Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 18, 2023

This episode is sponsored by Qgiv , a comprehensive fundraising platform trusted by over 20,000 fundraisers. The Qgiv team understands that fundraising isn’t always an easy job. This report explores how the economy, staffing issues, declining donor numbers, and more have impacted nonprofit teams.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 14, 2024

Whether you’re fundraising for an alumni/ae association or an animal shelter, external economic factors can greatly impact your campaign’s success. There are plenty of free nonprofit marketing and fundraising tools you can try. Expanded fundraising potential. How can it affect nonprofits? Increased operational costs.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2023

However, not all your supporters will be open to your fundraising asks. Most nonprofits will ask for this type of gift for their beneficiaries, such as dog food for an animal shelter. If your cause is animal-related , you could accept pet food, toys, collars, leashes, and bedding. Supplementing your fundraising.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In the previous blog of this two-part series, we introduced our jillionaire friend, Bob, and his love of animals in his hometown to help illustrate what DAFs are all about. We also explored how he arrived at the decision to give his money to nonprofits that support his favorite animals in perpetuity through his own donor-advised fund.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Meet Sarah, a passionate and dedicated supporter of your local Humane Society, an animal rescue organization. Sarah has been donating to protect animals for several years and has gradually increased her contributions over time. They described how her contributions had saved countless animals and improved their lives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove – a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. Plus, since it includes the phrase “volunteer opportunities for animal shelters,” you’re throwing your hat into the ring for that term, too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

That’s why supplementing online fundraisers with follow-ups that show the impact of donations is so powerful. There’s a good reason why an iconic nonprofit like the World Wildlife Fund sends stickers and a stuffed animal to donors who sign up to adopt a tiger, a giraffe, or another animal. 6) Give reports. About the Author.

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Top Nonprofits

JUNE 20, 2023

Fundraising Videos: Double the Donation defines fundraising videos as an immersive call to action used to drive donations and support toward a specific campaign. As part of their campaign to deliver a billion meals per year through 2025, they created a fundraising video to drive donations through donation matching.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

It’s Fall and that means it’s time to find the perfect fundraising letter template. If your Fall fundraising appeal is all planned out, well done. I have a fundraising letter template that works. I have a fundraising letter template that works. Set goals for your fundraising appeal. And good news!

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Jeff Brooks

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Fundraising that gets donors to take action focuses on the why for that action. A lot of fundraisers stumble on this important distinction that’s laid out on the Stelter Insights blog at How, what or why? Not the what or the how. your nonprofit’s donor messaging should focus on this. What you do and how you do it are important.

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Candid

MARCH 14, 2024

Unless you work for an animal shelter with cute puppies or a museum with extensive collections you can photograph as needed, it can be a challenge. At Candid, we don’t have cute animals, we don’t have historical collections, and we can’t even capture the work that we do because it’s primarily digital.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

That’s why effective fundraisers understand the difference between demographics and psychographics. How to use donor identity to boost fundraising results. So, how can you use what you learn about their identity to impact your fundraising results? After all, fundraising is very much a matchmaking game. In summary.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

MAY 1, 2023

The M+R Benchmarks Study is an annual report that highlights the latest nonprofit data and trends in digital fundraising and marketing. Here’s how to harness the 2023 insights to help move your nonprofit’s fundraising, marketing and mission forward. When thinking about your monthly giving program, start with “why.”

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 24, 2024

Enhancing Your Fundraising Events with Visual and Audio Technology In today’s digital age, how we listen, interact, and connect has transformed, emphasizing the importance of incorporating innovative visual and audio technology into event planning.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email is a powerful marketing tool, but to get results you need to learn how to write fundraising emails that connect emotionally and inspire people to give. Nothing about your fundraising email should be left to chance. So, let’s look at the key pieces in detail so you know how to write fundraising emails that get results.

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 22, 2024

” Transactional fundraising is impulsive and rooted in an irrational organizational compulsion for more. Jim has authored numerous books including his most recent book, The Future of Fundraising: Adapting to New Philanthropic Realities , published by Academic Impressions in 2020. Philanthropic facilitation is deliberate.

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MNA Association

APRIL 24, 2024

This goes beyond simply deciding if text fundraising is an effective strategy or how your donation form should be formatted—you must project future finances to determine how your organization will operate and allocate its funding.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Animal Advocacy. The ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) advocates for the kind and respectful treatment of animals across the United States. The ASPCA gives a voice to helpless animals. In 2021, they relocated over 34,000 animals in need. .

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Having the right tools in your fundraising toolkit makes your life easier. And your fundraising more productive! It takes an entrepreneurial heart to start a nonprofit, fundraising and marketing skills to grow it, and leadership skills to manage it. If you work for an animal shelter, how about becoming no kill?

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Fundraising Coach

MAY 1, 2024

For example, donors who contributed bags of dog food to an animal shelter might want to know how many animals were fed with their donation. Fundraising event revenue: Share event recaps with both attendees and contributors, including the total revenue generated compared to the event’s fundraising goal.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 11, 2023

But, growing a nonprofit so you can fulfill your mission means having a fundraising plan with diverse revenue streams. You’re better off spending your time building a donor base and doing other kinds of fundraising while you get yourself ready for grants. Seems like a good idea, right? You need money fast to address the urgent need.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In today’s fundraising world , with dozens of nonprofits competing for donors’ hearts and wallets, it’s important to stand out from a donor relations standpoint. Otherwise, no matter how noble your mission, you’ll be left with your hand out as other fundraisers hit their goals. Always go above and beyond.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2022

While some nonprofits successfully use digital ads solely for direct fundraising, these golden exceptions tend to be organizations that can run urgent, designated campaigns repeatedly. People will always donate to save animals! But if your organization can’t run campaigns to help specific people, animals, families, etc.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Many of VanderMeer’s books, including Hummingbird Salamander (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), are concerned with the planet: the changing climate, the erosion of natural habitats, the survival of animals—and humankind’s part in the destruction. Now it’s more down to the individual animals. How did that change your life?

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The Charity CFO

APRIL 18, 2024

Higher costs affect nonprofits on two sides: Higher overall expenses for the nonprofit itself Lower revenues from decreased donations Say you run an animal shelter. The cost of cat and dog food is going up, so your expenses are higher to feed the animals in your care. 2024 will be no different.

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Selfish Giving

JULY 10, 2019

The commitment could be upfront, or for a specific fundraiser when it's unclear how much will be raised (e.g. GameStop is struggling as a retailer , but it's good to see they are still doing fundraisers like this one ?? Corporate & Community Fundraiser, Rady Children's Hospital (San Diego) 2. It's playing the long game.

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Care2

MARCH 30, 2023

The For the Paws Global Fundraising Summit 2023 is the only international fundraising conference for animal welfare charities. Join 450+ animal welfare professionals on April 3rd to 5th to learn about acquiring monthly donors, growing your major gifts file, digital fundraising strategies and more.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A very common “go-to” funding idea for small nonprofits is fundraising events. Some fundraising events are huge, drawing attendees and sponsors like moths to a flame. You can raise money with all kinds of fundraising events like parties, galas, sporting events, concerts… and the list goes on and on. BUT the flip side?

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Selfish Giving

JANUARY 8, 2020

Employing giving is a hot topic for corporate fundraisers. Using animated GIFs in emails is eye-catching and fun (like my animated GIF of the Eiffel Tower ). But the median donation from employees is declining and the tech companies that manage these campaigns have created "a terrible system." Can't read this article?

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Candid

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Once you’ve established a new nonprofit , one of your first considerations will likely be fundraising. For instance, an animal shelter would include expenditures on food and veterinary care for the dogs and cats they rescue under their program costs. Fundraising costs. Administrative costs.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

If your organization is gearing up to host a high-energy event like a buzzworthy auction or gala, you likely have ambitious fundraising goals. Identify major donor prospects As you gear up for your fundraising gala, it’s essential to zero in on donors who are most likely to make significant contributions.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 3, 2021

More free family stock photos Animals. More free animals stock photos Animals. More free animals stock photos Wildlife. Unique Outside-Of-The-Box Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits. Below we share more insights about stock photo licenses, how to find more images for your nonprofit, etc. Other related articles.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 11, 2023

Following their mentors’ unconventional guidance to avoid the financial risks of early fundraising, GREEN’s founders sought to develop business that could grow by relying on locally available resources. Through this process, which we called local bricolage, they scaled deep , rather than up.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2023

There are so many ways to limit your organization’s carbon footprint, from recycling waste to choosing eco-friendly fundraising ideas. You can also take a paperless approach for documents like waivers to reduce printing and paper waste during events or fundraisers. How can you get started with digital waivers?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

How Three Nonprofit Advocacy Organizations Are Approaching Content on LinkedIn To test my theory a bit, I decided to look at the LinkedIn profiles of a few nonprofits that do robust issue advocacy work and fundraising that can be quite graphic: animal rights organizations. PETA’s pinned post on LinkedIn is an HR post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2023

Cause awareness and giving days are powerful themes upon which to launch digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. Those who register and attend all three webinars in the series will earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising from Nonprofit Tech for Good. 4: World Animal Day — #WorldAnimalDay. September.

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The Charity CFO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Kristina is a lover of animals and this passion is a deep root of her why in the development of The Elephant Project. After witnessing the treatment of elephants through visits to Thailand and circus events, Kristina felt empowered to do more for one of earth’s smartest animals.

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