The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Adapting to Changes in Facebook Fundraising Tools: A Guide for Nonprofits When you run a nonprofit, you’ve likely leaned on social media platforms for fundraising. However, the recent announcement about changes to Facebook’s fundraising tools may have you rethinking your strategy. Why, you ask?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 30, 2024

In this guide, we’ll review the basics of AI fundraising tools and a few strategies for using these solutions to improve donor relationships. How AI Fundraising Tools Work There are many types of AI fundraising tools that suit a wide range of needs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

By Kim Peterson , Content Marketing Specialist for Give by Cell , a technology company that provides mobile fundraising tools and text messaging services to nonprofits. With average email open rates at 20% for nonprofits , many organizations struggle to grab the attention of supporters, volunteers, and donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 20, 2024

Neon One ] 72% of individuals say that the presence of a charity rating badge increases their likelihood of giving. Double the Donation ] The current donor retention rate is 41.9%. Classy ] 72% of individuals say that the presence of a charity rating badge on a donation page increases their likelihood of giving. billion—only 0.6%

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Wild Apricot

MAY 13, 2019

If you’re looking to managing your events easier, here’s a list of 43 event management software tools that can help you out from mobile apps to all-in-one solutions.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The right software and tools can help you clear that plate and find a wide range of benefits for your association. These tools can help you minimize busywork, grow your membership with intelligent tech, straighten up your finances and much more. Data Analytics and Reporting Tools. An AMS might include the following.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2023

Text messages are another valuable tool you should add to your outbound communications strategy! Big brands know that texts have an incredibly high open rate—that’s why many of our favorite retailers have adopted a text marketing strategy. That’s a lot of time spent engaging with a communication tool!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Tools like Canva and Adobe Spark offer free templates and editing options to make this process easier. For social media content, focus on metrics like likes, shares, comments, click-through rates, and follower growth. These tools offer valuable insights into your audience’s behavior, engagement rates, and content performance.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

With virtual events quickly becoming the new normal for the events industry, it is important that you find and make use of the best tools available to host a professional and engaging event. Adding video production tools to your belt can help you overcome a number of challenges that video production is faced with. Capterra Rating: 4.6/5.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2023

PayPal PayPal is a great tool for nonprofits that are just starting to accept online donations. Another helpful feature of PayPal is that they offer discounted transaction rates for nonprofit organizations. If you’re a confirmed 501(c)(3) charity, you qualify for the discounted rates. Conclusion There you have it!

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sgEngage

MARCH 14, 2023

For a grassroots nonprofit, this tool would save staff valuable time and serve as a teaching tool for early-career fundraisers. Explain that using this tool would increase the impact of their donations, giving staff more time to focus on growing the nonprofit’s reach. No one can advocate for your mission like you can.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2022

To successfully raise money online, you need a compelling reason for someone to give, a tool to raise money, and a plan for driving traffic to your site. Probably the most confusing part is choosing the tool. To make it simpler, I’m sharing some of the tools that I and some of my clients have used (and liked).

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Consider these four tricks for increasing email open rates by tapping into the inner psyche we all possess. • Research by non-profit experts utilizing the tools of psychology shows that people are much more likely to open an email if they recognize the sender. So insert a query in the header and see if doing so increases open rates.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

And with the right event management tools, organizing your guests and tracking your fundraising progress can be done all in one place! Auction event software offers dedicated tools for managing and conducting auctions, both traditional and online. These tools help you reach your supporters no matter where they are.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether or not it’s worth it to invest in digital analytics tools. . They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. How can these tools help you track meaningful data?

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

The conversation around email performance is wrong: open and click-through rates alone do not show constituent engagement. However, the benchmark study is a tool, and like any tool, it depends on how it’s used. And that’s what the conversation should be around: constituent engagement, not open and click-through rates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over time, a high exit rate signals to search engines that your content is not helpful to visitors, which can negatively affect your ranking. So, if your nonprofit works in environmental conservation, use a keyword research tool to identify common questions like “how to support local environmental initiatives.”

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the right AI tools, you can analyze donor data, predict giving patterns, and provide personalized resources without breaking a sweat. This versatile tool can generate text, translate languages, create diverse forms of creative content, and more. Effective fundraising is the first step to changing the world.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

We had to validate registration member rates against current memberships to ensure members were receiving the appropriate discount or group rate. They just didn’t have the tools in place yet to give me that chance. We could rely on the accounting system, but only for things that were created and contained within a journal entry.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With so many tools out there to choose from, your opportunities for customizing your organization’s tech stack are virtually limitless, especially when it comes to fundraising apps. This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Let’s dive into how learning analytics can drive engagement, improve course completion rates, identify gaps in learning programs, and optimize the learning experience. Example: Through a learner sentiment analysis, one association discovered that one of their courses consistently received low ratings due to challenging content delivery.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Far from just an email-blasting tool, modern marketing tools handle everything from scoring leads to posting on social media to sending text messages. These tools suit your modern audience, who expect to interact with nonprofit organizations like yours across a diverse media landscape. Will you need to pull in your IT team?

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EveryAction

JULY 12, 2023

It’s easy to understand why brands use direct mail: in the nonprofit world, mail can be an especially powerful tool for educating your supporters. We also know that in 2021, the clickthrough rate for mobile fundraising messages was three times higher than the clickthrough rate for email fundraising messages.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

With virtual events quickly becoming the new normal for the events industry, it is important that you find and make use of the best tools available to host a professional and engaging event. Adding video production tools to your belt can help you overcome a number of challenges that video production is faced with. Capterra Rating: 4.6/5.

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EveryAction

JULY 21, 2016

That's why we asked Maureen Wallbeoff, Vice President at Firefly Partners , for some expert insights, not only from her career in the third sector, but also as a nonprofit digital consultant and contributor to the Nonprofit Guide to Online Engagement Tools. Get your free copy on the Firefly Partners website. MW: This is a great question!

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s also a valuable tool to help nonprofits evaluate their results by giving them a comparison point for their performance against organizations of similar sizes and issue areas. Unsubscribe rates did not change much. We look forward to this report every year.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Indeed, responsive sites that provide stellar visits—especially in the e-commerce industry—are proven to have better engagement, more conversion rates and, very importantly, better search engine rankings. And thankfully there are some great tools for doing just that. WebPagetest.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

Then, guided by those goals, use effective data collection tools, measure outcomes, implement improvement strategies, and promote transparency. Data analysis tools are helping organizations of all sizes to automate, streamline, and standardize processes so they can measure and optimize performance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2023

1) Use a top-rated Content Management System (CMS) platform. Google Analytics is an essential website analytics tool for nonprofits. Here are 10 website maintenance tips that your nonprofit can do yourself to ensure that your website is healthy and running at its best — without needing to break the bank! 4) Prioritize SEO.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 1, 2021

By not using an email marketing service, your organization can not track open and engagement rates, segment your subscribers, or ensure that the opt-in is consensual. If they can not, then those subscribers should be deleted to improve your open rate, thus email deliverability. Get started with free fundraising tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In the early, nascent days of the Internet, webmasters treated their users as if they were monoliths – everybody got the exact same pop-up, which ran on every page of the site – annoying users and suppressing conversion rates. Here are some specific tools that make it easy to do this: Hubspot. Attentive (for mobile SMS sign-up).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Rate your CMS! April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. So go rate your CMS ! {

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2022

Any number of excellent software solutions and nonprofit tools exist to help with this kind of analysis. Be aware, however, that in the world of nonprofit research, many experts discount that this metric has any real value in rating a nonprofit. The intention of this metric is to identify inefficiencies and wasteful spending.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Our free 4 Strategies to Build Multichannel Donor Relationships guide provides you with the tips and tools you need to prime all of your channels, from your website to your direct mail appeals, for maximum exposure and engagement. ? About the Author.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

.” High customer retention rates can help a company spend less on marketing, improve the overall lifetime value of a customer, and earn more referrals. According to the Harvard Business Review , increasing customer (or partner) retention rates by 5% can increase profits by 25-95%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

By Christy Smaglio , Instructional Writer at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. DonorPerfect users have seen incredible success with monthly giving, increasing the average donor retention rate from 40% to 80%. Pro Tip: Ready to get started?

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

On February 1, 2024, Google and Yahoo will roll out new requirements, which include bulk senders authenticating their emails, making unsubscribing easy, and staying under a spam rate threshold. spam rate threshold or risk being marked as spam. ” Use a web tool such as EasyDMARC ‘s domain scanner.

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