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Using Donor Data to Personalize Your Text Donation Appeals

Ann Green's Nonprofit

Data can help inform your nonprofit’s approach to text-to-give and drive greater fundraising results. A text donation campaign informed by donor data is more likely to inspire donors to act and bring in greater fundraising results. Your nonprofit is now hosting a text fundraiser to coincide with your upcoming fundraising gala.

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The Association of Fundraising Professionals Technology Blog: An Underused Fundraising Resource

Tech Soup

I have to admit that the venerable Association of Fundraising Professionals website was one of the last places I looked to find fresh interesting coverage of fundraising technology, but I have mended my ways. The Association of Fundraising Professionals. AFP) is a 54 year-old trade association of fundraising professionals.

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What Should Nonprofit Leaders Expect from the Development Officer?

Get Fully Funded

As a consultant to nonprofits, my blood just boils when I am asked by executive directors or board members, “So, we are thinking about hiring a development officer, how long it will take before this person is raising more money than the salary we pay them?” I recently asked a group of fundraising professionals about their biggest challenge.

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New TechBridge Crowdfunding Platform Launches for Nonprofit Technology Projects

Tech Soup

The name and practice of crowdsourcing started in 2005 and there are many of them nowadays. Teespring is a TechSoup donor partner that hosts a crowdsource funding website where charities can post fundraising campaigns using custom-branded apparel and products as gifts for donations. The first phone consultation takes about 45 minutes.

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Grantseeking Basics: Researching Suitable Funders Part Three – Corporate Funding

Tech Soup

This is the fourth and final installment in a series of grantseeking pointers inspired by fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding ’s great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries that came out a few years ago. that Stephanie Gerding has co-authored since 2005. Donated Fundraising Tools from TechSoup.

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Meet TechSoup Forum Expert Host: Sasha Daucus

Tech Soup

Sasha Daucus is the warm presence welcoming new community members to the TechSoup forums in our Introduce Yourself forum and one-half of the dynamic duo fielding questions about fundraising software, CRMs, and donor databases in our Technology for Fundraising forum. Name, title(s), and TechSoup username. I'm pretty basic.

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How to Write Compelling Text-to-Give Requests: 4 Key Tips

The Fundraising Coach

Before you can dive into leading a text fundraising campaign , you need to familiarize yourself with nonprofit text messaging best practices. A church running a text fundraiser could share a short story about a homeless family who counts on their food bank to stay alive. Let’s consider another example of storytelling in action.