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Fall Into Peer-to-Peer Events
For most of us, fall means the weather is cooler and the leaves begin to change color. This season is a great time to focus on peer-to-peer fundraising (well, all the time is really). Fall is a great time to emphasize peer-to-peer signature events because it’s...
A Skeptics Guide to Giving Tuesday
Network for Good recently released a lot of great data that implies strongly that organizations that aren’t participating in Giving Tuesday are missing out on potential donations. A few striking metrics include: An increase of 146% in fundraising from 2013 to 2014 58%...
Newcomers Leapfrog Incumbents in Digital
The concept of ‘leapfrogging’ has been around for a while now – mostly in the context of governments and infrastructure. According to Leapfrog Digital Strategies leapfrogging is, “the notion that areas which have poorly-developed technology or economic bases can move...
New Ideas from Strategic Services September 2015
Our Charity Dynamics retained strategic services clients receive weekly status updates that allow us to plan and track initiatives that help our clients reach their digital communication and fundraising goals. Each week, we share the most innovative ideas we see in...
Path To Success – Part 1
Most organizations use a web analytics platform to collect website performance metrics and tracking information of site visitors. One of the most popular platforms for web analytics is Google Analytics, and in spite of its popularity, many Google Analytics (GA) users...
I Think That I’ve Found Myself A Cheerleader
You may know the song by OMI that I’m referencing. And yes, I may have just gotten it stuck in your head (sorry). Your organization has many cheerleaders because of all the great work you do, but today I want to talk about one group of your cheerleaders specifically;...