Tag - donorperfect

Hopefully by now all your end of year donations have been processed, your donors acknowledged and you’re probably busy with generating reports on your fundraising performance last year. Although it is always more fun to focus on your successes, I...

As I write this sentence, its 5:23 PM on December 30th, 2013. And guess what? Its not too late to ask for 2013 donations! Yes, lots of folks are on vacation. Yes, lots of people have just spent a ton of money on gifts. But lots of people also need...

Online donation forms are a vital part of 21st century fundraising. But online payment processing can be complicated, especially for nonprofits. In particular, small-staffed nonprofits that have little time to manage it. Too often these nonprofits...

The title refers to the famous (if you’re over a certain age) cartoon of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck ripping hunting signs off a tree trying to convince famed hunter Elmer Fudd to shoot the other (spoiler alert: the last sign says Elmer Season and...

Of course not, right? But maybe you’re not a good judge of how easy or hard it really is. I recently sent my mother an email with a link in it — she called me to say she didn’t know how to look at the information I was sending. My mother might not...

One Today is a new app from Google. It is just being released for pilot testing on Android devices at this point, but I think it presents some very interesting potential to popularize micro-donations and perhaps even more importantly increase...

Email is easy, cheap and virtually immediate, but it is a real mistake to rely on it as your exclusive mechanism for communicating with your constituents. Why? Because unlike physical mail, a significant percent of emails are never received or...

When I mention DonorPages, our integrated peer-to-peer fundraising application to clients, many if not most immediately associate it with event fundraising. “Oh right. That’s for walks, runs, bike races — things like that.” Though they’re absolutely...