Network for Good celebrated their tenth anniversary by publishing an infographic about how donors have evolved over that past ten years. Like Mightycause and Blackbaud, Network for Good has produced an infographic that is truly useful. It presents data that can you help make a case for online fundraising initiatives at your nonprofit. Giving Online […]
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“Individuals today are no more generous than their predecessors were over four decades ago,” according to a new report released by Blackbaud titled Growing Philanthropy in the United States. The report outlines 32 recommendations for nonprofits on how to increase overall giving organized around the following four themes: Enhancing the quality of donor relationships Developing
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If you’ve been studying up on how to effectively use social media to do online fundraising or promote your organization, you’ve no doubt found mountain full of information about measuring and monitoring social media. You’ve also found almost as many articles about creating “engaging” content (a rather overused term). These two mountains make you feel
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Steve Jobs was a classic storyteller. With every product launch, he took us on a journey into the world of possibility. He peeled single ideas with clever anticipation drawing in our curiosity with more intensity, “wowing” us with a product’s features, functionality, design and must-have aura. How? By turning a product launch into more than
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Here’s something different for our Tuesday post. In the spirit of Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington, one of the things many nonprofits struggle with is how “crazy” or “out of the box” their fundraising campaigns should be. They emulate other successful campaigns without realizing that those campaigns were tailored to their specific audiences.
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Debra Askanase is one of the top thought leaders in online community building, and my #1 pick for bloggers in social fundraising. In reference to her recent blog post Has Social Media Fundraising Finally Arrived?, we talked about the state of the social fundraising sphere, and what nonprofits should be doing to take advantage of
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For the nonprofit professional that’s getting their feet wet in the social (or online) fundraising world, this list can help introduce you to what I consider the best blogs on social media etiquette, philanthropy, and fundraising. Now, that’s not to say there are other great blogs out there . . . I just had to
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In the past two years I have immersed myself in the practice of social media-based online fundraising (or social fundraising). During that period I have raised more than $28,000 through individual and team efforts. These fundraisers included running birthday campaigns on Causes, a SXSW benefit on the LIVESTRONG grassroots platform, a Women In Tech fundraiser
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When choosing which organizations to support, donors say it’s a matter of trust. (And those aren’t just lyrics to a Billy Joel song, though now you probably have it stuck in your head.) It’s a fact from the Millennial Donors Report issued earlier this year. If you’re familiar with the report, you may remember it
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Image by Sean MacEntee The short answer to the titular question is no, not yet. That is unless your network is part of the early adopter community in the social media and technology sectors. Otherwise, it is highly unlikely that you have significant networks on Google+, and online fundraising will not be as fruitful as
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