Looking Ahead: Leveraging Past Trends to Forge New Paths in Nonprofit Technology for 2024

By |2025-02-14T15:20:16-05:00January 2nd, 2024|

As we reflect upon this past year (and our most viewed blog content), it’s clear four key themes captured the attention of nonprofit fundraisers and marketers. These themes – digital engagement and personalization, data management, and individual donor engagement– aren’t passing trends, but priorities that will continue to shape the future of the nonprofit industry. In this blog post, we delve into these four themes and explore how they will evolve in 2024. More importantly, we will examine how emerging nonprofit technologies will empower nonprofits to deepen their effectiveness and [...]

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LinkedIn Acquisition Will Boost Microsoft CRM Dominance

By |2024-11-20T10:45:11-05:00November 30th, 2021|

  LinkedIn acquisition fuels Microsoft’s expansion by introducing natively integrated social, analytics, and more Just last week, Microsoft announced they would be acquiring professional social network LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, the largest acquisition in the company’s history. […]

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Microsoft Office 365 Continues To Dominate

By |2024-11-22T14:26:08-05:00November 30th, 2021|

2015 was a very good year for Microsoft Office 365 — as well as for products and applications that leverage Office, such as StratusLIVE! — thanks in large part to the boom in adoption rates for cloud computing among businesses and nonprofits. […]

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How to Leverage Technology to Better Support Your Nonprofit’s Mission

By |2024-11-21T14:34:27-05:00June 28th, 2021|

As a nonprofit leader, it can be overwhelming to continuously look for ways to bolster your nonprofit’s community presence. You need to keep in contact with your current donors, create new donors, appeal to your Board Members, and engage your volunteers, all while staying connected to your cause. That is a lot, but you can leverage different tools to help. This is why the entire team here at StratusLIVE is so passionate about what we do. We know that our technology is a tool (hello tip #3 below) that gives [...]

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Intuition Versus Insight

By |2024-11-13T12:58:23-05:00April 9th, 2021|

Gain insight into your nonprofit decisions with facts and figures, not guesses.  Recently, I was having a conversation with an acquaintance of mine who happens to be the Chief Operating Officer of a midsize nonprofit. We were discussing the intersection of donor acquisition and data. […]

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Giving Preferences Drive Fundraising Methods

By |2025-03-25T10:48:59-04:00March 19th, 2021|

Donors will tell you how they want to give. Your nonprofit needs to listen. Before I ever began to realize my dream of helping nonprofits become lean, mean fundraising machines, I worked in the marketing department of a large publishing company that distributed to hundreds of markets nationwide. When I joined the company, they were in the process of converting the advertising for these publications (a.k.a. the business bread-and-butter) from print to digital. […]

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