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Mobile Giving and Your Holiday Giving Campaign

Posted on September 1, 2015 by | No comments

I know! It’s beautiful outside and the lake/mountain/ocean/pool/garden is calling your name for the long holiday weekend.  But, the clever fundraiser knows NOW is the best time to get one’s Holiday Giving strategy together. Need more inspiration? Just think how you’ll be able to actually enjoy the holidays this year with a little work done now, while the office is […]

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OPINION

OPINION: Facebook Rolls Out a Donate Now Button for Nonprofits

Posted on August 26, 2015 by | 5 comments
facebook on smartphone

Having the power of Facebook’s incredibly large audience can seem a benefit to a nonprofit looking for opportunities for greater reach. As Facebook rolls out a Donate Now button for nonprofits to use may seem like just the solution to additional funding many orgs could use.  Or is it?   What are your thoughts on Facebook’s Donate Button?  We […]

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Partner Post

4 Ways Young Nonprofit Professionals Can Make A Measurable Impact

Posted on August 24, 2015 by | 1 comment
young nonprofit professionals

The way your nonprofit conducts its business is important. With a limited budget and, too often, few resources, the hard work that you put in, even with smaller details, can make a big difference. But sometimes, it can feel a bit like you’re struggling to make a truly measurable impact - you want to do […]

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Do Personality Tests Make the Grade?

Posted on August 19, 2015 by | No comments
interview and hiring red flags

Most people are natural psychologists, wanting to understand what makes people tick, what motivates people: And nothing is more psychologically intriguing than a space that houses a hierarchy of strangers who have to prove their worth every day and seemingly get along for 40+ hours per week. No, I am not talking about The Bachelor; […]

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10 Experts on Using Real-Time Marketing and Memes for Cause Awareness

Posted on August 17, 2015 by | 1 comment
third Sector Today

Unless you’ve spent the past couple of weeks away on a deserted island (make that a deserted island without internet access!), you have likely seen the “Straight Outta __” meme pop up in your social media newsfeed.  It began as a promotion of the N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton” and, such as it is with those lovely little […]

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Partner Post

Solving Donor Retention with Monthly Giving

Posted on August 13, 2015 by | No comments
Fundraising monthly giving

The FEP (Fundraising Effectiveness Project) has been since 2006 to collect aggregate data on donor giving. They have discovered that for every 100 donors gained, nonprofits are losing 102. This is a bad statistic, since these donors have already shown support for these nonprofits. As this graphic reveals, in 2013 nonprofits in the study reported […]

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Partner Post

Mobile donations grow ten fold.

Posted on August 7, 2015 by | No comments
mobile giving

Over at DonorDrive, we’ve done a deep dive into our fundraising data and have come up with some stunning numbers about the swift adoption of giving by smartphone in peer-to-peer fundraising. Before we present the stats, let’s put mobile fundraising growth into perspective: Online sales grew 28% between 2012 and 2015 according to Forrester. Mobile […]

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Running Your Most Effective Virtual Meetings

Posted on August 6, 2015 by | 1 comment
having effective virtual meetings

Whether you’re pitching to a corporation across the country, or just having your weekly team meeting while some of your employees are working from home, virtual meetings can either make or break someone’s experience. I’m always impressed when virtual meetings are pulled off without a single hitch. Now let me be clear – I don’t […]

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