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Still Publishing Donor Names? Ditch the List

Blue Avocado

The post Still Publishing Donor Names? “We nonprofits often put a great deal of time and effort into our annual reports, especially compared with how briefly most recipients will look at them,” begins the Blue Avocado article, The Secret to a High Impact Annual Report. Ditch the List appeared first on Blue Avocado.

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Did You Know: The Key Differences Between Grants and Donations by Roxanne Jensen, Ed.S., GPC

Assel Grant Services

Too often, there is confusion between grants and donations in nonprofit organizations. Additional confusion can be found when major individual donors begin making donations in amounts similar to what an organization can expect to receive as a grant from a foundation. You can only use it for certain expenses.

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Maximizing Giving Tuesday Donations: Best Ask Times

Qgiv

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 Seal of Transparency holders can now enable Apple Pay to accept donations?

Candid

Starting today, 501(c)(3) nonprofits who earn a Candid Seal of Transparency may be eligible to enable and accept donations using Apple Pay, providing donors with an easy and secure way to give back. Contact information Donation information Mission Grantmaker status Leader information Click Publish.

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New typology identifies different ways charities can be cut out of the processes of giving and asking for donations

Critical Fundraising

Explores how the ‘traditional charity model’ is disintermediated by individuals, companies and other types of charity Each type of disintermediation raises its own ethical and regulatory issues, which have barely begun to be addressed Disintermediated giving is a lot more than just donating via crowdfunding platforms.

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What Makes a Good Donate Button?

CauseVox

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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Understanding Stock Donations: Quick Guide for Nonprofits

The Fundraising Coach

Organizations of all sizes are increasingly devoting more time and energy to forms of giving beyond straightforward one-time or pledged cash donations, like non-cash gifts of securities and appreciated assets or more complex planned gifts. The stock of publicly traded companies is most commonly donated to nonprofit organizations.