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Make Every Fundraising Day Count in December

NonProfit PRO

December is not the time to pull back your energy and efforts. Most people are in the spirit of giving now and you need to tap their brief feeling for total success to occur.

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Newsletter: Better Sponsorship Packages with Thriller, Spiller, Filler ; Mini USA Aims to Put More Pets in Passenger Seats ; Get Your Partnership & Marketing Teams on the Same Page

Selfish Giving

I put together my holiday planters last week and I used the traditional advice for making containers: Thriller, Spiller, Filler. Thriller. Something tall that will make people say "WOW!" In my container this is the winterberry branches. It gives the arrangement height and pop. Spiller. Something that spills over the side of the container and softens the edges.

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10 Simple Strategies for a Successful Year-End Giving Campaign

Get Fully Funded

With Giving Tuesday in the rear view, it’s tempting to forgo a year-end giving campaign and coast to the end of the year, catching up on work and enjoying the holidays. But don’t! This is NOT the time to take your foot off the gas! A year-end giving campaign is your chance to win over donors when they are in a giving frame of mind. Almost one-third of total giving to nonprofits happens in December, and 12% happens in the LAST THREE DAYS of December , according to Network for Good.

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Just ask!

Fundraising Coach

I've been doing LOTS of trainings in the last few months. And getting a lot of the same types of questions. They generally sound like: "How do I know when a right time to ask so-and-so?". "How do I know if that asking amount is too much?". "This is what happened during the ask. I haven't heard back in weeks. Do you think I offended her?". Perhaps you have asked some of these yourself.

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How To Cultivate Community Affinity Throughout The Generosity Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

This session will dive into how to create rich generosity experiences that foster long-lasting relationships. You’ll walk away with actionable insights to redefine how you engage with your supporters—emphasizing trust, engagement, and community over transactional giving models. 🤝 Industry expert Tim Sarrantonio will explore data-backed strategies to engage supporters as active participants in a community that values their contributions and shared ideals.

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Why Protecting Donor Data Is No Longer Optional

NonProfit PRO

Data gets compromised and put at risk of being stolen or misused, including by nonprofits who haven't invested in cybersecurity. In short, we've reached a moment where the privacy lights are blinking red, and nonprofits must invest in cybersecurity. Protecting donor data is no longer just something nice to do.

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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You’ve been put in charge of leading the revamp of your organization’s website. A website build or redesign has technical but also design and execution aspects. You’ll need to understand both elements and how they work together, for a successful end product. Additionally, you might face the prospect of rallying stakeholders and staff towards a common vision, goal, and outcome.

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Learning from 2021 for a Successful 2022

Mission Minded

Take away these five nonprofit insights from our team to yours to help you plan for a successful 2022. The post Learning from 2021 for a Successful 2022 appeared first on Mission Minded.

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A Guide to Having a Board Recruitment Strategy

NonProfit PRO

Board recruitment is important as you must find leaders who have the right perspectives that align with your organizational strategies, goals and needs. It is not about recruiting one person. It is about building a diverse group over time that can take your organization to the next level.

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Best Fundraising Software: 17 Popular Platforms for 2022

Salsa

Whether your organization is large or small, there is a fundraising software package that can help you communicate with and process donations from all your existing donors and future supporters.

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[VIDEO] 3 Steps To Closing $10K+ Gifts By December 31

Bloomerang

Julie Ordoñez will outline a proven strategy, messaging and action steps you can implement right away to close major gifts faster, ethically. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Julie, I got 3:00 Eastern, is it okay if I go ahead and get things kicked off officially? Julie: Let’s do it. Steven: All right, awesome. Well, good afternoon, everybody.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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What to Do on Your Mental Health Day

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

I was a big proponent on mental health days even before the past two years happened. And now that we know from October’s “Stress in America” survey that work is a very/somewhat significant source of stress for 66% of those surveyed, it’s time to revisit this idea. First off, mental health days are not for you to avoid your boss after you made a mistake or just don’t feel like listening to your co-workers.

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The NonProfit Voice Ep 58: Why Video Is Vital to Nonprofit Storytelling

NonProfit PRO

Host Mark Becker is joined by Joel Resnik, chief revenue officer at Gather Voices, in this episode of The NonProfit Voice Tech Series where they examine the power of video to tell your nonprofit's story, and even how beneficiaries and supporters can assist these efforts through user-generated content.

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Top 10 blogs of 2021

Candid

As COVID-19 continued to dominate world headlines in 2021, Candid’s blog readers looked to us for guidance on fundraising in a largely digital world, along with related news and trends in the social sector. Here we share the most-read blogs of the year, in descending order, with readers gravitating toward fundraising tips and best practices. . 10. Top fundraising trends to capitalize on in 2021.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What’s A Good New Donor Acquisition Rate?

Bloomerang

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on what would be considered a good new donor acquisition rate. Dear Charity Clairity, I’m wondering if you have a data point readily available in your brilliant brain?

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Our Top Ten Blog Posts of 2021

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

This year you seemed to focus more on self-care as several #npcommlife posts made this year’s top ten. That makes me so happy! You were also interested in our decision to stop using Facebook Groups, what to do about Apple’s iOS15 and writing ideas. Here are the Top 10 Blog Posts published by Nonprofit Marketing Guide in 2021, according to Google Analytics page views: Why We Are Leaving Facebook Groups by Kivi Leroux Miller.

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Have You Created a Toxic Environment at Your Nonprofit?

NonProfit PRO

There is a major nonprofit that — I know if you heard its name, you would, by all accounts, say, “Wow, what a great organization that is doing such amazing work.” But, internally, the nonprofit has a leadership mess and toxic environment.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

A weekly update with the latest news from PND. Amazon to invest $161.5 million in preserving affordable housing. December 16, 2021. Amazon has announced commitments totaling $161.5 million to help preserve affordable housing in Arlington County, Virginia, and Nashville, Tennessee. The investments include a $160 million low-rate loan from Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund to fill finance gaps and preserve more than thirteen hundred affordable units at the Barcroft Apartment community, located near Ama

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7 Reasons To Try A Virtual Nonprofit Focus Group

Bloomerang

Ease of organization, larger participant pools and technological advances have helped the virtual nonprofit focus group overtake its traditional format. It may lack the coffee and cookies, but it has many other reasons to dominate the field of supporter feedback. Here are 7 reasons to try a virtual nonprofit focus group. 1. You have more flexibility.

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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – December 17, 2021

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Next week’s Mixed Links will be on Thursday the 23rd and will be the last one of 2021 (boo!) since the week of December 27th is our Week of Freebies (yay!). So let’s gather around the fire and gaze at the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have year-end fundraising advice, Instagram tips, content request forms, preventing hackers, and more.

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Why Disaffiliations Really Happen at Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

Chapter or affiliate, disaffiliations happen for several reasons that are spoken aloud. Typically, some significant change is a catalyst for the conversation. Often the change is toward unification, streamlining in some way, or a significant program change.

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Executive Report: 27% of Nonprofit Boards Don’t All Actively Give

NextAfter

27% of nonprofits indicated that their Board of Directors are not all active donors. This is according to a recent OpX360 Executive Study of 155 Nonprofits benchmarking their marketing, fundraising, and communication practices suggesting a reluctance of some nonprofits to either fundraise from Board Members or require board giving. BoardSource, another recognized leader in nonprofit board research, sites 68 percent of nonprofit organizations have a policy requiring board members to make a person

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Developing The Creative Skills That Will Help You Become A Great Nonprofit Storyteller

Bloomerang

In part two of this series on the skills you need to be a great nonprofit storyteller, I talk about how to engage your audience emotionally through creative storytelling. You can read part one here. In the first part of this series, I talked about why you need to define your goals, your brand and voice, and your audience before crafting your story. In this post, I’ll focus on the creative skills involved in storytelling. .

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Do You Have Backup? [Preliminary Trends Data]

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

If you were to unexpectedly be out of the office for three or more days, how would your communications workload be managed? That’s one of the brand-new questions we are asking in the 2022 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report Survey. ( Please take it now, if you haven’t already! ). While this is preliminary data from 328 participants, we are a bit bummed out, but not surprised, to hear that just over half of you don’t have good backup.

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What Today’s Nonprofit Needs in a Leader

NonProfit PRO

Today's nonprofit leaders can no longer rely on a fixed set of circumstances, which means the world changes — sometimes dramatically — from day to day.

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Ask Us Anything About Year-End Fundraising

NextAfter

Questions from NextAfter Institute Members In this ask me anything post, I’ll answer a few questions submitted by members of the NextAfter Institute about year-end fundraising. Table Of Contents Question #1 – How should I use a video in my year-end fundraising? Question #2 – Should we send a year-end postcard? Question #3 – How do I get the most out of a year-end homepage takeover?

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Will Grant Funders Give To You If You Have Too Much Individual Funding?

Bloomerang

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a Director of Development who wants advice on what to do when the board thinks their individual fundraising success will depress grants. Dear Charity Clairity, I’m the Director of Development for a successful organization that has vision, capacity, and a proven track record of success.

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Changing the Rules Changes the Game.and Not for the Better

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

I have a friend who called me on the phone the other night to vent about a situation at her work. Her supervisor had upended her job, and she felt more like this was a personal attack than a strategic organizational move. These types of events can be jarring. One minute, you’re doing your job and understand what you’re supposed to achieve, and then suddenly you’re told that you should be doing something else, or the objectives of your job have changed.

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Are There Links Among Donor Budgets, DAF Gifts and Recurring Giving?

NonProfit PRO

Did you know that Americans who include monetary charitable giving in their annual budget gave nearly seven times, on average, than those who do not budget at all? That’s the outcome of the online survey of more than 2,000 U.S adults conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Vanguard Charitable, a nonprofit that administers donor-advised funds (DAFs).

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How to Create an Amazing Donation Receipt for Your Donors

Joe Garecht

When it comes to fundraising, sometimes the small things make a big difference. This is certainly true of your non-profit’s donation receipt. When donors make a gift, the donation receipt is one of the first things they will see, and it will set the tone for how they feel about having made the gift. Donor stewardship is extremely important for your non-profit.

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2021 – A Year In Review

Foundation Group

The post 2021 – A Year In Review appeared first on Foundation Group®.

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Just ask!

Fundraising Coach

I’ve been doing LOTS of trainings in the last few months. And getting a lot of the same types of questions. They generally sound like: “How do I know when a right time to ask so-and-so?” “How do I know if that asking amount is too much?” “This is what happened during the ask. I haven’t heard back in weeks. Do you think I offended her?

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A Guide to Having a Board Recruitment Strategy

NonProfit PRO

Board recruitment is important as you must find leaders who have the right perspectives that align with your organizational strategies, goals and needs. It is not about recruiting one person. It is about building a diverse group over time that can take your organization to the next level.

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Your Job Is Hectic. Finding the Right Training Shouldn’t Be.

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Kivi and I try to make nonprofit communications training as simple as possible. With one purchase you can stay up to date on the latest trends and best practices for ALL of 2022. The training you will get with our All-Access Pass covers topics like: Editorial Calendars. Communications Planning. Email Marketing. Communications Audits. Workflows and Processes.

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Purchase Recording - 2021 Conference

NC Nonprofit

Select a recording for purchase: Product. - None - Advancing Equitable Fundraising: Partnering with Communities To Achieve Results [$25.00] What is Your Auditor Asking For? – Preparing Your Nonprofit for an Initial or Annual Audit [$25.00] Building Equity into Your Employee Health Plan Design [$25.00] Who Decides Who’s Ready to Build Thriving Community Ecosystems?

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Free Local Pussy In My Area Now

Fundraiser Ideas

And thewomenetwork.com/local-pussy/ with the number of features doubling since 2007, it’s clear Wamba’s stage is a success. New research by the University of Miami is researching the predictors that indicate if some one is very likely to get married within the upcoming few decades, whether or not that person intends to do so or not. 1 little phone call may help all men generally avoid situations like this.