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Fundraising isn’t a Job, it’s a Culture
Nonprofits depend on fundraising, but every organization handles it differently. Sometimes it’s the job of a few people to fundraise for the entire organization. At other times, everyone is required to take part. No matter which end of the spectrum your organization...
Cultivating Relationships with Your Contacts
How well are you connecting with your contacts and donors? Do you always feel like there is more that you could be doing? Do you have trouble managing the many relationships your nonprofit has? It can be a daunting task to manage the relationships that keep your...
Analyzing Your Donations
This article focuses on analyzing your donation data to find ways to increase the effectiveness of your fundraising. However, before we get into the actual discussion of the analysis process, it’s important to address the single most important aspect of handling...
Get Those Email Addresses
For those that haven’t noticed, the age of electronic communication is upon us in full force. Almost everyone has an email address and the younger generation tend to live on Facebook and messaging. Nonprofits have been slow to take advantage of this new medium and are...
What to Look for in a Donor Management System
The selection of a Donor Management system is an important decision for all non profits regardless of size. The system you choose will be your tool for interacting with contacts and donors, analyzing and creating communications and so much more. Since your donors and...
Help! I Inherited the Database From…
Can you relate to this scenario? You just inherited a database(s) that is meant for you to track down donations, board members, visitors and everything else. Perhaps there are several files with repeated information or better yet, incomplete information. Sitting in...
Add a Donate Now Form to your Facebook Page Tabs
Edit 4/30/2019: It has been reported that this process may now only work for pages with 2,000+ likes. Recently we have discovered an even further value for DonorSnap Forms – Facebook Page Tabs. Creating a new Facebook page tab out of a DonorSnap Form is easy enough...
The Power of an Authentic Thank You Letter
Growing up I would take yearly vacations to visit my grandmother in Texas. During these visits she would arrange visits with her friends and their grandchildren for play-dates. These arranged visits resulted in lunches, opportunities to swim in their pools and even...
Stories About Amazing Donors
Do you have a story about an amazing volunteer or donor? Last month at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis, MN we set out to collect stories that honors the folks that go above and beyond the call of duty.
Is Your Nonprofit Prepared for Web 3.0?
Web 3.0? Give me a break! We just got a Facebook page up, what's next? First you needed a website. Did it take a while to get one up and running? Then you needed social media, that changes so rapidly it's hard to keep up! You integrated a blog, that now you need to...
Nonprofit Editorial Calendar: How to Make Your Content Strategy Easy and Engaging
To begin with, let's define a few buzzwords. Content: It is what you write in your blog, post Facebook page, tweet out, or send in an email. Content Calendar: a plan for when and what you publish. It might contain other details like the SEO keywords you plan to use,...
Putting Your Linkedin to Use, Finding Board Members and Donors.
I am overwhelmed by the amount of information that Linkedin provides. Until recently I thought of it just as a job seeking site. What I learned last week at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis, MN is it is a much more powerful tool than I had imagined....