A Few Good Tools for Friend-to-Friend Fundraising Updated for 2013. Enlist your supporters to fundraise for you! A number of online tools make it easy for staff or anyone eager to help your organization to set up individual donation pages to engage friends and family in a fundraiser. Peer-to-peer fundraising isn’t new. But the types of events used for peer-to-peer fundraising have grown to include the use of online tools that let supporters participate in broader campaigns. Is this kind of fundraising right for your organization? How Does it Work? Most basic tools in this area let people create their own personalized fundraising pages related to your campaign. Many tools also offer fundraising “widgets,” or “badges,” which usually take the form of a small box—often with a logo, text, and donate button—that can be added to existing websites, blogs, or social network profiles. Some of the more sophisticated tools also let organizational staff members oversee a campaign’s progress. Considerations Do you have the time? Tools You Already Have
Sandbox Personal & Charity Online Fundraising Websites that WORK! Create Your Site An easy way to tell your story and attract support. Share with Friends Built-in online fundraising tools make it easy to invite others. Collect Online Donations You instantly receive each donation in real-time. Track Results Track visits & review donor info from your donation dashboard. Ning Now Allows Network Creators To Charge For Premium Access And Subscriptions Ning is rolling out a new feature to network creators today—the ability to charge for premium access and subscriptions. The company says it is one of the most requested features and Ning will be making paid access available to all network creators over the next several weeks. Ning is leveraging PayPal’s API to allow network creators to simply implement a subscription or paid access on their site. Users have control over how and where they want to use Paid Access on their networks.Potential use cases include membership dues, paid groups, paid content and donations. Users can set a fixed cost or a subscription based cost as well using PayPal. The cost to implement paid access for network creators will be $19.95 per month for all plans and Ning will also charge small service charge (between 3 and 4 percent) to cover PayPal’s processing fees. Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal tells me that the company continues to grow in terms of engagement and reach.
Social Enterprise Magic Bus | seMagicBus Online Fundraising: What Everybody Ought to Know | GiveForward We live in the future, guys. By now many have forgotten (or have never known) what life was like before the Internet. So we can sometimes take for granted how much things have improved since its conception. A little over a decade ago, fundraising still depended on how many people you could get to buy your stuff at your yard sale. But by harnessing the power of the web, online fundraising has streamlined the fundraising process, making it easier than ever for individuals to raise money. And even though this technique has already created a new standard for fundraising, the greatest part is we’re just getting started. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. 1. One thing many people don’t realize is how much of their donation money never actually makes it to their cause in traditional nonprofit fundraising. Luckily, online fundraising websites have shrunk this percentage, charging a much smaller service fee (GiveForward takes an average of 0.5% of donations from each fundraiser). 2. 3. 4. 5.
Welcome — Net Impact 7 Crowdfunding Tips Proven To Raise Funding This post on crowdfunding success tips answers the following questions for people or businesses thinking about using crowdfunding to raise funding: “What are the common elements behind wildly successful crowdfunding campaigns?” “Which platform is the best fit for my business or project?” “What should I offer funders or investors?” I cover these questions and more in the following 7 critical crowdfunding success tips below. If you’d prefer video-based crowdfunding tips on equity crowdfunding, see this recent interview between Kay Koplovitz the Founder of USA Network and Springboard Enterprises, and myself. Crowdfunding Tip 1: Pick Your Platform As you’re getting started with your fundraising and crowdfunding goals, the first place to start is to pick the platform you’ll raise funding on. To help you, here’s a list on Forbes of The Top 10 Crowdfunding Sites for Fundraising. Quick tips… Rewards Crowdfunding Equity Crowdfunding Crowdfunding Tip 2: Pitch and Story Equity Crowdfunding Data
Global Health Corps Online Fundraising Website and Software for Events and Causes Manna Project International | Home Online Fundraising for Nonprofits - A Startup Guide 10. Segment Your Donors As your expertise and experience with online fundraising advances, think about segmenting your audience. Develop versions of your email campaigns to fit targeted groups and then test. Nourish International