In the Internet Hierarchy of Needs (I just made that up), there are three main tools that you need to communicate with donors and reach new supporters. They are your website, your email list, and your social media platform(s). Having an engaged and active email list is so much more powerful and beneficial for your nonprofit than having 10,000 Facebook …
Nonprofits are doing a terrible job at keeping donors in the fold. According to the 2016 Fundraising Effectiveness Survey Report, Every $100 gained in 2015 was offset by $91 in losses through gift attrition. Every 100 donors gained in 2015 was offset by 96 lost donors through attrition. The most recent statistics, released in November 2017, are no less shocking: …
Frustrated with all the changes coming to the Facebook News Feed? It may be time to consider getting on Instagram! Instagram (despite being owned by Facebook) continues to grow in popularity, and is an increasingly effective way to share more of your impact and your work with an engaged audience. Recent Instagram statistics that nonprofits should consider: Instagram has over …
Facebook just announced another sweeping change to the News Feed. As many nonprofits know, organic (unpaid) reach and post engagement from Pages has gone down in recent months, with fewer and fewer people seeing Page posts. I’ve written a lot about this topic, and ways to fight the Facebook algorithm and get in front of more of your supporters on …
Nonprofits small and large dived into social media last year, and some found huge success – but many did not get the results that they expected. I hear these social media laments all the time from nonprofits: “Social media algorithms have killed our engagement this year.” “It’s so hard to cut through the noise and clutter on Facebook.” “Do you …
2017 was a difficult year for many nonprofits. Upcoming changes to the tax code, a very uncertain and unhinged political climate, a strain on financial resources, competition for attention and donations… you name it. These are just a few of the topical issues faced by organizations of all sizes. I polled several very different nonprofits about their biggest digital …
Did you struggle with posting consistently this past year to all of your social media channels? Did you find it challenging to create and share content that garnered engagement and elicited a response? A frequent challenge that I heard from nonprofits this past year was not being able to create and/or curate enough content to post on social media. …
The results are in – this year was the biggest Giving Tuesday yet! According to the Giving Tuesday Facebook Page, Giving Tuesday 2017: **$274 million raised online **2.4 million gifts **$110.98 mean gift size **Over 1 million social mentions and 21.7 billion impressions **Participants in over 150 countries around the world **100+ community coalitions Here are the numbers in nifty, …
Bloomerang found that for every 100 donors gained by nonprofits in 2016, 99 were lost due to attrition. That is an astounding number, and one that should be sending chills down the spine of every single development director! The reason for this high level of attrition is that nonprofits tend to do a poor job of keeping donors informed about …