by iMission Team | Sep 8, 2023 | Article, Salesforce
iMission’s Expertise Helps Bring $30 Million to Low Income Families During The Covid Pandemic A Salesforce For Nonprofits Case Study The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest anti-poverty program in the U.S. for low-income working families. At the Federal...
by iMission Team | Sep 8, 2023 | Article, Salesforce, Technology
A Raiser’s Edge to Salesforce Case Study Friends of Bassett Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Bassett Healthcare Network (BHN). On a mission to foster healthy rural communities, BHN provides comprehensive health services in central New York state. BHN’s...
by Lisa Evans | Nov 7, 2022 | Article, Fundraising, Marketing, Social Media
With over 700 million users, LinkedIn is now one of the biggest social media platforms. While it’s a professional and networking-focused platform, it’s also where people come to connect, learn and communicate with each other, making it a fantastic resource for...
by Tim Brown | Oct 25, 2022 | Article, Fundraising
Having been both a Lutheran pastor and a member of a development team at nonprofits, I learned great sermons and great fundraising appeals have much in common. At their core, both move you to think and act differently. They both ask something of you. They invite you...
by Lisa Evans | Aug 1, 2022 | Article, Fundraising, Nonprofit Strategy
Nonprofits know there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all fundraising. If you’re trying to figure out what motivates donors to give, you aren’t alone. Donor pools vary by age, education, lifestyle, interest, occupation, and more. In other words,...
by Rob Leighton | Jul 26, 2022 | Article, Branding, Fundraising, Social Media
So, you have a LinkedIn page for your nonprofit, but you aren’t getting the traction or visibility you want and need to advance your mission on the platform. With LinkedIn’s 830 million users–and counting–across over 200 countries and territories worldwide, you see a...
by Lisa Evans | Jun 27, 2022 | Article, Fundraising, Social Media
Nonprofit organizations like yours rely heavily on donations to fund their mission. With over 1 billion people logging onto Instagram every month, this platform offers a lot of potential when it comes to reaching donors and generating more support. Instagram also is a...
by Rob Leighton | Jun 27, 2022 | Advocacy, Article, Fundraising
We’re angry and offended but also energized. We’re soul searching, but also protesting. Sure, the Covid-19 pandemic is making work harder and planning even more difficult. But it’s time for all our nonprofits to step-up their advocacy efforts. I’m not talking...
by Rob Leighton | Apr 6, 2022 | Article, Fundraising, Social Media
Imagine that the West Coast is suffering through one of its worst wildfires in history. Images of burned-out communities are in the media. Interviews of families who have lost everything are broadcasted. A nonprofit that provides housing and financial assistance to...
by Rob Leighton | Feb 16, 2022 | Article, Fundraising, Nonprofit Strategy
Updated February 16, 2022. Originally published Dec 8, 2015. Discovering why donors stop giving to your nonprofit will give you and your development team a keen understanding what you need to do to get far better fundraising results. Thirty percent of wealthy donors...
by admin | Sep 30, 2021 | Events, iMission Blog, Technology
Did you know that Google offers a $120,000 grant to nonprofits? It’s true! Using the grant your nonprofit can drive increased traffic to your site and build an engaged audience to help support your cause. What could your nonprofit do with $10,000 of free advertising...
by Rob Leighton | Jun 25, 2021 | About Us, Article, Salesforce, Technology
Salesforce, the global leader in customer relationship management (CRM) services and provider of cutting-edge applications focused on customer service, marketing automation, analytics, and application development, welcomes iMission Institute as a Consulting Partner....
by admin | Apr 25, 2021 | Article, Fundraising, Technology
iMission Institute, a leader in nonprofit marketing and advocacy, has been named as a partner by Everyaction. The EveryAction platform provides an innovative engagement platform to nonprofits, which dovetails with iMission’s own corporate mission of using digital...
by Lisa Evans | Oct 27, 2020 | Article, Fundraising, Technology
Nonprofit broadcast texting is a powerful tool for engaging donors, volunteers, and clients. Unfortunately, many nonprofits are not harnessing texting power. The good news. Any nonprofit can get started quickly with texting. After all, you and most of your...
by Lisa Evans | Oct 8, 2020 | Article, Fundraising, Nonprofit Strategy, Technology
It’s fundraising season so here at iMission, we wanted to provide a quick and easy How-To Guide for you to get your donor orientation campaign off the ground. Let’s review the basics: what’s a donor orientation series? It’s a series of emails...
by Lisa Evans | Sep 9, 2020 | Article, Fundraising, Nonprofit Strategy, Technology
Nonprofit fundraising must find new and innovative ways to succeed. Google has expanded its tools within Google for Nonprofits that can help. Most importantly, Google’s tools for nonprofit organizations make it possible to conserve...
by Lisa Evans | Jul 2, 2020 | Fundraising, iMission Blog, Nonprofit Strategy, Technology
Texting is a powerful tool for nonprofit engagement. For starters, texts are typically 3-4x more likely to be opened and read than an email sent through a platform like Constant Contact or MailChimp. Peer-to-peer (P2P) texting for nonprofits is also much more likely...
by Rob Leighton | Dec 20, 2017 | iMission Blog
How to Reach More Nonprofit Donors… Using For-Profit Strategies For-profit companies’ customers have to come from somewhere, just like nonprofit donors. Big business has always spent heavily on traditional old-world advertising. Television spots, newspaper...