Today’s article comes from Debbie Salat at ABC Fundraising, and with over 20 years of fundraising experience, Debbie offers the following advice for parents and guardians volunteering at their childrens’ schools. Parent and guardian volunteers are vital to the success of so many school and afterschool programs – and it’s important that they have the
... continue reading.For obvious reasons (we’re looking at you, Covid-19), we’re focusing our blogging on online auctions these days. Many of you are converting your galas to online-only events. While there are many similarities between paper bidding and online bidding, one big difference is how bidders gain access to the event itself. For a gala, your guests,
... continue reading.“Are my online auction settings right?” Our support team sees variations of this question a lot. And we’re always glad to take a look at your site and tell you what we see. But when it comes to whether your settings are “right,” we usually have to say, “It depends.” Every online auction is a
... continue reading.Due to the COVID-19 induced economic downturn, many businesses and families are struggling to make ends meet. And nonprofits are struggling to support their communities during this time of increased need. To fulfill their missions, nonprofits need funds–and fundraising options–now more than ever. We’re hard at work developing new virtual live fundraising tools to help
... continue reading.Many of our customers are converting to online events. We’re hard at work developing new features to enhance the online auction for you and for your supporters. And we rolled the first of these new features out to your site just yesterday. You now have the ability to add a progress tracker (also known as
... continue reading.If you’ve converted your event to an online auction, or if you were planning to run an online auction to begin with, you may be wondering if your set up is correct. The “correct” online set up can depend on a number of factors and may vary from one organization to another. But here are
... continue reading.Some organizations are considering cancelling their gala events due to the coronavirus. That’s a difficult choice to make. And as we mentioned in the email we sent to all of our customers earlier this week: while there are way too many factors involved in this decision to tell you what you should do, we can
... continue reading.As we discussed last week, you can easily convert your gala to an online-only event. And because of the Covid-19 crisis, many of our customers are doing exactly that. Much of the conversion can be done by adjusting some settings at Admin > Site Settings > Online/Mobile Bidding, and then using the Bulk Edit function
... continue reading.A social media campaign isn’t complete without a catchy hashtag. Hashtags have shown to increase engagement across Instagram by 12.6%, and a tweet with a hashtag is 55% more likely to be shared. Hashtags take some brainstorming. Ask your volunteers to submit their hashtags by a specific date early in the campaign, or have a
... continue reading.Online. It’s a word we use a lot in our lives; an adjective that modifies hundreds of our daily activities: shopping, dating, meetings… and auctions, of course. But when applied within our little corner of the world, I’m afraid it can be confusing. For people approaching our company for the first time, the role that
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