Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

By Jen Frazier , President at Firefly Partners – a women-owned, LGBTQ+ certified, and minority-owned digital marketing agency that develops accessible online experiences that empower progressive organizations to thrive. The end of the year is a critical time for nonprofit fundraising.

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Fundraising Coach

APRIL 9, 2024

Let’s explore two fundraising scenarios. School A and School B are both holding month-long read-a-thon fundraising campaigns to cap off the end of the school year. School B uses the pledge fundraising model and asks students to collect $3 pledges for each hour spent reading from their sponsors. What is pledge fundraising?

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 1, 2024

Understanding the giving habits and motivations of your millennial audience will give you a leg up in the fundraising space. This group has begun to dominate across donor demographics, which your organization has probably seen if you’ve done a fundraising assessment recently.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2023

The generosity of donors is crucial to your nonprofit organization’s success, which means that you should strategically plan your communications with them. Part of creating great donor communications is personalizing each message to its recipient, making them more engaging. Consider your communication channels. Social media.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 23, 2024

It enables organizations to communicate seamlessly with volunteers, track their activities, monitor progress, and use resources. Benefits of Utilizing Volunteer Management Software Enhanced Communication Effective communication is crucial for volunteer management.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Guest post by Jessica King at Getting Attention Powering a small nonprofit requires you to make the most of every marketing opportunity, big or small. That makes the Google Ad Grants program a big opportunity for nonprofits — even more so for small nonprofits that need all the marketing power they can get!

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2021

It would be nice if a product fundraiser miraculously raised money on its own, right? You must be in the driver’s seat and have a solid grasp of best practices when running a fundraiser, including a product fundraiser. Why are you fundraising? The overall goal is the north star for everyone involved in the fundraiser.

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Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 15, 2023

And it’s the fundraising skill that can make your resume – and your leadership - stand out. The Power of Those Who Ask Being a good fundraiser is about so much more than dollars in the door. It requires excellent communication, organization, creativity, and problem-solving. Fundraisers also need to be effective writers.

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Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As a fundraiser, you’ve surely run into obstacles during fundraising campaigns before. Maybe you’re still a few hundred dollars away from your goal during your most important fundraiser of the year, but it feels like you’ve totally run out of donor opportunities. Text-to-give.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

By Audrey Phillips , a customer success manager at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Explain your motivation. Include all necessary tools to fundraise, if applicable.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Picture this: You’re about to hold the fundraising event of a lifetime. Planning your fundraiser now feels time-consuming and stressful, and you’re not sure if you can get your event ready in time. Send updates and targeted communications. A well-designed event landing page is key to kicking off your event’s marketing strategy.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you know how important hosting fundraising events is to both expanding your donor base and retaining existing donors. By giving supporters a way to connect with other like-minded supporters and your nonprofit’s staff, you can facilitate community and deep relationships at these events.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Knowing your audience members’ relative age range can help you choose how to communicate with them. Knowing about their hobbies can help you create events and fundraising opportunities that align with their interests. You can gather this information through a market research provider or by sending surveys to target audience members. .

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you might feel like your fundraising efforts stall from time to time. Maybe you’re experiencing the summer fundraising slump. Ensuring that your fundraising efforts receive a high return on investment (ROI) is critical for keeping your nonprofit running smoothly.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 24, 2023

Your school needs a strong fundraising strategy to bring in extra revenue, engage your community members, and power your school’s mission. Whether you’re hosting an auction in-person, virtually, or as a hybrid, you can rally supporters around your fundraising goals and engage students, parents, teachers, and community members alike.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 26, 2023

7 Omnichannel Customer Engagement Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations When it comes to nonprofits, engagement is the lifeblood that fuels volunteer participation, donations, and advocacy work. Enhancing your communication: you need to effectively communicate your mission, values, and impact to inspire and motivate your supporters.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MAY 1, 2024

Encourage new employees to actively participate in learning opportunities and provide them with comprehensive resources, including online portals, course materials, and training materials. Ensure open lines of communication between managers and new hires. Check out the Tips, Strategies, AI Tools, Masterclass, Courses, and Community.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 3, 2022

More and more nonprofits are implementing DIY (do-it-yourself) fundraising in their yearly fundraising strategy–and for good reason! DIY fundraising offers your nonprofit a more hands-off approach and gives the reins to your most loyal supporters. Birthday Fundraiser. Event-based Fundraiser. 24-Hour Giving Day.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 29, 2024

For example, giving back through philanthropic initiatives shows that you care about your community. Additionally, revisiting your marketing campaigns can help you connect with local audiences, reach new audiences and generations , and personalize communications. Refine your marketing efforts.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Available funds are low, and you know it will take more than one fundraiser to get your books where they need to be. To tackle this need for extra funds, many nonprofits launch concurrent fundraising events. By multitasking, organizations of any size can motivate donors to give and maximize their fundraising revenue.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

It’s a horrible feeling when the tried-and-true fundraising methods that have worked in the past stop working. or the fundraising letter you hoped would generate $7,000 barely nets $3,000…. …or or your online fundraiser barely brings in $2,500 when you were counting on at least $4,000. Fundraising is about relationships. .

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2022

Fundraising events shine the spotlight brightly on event day, event week and beyond, if you do it right. Why should we run auction fundraisers? There are pros and cons to each type of fundraiser, depending on the audience, your in-house capabilities and your resources. In-person event fundraisers are fun!

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 30, 2014

To be successful fundraisers, we need to understand how to communicate to our audience segments in order to make the right kind of ask. To tap into that power, it’s crucial that we answer the question, “What motivates millennials to give?” This has been true from generation to generation. Encourage us to volunteer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 4, 2023

By Michelle Kocin , Digital Marketing Manager at Sylogist Mission CRM – a donor management, fundraising, and volunteer management platform build for nonprofits and NGOs in the Microsoft Dataverse. When we look at the giving landscape in North America, the preferences and motivations for giving vary across different generations.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Fundraising events bring in vital donations and have a huge impact on furthering your mission, but they take time, resources, and planning. In this guide, we outline the best practices and tips to help your nonprofit choose the right event type to attract the right attendees and boost participation.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 16, 2024

Encourage participation in your program. Even the most carefully curated professional development program will produce lackluster results if your staff does not participate. Communicating generally about the program and highlighting specific offerings is critical to motivating staff, but it is only a starting point.

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 31, 2023

When you create marketing content to reach out to donors or introduce your nonprofit to a wider audience, how do you describe your organization? Do you stick to the basics, repeating your mission statement and the same fundraising appeal every time? Are you getting the results you want? Storytelling keeps existing donors engaged.

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NextAfter

MARCH 11, 2022

Whether you’re using an agency to send your direct mail fundraising appeals, or you’re sending them on your own – there are 5 essential roles that you need to have covered. If any of these direct mail fundraising roles aren’t covered, you run the risk of your campaign getting derailed. They are the hub of the wheel.

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Getting Attention

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Whether you’re all in on year-end fundraising or working in some 2017 prep, I bet you have some pretty ambitious goals to meet. Here’s a proven but frequently overlooked method to help you get there: consistent communications. Consistency enables your people and prospects to recognize your organization’s communications in a flash.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JULY 3, 2023

A crowdfunding video is a short video created by a nonprofit organization to promote and support its fundraising efforts through online crowdfunding platforms. They can visualize the knowledge you want to communicate to audiences. More importantly, videos can help them enhance their nonprofit marketing strategy. #2.

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Getting Attention

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Are you in a tug of war with program colleagues for control of your communications? Raise your hand if you’ve run up against any of these challenges: Your colleague on the program side makes an outrageous communications demand based on a consumer marketing model. The marketing-program dynamic is a delicate one.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Post written by OneCause , who is committed to helping cause-driven organizations amplify their message and raise more funds with easy-to-use fundraising solutions. They offer a full suite of solutions that powers online giving, event management, mobile bidding, and peer-to-peer fundraising for nonprofit organizations of all sizes.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2012

As I’ve been writing my new book on content marketing for nonprofits, I’ve tried to keep in mind the different stages that nonprofits go through as their communications and marketing programs mature. Communications work is often parceled out among program staff and the executive director. Stage I: Doing.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 2, 2024

To continue generating a meaningful impact on the lives of those you serve, you and your staff members need to adopt a mindset for continuous learning, whether that’s researching cryptocurrency donations or exploring how to inspire birthday fundraisers on your nonprofit’s behalf. Amplified community impact. Mentorship programs.

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Getting Attention

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Support and thank them to sustain participation, quality, and success! With the right training and motivation, you can get help sharing relevant messages in a vibrant and consistent way to extend your reach and increase year end wins. Let’s join forces and build your team together! Register Now : Thursday, October 6 at 1pm EDT.

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2022

The foundation of an effective fundraising strategy is built on the relationships your team forms with the people who power your mission. Create and send updates that communicate the impact they made. You can do this by encouraging them to participate in a volunteer opportunity or attend one of your events.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

These include sharing updates with supporters, hosting fundraising campaigns , marketing upcoming events, researching your audience, or even celebrating birthdays. How To Create Digital Supporter Communities on Facebook. Getting Supporters to Join a Group (While Fundraising!). Engaging Supporters in the Community.

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