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40+ Ideas to Light a Fundraising Fire Under Your Nonprofit Board Members

Blue Fox

40+ Ways Empower Your Board Members for Fundraising Season Inform Hold a fundraising season kick-off dinner Give board members the option to give rather than fundraise Share 2021 Giving Tuesday Stats Stay in touch on fundraising goals and progress Share: How Nonprofits Build Donor Trust – Be Transparent Train on new fundraising software (like (..)

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

Plus, a bunch of theory and stats are not a story — that’s a report. Tweets with photos receive 150% more retweets than those without (Source: Twitter 2019 stats). Facebook photo posts get 53% more likes, 104% more comments, and 84% more click-throughs on links than text-based posts (Source: Facebook 2018 stats).

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What Hocus Pocus Can Teach You About Major Gift Fundraising

Bloomerang

As you would send a note to a friend, do something to make it sound personal and specific, not scripted. Keep in mind this isn’t the time to go on about stats and successes of your programs—save that for another time. I was once told to treat each donation as the start of a beautiful friendship.

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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your supporter are using at least one social network, right? Help your event participants understand the power of a video appeal and even provide a script they can use to record their own! of the entire American population use Facebook.

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Three Cheap Tools to Measure Blogs and Social Media

Care2

Greasemonkey Script. Daniel Brigida who heads up their social media likes to use Greasemonkey script. You should be reviewing these stats at least once a month. Postrank can drill down into how “influential&# or sticky an entire blog is right down to the blog post and author.

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Relationships That Raise Funds: 5 Tips for Creating Successful Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers

NetWits

Such resources should include sample solicitation letters for mail and email, quick stats and impact statements for social media, sample scripts for phone calls, and thank you letters for follow-up communications. Provide peer-to-peer fundraisers with easy access to information and resources they can use to fundraiser for your event.

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Google Analytics vs Site Meter

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc. at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast! Google Analytics is also free. Thank you again for your help.

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