When a new staff member comes on board at your organization, it’s a good idea to set up a new login and password for your Nonprofit Account Area. Similarly, when somebody leaves, you can delete his or her login information.
This process is really easy and will help keep your staff informed and prepared about updating your Firstgiving account info.
Here’s a video that will show you how quick and easy it is to add and delete users:
Today we bring you another nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action from our weekly series. Each week we highlight an organization that has done an incredible job of promoting its online fundraising efforts with Firstgiving and show you how to do the same. This week’s Best Practice is. . .
Equip your fundraisers to make the most of their personal fundraising pages.
Our friends at Rutgers University’s Dance Marathon raise money online every year for the Embrace Kids Foundation. Their fundraisers are primarily college students, who don’t have a lot of money to donate themselves, but who are actively invested in the cause.
And where do college students spend a lot of time? Online.
To make sure all the Dance Marathoners knew how to make the most of their fundraising pages, Mike, one of the event organizers, created this quick how-to video and uploaded it to YouTube:
Dance Marathoners who needed an extra bit of inspiration or help could watch this video and learn how to use their Firstgiving fundraising pages as a tool to meet their online fundraising goals. Result? 471 college students raised almost $90,000 online for the Embrace Kids Foundation.
So, to recap:
Identify where your fundraisers live online, and use the most appropriate medium to reach them. You know your community best–communicate information about your event using email, Facebook, Twitter, or all of the above.
Happy fundraising and best wishes for success!
Share your own success stories of fundraising Best Practices in Action! Send us an email at bestpractices@firstgiving.com.
Firstgiving’s Account Management Team has been on the road for the past few months, talking with nonprofits like you about how to raise more money online and listening to your feedback. One thing you’ve told us is how helpful it is to receive an automatic email when someone creates a new fundraising page for your nonprofit.
But have you ever asked yourself, “What should I do next?”
Not to fear. . .this week we bring you #8 in our countdown of top 10 ways to use your page creation auto emails.
Number 10- Thank each fundraiser personally for creating a page
Number 9- Lead by example, create a page of your on to show off to fundraisers as an example
Number 8- Get inactive pages ACTIVE!
Don’t leave a soldier behind! We know that fundraisers sometimes create fundraising pages and then never receive any donations. It’s a busy world out there, and these fundraisers had all the intentions of fundraising, but for some reason they never got around to sending out their pages. We suggest giving them a “friendly nudge.” About 7-14 days after you have received the page creation email, check in on your fundraisers see which pages are still at $0.00, and reach out to these fundraisers by email.
Suggest ways for them to get their pages out at, work, school, and among their friends and religious communities. Direct them to the help section of our site if they have any questions, suggest adding a picture, YouTube video, or Flickr account. And most importantly, ask them to send out their pages!! Let them know how important their fundraising efforts are and remind them that with their help, you can reach your nonprofit fundraising goal.
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: we are constantly inspired by you! Together, you, the thousands of nonprofit organizations, fundraisers and donors who raise money online with Firstgiving, have raised millions of dollars for causes you care about.
Today is an exceptionally exciting day in Firstgiving history as we count up to the $100,000,000 donation mark! Check our homepage for the most recent update:
When you add an event that includes online registration, there are many different ways you can set up your registration questions. Here are some of the different types of questions you can use:
1. Dropdown menu
2. Radio button
3. Text area
5. Checkbox
6. Date field
Keep these in mind when you’re setting up your registration questions, and if you have a particular preference, be sure to let us know!
Just about everybody knows that the postal rates went up recently, but it was only last week that I noticed that there’s a new 78-cent stamp featuring Mary Lasker, the pioneering philanthropist. Last month, we used the 76-cent Edward Trudeau. He was a phthisiologist, which I’m sure you all know is a physician who specializes in phthisiology. (ok, ok, phthisiology is the care and treatment of tuberculoisis. Sorry, Edward.)
But seriously, it’s good to see Mary Lasker on a stamp, and a nice coincidence that it’s the exact stamp we at Firstgiving use to send out welcome packets to our new NPO clients. If that’s you and you haven’t received our little bundle of valuable info, tips, event planning worksheet, and success stories, get in touch with your account manager pronto.
But why, you ask, are we sending out paper packages when we’re the online fundraising company? The simple answer is that when information is important, you might need to send it more than once or in more than one format. Plus, different people digest information in different ways, so it’s always best to choose the right medium for each message and audience.
That said, with the price of postage going up and looking like it will keep doing so, we have to wonder what postal projects smart nonprofit fundraisers will put off or take online. Can email fundraising ever completely replace paper fundraising, or will it just become the only cost-effective way? Are you cutting back on postage by mailing less or mailing smarter?
With more than 2,000 members, the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of New York City (YNPN-NYC) is growing quickly. We continue to seek the expertise and commitment of our members to guide our organization through its next phase of development.
Board membership is an unparalleled opportunity to be part of a welcoming and interesting group of colleagues at the regional and national level, and develop one’s own leadership in and knowledge of the nonprofit sector.
Applicants should be currently engaged as a professional or volunteer in the not for profit sector, and should display:
Commitment to YNPN-NYC’s mission of strengthening the next generation of nonprofit leaders by making nonprofit careers more viable for young people.
Leadership skills – particularly in nonprofit management and governance, communications development, membership services, and organizational growth.
Willingness to act as an ambassador for YNPN-NYC in the nonprofit community and the ability to meet the responsibilities outlined below.
YNPN-NYC is committed to engaging diverse people and perspectives in leadership positions at every level. To apply for one of the open Board positions, please review the information and application process outlined below.
For more information about YNPN-NYC, please visit our website at www.ynpnnyc.org. If you have questions about YNPN-NYC or the application process, please email membership@ynpnyc.org.
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