Engaging Volunteers for Event Night Success
You’ve got some great people volunteering for you. They are dedicated, they believe in your cause and they are choosing to spend their time to help make your dream a reality. How do you inspire them to...
View ArticleHow to Develop a Successful Mobile Engagement Strategy
Anthony Jones, Web Director at Ducks Unlimited, has had the unique experience of seeing more than half of the nonprofit’s website traffic come from mobile devices. Since he’s already dealt with a lot...
View Article6 Controversial Marketing Techniques which are Totally Awesome and Ethical...
Look at the bright side Sure, for-profits usually have big advantages when it comes to big marketing budgets, but there’s an angle that is unique to nonprofits that they cannot touch.Nonprofits can...
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Research on Fundraising Strategies Proven to Work
As you plan your organization’s next appeal or upcoming campaign, it certainly helps to know what has worked—and what has not worked—for organizations similar to yours. Donors partner with your charity...
View ArticlePersonal Campaigns empower your demanding supporters.
Face it: Fundraisers have become finicky. They don’t want to do your event anymore. They don’t want to fundraise at the time of year you’re running your capital campaign. Of course, they still want to...
View ArticleEthical Fundraising: Study
Your input can help improve the knowledge and practice of ethical fundraising. Don’t miss your opportunity to continue to build this knowledge base. This link opens a survey being conducted, by...
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9 Considerations of Joining a Fundraising App
Think about these 9 things before joining a fundraising app. There’s no denying the mobile transformation of every sector of the nonprofit space. Your supporters have mobile phones and if you ask them...
View ArticleGirls Just Wanna Have Funds: Female Donors, Part 1
Does your organization’s fundraising strategy engage affluent female donors. If not, you may be missing out on gifts due to gender disparity! In Women on Boards: Part 1, we looked at the lack of women...
View ArticleI Challenge You to Recreate the Ice Bucket Challenge!
If you’ve surfed social media sometime in the last two weeks, it’s pretty likely you’ve seen a bunch of videos of people – both in your network and not in your network – saying something about ALS,...
View Article10 Benefits Only Nonprofits Can Offer For-Profits in a Partnership
Amy Devita, Third Sector Today Founder and CEO, hosted Father of Cause Marketing Bruce Burtch, who presented the webinar: How to Orchestrate Successful Cross-Sector Partnerships. Bruce Burtch...
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The Haitian Entrepreneur: Micro-Enterprise
We tend to view the world through the filter of our own prism. Oftentimes, people in developed nations tend to look at their own work and sometimes forget there are experts in developing nations...
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4 Ways to Improve Donor Engagement
Why is getting your donors to upgrade such a difficult task sometimes? Getting your donors to upgrade should be at the top of the list for your fundraising program, but upgrading isn’t as simple as...
View ArticleHashtag 101: Tips on how to #hashtag
I started tweeting in 2008 for one of my journalism classes. It was pretty cool to be able to use social media during class then (professors didn’t like cell phones out during class back in my day)....
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Motivate Participants via eMail
When it comes to activating your participants to raise more for your organization, email is still the best motivator. A focused, well-planned email campaign is not just a powerful tool for...
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11 Things People Give Charities- Aside from Cash
While many donors prefer to just write a check, some others are more creative and generous in what they would choose to give charities. When deciding what kind of in-kind donations your nonprofit...
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Speeding The Convergence of Impact and Profit
From time to time, we publish posts from other fabulous resources and bloggers that we hope will provide you with additional insight. This post was originally published on Markets for Good, … by Nikon...
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4 Questions to Ask Before Kicking Off an Annual Fundraiser
Galas, Dinners, and Fundraisers, oh, my! Annual fundraising events can be a great asset to organizations. They can help nonprofits raise awareness in the community while engaging people in their cause....
View ArticleWebinar: Fundraising Research Findings to be Presented
What works in fundraising? Join this webinar to review the findings of the latest fundraising research from the Nonprofit Research Collaborative When planning a fundraising campaign, you will increase...
View ArticleWhat advice do nonprofit experts have for #GivingTuesday?
Double the Donation recently published the advice of 30 experts on how to prepare for a successful #GivingTuesday campaign on their blog —and included Third Sector Today’s founder, Amy DeVita among...
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14 in ’14: Most Popular Third Sector Today Posts
It’s been a year for Third Sector Today–the first year, that is. So the site is celebrating its hit-the-ground-running success and the positive engagement of readers and members–that’s you!–since TST...
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