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Why non profits must embrace technology
1. Why Non-Profits MUST Embrace Technology
Generational Giving Capacity
Matures/Silents make up 50%
Boomers – economic uncertainty
Gen X – smaller 19.7 total giving
50 Million Millennial – over age 15, early 30’s
Millennial spending power at 2.45 trillion by 2015 –
outpacing Boomer parents earnings by 2018
2. 2011 Donor Survey
12% under 35
61% age 35-64
26% over 65
2 Trends: giving to fewer organizations / younger
donors giving more
Only 1% plan to give more thru direct mail in 2011 vs
2010
65% plan to make at least 1 gift online
3. Why Mobile?
2 in 5 own a smartphone – 39%
83% of adults own mobile
72.5% smartphone owners under 44
44% of blacks / Hispanics own smartphones
Primarty source of the Internet for ¼ of the
population
68% have used an app
87% have browsed the Internet
48% have watched videos
4. Must embrace now if:
Want part of the action
Know and talk to the Millennials
Greater Interaction
Ever evolving
Be relevant, establish trust
90% of mobile subscribers in US have internet
ready phone
5. Mobile UN-Friendly websites:
25% have to zoom in to read info
8% get frustrated and leave
27% leave website and forget it
40% leave and plan to open it LATER on a
computer (do they?)
They want to consume it easily / must be able to
read easily
6. Examples of Mobile Websites:
Soles4Souls.org
Susan G. Komen
Home Page / donate page / get involved page
Mobile Giving:
Can be Text2Give, mobile website or app
Who is your audience?
Where are they and what medium are they
using?
7. Mobile App Giving:
Iphone and Android
Signature Events
In-app commerce
Peer to Peer and 3rd party
Annual Fund Drive
Capital Campaign
Mobile Engagement:
PETA
Bono’s One Campaign
Action Alerts
Issues
8. So What?
Builds relationships
Channeled to fit consumer / end user
Convenient involvement- when / where?
Increases efficiency
Improve fundraising / ROI
Creates empowered advocates
Grows reach of vital community programs
9. *See janis’s email for donations
*See Mobile website for us
*see capital campaign site (causevox)