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Darcy Hofmann

October 9, 2023

Grow Your Nonprofit’s Outreach: 5 Easy Steps to Embrace SMS Messaging

Email and social media are the workhorses of digital fundraising. If you haven’t begun an SMS program, now is the time to get started. According to EZTexting, text marketing messages have an open rate of 98%. This quick and easy guide, we'll show you how to seamlessly integrate SMS messaging into your digital campaign strategy. It's time to boost your nonprofit's impact!
June 26, 2023

What’s New in Blackbaud Luminate Online: June 2023 Release Notes

In this blog post, you can find the latest updates to revolutionize your nonprofit's online presence and fundraising efforts while ensuring compliance and data privacy every step of the way. 
May 23, 2023

4 Luminate Online Queries to Build For Your Automated Emails

The query builder in Luminate Online is a powerful reporting tool for analyzing data but it can also be used for creating rebuilding groups to help power your automated emails. This blog post will discuss LO's rebuilding groups, four different Luminate Online queries and instructions to help you set them up, and many tips and tricks to automate your emails.
April 26, 2023

5 Ways to Improve TeamRaiser Participant Center with Blackbaud’s Spam Prevention Update

With the changes to Luminate Online’s email functionality in the Participant Center, here are five ways that you can improve participant user experience.
March 7, 2023

Symbolic Giving: Gain Donors through Your Online Gift Catalog

The gift catalog is a list of items that your donors can add to a cart and purchase. Rather than buying goods, your donors can contribute to your organization’s greatest needs. You don’t have to wait until the holiday season to get started, here are a couple of ways organizations use symbolic giving year-round.
October 6, 2022

Mastering Mastercard’s Recurring Gift Requirements

2023 Update: MasterCard has revised its recommendations and the requirements that were previously announced are now optional. These changes become mandatory requirements only for nonprofits that have “excessive” consumer complaints or chargebacks for four consecutive months. MasterCard will be in touch with those organizations that meet the mandatory criteria. Maintain […]
May 26, 2022

Emergency Automation

Retaining Crisis Response, Emergency, and Relief Donors When a crisis emerges, and your organization is equipped to address the need, you act quickly to let the urgent needs be known and donors respond. The new donors that you acquire will know your organization for the emergency situation in which they […]
May 5, 2022

Nonprofit Email Checklist: What To Do Before You Click Send

Email campaigns are crucial to integrated fundraising campaigns but pressing the “Send” button can always be stressful. When mistakes are made there’s no way to unsend an email. But we have a nonprofit email checklist that can help. With all of the work that goes into creating graphics, writing intriguing […]