GiveSmart

JULY 23, 2024

5 tips for enhancing event fundraising At GiveSmart, we have experience with the inner workings of fundraising and what it takes for guests to donate. The goal is to partner a host nonprofit with several other individual participants. The goal is to partner a host nonprofit with several other individual participants.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

While your marketing campaign for Giving Tuesday should start a couple months before the day, it’s important to plan out your day-of schedule for donor communications, and knowing when donors give can help you know when to send out your appeals for donations. Most organizations don’t see a large number of donations come in before 6:00 a.m.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

Creating a social media strategy can feel overwhelming. The problem is, this advice is often aimed at organizations with dedicated social media folks, or even teams of them. So, how can your nonprofit create a social media strategy that you can sustain? Here is how you can craft a road map to social media success.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 4, 2024

A donation drive is a purposeful and organized effort to mobilize individuals, communities, or businesses to contribute resources, typically in the form of monetary funds, goods, or services, towards a specific cause or charitable organization. Diversifying Revenue Streams Relying solely on grants or individual donations can be risky.

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Qgiv

MARCH 4, 2024

Our latest eBook, the Digital Fundraising Guide: Ideas & Steps to Reach Your Goals , is a complete guide to help you choose the right digital fundraising solution that works for your specific nonprofit’s needs. We’ll cover the following topics: Donation forms. Like your donation form, it needs to be easy to use and inspiring.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Improving your online donation experience will increase donations and allow you to do more great work year-round. Online donations are a great way to establish a year-round stream of revenue, so not all of your annual fundraising relies on a month or two of excited giving. Suggest Online Donation Giving Amounts.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Not all donations need to be monetary! By accepting in-kind donations, you can ask your donors to provide resources for your mission in ways that may be more accessible for some of your supporters. Despite not donating financially, in-kind donations can still qualify as a tax dedication, further benefiting your donors.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 31, 2021

Despite having a board that wasn’t comfortable with social media or virtual fundraising, they turned to CauseVox and created a virtual awards ceremony event that knocked their fundraising goals out of the park. She set up her page and began with a goal of $70,000. About Woven Health Clinic. CauseVox fit the bill.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

Julia Campbell has been helping nonprofits make the most of their social media presences for years. She knows what strategies work on social media, what strategies fail, and how nonprofits can use social channels to make a big impact on their community. Watch her recent webinar, 6 Types of Stories You Should Be Telling on Social Media.

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Candid

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Social media is an important part of this plan and can help drive donations. But beyond that, there’s another way to use social media that your nonprofit should consider for making the most out of the giving season. This year, create a social media strategy that gets donors excited to support your organization.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Social media is an important channel of communication for connecting with your donors and supporters. billion people were using social media worldwide in 2021, and that number is only expected to increase over time. To maximize your potential across social media platforms, it’s essential to create a nonprofit social media strategy.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Before you begin any project involving data analysis, start by clearly outlining your goal so you know which metrics to analyze. First, we’ll cover how to determine your goals for your monthly giving program. When laying out your goal, consider following the SMART model for goal setting. Determine your objectives.

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GrantNews

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Your nonprofit can maximize donations by integrating donor-centric practices. After all, successful nonprofits implement donor-centric policies into their core structure to effectively maximize donations. It stands to reason, a donor who witnesses the good work that results from their donations is more likely to continue their support.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

One option is to use online forms or surveys, like your donation page, that require donors to enter responses in a certain way. You can also use data gathered from social media, email, and other marketing platforms to see who is engaging with your communications. Referencing internal and external data. Examine donors’ journeys.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Imagine this: you set what you think is an ambitious fundraising goal for your virtual event and then watch as you double, triple, quadruple that goal in the days leading up to the event. Then, you cross the finish line – and end up raising 12 times your fundraising goal ! Ah, the powers of technology.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Autumn definitely means “go time” in the life of a fundraiser, often because it signals the start of year-end , a period of time you may get upwards of 60% or more of your annual donations. Use the SMART Goal setting strategy to craft your fundraising goal. SMART goals help you streamline a reasonable goal for any situation.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to email and your website, social media has become one of the more effective tools for nonprofit fundraising, especially for a crowdfunding campaign. Crowdfunding is a fundraising strategy in which a nonprofit raises many small donations from a variety of people. Share updates. Be consistent with your brand.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Outline your digital marketing goals. Before you start crafting your messages, it’s important to define clear goals to guide your digital marketing activities. Identify key performance indicators (KPIs) that your team can track to evaluate your progress toward your goal. Achievable. A potential corporate partner? Demographics.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 30, 2023

Another awesome feature Junior Achievement of Western PA has incorporated on their event registration form is a donate button. Junior Achievement of Western PA added a donate button to their event form. Junior Achievement of Western PA’s first social media announcement along with the event-specific Facebook event page.

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

Another awesome feature Junior Achievement of Western PA has incorporated on their event registration form is a donate button. Junior Achievement of Western PA added a donate button to their event form. Junior Achievement of Western PA’s first social media announcement along with the event-specific Facebook event page.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

For most of us, fundraising isn’t something that comes naturally, especially a straight request for donations. Nonprofits rely on donations and unless you are independently wealthy and able to self-fund your organization, you’ll need to share with folks a request for donations. Asking for money, can be uncomfortable, right?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Stories are much more powerful and motivating than merely using statistics or discussing administrative goals. Those things may be important, but only as a means to the real goal of helping make the world a better place. They need to know that goals are being met and lives are being improved. Was there a measurable impact?

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GiveSmart

JUNE 25, 2024

Examples include: By generation, such as Gen Z By donation amount, such as donors who gave between $25-$100 last year By the number of times a donor donated throughout the year By event attendance records, such as those who attended your annual gala By status, such as volunteers or recurring donors 2. How can we find more donors?

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GiveSmart

OCTOBER 27, 2023

After all, connecting with donors and bringing attention to your campaign are some of the most important elements of meeting your donation goals. Choose a Theme and a Goal The first step to creating a campaign is choosing your theme and overall goal. How will it impact your mission?

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

Are you tired of feeling like a wee fish in the vast ocean of social media? Social media, on the other hand, lags behind with an average ROI of 94%. When it comes to reaching your fundraising goals, email reigns supreme (after direct mail and face-to-face, of course). Body Copy: Every email that you send should have a goal.

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GiveSmart

AUGUST 2, 2024

Text-to-Donate As we approach the new year, it's the perfect time to strategize how your organization will achieve its goals. Embracing text-to-donate could be a game-changer for your fundraising efforts, helping you reach both new and existing supporters efficiently throughout the year.

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CauseVox

MAY 12, 2022

Here’s a surprising truth for a lot of nonprofit organizations: the donate button on your website is a really big deal! A good donation page is more than a pretty website: it can increase both your number of donors and the size of their donations. And it starts with your donate button. What Can A Donation Page Do?

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 6, 2024

eCardWidget’s guide to charity eCards provides examples of the different occasions nonprofits can send eCards to supporters to show they’re valued: After a donation. In addition to email, eCards can be sent via text message or social media, so your nonprofit can reach out using donors’ preferred communication channels.

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

The internet — and even phones, to some extent — have produced a certain amount of anonymity when it comes to asking for donations and making contributions. However, sometimes you need to ask for donations in person at fundraising events or other functions. It can be a stressful and time-consuming endeavor.

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The Fundraising Coach

MARCH 31, 2023

If you’re not reaching your marketing goals with your current strategy, start utilizing nonprofit storytelling. Let’s dive deeper into the three main ways this strategy can directly result in more donations for your nonprofit: Storytelling increases donor acquisition. Are you getting the results you want?

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Set campaign goals and objectives. Optimize your donation form to convert more donors. Free Marketing and Communications Templates: Start writing your Year-End and GivingTuesday appeals, emails, receipts and social media posts from a first draft, not from scratch! Bonus : customizable social media graphics included!

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Chances are your organization has some kind of donation form on your website. But it’s also likely that you haven’t created a donation page that converts as well as it could. But what does it mean for a donation form to be truly outstanding? What are the features of a good donation form? Not sure how?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

There are a variety of different ways that nonprofits use social media on a daily basis. But, what if you could use social media to overcome one of the biggest challenges that nonprofits have faced over the past year: creating communities for supporters to engage with one another? Engaging Supporters in the Community.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 12, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just dipping your toes in, we’ve got the tips and tricks to help you reach your goals. Here’s how you can spice things up: Crowdfunding Crowdfunding is all about harnessing the power of the internet and social media to reach a huge audience and collect lots of small donations.

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GiveSmart

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Set Goals To successfully secure new donors, your organization needs to establish clear goals. You might also develop goals for your organization in the next year, as well as mission and vision statements. For example, your goal might be improving acquisition conversion rates by 10% and retention rates by 15%.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2024

We also have email, the internet, and social media, just to name a few. Are you asking for a donation? If you ask someone to make a donation, volunteer, and contact their legislators in the same message, they may not do any of that. Also, unlike social media, it’s something you can control. It’s a lot!

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DoJiggy

AUGUST 30, 2024

Whether you’re looking for traditional methods like bake sales and car washes or virtual approaches like online raffles and social media challenges, these strategies are designed to bring in funds swiftly and efficiently. Solicit donations from local businesses to use as prizes. Garage Sales Host a community garage sale.

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