Doing Good Digital

Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth! We are so thrilled to have had the chance to work with pop icon Belinda Carlisle and her incredible charity Animal People Alliance. Over $200,000 was raised at The Abbey in WeHo last Thursday to help street animals in Thailand and India. This amazing organization creates jobs for local people to assist with the aid and rescue of street animals in need. The money raised will go a long way and will help many, many more animals in the coming year.         Paul and I sold raffle tickets with a team of volunteers and we all worked that room hard! I think we met almost every guest at the party! We're proud to say the raffle team raised almost $5000 in ticket sales.         Belinda put on an amazing performance and was joined by special guests Taylor Dayne, Michelle Visage, and Sandra Bernhard. TMZ even showed up during sound check!        It was an amazing night. Congratulations to the entire APA team on a stellar event! With Doing Good Digital, Paul St Onge, David Gardner 🎄

The DAF market has doubled over the past 5 years - that rapid growth means nonprofits need to reassess their DAF fundraising strategies. Perhaps the biggest change is how DAF giving now intersects every fundraising channel - especially digital ones. This week, Paul St Onge from Doing Good Digital teamed up with Chariot’s Mitch Stein to discuss Digital DAF Strategy. The conversation covered where DAF giving happens in digital channels, how nonprofits can capitalize on DAF giving across the donor journey and what you can still do to bring DAFs into your year end campaigns. Read our full summary and watch the webinar recording at the link in the comments. 🎥 #nonprofit #fundraising

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Our amazing colleague Hailey {Farr} Westrick, MNLM based in Guam and a proud military spouse, has been dedicating her evenings and weekends to support the 73rd annual Operation Christmas Drop at Andersen Air Force Base.     This incredible event is the Department of Defense’s largest humanitarian mission, bringing together military units from Canada, Japan, Australia, and the United States to deliver donated supplies to remote islands across Micronesia.    This year, 220 boxes of essential supplies were parachuted to 60 islands, providing critical resources for over 50,000 people.     These islands have limited access to services and rely on these donations for their livelihood.  Volunteers work year-round to collect and prepare donated items such as fishing poles, lifejackets, canned food, fins, toys, and other necessities. Each box is decorated with heartfelt messages of hope, appreciation, and support.    The annual effort is so inspiring that it even became the subject of a Netflix holiday rom-com, Operation Christmas Drop!    This year, a box proudly displaying our Doing Good Digital logo, alongside the Canadian and U.S. flags, was loaded onto a C-130 aircraft and delivered via parachute.     We are honored to support this meaningful mission and celebrate the spirit of unity and giving. We hope this story of compassion and collaboration brings you joy this holiday season!

On the Doing Good Digital blog, I share some tips on making peer-to-peer fundraisers accessible, including: 🔎 Simplify Navigating your Website: Implement proper HTML headings, build "Skip to Content" links, and add breadcrumbs. 📊Accessible Forms: Use clear labels and enable keyboard-friendly focus states. 🎨Thoughtful Design: Choose colours with sufficient contrast and fonts that support multiple languages and are easy to read. Creating accessible experiences benefits everyone! ➡️ Read more here https://lnkd.in/grn-gKFz #Accessibility #Fundraising #NonprofitTech

It absolutely makes my day to hear about the impact we’re having - for individual fundraisers and the sector as a whole 😍 We have 2 webinars left in our yearend series - next up is digital strategy for DAF giving on Tuesday (12/10) with Paul St Onge from Doing Good Digital ⭐️ One of my big goals for 2024 was to build an educational foundation on DAFs for nonprofits 👷🏻♂️ When I came into my role at Chariot, it was clear that not only did the sector need technology that connected DAF giving with digital fundraising 🔗 We also had no shared best practices on DAF fundraising as a whole 🕳️ From data, to stewardship, to marketing, to compliance - we had no standards and so many missed opportunities 😔 So we took on 4 key elements that no one was providing to the sector - while making everything free and open to the public: 1️⃣ Original DAF Research No one had ever analyzed nonprofits own data on DAF fundraising. How can we improve something if we don’t know our starting point? 🚦 We’ve had over 1,000 direct downloads of the DAF Fundraising Report and dozens of citations in other media - thank you Karin Kirchoff & K2D for the amazing partnership here! 🙌🏼 2️⃣ Interactive DAF education I’m in my happy place getting to teach - between conferences, podcasts and webinars that happened over 100 times! 🤩 I learn so much hearing questions and feedback from folks - helping us continually iterate, improve and expand our resources 🔄 3️⃣ Dedicated DAF Campaigns So many people wanted to activate around DAFs… but didn’t have a clear way to do it alone 🤔 We’ve now officially added a new day to the fundraising calendar - DAF Day 2025 is on October 9th 🗓️ 4️⃣ Actionable DAF Resources This started with our marketing toolkit for DAF day, but has expanded in Q4 to include compliance guidelines (DAF Gift Acceptance Policy template) and a full directory of DAF provider names 🏆 These downloads are on top of our blog which is chock full of guides and to do lists for all the key elements of DAF fundraising ✅ We’ve been busy! And couldn’t do it without 1,000s of peoples participation and collaboration 🫂 What was most useful to you? What do you need more of in 2025? 🗣️ Next year is going to be the DAF fundraising turning point - I feel it in my bones 🩻 #philanthropy #fundraising #nonprofit