Tag Archives: Fundraising

Tackling The Donation Fear Factor

April 13, 2010 – 8:25 am

Seth Godin’s thought provoking posts have never failed to amaze me and this latest one “Fear of philanthropy (avert your eyes)” is no exception. Without going on about how well put this one was, here is an extract from the post which ends with an important factor for donor management: “Peter Singer is famous for [...]

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The iPhone Quickly Becoming The Nonprofits Best Friend

April 2, 2010 – 12:27 pm

Is the iPhone quickly becoming nonprofit and charitable organizations best friends forever? Well…a lot of subtle pointers seem to indicate that. Churches, charities and nonprofit organizations are not lagging behind high tech businesses when it comes to being mobile and making the most of the tools that let you operate on the move. We’ve often [...]

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Fundraising For Nonprofits – Analytics And All That Jazz

March 31, 2010 – 12:17 pm

Myth: A donor management system needs to have an extremely extensive data analytics software engine similar to the ones the best CRM software systems have so that data hundreds of combinations of queries can be run by the team and artistic reports with multi variable graphs can be generated. The analytics capabilities need to be [...]

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The US Top 20 Charitable Donations – Who Were The Big Givers In 2009?

March 17, 2010 – 5:48 am

Tracking donors and identifying who your biggest and most valuable donors is is a big part of what we do at DonorTools. It’s an equally important activity for all our customers and every nonprofit out there who need to know who can help them make a significant impact to their fundraising.  In the spirit of [...]

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Church Administration & Financial Accountability In The Social Web Era

March 12, 2010 – 7:00 am

How many times have we seen skirmishes between church goers and church administrators over the finances of the church? Sure it’s a common area of conflict across churches and charitable organizations just as it happens in enterprise organizations where stakeholders demand to see how their funds are being utilized and get insights into the working [...]

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Using Donation Videos To Fuel Your Online Fundraising Pages

March 11, 2010 – 7:00 am

If you’re looking for inspiration on how to spruce up your online fundraising pages and add that little extra to connect with donors at the most critical stage of the donation process then these videos are perhaps what you’re looking for. Youtube recently crossed the 1 billion videos watched per day mark according to a [...]

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Strengthening The Donor Nonprofit Social Connection With The Social Web

March 2, 2010 – 9:03 am

A lot has changed since the social web has become mainstream in personal and professional interaction and like any change, it goes through varying stages of acceptance among users. I have a friend or two who have accounts on Facebook and Twitter but wish them using social networking instead of picking up the phone and [...]

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How to Integrate Social Media in Donor Prospect Research

February 26, 2010 – 3:25 pm

Did you know that you can use social media like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and other social web platforms to conduct research about donor prospects, cultivate major gifts and build stronger and long term relationships with constituents? Historically donor management software has told you about things about your donors that have already happened. While your donors’ [...]

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Twitter – Where Nonprofits And Donors Connect

February 18, 2010 – 9:59 am

Twitter has emerged as a social media channel for people to connect that simply can’t be ignored. As a recent Socitm report put it while doing a study on the use of social media for local government services “Failure to engage with the [social media] trend is tantamount to ignoring the telephone at the end [...]

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Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign Through Facebook – A Stroke Of Genius

February 3, 2010 – 7:05 am

We often talk about the way social networking and the web can be used to the advantage of non-profit organizations and just when you think ‘we’ve seen it all now…’ something out the blue happens to knock your socks off and remind you just how powerful the web can be in critical non-profit activities such [...]

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