June 4, 2014
Can Giving Days help you raise more money?Can 24-hour Giving Days help you raise more money for your nonprofit? If you're participating in Seattle's GiveBIG annual event, they can! To the many nonprofits in the Seattle area who've participated in the now annual matching donation fest known as GiveBIG, you know…
Read ArticleMay 13, 2014
LGL uses MailChimp to manage complex newsletter subscriptionsBackground Here at Little Green Light, we use LGL ourselves to manage our relationships with customers and prospective customers. It’s a great way to make sure the product works! The Problem We want to manage two ongoing mailing lists, one monthly and one that's semi-annual.…
Read ArticleMay 13, 2014
The Women and Girls’ Fund taps into LGL’s integrated data management and communications solutionThe Problem The Women and Girls’ Fund needed an efficient way to email invitations and track attendance to a variety of events each year. Being able to maintain all that information in their database is critical to effectively reaching out to their constituents for future…
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Cornell Hillel uses LGL’s integration with Wufoo to track phonathon resultsThe Problem Like many organizations who perform phonathons each year, the tremendous amount of time it takes to organize calling efforts and then enter the call results into a database can thwart even the most dedicated development offices. Cornell Hillel faced just such a problem.…
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Politz Day School manages annual dinner donations, attendance, and sponsorships with Wufoo and LGLThe Problem Politz Day School’s Annual Dinner attracts hundreds of guests each year. Guests are honored, sponsorships are received, tickets sold, and advertising information collected. Politz needed to manage all of this information in one place easily and efficiently, as well as be able to…
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Vermont Italian Club uses Wufoo forms and LGL to manage interests from membersThe Problem The Vermont Italian Club does a terrific job of customizing communications for their members. To do this requires collecting information on what each member is interested in. They wanted to streamline that process. The Solution The Vermont Italian Club added a list of…
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Maryland Hillel uses LGL and MailChimp to send targeted emailsThe Problem Maryland Hillel has many thousands of constituents and wanted to send customized emails based on matching the affiliations their constituents have to their organization. The Solution Maryland Hillel uses a variety of attributes in their LGL account to create segments of constituents, using values…
Read ArticleApril 29, 2014
5 ways to find donors hiding in plain sightLGL is pleased to announce our new partnership with DonorSearch, a leading prospect research and screening firm, and to publish this guest post from Bill Tedesco, DonorSearch's founder and CEO, on our blog. In the financial sector, past performance is not an indicator of future…
Read ArticleFebruary 24, 2014
Do you know how to accept donations online?This article describes at a high level what is needed for a nonprofit to collect online donations. Even with the simplifications I've made here, you'll see that there are a number of pieces to the puzzle. In the diagram below you'll see three important building…
Read ArticleFebruary 18, 2014
4 tips for keeping your donor database healthyIn the same way our bodies do, keeping a database healthy requires consistent work. This post gives you some practical methods for achieving database health, or what is sometimes referred to as reachability, a focus on answering the questions, "can you contact everyone in your database to…
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