Bitcoin and Blockchain Provides Transparency for Donations

With #GivingTuesday on the horizon, now is the time to strike while the iron is hot and leverage some new tools and technology to gain donations for your organization or nonprofit! Could blockchain (i.e. Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc) be one solution?
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Infographic: Optimizing Your Nonprofit Donation Page

With online donations to nonprofit organizations on the rise, the onus is on the nonprofit to make the donation process as simple as possible. The point is to make donating through your nonprofit secure website simple, easy, and fast. The best way to do this is by optimizing your website, and more ...
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Tip of the Day: Getting Started with Broadcast Email

Editor's note: All this month we're publishing tech tips for nonprofits. Keep a look out for a new tip each day and let us know what you think in the comments. -Dan
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Why Nonprofits Should Embrace Big Data & The Cloud

According to MIT Technology Review, roughly 0.5 percent of digital data is analyzed, which means, nonprofits are losing millions of opportunities to make smart decisions, improve efficiency, & attract new donors and volunteers. The reason is simple; they are not leveraging the potential offered ...
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Google Donates $30 Million to Nonprofits

Google.org is donating $30 million to nonprofits this holiday so that they can buy any tech and related services that they need including hardware, software, training and IT maintenance or repair services.
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Nonprofits Can Now Accept Donations With Apple Pay

New features to Apple Pay will now allow nonprofits to accept donations via the digital wallet service. This includes both Apple Pay on the web, where it can be integrated into websites’ checkout flow, as well as within mobile applications. The changes are rolling out just ahead of the holidays and ...
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Avoid These Website Missteps to Increase Donations

Getting visitors to your nonprofit's donation landing page is easier said than done. Trying to convert those visitors into donors is even harder. The M+R Benchmark Study found that, on average, only 1.1 percent of website visitors made a donation to a nonprofit. Couple that with the fact that for ...
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3 Intuitive Strategies To Utilize Your Donor Data

Image courtesy of The Shareholder Online You’ve been told over and over the more information you have on your donors, the better. Well, according to a recent study conducted by Blackbaud and nfpSynergy of 338 nonprofit organizations in the United Kingdom, many nonprofits are “drowning in data” and ...
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3 Ways To Increase Donations Via Social Media

Did you know: 73 percent of first time donors do not give again? There are many reasons contributors leave; sometimes they don’t feel appreciated, or don’t feel like part of the organization. While gaining new donors is always important, keeping them is even more so. If you can maintain just 10 ...
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Infographic: A Brief History Of Charitable Giving

Photo: milliken.com Charitable giving has been around since 2500BCE when the ancient Hebrews instituted a tax intended to help the poor. Now, thousands of years later, people across the globe give their hard earned money to nonprofit organizations who are committed to solving some of the world's ...
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