Giving Tuesday, the international day of giving, is fast approaching! Giving Tuesday is certainly growing in popularity, but success on this special giving day comes with a caveat. Much like donors don’t give to you simply because they have lots of money, donors are not going to give you money SIMPLY BECAUSE it’s Giving Tuesday. That can’t be the only …
5 Key Decisions Your Nonprofit Needs to Make Before #GivingTuesday
Friendly reminder – #GivingTuesday 2017 is less than 100 days away! It’s tempting to see the astounding fundraising numbers from last year – 1,640,000 gifts made; 177 million raised in over 98 countries – and think that this day of giving will work for your nonprofit. You may be saying, “Sure it will work? I mean, it worked for so …
5 Ways to Use Facebook Live In Your Next Fundraising Campaign
If you missed this live mini-training about using Facebook Live, you can catch the replay on my Facebook Page! Here are the slides, where I dive into 5 specific ways that your nonprofit can use Facebook Live in your next fundraising campaign. Don’t forget to grab this week’s freebie download – The Essential Facebook Live Checklist for Nonprofits! Happy viewing! …
How to Create a Nonprofit Social Media Toolkit for Your Online Fundraising Campaign
When creating and implementing your nonprofit online fundraising campaign, remember that getting people’s attention is much harder than it seems. The trap nonprofits too often fall into is that they feel entitled to attention, and even donations, from their supporters and online community members. Reality check: Just because you have a wonderful cause does not mean that people will understand …
How to Get People to Raise Money for Your Nonprofit Using Facebook
In last week’s post, 3 Facebook Features Designed to Help You Fundraise, I highlighted just three of the Facebook features that are making social media fundraising a little bit easier for your nonprofit. These features are: 1) Donations option in personal status updates, 2) Fundraisers on Facebook, 3) The Donate button for your nonprofit Facebook Page. To read more, be sure …
3 Facebook Features Designed to Help You Fundraise
Social media fundraising is getting easier, thanks to some great new Facebook features designed specifically to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money on the social network. I will highlight three of these features in this post, and in my next post I will detail step-by-step the ways in which you can get your community excited about raising money for …
4 Nonprofit Tech Tips to Boost Online Donor Engagement Rates
Guest post by Wauker Matthews Even though people are increasingly turning to the Internet to search for and to obtain information about causes they care about, keeping online donors engaged long-term is an ongoing struggle for many nonprofits. In this article, we will outline 4 simple tips to help you boost your online donor engagement rates: Make the donation process …
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Communications: 5 Mistakes You’re Making (And How to Fix Them!)
Guest blog by Adam Weinger Peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns have become more than just an innovative approach to online fundraising: they’re now the standard. If you’re not familiar with how peer-to-peer campaigns work, let’s back up to recap the basics: Peer-to-peer campaigns turn donors into fundraisers by equipping them with personalized online fundraising pages that they can share via social media (and …
4 Surefire Ways To Use Social Media To Promote Your Year-End Fundraising Campaign
Guest blog by Candace Cody You know that social media is an important component of social fundraising (or peer-to-peer fundraising), but sometimes it can be tricky to know where to start, or exactly what to do. This gets even more intimidating during the year-end fundraising season, when everything feels more rushed and more critical. There’s a lot to learn about …