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Featured Fundraising Technology Posts
#GivingTuesday Prep: Does Your Charity Website Pass These 3 Tests?
Release Announcement: Avoid These 3 Crowdfunding Campaign Mistakes
New E-Book: Giving Tuesday Ideas for 2018
Meet the Nominees of the DonorPerfect Community Impact Award
Release Announcement: Adding Codes on the Fly
6 Lessons Fundraisers Can Learn from Elle Woods
Latest Fundraising Technology Posts
I know how much of a pain your website can be at times. It can be tough to update and manage. It can be even tougher to keep up with the lingo, best practices, and tech-talk – especially when there are so many other things to do. Well – now’s more »
I know how much of a pain your website can be at times. It can be tough to update and manage. It can be even tougher to keep up with the lingo, best practices, and tech-talk – especially when there are so many other things to do. Well – now’s more »
Crowdfunding offers donors an easy way to support your organization with individual fundraising pages they can create, personalize and share with family and friends. While easy to set up, your crowdfunding campaign still requires time and attention to meet your fundraising goals. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! In this more »
More and more donors are giving online as their preferred giving method. Learn how to provide your constituents with the same luxury using DonorPerfect Online Forms!In the Getting Started with DonorPerfect Online Forms session at this year’s DonorPerfect Community Network Conference, we’ll get you set with DonorPerfect Online Forms by more »
Kick off your campaign planning with #GivingTuesday Ideas for 2018, a brand new guide from DonorPerfect designed to help you achieve your #GivingTuesday goals. This colorful e-book for fundraising success provides you with tips, strategies, and recommended tools you and your team can implement before, during, and beyond the big more »
This is a contributed guest post by Funds2Orgs.Nonprofit Technology: 5 Fundraising Strategies for SchoolsDuring a time when schools of all different sizes across the country are struggling to secure enough funding to serve their growing communities, it can be tricky for school leaders to find the time to brainstorm new ways more »
The DonorPerfect Community Impact Award recognizes the work and dedication of those in the field who leverage their position, skills, and experience to lift up others.Read on to learn about the nominees. The DonorPerfect Community Impact Award winner will receive:A trip to Philadelphia to attend the DonorPerfect Community Network Conference (Includes more »
How can you capture donor data that will help boost your fundraising efforts? DonorPerfect uses codes that you can customize to track fundraising solicitations, categorize donors, monitor receipts that need to be sent and more. Codes are awesome because they help you build a better relationship with your donors in more »
Want to learn more about matching gifts? Ready to boost your organization’s matching gift revenue? Tune in August 8 at 3 p.m. EDT for a live educational webinar with Double the Donation!Would you like two scoops of ice cream for the price of one? How would you like it if more »
On the anniversary of Legally Blonde’s release, look to purveyor of pink and bubbly feminist icon Elle Woods for inspiration. Although her unlikely pursuit of Harvard Law is very different than a day in the life of a fundraiser, these quotable moments show that Elle’s enduring confidence, generous spirit, and more »
Online giving is the most convenient way for your donors to give. It’s also one of the most effective ways to increase your fundraising. In fact, DonorPerfect clients averaged a 21% increase in fundraising within their first year of using an online donation form. Optimizing your online donation forms could more »
We are a proudly independent company, 100% employee-owned, with zero outside investors. Without the pressure from Wall Street to hit quarterly earnings numbers, or private equity investors with a growth plan that ends in selling the business to a competitor, we have ensured that we answer to our clients, not more »
What’s the best way to develop productive, long term relationships with your donors? Regular communication. It’s really that simple. Regular, meaningful and sustained communication with your donors helps them stay informed, engaged and involved with your mission. Now you can quickly plan face to face meetings, emails, and telephone conversations, more »
Nonprofits owe it to themselves to regularly and systematically assess the health of its fundraising grants program, as doing so will help ensure success in this critical realm going forward.Many factors affect grant writing success, including the reputation and professionalism of the organization, the quality of the program or evaluation more »
In the 2018.04 release of DPMobile, we’ve expanded your fundraising capacity! Android users can now collect mobile donations using DPMobile. Both Android and iOS users alike can also securely accept donations by scanning in the card numbers and expiration date using a phone’s camera. We’ve streamlined the steps to process more »
After a surge of donation activity at the end of 2017, giving in the first quarter of 2018 is down 2.4%, according to a new report published by the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP). Worse, the number of active donors decreased 6.3% compared to the first quarter of 2017. The downward more »
