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Featured Resource: 7 Website Statistics to Guide Your Next Refresh or Upgrade

The top nonprofit websites take user experience (UX) best practices into consideration to create a better visitor experience through an iterative process. With this in mind, we’ve compiled some illuminating statistics to guide your website refresh strategy.

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14 Feb 2024
This is a session about a new approach to relationship fundraising. It is now over 30 years since Ken Burnett first mooted the terminology and sought to map out an approach to building, maintaining, and developing supporter relationships that would be based squarely on donor needs. The approach...
Resource Donor Relations/Stewardship
24 Jan 2024
< See also: Get Involved: AFP Volunteer Opportunities AFP ICON is the world’s premiere in-person and virtual conference for fundraising professionals, featuring three unforgettable days of education, sessions and events! To better understand the education session and presenter selection process for...
Resource Your Fundraising Career Boards and Volunteers
23 Jan 2024
When planning a nonprofit website refresh or upgrade, it can be difficult to determine where to start or which website elements to prioritize. You can take the website design process in many different directions, and you might be uncertain of which changes will actually make the biggest difference...
Resource Online Fundraising/Social Media
04 Jan 2024
As a nonprofit professional, you understand the importance of keeping up with the latest tech trends. For example, over the last decade or so, you’ve likely embraced the art of online fundraising or text-to-give. During the COVID-19 pandemic, you learned to pivot your fundraising events to virtual...
Resource Ethics
20 Dec 2023
Van aquí algunas preguntas de reflexión que pueden servirles a ustedes en su organización: ¿Qué fue lo que mejor hicimos este año? ¿Qué contribuyó a que fuera excelente? Es una buena práctica celebrar lo bien hecho y anotar qué fue lo que ayudó a lograr esos buenos resultados, para así replicarlos...
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08 Dec 2023
Successful nonprofits don’t just have talented staff, engaged boards, and other dedicated volunteers. Successful nonprofits work in a collaborative manner with each of these team members, leveraging their skills and networks for even greater impact. It’s as simple - and as complicated - as that. How...
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07 Dec 2023
Whether you’re trying to fundraise for an upcoming event or simply spreading the word about your mission, raising awareness is one of your nonprofit’s core activities. Social media offers the perfect opportunity for you to market your cause more visibly and reach new audiences. Leveraging sites such...
Resource Cause-Related Marketing/Sponsorships
Sponsored 14 Nov 2023
With 90% of a nonprofit’s fundraising revenue coming from just 10% of its donor base , the impact that major donors can have on your mission is clear. Tracking major donor relationships ensures you’re keeping these critical supporters engaged, while also seeing how you can tap into their wider...
Resource Donor Relations/Stewardship
23 Oct 2023
Imagine this: The venue for your charity auction is fully furnished and decorated. Table centerpieces are in place and your item catalog is complete with a variety of enticing auction items. You have access to every marketing tool you need and a wide audience receptive to your event advertisements...
Resource Cause-Related Marketing/Sponsorships
16 Oct 2023
In the world of fundraising, myths often shroud the truth, creating unnecessary barriers and misconceptions. Capital campaigns are no exception. That’s why we recently surveyed a cohort of nonprofits across the United States and Canada, all in various phases of a capital campaign, to produce the...
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