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10 Fundraising Tips

Abny Santicola of FundRaising Success assembled this nitty gritty list of fundraising tips, covering both direct mail and online fundraising, as she cruised the DMA's recent Washington Nonprofit Conference last week. I liked #2, “rekindle the first love,” which basically says: when you know why a donor first gave (hopefully you keep a giving history […]

Learn More February 2, 2007

Best Kept Secret?

Since last August, Dalton Fuqua at Craver, Mathews, Smith & Company has been systematically monitoring the online communications streams of fifty nonprofits — a broad range including advocacy groups of all persuasions, educational institutions and health/medical organizations. He's been looking for interesting practices, patterns, innovations, trends, etc. I've had a peek at his findings and […]

Learn More January 31, 2007

More Online Benchmarking Data

Last week blank”>we reported on some internet giving benchmarking analysis prepared by Target Analysis Group and DonorDigital. Important data to digest and compare with your own online fundraising experience. Here's another online benchmarking analysis just released by Convio. Take a look. Convio presents a wide range of metrics culled from a panel of thirty Convio […]

Learn More January 30, 2007

What Political Campaigns Can Teach Nonprofits

With the 2008 presidential campaign underway, candidates like McCain, Clinton, Romney, Obama, and Edwards are already dueling for the “best internet campaign” honors. These articles from the Washington Post, as mainstream as it gets, and Clickz News, an internet marketing online trade pub, provide excellent overviews of the variety of online stratagies and tactics that […]

Learn More January 28, 2007

If We Build It, Will They Come?

According to Vinay Bhagat at Convio, online giving has grown from $250,000 in 1999 to more than $5 billion in 2006. So what do we know? Target Analysis Group and DonorDigital have collaborated to produce an excellent study on online giving patterns. Importantly, this report looks at online giving in the context of ongoing direct […]

Learn More January 26, 2007

Advice For Bill Gates

The Gates Foundation has been getting slammed by bloggers (see a compilation here assembled by Tactical Philanthropy) and other pundits for its head-in-the-sand (ooops, does that indicate a bias?) posture on the matter of socially responsible investing of its portfolio. In case you missed Gates' position statement, it essentially says they're too busy saving the […]

Learn More January 25, 2007