Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

Thanking volunteers for all they do is crucial to keeping your volunteers coming back again and again. Yet it’s something many organizations neglect to do. Volunteers pour their heart into your nonprofit’s work. They’re there to help with the heavy lifting of running a nonprofit and delivering programs.

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 13, 2024

The longer I work with nonprofits, the more convinced I become that one of my core beliefs is true: If organizations ceased nearly all new-donor solicitations, they would be more financially efficient and would hardly lose any revenue. That means, you expect 98% of your mailings to go straight to the recycling bin.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 24, 2024

Use the wrong ones, and your fundraising revenue will start trending the other way. Use the wrong ones, and your fundraising revenue will start trending the other way. In other words, the organizations that instituted the greatest demands for accountability were also the poorest performers.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Email Marketing Tools every Nonprofit Needs. What do you do with the 99% of your website visitors that leave your website? Email marketing is one of the most affordable marketing tactics out there and it’s a great vehicle for personalized content marketing pieces that can establish your organization as a leader in the industry.

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 25, 2022

Your nonprofit’s website and social media profiles are two important tenets of your online presence. For instance, social media enables you to connect with your supporters through regular posting and sharing. Most nonprofit professionals aren’t expert web developers or social media managers. Let’s dive right in!

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

One of the most pervasive problems in the nonprofit sector is getting your board to be more engaged , and more specifically, to increase board fundraising. The irony is that the people your board members know are the MOST likely to donate. Here are the top 10 easy-to-implement tips to increase board fundraising Let’s dig in.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 17, 2024

Many major gift officers don’t realize that one of the things some wealthy donor prospects do after receiving a first communication from you is to check out your LinkedIn profile. And the first things they tend to notice are the photo, the banner, and your LinkedIn headline. This is your introduction.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Software solutions keep the nonprofit sector in motion. 67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. That’s just the start—nonprofit software tools come in many varieties, offering support for marketing, event planning, form building, and much more.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Before it officially wraps, let’s take a look at the top articles of the year on the Get Fully Funded blog. Through split testing, you can learn what types of subject lines appeal to your donors and get them to open your email and respond. Most organizations cannot fulfill their missions without paid staff.

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Bloomerang

JULY 14, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants some fresh ideas to increase monthly giving: Dear Charity Clairity, We have a monthly giving program, but not many people join. I’ve read monthly givers are easier to retain and have higher lifetime donor value than one-time givers, so I’d like to promote it more. Let’s dig in.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

While your mission is what drives your nonprofit, your relationships with donors are what sustain it. The work you do wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of your donors, so it’s vital that you work to build genuine relationships that inspire them to continue giving. Let’s dive in!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Make your content something with which they’ll want to engage. Where do you find that content?

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We’re going to expose some of the reasons why your job is so frustrating – and none of them have to do with you. If you find yourself dealing with poor caseload list quality, this article will show you how that happens. How do you know if your list has poor quality? Well, do you know why new people get added to your caseload?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It turns out one of the most important strategies for our time is the ability to effectively generate, exchange, and adopt new ways of doing things. Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times.

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Collaborations Environmental Energy Culture 93

Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

My last article of this two-part series, “ Nonprofit Giving Trends and Future Fundraising Strategy ,” began a discussion of smart fundraising strategies to take advantage of best practices and current trends. It covered broad brush strategies all nonprofits today should incorporate into their donor fundraising/marketing mix.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

Sometimes the only thing standing between you and launching a successful fundraising campaign to fund a new, needed program is an extra set of hands. What you need is a nonprofit virtual assistant or VA. Don’t assume a nonprofit virtual assistant is limited to basic clerical work like data entry and responding to emails.

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The Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Social media is a powerful, yet affordable, way to inform, engage, and recruit volunteers. Here are 7 tips to help your organization get the most value from social media. Did you know that 47% of nonprofit leaders say recruiting sufficient volunteers is a big problem for their organization?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

This is the third post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Blog Design Best Practices.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Contributing memorial donations is a meaningful way to honor someone’s life after they’ve passed away. Your nonprofit should have a clear strategy for managing memorial donations and building relationships with donors and the family of the deceased. Your nonprofit’s mission is related to the reason the person passed away.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. 1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged. One size does not fit all.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

It’s an online-fundraising-friendly environment out there, with everything from donate buttons for your Facebook page to crowdfunding sites that leverage the power of relationships. If you want your online fundraiser to pack some punch, you need to plan for it. Otherwise, you run the risk of burning out your online followers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Nonprofits Activism Leadership 145

iMarketSmart

JULY 14, 2023

Here’s the situation: You’ve been tasked with finding a fresh batch of potential major donors to engage. You’ve been given an arbitrary and unreasonably short timeline to find them and secure some big gifts. Propensity means just what it sounds like – an inclination to make big gifts to causes like yours. What do you do?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Every year during the week between Christmas and New Year’s, we like to spread some good cheer with some free stuff for our awesome readers like you! Today I share newsletter ideas for January and how you can get ideas every month by subscribing to the Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. 1/01: New Year’s Day.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

More than 75 percent of Gen Z and Millennial donors reported preferring giving online, meaning it’s essential to use fundraising solutions that help you better understand and connect with this audience. But where should you start when it comes to finding the right fundraising website for your nonprofit?

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Fundraising Coach

JUNE 25, 2020

I’ve worked for many arts nonprofits over the years and the one thing they all have in common is a love for fundraising events. It’s a natural selling point for donors to attend an event featuring a performance, a movie screening, or a dinner with a star. From New York; to Minnesota, Pennsylvania to Missouri. Lot of them.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 10, 2024

AI and machine learning are the new buzzwords in the prospect identification field proposing yet another solution to the challenge of building caseloads of major donor prospects. But can they really help you fill a caseload with qualified major donor prospects better than other methods? What Is Machine Learning and AI?

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Lets Talk Nonprofit

JANUARY 5, 2022

nonprofit can't. If my 10-year-old niece were a nonprofit, you can bet that I'd support her. How exciting it is to be the child (or nonprofit) who receives a gift! And how thrilling to be the aunt (or donor) who gets a sincere thank you that conveys that excitement and genuine appreciation. Let me tell you why.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

To date, more than 50 million donors have given over $5 billion through the GoFundMe fundraisers. The public counts on nonprofit organizations to champion important issues and bring about positive change. But a nonprofit organization’s yearly financial budget isn’t always enough for its goals.

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Nonprofit Fixer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As any fundraiser knows, the more prepared you are before a major donor ask, the more likely you are to succeed. That’s where donor prospect research comes in. Fresh prospect research can help you navigate every element of the donor conversation and avoid surprises. What Is Donor Prospect Research?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

This is the fourth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Related Webinar: Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofits Public and Nonprofit Management 135

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Nonprofit professionals and the organizations that depend on them understand the importance of investing in ongoing professional development. That’s where ongoing professional development for fundraisers and nonprofit leaders comes in. Never stop learning” is her rallying cry. . “I

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iMarketSmart

MAY 17, 2023

Gift officer turnover is holding so many nonprofit organizations back. Some experienced major gift officers have seen the same donor prospects interact with up to 15 different MGOs over the course of their years of involvement with the organization. And not just in terms of the higher revenue they could be bringing in.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Every year during the week between Christmas and New Year’s, we like to spread some good cheer with some free stuff for our awesome readers like you! Get ideas sent directly to your inbox every month by subscribing to the Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. Learn more and get your Pass. 1/01: New Year’s Day.

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Ethics Culture Law Health 52

iMarketSmart

APRIL 12, 2023

Wealth screening data gets a lot of attention and usage from nonprofits looking for a quick way to identify people more likely to make a major gift. Within those lists, the wealth screener looks for individuals already within the organization’s database who also appear to possess a high wealth capacity. What Is Wealth Screening?

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Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 13, 2023

Struggling with your confidence in any role, including work in nonprofit organizations, can impact your performance, happiness and overall approach to your career. Is it some rare condition that only rears its head in younger workers or those facing new and big roles? But it doesn’t have to be.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 9, 2023

The donor must participate. The classic text on these sales, SPIN Selling , explains, “there are many ways to open a call, but the common factor of most good openings is that they lead the customer to agree that you should ask questions … you want to establish your role as the seeker of information and the buyer’s role as the giver.” [2].

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