraising the Right Way. Today, I want to present a sample year-end fundraising e-mail for a fictional non-profit organization.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

Such resources should include sample solicitation letters for mail and email, quick stats and impact statements for social media, sample scripts for phone calls, and thank you letters for follow-up communications. Provide peer-to-peer fundraisers with easy access to information and resources they can use to fundraiser for your event.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2011

Create opportunities for taking action that bridge online and offline, and start moving people on both sides of the computer. Getting Offline. The Internet can serve as a gateway to online and offline civic and political engagement, including volunteerism, community problem-solving, and protest activity.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. I also had the chance to provide a couple presentations to the NGO track, one focused specifically on using facebook for campaigning in Romania. The slides are below as well as some notes. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, maybe everyone can see a certain resource or sample quiz, but you must login in order to also download the white paper or answer guide. Consider what functionality you can provide “behind a login,&# and promote that functionality often throughout related webpages, in email newsletters and in offline collateral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Amy Sample Ward, publisher of Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. What’s the catch? We’ve done step 1: admitted that we have a problem.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Tip 2: Send online and offline appeals. Here’s a sample script you can use: . “Hi! The more appeals you send, the better chance you’ll have of reaching the potential donor when they’re feeling generous or have a moment to spare to open the email and make a donation. You need to reach your donors where they are.

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2021

A Sampling of the Data from the Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study. It also points to the accelerated shift in funds from offline to online. Online Registrations by Month. The first two months of 2020 started on a hopeful note. Online Fundraising Averages. Overall, the online fundraising average was up 35% year-over-year.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Building a loop between online and offline community activities. Tags: community events 4change chat community building monthly chat offline community online community. But, you can still add thoughts ahead of time, or share more questions that we may get to or save for another upcoming chat. Did you miss last month’s chat?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2010

As I started to collect my thoughts, though, I realized that my impressions and recommendations were really applicable to any tweetup or offline gathering of online networks. NFPTweetups and other events where online networks come together offline are unique opportunities and hear from practioners and colleagues and get the “real story.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

What resonated with the crowd (based on a quick sample of tweets), was the idea of using a failfest to share what didn’t work and look at ways to improve results. There was some good discussion and questions about how you measure results from social media offline and the reminder that influence can be and should measured offline.

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

Include a sample email and talk about the impact of gifts ( Did you know just raising $25 can provide sick kids with a toy this holiday?). Online, offline, in social media, at the event, after the event and everywhere else – tell your heartfelt stories and explain how donations would/could be used. Tailoring your communication is key.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

The people who donate, listen in, connect with our programs by calling in, reading or commenting online, and coming to our offline events are our community. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Here’s a quick video interview I did with Annie Shreffler : Presentations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They needed a mobile app that worked offline. It’s not just useful for offline situations like interviewing people in rural India. They can install it and see a sample survey package, and build from there depending on their needs. So, I started sharing my idea at different networking events. TP: It’s the flexibility of use.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Positive reinforcement is one of the best leadership development practices you can build into your work across the board, whether it’s online or offline, on your facebook page, newsletter, annual fundraiser or neighborhood events. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Lastly, be active in sharing your toolbox.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Download this Sample Year-End Fundraising Goals Spreadsheet: You’ll see this fundraising goal sheet is broken up into 2 parts: A donor thank-you campaign from 11/2-11/13 and a fundraising campaign from 11/14-12/31. Today, your organization’s visibility and credibility are tightly linked with the fervor of your online and offline audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

Components included video tutorials, suggested calendars of activity, sample materials, frequently asked questions, logos, and a Twibbon for Facebook and Twitter use. From my experience participating in training events and courses as a speaker and trainer, I see much better results when coupling online and offline learning and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Be sure to provide them with content they can share about the events such as sample tweets and Facebook status updates. Here’s a great example of material for event ambassadors from last years’s Giving Tuesday. Start to recruit your champions, people in your community who can serve as ambassadors for promoting the event.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We should approach offline action as one of many channels available to us to reach our mission. We should expand that view and definition of multi-channel to include offline action and mobile messaging/text. For many organizations and groups, the offline actions are most critical and yet most often forgotten.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Keep doing the offline stuff for the offline people! To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). ' There are two responses I usually give here. .'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2013

3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Your Donors Don’t Live Only Online or Only Offline, So Why Do Your Communications? Pitman , author of the Ask Without Fear! and founder of www.fundraisingcoach.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

On & Offline Engagement. But the action, the real social change, is offline. First, ensuring that there are opportunities to engage and participate both on and offline (especially in the promoting and sharing) can increase participation and ultimately feet in the streets. Online is great for organizing.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Positive reinforcement is one of the best leadership development practices you can build into your work across the board, whether it’s online or offline, on your facebook page, newsletter, annual fundraiser or neighborhood events. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. View more documents from Amy Sample Ward.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

A Sampling of the Data from the Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study. It also points to the accelerated shift in funds from offline to online. Online Registrations by Month. The first two months of 2020 started on a hopeful note. Online Fundraising Averages. Overall, the online fundraising average was up 35% year-over-year.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. There are many who approach the online landscape with very different views than their offline business decisions. to which New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom tweeted back “No kidding.”.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Offline and Direct Mail – be sure to segment your list by folks who would have just received something from you in the mail, some times it works to do messages in tandem, and some times it just doesn’t. Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results. Highlights.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2010

Most of us would probably agree that social media indeed can enhance offline events, but does it always? Can social media also diminish offline events? There are so many tools we can use to try and enhance offline events. The thesaurus also tells me the antonym to enhance is diminish.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Charities that have traditionally focused on offline fundraising have also learned in recent years the importance of online giving. Compare that with a recent downward trend in donor acquisition using offline channels like direct mail. Start by checking a sample of your own data. Steve MacLaughlin, Blackbaud.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Following the From Like to LOVE: Get More Action from Social Media panel, join me (Allyson Kapin) and Amy Sample Ward for the unveiling of our new book about how to implement multichannel strategies to spark advocacy, raise money and engage your community. Social Change Anytime Everywhere Book Launch Party, Thursday, February 21st.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

nfpSynergy, a leading nonprofit sector think-tank and research consultancy in the UK, “tracks a representative sample of over 1000 11-25 year olds throughout mainland Britain twice-yearly, gaining insights into their views and habits, both social and charity-related” in its Youth Engagement Monitor. The Research. What do you think?

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2015

After wrapping up our annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), NTEN’s CEO, Amy Sample Ward, and I quickly recharged for SXSW Interactive , where we partnered another year with Beaconfire to host the Beacon Lounge for social changemakers, and with the NonProfit Times to cover stories on the nonprofit technology sector.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Speaker: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Both of my sessions focus on best practices, lessons learned, and the things organizations need to know to be community organizers and community builders, on and offline. Tags: 10NTC amy sample ward Community NPTech Social Media Program.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 3, 2010

I’ve had experience organizing communities offline in local communities, and organizing community online – but the kind of organizing that inspires me the most is combining online and offline. It’s something that I am energized by, passionate about, and take so much pleasure in helping others do well, too.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Or are you looking to move from online community to offline event coordination? These monthly chats part of the #4Change network and are open to anyone interested in learning and sharing about building community, on and offline, with the use of social media or other technology tools. Maybe across multiple countries, or even continents.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 20, 2010

Last night was the first in what will now be a monthly chat for community builders or those interested in learning more about building community, on and offline. tools and tactics that build a loop between offline and online activities. The goal of this chat was to set some of the ground work for us to build on going forward.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Amy Sample Ward, Community Development Manager, TechSoup Global. She is inspired by opportunities to catalyze community building and social action, online and offline, whether it’s through blogging, facilitating, training, or speaking. Tags: amy sample ward NPTech NTEN Program.

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Care2

MARCH 6, 2011

The study draws on survey data from a sample of 400+ California youth aged 19–22 who were surveyed after the 2008 presidential election. The Internet can serve as a gateway to online and offline civic and political engagement, including volunteerism, community problem-solving, and protest activity.&#.

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