Change has always been inevitable, but the rate of change in today’s connected world is unprecedented. So how do nonprofit organizations keep pace with emerging trends that directly impact constituent engagement and fundraising success?
This slide deck was originally presented as a StratusLIVE webinar hosted by The Nonprofit Times Magazine and covers:
- discovering emerging trends in the digital, mobile, social, omni channel world
- identifying new opportunities to strengthen full constituent life-cycle management to maximize donor-centric processes, and fundraising success, and
- developing fundraising and marketing strategies to help nonprofits reach organizational goals through teamwork, collaboration, and leveraging commercial technology.
Thanks John.
Good afternoon everyone, and welcome. It’s a privilege to spend a little time together today.
To get started, lets cover a few housekeeping items: First, If everyone could mute your microphones, that would be great. We will make a recording of the webinar along with the slide deck available.
Today, as we discuss emerging trends and best practices, it is our hope to leave you with some valuable thoughts about best practices along with strategies and action items to put into use right away.
With that in mind, I will hand it off to Jim…
Thanks Jim – great information which I am sure everyone in the audience today can relate to. So while it’s great to identify and somewhat define some of these trends, what is more important is what to do with the information. So let’s turn our attention to some best practices, but before we start listing some of them out, I think you wanted to talk a minute about the idea of continual improvement.
Great. So lets get into some specifics. First up, lets talk about silos.
So how can people get rid of silos?
Point out Nonprofit CRM white paper
“Nonprofits tend to focus little time, energy, and resources on technology…. But the inefficiencies of manual methods… are catching up, so they’re looking to improve.” David Forrester, 501Commons.org
So Jim, making a little bit of a pivot here, in the emerging trends, you talked about lots of data, omni-channel, distribution networks… All of that kind of revolves around the idea of getting the right message to the right people at the right time. That is what content marketing is all about.
And as see more touch points with donors consuming our content, that lets us gather more information which can then be used to move beyond traditional fundraising models.
And a specific example would be how our guests might go beyond RFM to Lifecycle management.
Exactly. But to make that happen, you have to harness and make sense of all that data.
Excellent. And this idea that our organizations need to employ this mix of people, process and technology change, it really means we should be working tbuild teamwork, and in many cases, consider people who can fill integrated roles.
Thanks everyone for your time and attention today. As we mentioned before, we will be distributing the slide deck and recording, and of course we encourage you to reach out to me or check out our blog section at stratuslive.com for more about how we are helping nonprofits navigate some of these changes.
Thanks again.