iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

How do you find, attract, and qualify people who can give major gifts to your nonprofit organization? But what continues to distress gift officers and others who work at large nonprofits is – even with the newest technologies like AI – their caseloads continue to be bloated with too many people who aren’t qualified to give major gifts.

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Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Supercharge your board fundraising Board fundraising is one of the thorniest challenges in nonprofit leadership. Board members and nonprofit leaders know that fundraising is essential to meeting your organization’s mission. In my decades working with nonprofit boards and leaders, I know just how difficult this dynamic can be.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 17, 2023

Why do gift officers quit their jobs so frequently? Gift officer turnover is holding so many nonprofit organizations back. If you’re in leadership at a nonprofit, how do you think your gift officers are feeling about their jobs? And not just in terms of the higher revenue they could be bringing in. What about you?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 24, 2019

Flickr Creative Commons photo by Jeff Eaton Many nonprofit communicators have a similar complaint about the news media. And, quite often, it’s because you’re sending news releases that fail to capture the imagination of reporters and editors. That’s what the release is for!

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This emotional experience is all too common for fundraisers. It can make fundraisers avoid asking. Someone’s got to choose the fonts for that new ‘branding’ effort.”) What if the “no” was an essential part of the story? Embark on a sacrificial journey to impact the larger world!” How can that be? Self-doubt?

Universities 52

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2023

It’s easy to think of this as face-to-face, one-on-one conversations. Questions can arise in Donor telephone conversations (one-on-one but not face-to-face) Donor focus groups (face-to-face but not one-on-one), or Donor surveys (neither one-on-one nor face-to-face).

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