iMarketSmart

MARCH 20, 2024

But winning them requires you to make the donor think about their own death. And you can see more of the research and learn much, much more about legacy giving and how it taps into the core identity of a donor by taking our signature eCourse – Donor Story: Epic Fundraising. Isn’t there a better way to bring this up?

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I think too many major gifts fundraisers – and people in most other industries as well – are not using their LinkedIn profiles to their fullest potential. What you write in your about section on LinkedIn can play a big role in encouraging or discouraging your major gifts prospects from wanting to talk with you. What do donors want?

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 27, 2024

In our quest to inspire past major donors and board members to refer us to their friends and colleagues, we must first address the following five significant obstacles that stand in our way. Concerns about Referral Treatment Board members and donors may worry about how their referrals will be treated.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your biggest major donors simply cannot be treated like all your other donors. If you’re like most mid-size and larger nonprofits, they are funding the great majority of your operation. It’s about alignment with what a major gift represents. Major donor stewardship tends to happen after a gift is given.

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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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iMarketSmart

MARCH 8, 2024

Langley Innovations provides a range of services to its clients to help them understand the cultural underpinnings of philanthropy and the psychology of donors and, with that knowledge, to develop the most effective strategies and tactics to build broader and more lasting communities of support.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Exciting fundraising trends on the horizon for 2024 include peer-to-peer fundraising, giving flexibility, digital wallets, unconventional and emerging donors, and AI being used in fundraising. When a fundraiser receives a notification that a donor is close to lapsing, they can reach out and reconnect with that donor.

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Jeff Brooks

JULY 5, 2023

Are you handling your mid-level donors in the best possible way? When you do, you can dramatically improve revenue, and you’ll also find “hidden” major donors. Here are some ways to get there, from the Veritus Group Blog, at Will the Real Mid-Level Program Please Stand Up? : Find out what each mid-level donor cares about.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 31, 2024

You know they’re in there, somewhere in your donor database. You just need to find them – those small donors who could turn into major donors. For this article, we’re going to unpack how to do this with prospective major donor prospects who may have been hiding in your database for years, or may be relatively new.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants tips on how to connect with and cultivate Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) donors: Dear Charity Clairity, My boss thinks we should get more funding through DAFs. In fact, the majority of DAF donors do not want to be anonymous. of those gifts were given anonymously.

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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. For many major gift officers, their LinkedIn headlines, as well as the rest of their profiles, are a missed opportunity to intrigue new donor prospects.

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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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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

We know that volunteers give 10 times more over their lifetime than non-engaged donors. This is why so many prospects have been led into the Hansel and Gretel deep dark woods of cultivation and so few donors have ever emerged from it. ” The fattening-up strategy isn’t working. .”

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iMarketSmart

JULY 7, 2023

Great MGO: Has many great opportunities in the pipeline and never dependent on one particular donor. Average MGO: Says no for the donor. Great MGO: Presents opportunities to the donor knowing that we are not all knowing regardless of how well informed we think we are. Great MGO: Always seeks to learn and asks for help.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to encourage their Development Director to take meetings with major donors. . Dear Charity Clairity, Every time I attend a conference or webinar on the subject of major donor development I learn about the importance of meeting with major donors in person.

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 15, 2024

So, tragedy is not too strong a word; it applies to donors who could have done so much more and to organizations who missed so much by skimming across the surface of human potential but most especially to those who spent a career fundraising without witnessing the awe-inspiring soul and the vast potential of true philanthropy.

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iMarketSmart

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Here’s the answer: Your primary role is to help donors move themselves forward through their own consideration and decision-making processes… to ‘advance.’ Here’s why: The process for making a major gift is a highly considered decision. When advancement works best, would-be donors first come to understand their own motivations.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

With just a little digging—using the tools and resources I will share in this blog—you will be able to get a picture of who donates to a particular nonprofit. Let’s get started: How can I find the names of individual donors that support an organization? appeared first on Candid Blog. But don’t get discouraged. Have a question?

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EveryAction

AUGUST 29, 2023

In your fundraising constituent relationship management (CRM) platform, the donations received and the goals you set for your campaign can seem abstract, but your fundraising successes and setbacks will have a major impact on the communities, causes, and people you serve. Based solely on income, Janet might seem a more promising prospect.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2024

By creating an endowment or accepting endowment gifts from high-capacity donors, you can set your nonprofit up for growth and greater financial sustainability—all without extensive effort. Donors may place restrictions on their endowment gifts, limiting how you can spend the earnings. That’s where endowments come in.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Understanding the motives for why donors make major gifts is a big part of successful fundraising. This is how we can relate to a donor and make offers that will resonate with them. And there are many tangible reasons why donors give , such as righting wrongs and honoring a family member or friend.

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Candid

JUNE 11, 2021

More than half of respondents also reported increases in government grants, including Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funding (58 percent), and foundation grants (52 percent), and nearly half saw increases in major gifts from individual donors (46 percent) and gifts from those giving less than $7,500 a year (45 percent).

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Jeff Brooks

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Veritus Group Blog tackles that problem at Don’t Be White Noise to Your Donor: 4 Ways to Stand Out : your donors are getting a lot of communication from dozens of nonprofits all asking for help, and many are tuning out because it starts to feel like “white noise” to them. For US donors.) People don't notice it.

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Donorbox Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Nonprofit marketing materials are a vital part of fundraising and donor outreach. Thanks to technological advancements, nonprofits now have access to vast marketing material. The trick is how to use them!

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Affnetz

JULY 26, 2023

First, a quick statistic : 90 to 95% of a Nonprofit’s budget usually comes from 5 to 10% of its donors. And if you’ve got a full time fundraiser on your staff and have been around a few years, chances are 90% of your budget will come from 10% of your donors. Many small and new Nonprofits use events to raise money.

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 1, 2024

But somewhere along the way, in too many instances, fundraising began to shift from something we did with donors to something we did to them. We the people pursuing collective interests became we the organization getting what we want from them, the donors. Jim Langley is the president of Langley Innovations.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 12, 2022

If you looked up suggestions for which major gifts metrics and KPIs your organization should be measuring, most of what you’d find would seem fairly reasonable. Those metrics don’t reveal the quality of your relationships with your major gift donors and prospects. What Makes Major Gifts Fundraising Metrics Different?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2021

Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who wants advice on the effectiveness of major donor thank you parties. I’d love your feedback on the effectiveness of major donor thank you parties. We previously have had a Presidents Club for our top tier donors, hosting a cocktail party for them at year end.

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Donorbox Nonprofit

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Meeting with donors is a vital part of stewarding them, especially major donors. And when you meet with a potential or existing donor, whether they give to your organization or not, it’s important to send a thank-you note after the meeting. You need to show your gratitude! But…what do you write?

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iMarketSmart

MAY 19, 2023

I didn’t know I should be asking this one question when talking to donors: “When would be a good time for me to follow up?” ” For some of you that were trained by some major gift legend that was successful and had the time to teach you, this might be super obvious! It changed everything! Ask when to follow-up!

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Jeff Brooks

JUNE 28, 2023

Telephone calls to thank donors for giving are a powerful investment. You should call and thank every donor, every time they give. Here’s some help on making those decisions from the Bloomerang Blog, at If you can’t call and thank every donor, who should be priorities? Start at the top of the list and work your way down.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Getting started in Major Gifts … better learn to golf! So many people told me I needed to learn to play golf when I started working in major gifts. There’s an idea that we need to do whatever the donor wants. It was so easy for me to tell donors that I didn’t play golf. It’s a gigantic time commitment.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Over the last year, there’s been an explosion of multi-million-dollar gifts from donors to their alma maters. In this blog, we’ll explore these evolving philanthropic dynamics and highlight why building and sustaining meaningful relationships with alumni donors remains central in higher education. billion in funding.

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Donorbox Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Your nonprofit may spend significant time and effort cultivating and soliciting major donors, but do you spend the same effort on your organization’s mid-level donors? Most nonprofits don’t know who their mid-level donors are and don’t have a plan on how to communicate and solicit gifts from these donors.

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Donorbox Nonprofit

JANUARY 5, 2023

Donations to this campaign can be matched by a major donor, a sponsor company, or the donors’ employers. The post How to Set Up a Donation Matching Campaign and Promote It appeared first on Nonprofit Blog. Most employers include this as part of their corporate responsibility program.

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Candid

MARCH 21, 2023

Philanthropic responses to the Turkey and Syria earthquakes Candid has been tracking philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake and reporting on major giving by public corporations and foundations. million from 40,000 donors. The United States has provided $185 million in assistance through USAID. to make the gift.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 21, 2023

Here are Nine Things I Wish I Knew My First Year in Major Gifts 1. It’s NORMAL to text donors. Success in major gifts comes from lots of practice. Fundraising Success: The Road Less Valued How the Most Successful Fundraisers Use Stories to Inspire and Motivate Donors to Give LIKE THIS BLOG POST? MAKE MISTAKES!

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