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9 Ways to Use Text Messaging for Your Virtual Fundraising Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ask previous fundraising campaign volunteers if they can lend their creative talents and help out with the technology powering your event. 6) Encourage pledges. Did you know that 49% of pledges are initiated through a text message link? Or that 84% of pledges opened during a fundraising event are fulfilled?

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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Nonprofit Technology News for February 2014

Tech Soup

It's high time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! Safer Internet Day is an annual Microsoft sponsored public service campaign to take practical steps to protect ourselves against identity and data theft, email phishing scams, cyber bullying, social media over sharing, and other perils of life on the Internet.

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4 Ideas for Incorporating Text to Give in Your Fundraiser

Get Fully Funded

Ensure your text giving service offers a way for text donors to set up a monthly or recurring donation. For example, donors who submit a pledge or donation at an auction can see their name and gift appear on a large scoreboard, complete with a fundraising thermometer, if your software supports this. Offer monthly/recurring options.

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Case Study: Community-Based Fundraising

NTEN

And the effective use of technology can help you extend the reach of your event. Participants, sponsors, and members of participating organizations can educate friends and family everywhere about the community fundraising event, attracting supporters and donations from across the world. Highmark Inc.

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Personalizing the Online Fundraising Experience

NTEN

With today’s technology, personalization can be taken to a whole new level. These days, each personal pledge page has to have social networking widgets giving participants easy-to-use tools to spread the word and promote their fundraiser. Technology is changing the world faster than we can perceive. Make Donating Easy!

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Foundation Transparency – Foundation Center’s Surprising Glass Pockets Website

Tech Soup

Glasspockets.org is a website sponsored by the Foundation Center that is focused on transparency among funders. This services also makes it easier for nonprofits to find grants information, while improving the quality of grant applications to foundations. A revealing fact is that 70% of the approximately 80,000 U.S.