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10 Must-Know Stats About Online Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by Groundspring, a nonprofit founded by San Francisco-based Tides Foundation , and throughout the early 2000’s young Gen-Xer nonprofit professionals pioneered the use of “Donate Now” buttons. Source: Charitable Giving Report. This app does not exist.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 141: Engaging & Retaining New Supporters with a Long-Haul Approach

Connection Cafe

In today’s episode, Aubrey Bergauer, Executive Director of the Center for Innovative Leadership and VP of Strategic Communications at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, joins the podcast to talk about developing a long-haul approach to fundraising, being customer-obsessed, and attracting a more diverse audience.

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How To Survive And Then Reset To Ultimately Thrive

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here you employ “Survive Basics,” or the 4 C’s: Cash, Cost, Customer (retention, loyalty, stickiness), and Communication. She earned her doctorate at the London School of Economics as a Marshall Scholar and is now based in Miami, San Francisco, USA, and London.

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Two Bay Area Nonprofit Events

Tech Soup

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, check out these two upcoming events for nonprofits (including grassroots organizations and start-up nonprofits). The other event later in the month is CompassPoint's Nonprofit Day 2010 on Tuesday, August 31 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. This helps with increasing attention spans and retention as well as make the session more fun. So, this required a bit of pre-planning.

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6 Insights The Sharing Economy Tells Us About The Future Of Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Therefore, it’s necessary to keep your donors happy and engaged through year-round retention efforts. In the end, it all boils down to investing in your donor’s experience for both retention and referral purposes. Note from Beth: December is a time when start to reflect on the past year and future online trends for fundraising.

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Why Invest in Nonprofit Human Resource Infrastructure?

ASU Lodestar Center

How will investing in nonprofit Human Resource infrastructure promote stronger leadership, quality staff retention, and sustainable community support? When an individual identifies with the organization’s values, the attraction, retention and motivation of employees improve” (Boyd & Gessner, 2013, p.4).