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A $500 Million Pledge to Support Local News

Non Profit Quarterly

The MacArthur Foundation itself pledged $150 million to the new fund. In an effort to turn this trend around, the MacArthur Foundation unveiled in September 2023 the Press Forward initiative, a coalition of 22 founding donors set on “strengthening communities and democracy by supporting local news.”

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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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Compassion Services International on Growing Your Nonprofit Email List, Donation Thank You’s, and Powerful Storytelling

CauseVox

In our effort to highlight brilliant changemakers, we sat down with Cylinda Nickel at Compassion Services International to dive deeper into their global fundraising initiatives – particularly their work for Ukraine- and hear about her top fundraising tips. About Compassion Services International. Pledge Donations.

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6 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2020

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Heather Mansfield , Editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good and producer of the Global NGO Technology Report and the Global Trends in Giving Report. Test the service by selecting the orange “Get My Bot” button. For your reference, here are the fundraising tools featured in 2019 , 2017 , 2016 , and 2015.

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Is your nonprofit thinking about using ChatGPT? Your first step is to do no harm

Candid

In this article, we unpack the lessons learned from a nonprofit’s chatbot project to dispense mental health advice that went wrong, and how nonprofits can reduce the risks when adopting ChatGPT and other generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) technologies.

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How to Set up Up Your Donation Page on Causevox

CauseVox

Donation Pledges Often we don’t think of an online donation page as a way to ask for and manage larger donations, but new technology is making it more and more possible to ask for significant gifts from a broader audience. A donor can pledge $1000 over the course of a year, and pay in increments that work for them.

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5 Payment Processing Features To Acquire Younger Donors

Achieve

Integrated Technology. Pledge Now, Pay Later. Reliable, Secure Service. Peer-to-Peer Payments: Peer-to-peer services. Integrated Technology. it’s important to find a payment processing system that integrates with your existing technology. Pledge Now, Pay Later. Mobile-Friendly Giving.

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