Nonprofit Bridge

New Competition for 'Traditional' Nonprofits

2008-08-05T13:35:39Z

While reviewing an online donation form recently, I came across this default question: "keep me informed about how my gift is being used." This seemed like an opportunity to find out exactly how a donation would be used by our organization. e.g. ...

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Mistakes Nonprofits Can't Afford to Make

2008-07-24T10:28:33Z

While not specific to ephilanthropy, Stacy Jones recent article in Philanthropy Journal, Mistakes Nonprofits Can't Afford to Make, highlights many important marketing basics that nonprofits often neglect: focusing only on the mission and not usi...

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More ePhilanthropy Ideas from Around the Web

2008-07-17T10:53:02Z

Guidestar summarizes recent Giving USA online fundraising survey: while Internet giving is widely used, it still represents a small portion (under 5%) of overall fundraising most common way organizations raise money over the web is through an on...

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Coordinating Online Communications and Fundraising Strategies

2008-07-12T15:53:45Z

Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3 asked this question on the Nten elist this week: how [do] other organizations create a balance between the Communications and the Fundraising departments when it comes to online initiatives. How should Communications a...

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Examples of Nonprofit Excellence

2008-07-08T21:07:28Z

Congratulations to the winners at the recent New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Awards: Community Health Action of Staten Island (overall management excellence), Harlem RBI (communications), Itefayo Cultural Arts (culturally based managem...

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Online Fundraising over $10 Billion in 2007

2008-07-03T01:10:22Z

Ted Hart provides a look at how online fundraising has grown from $0 in 1999 to $10.44 billion in 2007. A graph and brief write-up is available at Slideshare. The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently pointed out that while online giving still repr...

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Integrated Fundraising - No Longer Optional

2008-06-27T01:02:07Z

Probably the best book explaining the benefits of ephilanthropy I've seen to date is Ted Hart's People to People Fundraising. Multiple experts from nonprofit organizations and vendors / consultants who service nonprofits offer detailed strategies...

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Notes from Fundraising Day, ePhilanthropy Symposium

2008-06-17T10:45:19Z

I joined over 2000 colleagues who help nonprofits raise money at Fundraising Day last week. Some takeaways: Mark Rovner offered these tips: Ask When the Time is Right - when your organization / cause is in the news Avoid the Constant Ask Synch...

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Tips for Online Success

2008-06-12T11:03:47Z

After sending out email blasts, are you reviewing reports to learn how many of them were actually opened and what links were clicked? See the recently released eNonprofit Benchmarks Study Have you tried 'microsites' - a separate page focused o...

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Blackbaud to buy Kintera, but...

2008-06-02T19:26:11Z

This isn't a surprise to me; hopefully this will give Kintera the financial backing it has long needed. But I wonder how will Blackbaud integrate Kintera's products with the other organizations it has acquired in the past year: eTapestry, GiftMa...

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