When you ask people about making a donation through their phone, they usually think of texting donations like they do for the Red Cross. That is about to change. A growing number of services are allowing people to give donations from their phone. And services allowing you, as a nonprofit, to receive donations right at [...]

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I’m pleased to be providing fundraising coaching for Twestival organizers around the world. Here are some tips the team has developed over the last couple years. I’ve updated them this year and made sure they fit in 140 characters! Hopefully these will be helpful even if you’re not organizing a Twestival. (Organizers, these are also [...]

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I just saw a post on Mashable about how the Red Cross is helping get the word out about fundraising. With a little snippet of code, you can have a thin red bar on the top of your website or blog to help raise money for the earthquake victims in Japan. You can see a [...]

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Last week, I tried giving my “Ask Without Fear!” Facebook page fans a special offer. Since they were already fans, I simply “updated fans” with the content of the special offer. That didn’t work. I’m so glad I tweeted and updated my Facebook status. People replied to the tweet and status updates saying they didn’t [...]

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Did you see the awards that See3 and YouTube are giving? Apparently it’s the fifth year of the “DoGooder Video awards.” There are awards for large, medium, and small nonprofits and even for low-cost videos. The CASE Foundation is offering $2500 prizes. Here’s a video with more information checkout the page on YouTube. Or watch [...]

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This week, I’m pleased to introduce David Unger. David is an accomplished fundraiser and President of Unger & Associates. His years of experience have led him to create his own donor management and fundraising software system: Total Community Manager. I’ve asked him to share what questions you should consider when looking at getting a software [...]

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Today is President’s Day in the USA. So I got to thinking: how could a nonprofit use this holiday for fundraising? Here are two ideas I came up with: (1) President’s Day Mailing Send a mailing to your database listing all the past presidents — however they’re called at your organization (board chairs, executive directors, [...]

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People are benefiting from the new Fundraising Kick weekly emails. [If you're not familiar with what I'm talking about, Fundraising Kick's are brief, simple weekly emails that quickly give you the added kick to do what you already know you need to do: ask for money.] One subscriber said: I like that they’re simple things [...]

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I’m a big fan of making it ridiculously easy for donors to give. Apparently, Wikipedia is too. Last night, a web search from my phone led me to Wikipedia. They knew I needed the mobile website based on my browser, so they stuck a banner that gave directions how to text them a gift. Better [...]

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Last month I got my first Android, a Samsung Mesmerize. I love it. I do miss the keyboard of my Blackberry. But I’m ok with that. Here are my favorite apps: Hootsuite I love that HootSuite [affiliate link] lets me tweet from my two accounts as well as update my Facebook profiles and pages. All [...]

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