Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

What you might not know is that the right fundraising plan template can make the job much easier. What this means is that over time, your fundraising approach should change to meet the needs of your growing organization. What Fundraising Plan Template is Right For YOU? And no two fundraising plans should be exactly alike either.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 26, 2022

Looking for ideas for social media updates, blog posts, newsletter articles and more? These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. Create awareness for your cause by using the hashtag #nationalnonprofitday, thank supporters, or kick off fall fundraising a little early.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

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. AI as a writing tool can make you even more efficient and give you time to do other things like plan great fundraising campaigns. At the dog park.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2021

This can be an exciting opportunity, but it can also be overwhelming if you don’t know where to start or what will work when it comes to your fundraising event theme. . If you’re struggling to come up with a theme or gimmick for your fundraising event, this blog is for you. Step 1: Consider your goals.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Keep reading if you need newsletter ideas or social media ideas or blog post ideas, etc! These ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. Email messages of gratitude around Thanksgiving are a great way to kick off a series of fundraising emails in November and December.

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 18, 2019

With both Christmas and New Year's falling on Wednesday this year, I'm taking the next two weeks off. There are many ways to build an audience: blogging, email, Instagram, etc. Do you have a great idea? Watch these videos that poke fun at nonprofits and fundraising. Woo-hoo! ??Truthfully, Marketing Your Cause 1.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 14, 2020

Let’s dive into the coolest articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. But be warned, npEngage says Going Virtual is Not Enough: Reimagining Traditional P2P Walks for Fall 2020 and Beyond and Going Virtual is Not Enough, Part Two: Competitive P2P Events. Happy Friday!

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MAY 3, 2024

There is no need to fall prey to the tedium and inefficiency of manual or antiquated practices by giving room to innovative management tools, such as a salon appointment scheduler. The inefficiency in management can result in poorly kept appointments, a dissatisfied customer base, and eventually, losing out of income generation.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 18, 2021

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who wants advice on ways to stay in touch with potential donors who have major donor potential. . Are there others you would recommend we contact you to brainstorm this idea? — At a loss.

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 15, 2022

Fundraisers aren’t even allowed to tell the donor’s hero story. Fundraising with the administrator-hero story. Fundraising messages in the administrator-hero story may vary. And the fundraiser? The fundraiser is the stick used to whack the ATM. Fundraising is dirty business. And for fundraising it is deadly.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Unfortunately, that often means that finances fall to the wayside, putting your altruistic efforts in jeopardy. As a result, it is crucial not only that you invest your operating and capital reserve funds, but also that you stay abreast of current investment and fundraising trends. What does this mean for your nonprofit’s investments?

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Ann Green

MARCH 11, 2021

Your nonprofit website is a valuable tool for modern fundraising. This might seem like a no-brainer, but your website should showcase all of your upcoming fundraising campaigns and events. Add consistent content to your blog roll. Consider creating consistent and active blog content! By Anne Stefanyk.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget. However, we’ve seen that when it comes to free fundraising software, you often get what you pay for. Is it worth it to spend the money?

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2023

Instead, my peers and I found ourselves trying to cram in the minutes between endless Zoom meetings, fundraising calls, and presentations. The idea of removing myself from that cycle—even if it was only possible because I had been doing the same thing, for more than 15 years. At first, reclaiming that time felt selfish.

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Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 12, 2016

But just like our cars need routine maintenance or they'll fall apart, so do our fundraising systems. 4 Routine Maintenance Ideas Check your donation page Last month, I blogged about checking your donation page. You can find that here: It's a good idea to also check your nonprofit page messages.

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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. Plus, it’s hard to commit to the idea of paying someone to help with less challenging tasks when you know you can just do it yourself. I felt that way, too, in the beginning.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Let’s kick back with our favorite pumpkin spiced beverages and peruse the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of marketing and fundraising. It’s time for Mixed Links… Here are some ideas for Writing for Social Media: 7 Tips and Tools. Where do you fall on the oxford comma debate?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this blog post, I’m going to talk about how to evaluate those annual appeals before you publish them so you know you’re sending out the best possible ask. . The fundamentals of a fundraising appeal. Although you might chafe at the idea, it’s OK to do things like including contractions and beginning sentences with conjunctions.

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 10, 2023

Many nonprofits use RFM as a means to fill their fundraising caseloads with supposedly qualified prospects – people who have a good chance of becoming major donors. What does it do well, and where does it fall short? The idea here isn’t to say RFM has zero value at all. What Is RFM for Fundraising Caseloads?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Without good leadership, everything falls apart. The downside is that they tend to leave no room for anyone else’s ideas which squashes creativity and can lead to high staff and volunteer turnover. The upside is that team members feel included and many good ideas are born and refined through the group think. Facilitator.

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GiveGab

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Held this year in the DC office of Bonterra, GiveGab’s parent company, the GDLF is designed exclusively for fundraising professionals that partner with GiveGab to run their Giving Days. Charlie then went on to discuss the current state of the fundraising sector and the implications it has on the future of Giving Days.

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Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 13, 2023

Check out 10 expert Tips for raising $10K with facebook fundraisers. What if the biggest obstacle to the success of our nonprofit organizations isn’t fundraising, but our own mindset challenges? We have no idea what is really going on with other leaders or their organizations. The Halo Effect unfairly puts people on a pedestal.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

The sorry state of donor retention has been a topic of discussion for at least the past decade, since the Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report began collecting data. They don’t care if the touch comes from marketing, fundraising, or programs. Author information Claire Axelrad Fundraising Coach at Bloomerang Claire Axelrad, J.D.,

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EveryAction

JULY 18, 2018

For some things, spontaneity is highly desirable, but any fundraising professional will tell you that planning a campaign isn’t one of them. Having a detailed strategic plan in place before embarking on a fundraising campaign can be a huge determinant of its success, even before the first dollar is raised. Fundraising plan summary.

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Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Skilled influencers have their own style and can easily incorporate either products or brand ideas into their usual content to captivate and inform their audience. . Keep in mind that attracting recurring gifts won’t fully fall on ambassadors. Sharing your fundraisers with their social media followers.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 8, 2023

Relationship and giving Effective fundraising builds higher, “helpful reciprocity” relationships. This is nothing new in fundraising advice. The emphasis on love and passion led Dr. Beth Breeze to comment that, “The ‘how to fundraise’ literature risks being classified as romance if computers ever displace librarians.”[3]

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Following her “dive” into the development and fundraising world, she has never left and has found her niche working for Nazareth Child & Family Connection, formerly Nazareth Children’s Home, in Rockwell, NC where she serves as the Director of Development. Because of our small shop, public relations management falls to me.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Integrate marketing and communications goals with programmatic and fundraising goals. When you give in to the idea that BUSY is normal and a legitimate way to work in this job, here’s what I think you are actually embracing, especially as a nonprofit communicator: B is for Bogus. Create content that is agile too.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JUNE 14, 2018

In theory, it’s a great idea. Just sent a fundraising appeal? When there’s nothing especially newsy or timely, you can fall back to a default image that more broadly describes what you do. You can showcase more than one message at a time! It moves, and that’s exciting, right? Received great press coverage?

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 9, 2018

For better or worse, the world today allows anyone to have a voice whether their comments and ideas work or not. They are guesses and I don’t want my followers falling into the trap of thinking they know what they’re talking about when they don’t. LIKE THIS BLOG POST? Too many don’t. Here’s why.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 6, 2011

Layla Fry, director of communications for Southwest Key Programs , emailed me this question: “My organization is interested in merging the now separate functions of fundraising and communications into a ‘Community Engagement Team’ as you recommended in your book. Marketing and fundraising are two different things.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

And this is the time of year you risk having donors fall off a cliff. Grassroots fundraising guru Kim Klein suggests “ Is it all over between us? TIP: One terrific idea from my colleague Pamela Grow over on SOFII is: . They haven’t responded to any of your fundraising appeals thus far, so try a different approach.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. That said, the idea brings up a very important point. Gen X is big on blogging, e-mail, and social networking. Or blogging. Nor does Twitter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. That said, the idea brings up a very important point. Gen X is big on blogging, e-mail, and social networking. Or blogging. Nor does Twitter.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 1, 2011

I am on vacation this week, so I asked several friends to guest blog on a hot topic in our recent survey on what you wanted to learn more about: nonprofit events. Special events have an important place in a good overall fundraising program. You can get help pulling the event off and you will probably get some good ideas, too.

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Nonprofit Fixer

APRIL 24, 2020

Consider these 12 ideas for ways you can pivot right now in these crazy times. You will need these funds when the economy continues to struggle this summer and fall. I am a fan of Facebook Fundraisers because they allow you to raise fast unrestricted money from the networks of your followers, friends, board members, and activists.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 2, 2018

However, as excited as I am, I’ve been seeing a lot of instances where there is significant talk around equity, and yet the implementation falls far short of what the concept actually is.”. Just in case no one else knows the reason why a luau should NOT be your next fundraiser theme, you can be the voice of reason. 2) Stay woke.

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