The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Each of these five organizations exemplifies different ways to make industry best practices and technology tools work in a way that resonates with their supporter base. On their webpage they encourage donors to “Tune in to see if you’ll get a special thank you from Colin the baby calf or Beatrice the turkey!”

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 19, 2021

When Thanksgiving rolls around, there may be people in your community in need of a turkey for their tables. Collect frozen turkeys from your supporters for this holiday-specific food drive. While your email contact list and website are great advertising tools, you’re probably only reaching your existing donors and supporters that way.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2016

Campaigns push staff, vendors, and consultants to stretch and test the limits of best practices and tools in communication, fundraising, advertising, branding and targeting. And who could forget Howard Dean’s turkey sandwich fundraiser? Each time, nonprofits quickly adopted the tools and techniques , and we still see the results today.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

” You know, that cookie-baking, turkey-eating, charitable-giving time of. All the traditional fundraising tools (phone-a-thons, direct mail) are. With Thanksgiving upon us, we’ve officially entered the “Holiday season.” It’s coming up faster than a Nor’easter in Maine, and the push is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques. In the example above, I discovered a turkey in the canyon.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

It motivates and engages citizens across central and eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Turkey. These open challenges help activists, nonprofits, journalists, techies, and community members identify, refine, build, and launch technology tools to solve pressing local and regional problems.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Denver, CO: Website Management Tools: Learning the Components and Picking the Right One. Washington, DC: Nonprofit CRM Tools: Engaging Your Supporters. Istanbul, Turkey: Things May?s Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Guatemala: Visita de personeros de BID de Washington al Tec. Tuesday, May 27.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For instance, a Thanksgiving meal basket could include a coupon for a free turkey, a bottle of wine, charcuterie ingredients, and fancy dinner napkins. Want to explore fundraising tools that can help you plan excellent events and raise more? A Christmas basket could feature rare ornaments, chocolates, a mug, and hand-knitted stockings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

I shared with him some of the tools that I use for blogging, Twitter, and other social media tasks that would require downloading and installing (non-standard) software onto my desktop. He also talked about how they test new hardware and software so it works with the existing system and doesn't prevent people from getting their work done.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2013

After consuming the turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce, traditionally many awake early from a tryptophan induced slumber to work off Thanksgiving Day meals fighting crowds and scurrying from store to store on Black Friday. So why not use peer-to-peer event fundraising methods and tools to maximize your #GivingTuesday campaign?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2006

The East Well Guide allows you to search by zip code for farms and stores that sell sustainably-raised beef, pork, chicken, turkey, fish, lamb, goat, dairy and eggs in the US and Canada. Sustainable Table has re-vamped their web site and their Eat Well Guide in time for the holidays.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 3, 2009

And now that the dust has settled and the turkey has had time to digest, I've had time to sit down and reflect on some of my top favorite highlights from this year's event. While many questions remain around social media by nonprofits, the personal use of these tools at the conference was leaps and bounds ahead of where it was last year.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One last pro tip: Make sure you have a reliable text fundraising tool to make your text campaign successful! Social media is a great tool for supporters to share their personal fundraising pages, so make sure you encourage them to post their pages. Plus, your supporters can make a difference from wherever they may be.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

With turkey time only 2 months away, custom online giving campaigns are this season's must-have necessity. Segmentation is another powerful tool with email marketing. Yet when it comes to nonprofit fundraising, remember one size doesn't fit all. In your first email, introduce your mission, goals, timeline and achievements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog. Ruby found the perfect visual to explain trolls in appropriate behavior online. What do you think?

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

The tools being used to break passwords are becoming more sophisticated and include repositories of dictionary words in multiple languages. He has worked in IT leadership roles at multiple nonprofits, including the Mother Child Education Foundation and the Green Thought Association in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Nonprofit Leadership, Innovation and Change: Christopher Scott is a nonprofit leader who founded A Day of Hope , a student based organization that delivers baskets of food and turkeys to families for Thanksgiving. Nonprofit Programs and Social Actions. Nina Simon a proud member of Gen Y, writes the very awesome Museum 2.0 Resource Generation.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

I like to give you those tools to let you work more efficiently because I have this belief that raising funds for causes you care about shouldn’t mean working 60 hours per week forever. And then finally, I got to give you a tool or something. I know so many people that have great tools but just don’t know how to use them.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Do you have members who need help familiarizing themselves with Zoom, Slack, and other now-must-have office tools? Over the holiday season, many families can count on having a turkey on the table and gifts under the tree, but not everyone is as fortunate. Watch as the shoes pile up and your church’s funds skyrocket. Food or toy drives.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The traditional narrative of unity and cornucopias is fun and festive—but there’s more to the story than turkey. While lobster, seal and swans were on the menu back then, turkey and stuffing is the typical centerpiece of today’s feast. Try the Inclusivity Tool. Try The Inclusivity Tool! Burying the Bloody Lede.

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