The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The most reliable way for nonprofits to increase digital engagement is to test different techniques and messages with your own audience to determine what they respond to best, and follow the results. If you’re ready to start improving your digital program through testing, here are five places to get started.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 24, 2024

For organizations using Nimble AMS, this means they are receiving product innovation throughout the year on a similar schedule to what they receive from Salesforce. Organizations need an association management software (AMS) vendor that has a strong, secure, and risk-free release methodology. A full Salesforce Sandbox is a must.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Nonprofit teams have a lot on their plates: not only do they have to run their programs as best they can to help their beneficiaries, but they have to run their internal organization also. You’ve heard of impact, and the many ways organizations try to capture what they’re doing. But first… What is impact management ?

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2023

Grants can be a wonderful vehicle to fund a new program or expand an existing one; however, if your organization is new to the “grant world,” you may be unfamiliar with the work involved with both applying and managing grants. Is that the case with your organization? Do you have a well-defined mission statement?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Like everything else, though, pop-up technology has evolved considerably, allowing you to segment, test, and optimize. This can help you continuously retarget them and nurture them through the process of engaging with your organization. Test out the options. Test different CTAs, different value propositions, timing, etc.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Digital advertising and testing, often thought to be reserved for high-resourced organizations, can be done on an attainable scale for smaller grassroots organizations. They can benefit the most from outreach via programmatic advertising.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 20, 2021

Accomplished leadership and executive coaches Bill Berman and George Bradt have discovered over the past 30 years that: People lose their ability to influence others and impact the organizations they work at because they are not focused on the most essential, mission-critical business and cultural priorities of the organization.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2021

Events are a time-tested way for nonprofits to bring their supporters together, inspire a love for their cause, and fundraise. When COVID-19 shut down in-person events in early 2020, many organizations quickly pivoted to hosting virtual events with varying degrees of success.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges for nonprofits, especially organizations that work directly with vulnerable populations, like Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission, the oldest and largest homeless shelter in Philadelphia.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

This is the time when nonprofit organizations seem most open to testing because even small improvements can have a significant impact during a time of year when organizations raise up to 50% of their revenue. But successful testing programs don’t hinge on a few weeks of one-offs.' Senior Fundraising Consultant.

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Charity Village

MAY 19, 2021

The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health and the Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, are encouraging businesses and organizations to apply for free rapid tests for workplace screening projects. Across […].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We often assume that our audiences don’t change over time, but that’s not always the case, and nuances within each audience type can appear depending on the focus of your organization’s work. Review your target audiences , not just focusing on their habits, but what motivates them to engage with your organization in the first place.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 14, 2021

2020 really tested us all in a multitude of ways. For nonprofit organizations, perhaps the biggest and most important challenge was understanding how to move the mission forward. It’s been over a year since the pandemic changed all of our lives.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Imagine w hat would happen to your organization if your outdated association management software (AMS) suddenly imploded. When an organization routinely updates its technology, it can save anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000. Tens of thousands of automated regression tests. Exploratory milestone testing of new features.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2012

Now that I have had some time to work with the tool set and figure out through a process of trial and error what kind of content works best on Google+, not only has engagement significantly increased on the Nonprofit Organizations Google+ Page in recent months, but so has my Return on Investment (ROI). 4) Sign up for the Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 20, 2016

Wild Apricot is jam-packed (apricot jam that is) with tonnes of resources to help you succeed with your organization. Take our test to see how much Wild Apricot knowledge you've picked up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Good testing begins with a hypothesis and collecting data to understand if you are right or wrong. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it. Don’t let your vision become delusional.

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Forum One

MAY 12, 2021

At Forum One, we strive to provide solutions and tools that allow mission-driven organizations to make an impact in the world. As we work primarily with open source CMS platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, our tool is effective in its ability to integrate within the CMS as well as be flexible for organization-specific needs.

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

In the first quarter of 2021, Accelevents became certified to be a SOC 2 Type 1 compliant organization. It is important for any organization to have solidified, iterable processes they can use to best serve their customers.”. There are general guidelines, but every organization is different!

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Association Analytics

MAY 4, 2023

The more data and analytics skills you have, the more valuable you are to any organization and the more successful you’ll be in advancing your career. Many people have good ideas, but using analytics to test the ideas, improve upon them and prove ROI on their efforts will set you apart!

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 20, 2016

Wild Apricot is jam-packed (apricot jam that is) with tonnes of resources to help you succeed with your organization. Take our test to see how much Wild Apricot knowledge you've picked up!

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

The low-code, no-code revolution has made it possible for anyone at your organization to create software applications without all the extra overhead of traditional software development. How can your organization embrace the speed and power of low-code development and still have the peace of mind that your data is protected ?

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Gyrus

MARCH 1, 2022

Short interactive sessions with multimedia use and back home real work situation linkages, tested frequently with reiterations are the keys to a higher degree of knowledge retention. Employee retention will go up if training is well designed, engaging, and meaningful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Every social sector organization can and should be doing impact management ! There are three main components to integrating impact management practices in your organization: continuous evidence building, participant-centered program management, and integrated financial management.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

It is the responsibility of senior management to plan the use of AI carefully in order to ensure that no harm is done to people inside and outside of the organization. Replacing staff or volunteer counselors with bots to save money has been viewed as a quick fix for some organizations. Think through co-botting use cases.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The growing interest from donors and nonprofits alike in sustainer programs is an opportunity to test and do something different. With testing, nonprofits can experiment and improve on what communications work best for their sustainer audience. Use your technology to your advantage, even if it is a simple A/B test.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I want you to have the confidence (and your leadership team to have the confidence in you) that with data and time, you can make annual giving work for your organization. Keep them out of it for now (we can always test that later.) Test one thing at a time. Plan for your year. Segment your data, but don’t OVER-segment.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 11, 2011

Last week, I had a lot of fun test-driving Qriously , a new application that replaces advertisements on smart phones with questions, creating real-time feedback about the topics you are interested in. I had so much fun, in fact, that I shared screen shots and some thoughts around the way organizations could put a tool like this to use. (If

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 20, 2023

What do you do to continue to support your organization in its efforts to make a difference in your community and in the world? In other words, use trial and error to test out fundraising strategies to find out what works for your nonprofit organization. 4) Think of each fundraiser as a test. If it works, do more of it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2021

The authors present a fascinating look at how to breakdown the bureaucracy within your organization and unleash the power and true abilities of the human beings in your organization – making your organization more bold, entrepreneurial and as nimble as change itself. Our organizations aren’t. Human beings are creative.

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Care2

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Your website is more than just a core part of your nonprofit’s marketing strategy —it’s also a key tool for driving donations, registering supporters for events and volunteer opportunities, or otherwise encouraging them to engage with your organization.

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Candid

MAY 25, 2021

It would be essential content that balanced the news stories being shared on the page, adding complexity to the numbers in the funding summary and texture to the terrain that the organizations featured on the page were navigating. So I asked for help. And wow—did I get it. The emoticons flowed in, as did the content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2023

However there are some basic checks that you can do on your own to increase your organization’s visibility. If the speed test fails, a good first step is to make sure your website’s images are optimized and host your videos on a third party website, such as YouTube, instead of directly on your website.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Available starting August 18, 2020, the authors present a fascinating look at how to breakdown the bureaucracy within your organization and unleash the power and true abilities of the human beings in your organization – making your organization more bold, entrepreneurial and as nimble as change itself. Our organizations aren’t.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi, CFRE , Founder and CEO at The International Social Impact Institute and Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University In the rapidly evolving landscape of nonprofit organizations, adapting to the digital realm has become a pivotal challenge. Among the innovative tools that have garnered attention is ChatGPT.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 25, 2024

With more than 12 million installs and over 7000 apps, organizations choose the Salesforce AppExchange to meet their technological needs. Since its creation in the early 2000s, the Salesforce AppExchange has become a go-to resource for countless organizations. Completely configurable and scalable to your organization’s need.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An organization’s annual fundraising appeal letter is a yearly letter that gets sent out to your current donors asking for general operating funds for your nonprofit organization. While not every nonprofit organization utilizes annual appeal letters, it has been my experience that most do.

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