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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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How to Craft Text Messages for Your Nonprofit Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

Use storytelling To maximize the impact of your SMS messaging, tell a story in your fundraising text messages that describes an urgent problem and how the donor can help overcome it. After a fundraising campaign, use storytelling to report back on how donor support solved the problem. Let’s begin. Include clear next steps.

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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. Finding corporate funding may be the trickiest of all funders to engage. Corporations and Grantmaking.

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8 “Pinktober” Promotions that Deserve a Ribbon

Selfish Giving

First Standard: Does the program says exactly what charity will receive the funds, with enough information for a person to find and investigate the charity on their own. Funds raised will benefit Breast Cancer Research Foundation. All the programs we chose that fundraising goals met these two standards.

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What Should Nonprofit Leaders Expect from the Development Officer?

Get Fully Funded

I recently asked a group of fundraising professionals about their biggest challenge. So, let’s hire a fundraising staff person. Nonprofit leadership must understand the ethics of fundraising and not expect that they can pay a development officer or a consultant on a commission basis. The result?

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New TechBridge Crowdfunding Platform Launches for Nonprofit Technology Projects

Tech Soup

nonprofits to raise funds for technology projects. The name and practice of crowdsourcing started in 2005 and there are many of them nowadays. There are some nonprofit-oriented crowdfunding websites which include: Causevox is a charity crowdfunding platform for nonprofits and individuals to raise funds for their causes and projects.