6 Ways To Boost Donation Volume In The New Year

2011 is history.  (image from Jalopnik) Okay, so the holidays are over.  Officially.  You probably won’t be seeing the type of donation volume you had over November and December again until next year’s holiday, but that doesn’t mean you can’t turn your organization’s website into a lean, mean fundraising machine.  Give your organization a fresh [...]

Chimp Haven Made Us Cry (And I Liked It)

  All photos taken from Chimp Haven’s website The DonationPay office can be an emotional bunch and we have been known to get . . . worked up, over the awesome work our clients are doing.  We are moved, inspired and amazed at our clients great work, fortitude and brilliant fundraising strategies, every day.  That [...]

In Which I Rain On A Parade: Donor Thank-You’s Edition

As I was reading the industry news on AllTop today, I came across an article from November that I’d apparently missed.  From Pamela’s Grantwriting Blog (which, if I’ve never mentioned it before, I love and read anytime I get a spare minute, which clearly at this time of year is once every six weeks), it’s [...]

Feature Showcase: Social Networking and Elemental, The Film

Today, because I’m feeling lazy as sin, I’m going to put up another short video that shows how our social networking features work.  Most of our clients are already including these on their DonationPay pages, but if you’re not and you’d like to, give us a holler!  The demo is on the page of one [...]

Donation Page Best Practices Elementary Review

Though this will be incredibly familiar material to anyone that’s already run through the Pre-Holiday Donation Page Workout, I thought a quick brush up on some best practices for donation page optimization might be in order.  Many of our clients have asked about the most important concepts to keep in mind when designing a successful [...]

The Pre-Holiday, Online Fundraising Workout

Okay, folks, it’s September.  Every day from now until January is a day you should be thinking about how best to maximize your holiday fundraising season.  Even though in most places it still feels like full summer (or worse- sorry, Texas), you should already be making serious efforts to get your donation page and process [...]

User Testing

Reading the recent Convio white paper -produced from a round of intensive user testing on the donation pages of seven major domestic non-profits- I realized that it’s already time to talk donation page optimization for the holiday fundraising push.  While there are some pretty obvious findings in the Convio report (like, a one page donation [...]

It Gets Better

It Gets Better: Dan and Terry (some language is NSFW) I’m sure everyone has heard by now about Tyler Clementi’s heartbreaking suicide (with an assist from his incredibly cruel, amoral roommates) and probably has heard about all the other recent suicides of bullied teenagers.  I’ll not launch into my personal feelings on this whole topic, [...]

The Uniform Project: A Follow Up

My very first post as Donation Pay’s least consistent (and only) blogger was basically a love letter to The Uniform Project, a non-profit that appeals deeply to my respect of shrewd marketing, transparent fundraising, savvy use of various online platforms and, of course, fashion.  The original concept of The Uniform Project, for the uninitiated, is [...]

The holidays are coming. . .

And that means holiday giving!  Most non-profits are right now beginning to organize their plans for holiday fundraising.  For most normal individuals (except those who begin their holiday shopping the previous February- Mom, I’m looking at you), the season won’t truly be upon us for another few months, but in the online fundraising community, the [...]