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How digital disrupts our relationships with donors
Digital channels have changed the ways we work with fundraising, but how is it disrupting the donor relationship?
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Marketing Automation for Nonprofits: What is it, what can it achieve and how to implement it?
Automating donor journeys can save you time in the long run, and help build more long-term relationships with donors.
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4 ways to use WhatsApp for Fundraising and Crowdfunding
WhatsApp can be used for fundraising, as a channel for crowdfunding campaigns and more. Here’s how.
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How to get started with Amazon Alexa skills
How to get started with creating your own Amazon Alexa Skills.
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What is Voice Tech and why should you care?
What is voice tech? You might have heard some of the dizzying stats about voice tech, but what is it and why should you care about voice tech?
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The next (r)evolution in fundraising
Join the fundraising (r)evolution and explore the many new and emerging ways the social impact and civil society community are resourcing their vitally important work.
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Is Facebook’s Birthday giving revolution just a fad?
Facebook Birthday fundraising has not yet come of age. There is still plenty of time to make the most of this opportunity.
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Why are nonprofits rushing to messaging?
Here are the reasons why messaging channels, like SMS & Whatsapp, are the clear emerging and disruptive tech trends, that digital fundraisers are rushing towards.
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Fast-track fundraising innovation with tools from successful startups
Find out how to fast-track fundraising innovation with three interesting facts about why charities need to innovate around fundraising.
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A strategic approach to video content
How a strategic approach to video content can be used so that video content becomes a powerful tactic and tool when paired with insights from user journeys.
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IFC – The End of Fundraising as we know it
It’s been a month since the IFC 2018 has ended. The danger is always to return to ‘business as usual’. However, more than ever this year indicated the start of a new era. Fundraising will Read more…
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In an era of change, our approach to return on investment must adapt
At this year’s IFC, it was more apparent than ever that fundraisers across the globe are working hard to address the same fundamental questions. Have we got the fundraising model right and what needs to Read more…
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Why listening to beneficiaries is more than a moral obligation
Before we get going, let me just dwell briefly on that word ‘beneficiaries’. I wish there was another word, as it carries all kinds of implications of old-fashioned charity. What word do you use to Read more…
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How to collaborate successfully for greater impact
Managing one culture is tricky enough but what about when two or more organisations want to work together to achieve a shared outcome? How can they ensure their cultures work together for the benefit of Read more…
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Could it be unethical not to ask for a sufficiently high gift?
As a fundraiser, who do you consider to be your most important stakeholder? Think about it for a while. Actually, you probably didn’t need to think about for very long at all. You said donors, Read more…
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The problem with money
I think it is quite ironic that most nonprofits and fundraisers have so much trouble with money. The ways we consider the money we raise and the money we spend are still measured and defined Read more…
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How can fundraising thrive in Brazil?
What is interesting about a country where the giving culture is still developing? A country with thousands of non-profits, many of them volunteer-based and some other trying to figure out the basics of fundraising? At Read more…
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Why getting together is good for fundraising
There was once a piano in the centre of the bar in the hotel where we gathered to share fundraising stories. As the night wore on, the crowd sang with gusto as the lone player Read more…
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A Privileged, Middle-Aged, White, Male Has Views on Diversity
I’m not even sure I should be doing this. And that’s part of the problem. You see, while it’s not at all hard for me to talk about diversity and inclusion, I do find it Read more…
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10 Key Characteristics of Top Performing Fundraising Directors
Fundraising Directors are crucial for success. This incredible mastermind, known as Head of Fundraising in some countries, is in control of a massive budget and responsible for providing the organisation with the resources to do Read more…
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How’s your persecution complex? Mine’s doing fine, thanks.
I’m lucky enough to work in an organisation (and a management team) where fundraising is seen as an essential aspect of our daily work and our shared responsibility as leaders – to serve more children Read more…
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12 qualities of great charity fundraising platforms
Companies like Amazon and Facebook are making online platforms impossible for NGOs to ignore. Organisations like Charity:Water, Heifer International and the National MS Society have peer-to-peer fundraising at the core of their business, and they’re Read more…
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Thinking of investing in segmentation? Be careful of these common and costly mistakes
Fundraising has never been easy. But it’s never been this hard. So, in an effort to fix the acquisition and retention problem, the sector’s looking for new/better ways to profile and segment prospects and supporters. Read more…
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What dirty tricks lie in wait for your fundraising behind these doors?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Halloween! And while I know that it’s celebrated differently and has different origins and meanings throughout the world (where it’s even celebrated at all), I’m here in Read more…
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The 4 best ways to find new prospects for your non-profit
Prospects are the lifeblood of your non-profits fundraising program. Without a steady stream of new donor prospects, your non-profit will not be able to raise the money it needs to thrive. Yet, when it comes Read more…
