Online Training: Fundraising

Idealware seminars are designed to give you the tactical advice you need to make smart software decisions. You can take one of our live online seminars, which are capped at 25 participants so you'll have lots of opportunity to ask questions and get the information you need. All you need is an internet connection and a phone line to participate in these 90-minute workshops. For an in-depth lesson, check out Idealware's online courses. These intense, five and six part trainings are offered in partnership with state associations across the country. Or check out our library of 17 (and growing) recorded seminars ready to go, whenever you need them.

Online Training: Fundraising

There are no upcoming live trainings on this topic

  • Recording: Getting Started with Online Donations

    $20.00

    In this recording of an online seminar, we’ll walk through the available online donation tools, how they work, and how to decide which is right for you. We’ll close by looking at the pros and cons of specific tools.

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  • Recording: Choosing a Broadcast Email Tool
    $20.00
    We’ll walk through the features you might want to help design, setup, send, and track emails to hundreds or thousands of people, and compare the reliable and affordable tools often used.
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  • Recording: Building An Effective Email List
    $20.00

    How do you build a list of constituents truly interested in your cause? We’ll discuss a wide variety of techniques that can help, and how they all fit together.

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  • Recording: 10 Mistakes in Choosing Donor Databases
    $20.00

    How do you choose a donor database that will support successful fundraising? The software is only half the story. In this recording of an online seminar, Fundraising technology strategist Robert Weiner walks through ten common mistakes that can prevent you from selecting the right database and managing it effectively.

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  • Recording: Getting Started with Friend to Friend Fundraising
    $20.00

    Leverage the passion of your staff, volunteers, and supporters by asking them to fundraise for you! There's a class of new software tools that help your supporters setup their own fundraising page (with their own stories, pictures, and fundraising targets) and then solicit their contacts on behalf of your organization. We'll talk through some best practices for succeeding with distributed fundraising, and take a look at some of the software options available to support it.

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  • Recording: Getting Started with Email Fundraising
    $20.00

    Fundraising via email requires an understanding not only how to design and write an email campaign but broadcast email tools, online donation tools, and more.  We'll walk through what you'll need to know to design your own email fundraising campaign.

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  • Recording: Getting Started with Mobile Outreach
    $20.00

     It's easier that you might think to broadcast text messages to your supporters' cell phones, to ask them a quick question, or even to ask them to donate right through their phone.  In this recording of an online seminar, we talk through the principles, software packages, and best practices that can help.  

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  • FREE Lunch and Learn: Software for Fundraising
    $0.00

     In this inaugural version of our half-hour long "Lunch and Learn" recordings, Laura Quinn walks through at a high level the types of software that can help with fundraising, from the basics to the more advanced, as covered by our Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits.

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  • On Demand Tactical Tech Planning

    Are you overwhelmed by technology? Relax. Take a deep breath. You’ve come to the right place. Idealware’s On Demand Tactical Technology Planning will help you out of the technology doldrums and help you assess your organization’s technology infrastructure and address your current and future needs. Take the online training at your own pace, and use the associated workbook to help apply what you’re learning to your own organization. When you complete the training, you’ll have a fully realized tactical technology action plan to guide your nonprofit.

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