Are you ready for the giving season? Donations on mobile are up 205%, and your donors want options on how to support you. 90% of the population has the ability to send and receive text messages, and most are read within 3 seconds of receiving – making text messages the most convenient way of connecting with your donors. Make sure you’re prepared for the year-end giving season with a multi-channel approach including Text Giving. This presentation by Jordan Stewart of iDonate will help you learn how.
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leads a high energy sales organization
looking to change the world for the better.
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VP of Sales
iDonate
Jstewart@iDonate.com
@Jordan_iDonate
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Agenda
• Text giving statistics
• Carrier vs. Non-Carrier
• 5 ways to leverage text giving this year-end
• Q&A
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Text Giving Stats
• 64% of Americans own a smartphone
• 90% of Americans can send and receive texts
• 90% of texts are read within 3 seconds
• The percentage of donations made from mobile
devices in the last year has grown 205%
• Texting is the most widely-used feature or app on
a smartphone
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Text Giving Overview
2 Fundamental Types
• Carrier Based Text Giving
• Non-Carrier Based Text Giving
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Up to 120 days
Carrier Based Text Giving
• $10 maximum
• Donation is billed to donors phone bill
• Donor data is often not captured
• One time gifts only
• No ability to schedule recurring gifts
• Extremely high fees for system ($500/month+ in some cases)
• Extremely high fees for donations (up to 50%)
• Up to 120 days for charity to receive funds
• Minimum one year contracts with “Campaign set up fees”
Donor
Texts gift
Donor Pays
phone bill
Carrier
passes
donation to
MASP
MASP passes
gift to Charity
MASP: Mobile Application Service Providers charge fees of $.45 - $.70 per gift
Source: Charitywatch.org
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Carrier Based Text
Giving Example
• January 2010 Haiti earthquake, as individual
donors contributed an estimated $43 million to
the assistance and reconstruction efforts using
the text messaging feature on their cell phones
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Donor texts gift Charity receives
funds
Merchant
processor
process donation
Non-Carrier Based TEXT
• NO maximum
• Recurring gift capability
• All donor data captured and passed on to customer
• Low monthly fees
• Zero transaction fees
• Funds passed to charity within 3 days
• No set up fees
3 days
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Text Giving
Great way to engage with your donors
Gives your donors options to give the way
they want
Easy Way to Reach donors on-the-go
Be where your donors are, whether they’re
on a desktop or on-the-move
Easily allow for recurring donations
Capture gifts easily and securly
through text
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Key Takeaways
• Mobile gifts are up 205% in the last year
• Text to give is a great way to engage donors on the go
• Allows people to quickly and easily give the way they want
• Carrier based vs. Non-Carrier Based
Why Text to Give?
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Key Takeaways
• At events: leverage text and live goal meters to capture gifts immediately
when your donors are inspired
• Add text to your direct mail for an easy way to give
• Market your text option through social channels
• Use texting as a way to capture new donors and new data
• Try SMS linking on mobile to drive donors to their text app with one click
5 Ways to supercharge year-end with Text
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Community Building and Management - We grow the size of your digital community with relevant followers, engaging with top influencers, segregating top industry influencers and cultivating relationships through a targeted multi-channel approach.
Event Marketing Strategy & Event Storming - We currently produce conferences and leadership salons in 13 cities in three countries to sold out audiences, all from our SF Bay Area offices. For your events, we provide a comprehensive social media marketing strategy around event promotion leading up to, during, and after an event. Depending on the scope of our support, we include livetweeting, blogging, photojournalism, capturing instagram and YouTube content for luncheons, and donor events. We generate high quality content to be used throughout the year to further engage your community long after the event is done.
Social Fundraising Campaigns - Want to participate in local giving days like SFGives or GivingTuesday? We provide a simple strategy and associated collateral to execute on the strategy in addition to staffing support on the day of the campaign to amplify the message and engage with supporters to rally them to your cause.
Tweetchats - Tweetchats are a great way to build online community and maintain visibility in the digital sphere. We help design, launch and manage tweetchats so you can simply show up and engage on your Twitter party and leave the rest to us!
I’d like to start by asking a question. What if……….
Is that even possible? The answer is Yes.
As we go through this presentation we’re going to show you new ways to raise funds – It’s important to note, that we’re not asking you to be do the work. We’re only asking you to tell your donors about this.
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Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
ADD to the big screen “TEXT 52014 to Support”
ADD to the big screen “TEXT 52014 to Support”
Remove the $10
Remove the $10
Remove the $10
Less and less of your supporters carry cash or checks in their wallets, making giving at events challenging. With text giving, you can receive donations when your supporters are ready to give – right in the palm of their hands.
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