Name: Summer tune-up: get your nonprofit ready for fall
Start: 2024-12-19T22:51:00Z
End: 2024-12-19T22:51:45.000Z
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At Bonterra, we are the software behind the mission: the tools and technology you need to not only make a difference, but change the world. Our solutions empower your team to raise more, match more, grant more, and achieve more with ease and efficiency. Bonterra is software for the greatest social good.

Every year, GivingTuesday is a chance for nonprofits across the world to collectively raise millions of dollars, run thousands of hours of volunteer programs, and access deep generosity from committed supporters — but any successful GivingTuesday campaign needs a data-informed starting point.  

 How can you use last year’s results to fuel this year’s campaign? 

 Watch this webinar where Bonterra’s senior vice president for data analytics Ben Miller dives into the data from GivingTuesday 2023. Together, we will: 
- Discuss the changing nuances of supporter behavior.
- Share effective mixes of fundraising and outreach channels. 
- Reveal optimized solicitation techniques to boost your nonprofit's success.

Lessons from GivingTuesday for fundraising success

Every year, GivingTuesday is a chance for nonprofits across the world to collectively raise millions of dollars, run thousands of hours of volunteer programs, and access deep generosity from committed supporters — but any successful GivingTuesday campaign needs a data-informed starting point.

How can you use last year’s results to fuel this year’s campaign?

Check out this webinar for an expert dive into the data from GivingTuesday 2023. Together, we will:
- Discuss the changing nuances of supporter behavior.
- Reveal effective mixes of fundraising and outreach channels.
- Share ways that all-in-one technology can help you save time before, during, and after a busy GivingTuesday event.

Making the Most of GivingTuesday for Fundraising Success

Turn first-time donors into long-term supporters at year-end

GivingTuesday is a valuable opportunity to acquire new donors and volunteers. But donor retention is generally low, and nonprofits usually lack the time to create and execute tailored engagement plans by hand for each supporter they want to retain.

How can you beat the odds, encourage that all-too-important second gift, and retain your new donors over time?

Check out this webinar full of practical advice to improve your nonprofit’s post-GivingTuesday supporter retention rates. You’ll leave with:
- A clear picture of GivingTuesday donors’ value
- Best practices that help supporters feel seen
- Retention strategies to help you decrease the time to a second gift

Keep GivingTuesday donors coming back

Actionable tips to drive real results, straight from the experts.

As the biggest day of global generosity, GivingTuesday is a key opportunity for fundraising, engaging volunteers, and making an impact in your nonprofit’s community. And with 30% of all giving happening in December, missing out can mean untapped potential.

Whether your GivingTuesday strategy is fully baked or you’re just starting to plan, we have expert tips and tricks for seizing the opportunity and making the biggest impact.

Check out this webinar and learn how to:
- Create a multi-touch strategy and find the right channel mix to drive results
- Write standout emails and get them in front of the right audience
- Use AI to streamline your processes
- Leverage technology to boost donations and save time
- Learn from real-life examples of successful peer-to-peer platforms

Last-minute strategies for GivingTuesday success

GivingTuesday isn’t just for nonprofits: It’s a big moment for corporations, too. This global day of generosity is a powerful opportunity to drive awareness and participation for your CSR efforts — and it goes even further when you maximize the results year-round. 

With the right strategy, you can expand and build on GivingTuesday momentum to drive lasting impact.

Check out this webinar and you’ll learn how to: 
- Keep employees engaged beyond GivingTuesday
- Foster a workplace culture that champions year-round giving
- Build a CSR approach that rallies teams
- Spot 2025 trends and integrate them into your strategy

After GivingTuesday: engaging employees year-round

Are you prepared to tell your 2024 impact story? Is your data clean? Have you collected enough feedback from your team? Are you ready to share your results with your current and prospective funders? An effective data story not only helps you secure and maintain funding, it also helps you better understand how to improve program delivery over time to grow your organization’s impact.

Check out this webinar with Molly Kraus, Bonterra Product Manager and impact reporting expert, for an insightful discussion on how to best approach this common challenge. She shares actionable steps to help you finish the year strong and enter 2025 ready to build on all that your organization or agency has achieved.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:
- Assess the cleanliness of your data to ensure accuracy.
- Enhance your data storytelling skills.
- Effectively gather and incorporate team feedback.
- Present your data to funders and stakeholders in a compelling way.
- Build a solid foundation for future impact in 2025.

Strengthen your year-end data story and secure more funding

This webinar will guide you in identifying your key impact metrics, better manage your data, and more strongly demonstrate your impact to attract and retain support from donors and grant funders.  

At your fingertips, you will have actionable tips and next steps you can start using immediately.  

After watching the webinar, you will: 
- Understand how to identify your key impact metrics 
- Understand the different types of data and how to best collect them 
- Understand how to generate a more compelling impact story from your data

How to use your organization's data to build a strong case for nonprofit funding

Nonprofits always want to expand their fundraising capacity. By involving your board in peer-to-peer campaigns, events, and other efforts, you can acquire more support, build more personal connections, and give supporters a better experience. But how can you do that effectively?

Check out this webinar to learn how you can use the right data and techniques to turn board members into passionate and effective fundraisers.

By the end, you’ll be able to:
- Engage your board with simple, effective fundraising tools
- Analyze past performance to identify likely donors
- Use data you trust to make faster decisions and get to fundraising more quickly
- Build off your successes today for stronger campaigns in the future

Don’t get stuck wrangling donor data. Watch this webinar and see how your nonprofit can use the right tools to engage your board for stronger fundraising.

Engage your board in active fundraising

Last year, mobile messaging volume increased by 40% and raised $92 for every 1,000 messages sent, according to our friends at M+R.

As the nonprofit digital fundraising landscape evolves with the rise of mobile messaging, how can you make the most of this trend?

Watch this webinar and you’ll understand how to:
- Launch and scale your program as part of a multi-channel strategy
- Connect with donors, volunteers, advocates, and other supporters in a way that suits their preferences
- Give your audience a personal experience that encourages loyalty
- Save precious staff time with support from the right technology

Meet more supporters where they’re at and raise more funds while you do it. Check out this webinar and get the advice you need for mobile messaging success.

Boost donor engagement with mobile messaging

Is your nonprofit using your data to its fullest potential? When every dollar counts and every decision matters, harnessing the power of data can set your nonprofit apart. Data-driven nonprofits can make more strategic decisions, better demonstrate their impact, and more effectively engage with funders and key stakeholders.

In this webinar, learn from Alicio Valle, a Bonterra senior solutions architect and expert in how nonprofits can leverage data and improve processes for greater success. He discusses his experience with countless nonprofits across the sector, best practices for leveraging data to improve outcomes and secure more funding, and offers advice for those organizations seeking to become data-driven.

What you will learn:
- Why data matters: understand the critical role data plays in shaping effective nonprofit strategies and improving decision-making
- Leveraging insights: learn practical techniques for collecting, analyzing, and using data to maximize your impact and efficiency
- Securing more funding: hear how stronger data-driven approaches can not only transform your operations but also help you secure more funding

Become a data-driven nonprofit to increase funding

Nonprofits often face complex challenges, from limited staff bandwidth to data management and reporting, requiring a broad range of strategies, stakeholders, and processes to address.

Unifying multiple programs and data systems is essential to overcoming these challenges and elevating their case management. Through this approach, nonprofits are better positioned to improve how they use data to drive stronger outcomes and increase their team's capacity .

Check out this webinar and hear from Colin Boucher, a Bonterra senior solutions architect and nonprofit expert . We discuss his experience with countless nonprofits across the sector, best practices for modernizing your case management, and his advice for organizations seeking to strengthen their processes through data.

In this webinar, we cover how unifying your programs helps you:
- Boost capacity: streamline operations, reduce administrative burden, and increase overall efficiency
- Enhance data insights: gain a comprehensive view of your organization’s impact, enabling better decision-making and strategic planning
- Maximize resource use: use your resources more effectively, saving both time and money
- Future-proof your nonprofit: position your organization for growth and adaptability in a rapidly changing environment

The power of unifying your programs for stronger nonprofit outcomes

Some of your nonprofit’s most loyal supporters could be waiting to help you make a difference. They just need the chance to be engaged through corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives like giving or volunteering through their workplace.

You can unlock their potential by building robust relationships with corporate partners.

Watch the webinar to learn how one nonprofit successfully forms partnerships that lead to more matching gifts, greater visibility to CSR program leaders, and a more extensive supporter base. By the end, you’ll be able to:
- Understand CSR program motivations and how they operate
- Find the right corporate partners and matching gift opportunities
- Turn existing supporters into ambassadors within their companies to help expand your reach
- Leverage volunteer opportunities to advance your mission

Check out this webinar for actionable tips to help your organization grow your community and strengthen your impact through corporate partnerships!

Unlock corporate social responsibility funding and partnerships for your nonprofit

Unlock the full potential of your nonprofit's case management software and amplify your funding opportunities with our upcoming webinar on how to improve your impact reporting. This webinar is designed specifically for nonprofit organizations looking to elevate their approach to impact measurement and attract more financial support from funders and donors.

Check out this webinar where Raven Charleston, Bonterra enterprise customer success manager and expert in nonprofit impact reporting, shares steps you can take to refine your impact measurement processes. Plus, we’ll dive deep into how effective case management practices can help you better report outcomes and demonstrate value to funders. You’ll learn how to craft compelling impact stories and share data that will resonate with potential donors.

In this webinar, you will:
- Understand the key components of compelling impact reports.
- Learn how to present data and stories that resonate with donors and align with funder priorities.
- Explore best practices for showcasing outcomes and demonstrating value.

Impact reporting: the key to securing more funding

For nonprofits, the critical ability to raise funds and communicate with supporters often depends on a few essential touchpoints — like emails. With year-end activities just around the corner, now is the time to make sure your strategy is airtight, and that includes an often overlooked aspect of campaign success: email deliverability.

As major email clients like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo change the rules around what gets your email delivered (and what ends up in spam), it’s more important than ever to understand how it works and how you can improve outreach.

Check out this webinar with email deliverability experts Valimail for this year’s need-to-know updates, like:
- Recent email platform changes and new technical requirements
- Email deliverability best practices
- The truth about sending bad emails
- DMARC, authentication security, and other essential concepts

Emails are an incredibly important tool for reaching fundraising goals, driving supporter outreach plans, and elevating your mission. Don’t miss this timely session for stronger email deliverability, so you can enter go into the end of the year confidently.

Master the latest in email deliverability to drive results

Get technical consulting, strategic coaching, and pre-built extensions — designed to help you reach your giving goals faster and with ease.

CSR is having a moment: Corporate giving has decisively moved from a "nice to have" to an essential driver of revenue and reputation. The problem? Many CSR leaders just don’t have the manpower, money, or in-house expertise to deliver on the rising expectations they now face.

That’s why we launched our Enhanced and Premier Support packages — designed to lighten the load of managing CSR programs, so you can focus on what matters most, like driving your strategy and impact forward.

Check out this webinar for an in-depth look at our new offerings and learn how to choose the right support level for your company’s needs.

During this webinar, you'll learn:
- Key features of each support package and what sets them apart
- Tips for choosing the right level based on your company’s needs
- Success stories from peers using Enhanced and Premier Support today

Whether you need hands-on technical consulting, coaching, or proactive extension design, our support packages are built to help you achieve your giving goals faster and with ease.

Bonterra Support: Get the most out of your CSR software investment

Get personalized training, rapid technical support, and expert guidance to boost capacity and impact

An incredible amount of behind-the-scenes work goes into supporting your community — and it’s not easy to pull off. Staff are often burnt out while managing everything from programming to gathering accurate data to developing reports to demonstrate impact. But it’s all essential work to secure funding and meet key compliance requirements.

To scale your efforts effectively, you need the right software and support. That’s why we’ve developed our Enhanced and Premier Support packages, opening up unprecedented access to our team of technical and administrative experts, strategic program management, personalized training, and faster support that lets you skip the line.

Check out this webinar for a deep dive into our new support offerings and learn how you can choose the right package for your unique needs.

During this webinar, you’ll learn:
- Key features of each support package and what sets them apart
- Tips for choosing the right level based on your organization or agency’s needs
- Success stories from peers using Enhanced and Premier Support today

Whether you need help developing more in-depth reports, launching a new program, training your team on a certain feature, or the right help, right when you need it — we’ve got a support package for you.

Maximize your case management impact with Bonterra Support

CSR is proven to boost retention, drive revenue, and build brand reputation. But without employee participation, these bottom-line benefits are out of reach. And here’s the kicker: Participation has dropped from 29% to just 17% since 2019, with no signs of rebounding. So, what’s holding employees back?

Check out our webinar with HCI for a break down on the barriers to participation, how it’s affecting businesses and nonprofits, and actionable steps to re-engage your workforce.

You’ll learn how to drive participation through three key tactics:
- Cultivate a giving-centric culture at your company.
- Align your workplace programs with causes your employees care about.
- Make it easier for employees to donate, log volunteer hours, and request a company match.

Let’s reignite employee engagement, together.

Employee engagement: How to boost giving and volunteering

For many, summer is an important time for relaxation — and for nonprofits, it’s a stellar opportunity for preparation.  

Check out this webinar for a detailed summer checklist to ensure your systems, strategies, and donor data are in top shape for year-end.  

By the end, you’ll be equipped to: 
- Refresh your processes (and potentially find some extra capacity) 
- Expand into new communication channels 
- Enhance your compliance efforts 
- Make an even bigger impact during the busy end-of-year season

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