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. And yet board members are often reluctant to fundraise – and staff are hesitant to push back.

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Want to start a fight in a fundraising comment section? 1] Another writes, “Fundraisers need to focus MORE on creating memories and moments with their donors … and LESS about hitting those wacky metrics or year-end goals.”[2]. Yes, they’re all talking about fundraising. But fundraising isn’t one thing. small sales.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

November has arrived, and with it, an increasing flurry of communications ranging from political ads to door-busting holiday sales to year-end giving requests. Even if our message is meaningful and brilliant, how can we ensure that we will connect with our key audiences, especially during peak fundraising season?

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 27, 2022

Get more information about a pinned article. This option will promote nonprofits to pin more relevant and high-quality articles to fit the users’ needs. The article contains more appropriate information, including a byline, brief outlook, and backlinks to the source. Repin to raise your audience. What does it mean?

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iMarketSmart

MAY 16, 2022

It matters for fundraising story. A powerful fundraising story starts with the right words. A powerful fundraising story starts with the right words. Just sales, right? Isn’t fundraising just sales? Whether it’s a used car or insurance or scholarships, sales is sales, right? Not exactly.

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Selfish Giving

APRIL 13, 2011

One of the greatest feelings in the world is when someone comes up to you out of the blue and says they’ve been reading your blog for some time and learned something they’ve been able to put into practice. Interested in learn more about point-of-sale programs and other cause marketing fundraisers?

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Our friends at Cone this week shared that Jiffy Lube had already reached more than 65 percent of its $1 million national fundraising goal for the 2010 Maintenance Partners for Life campaign. More than 1,700 Jiffy Lube locations across the U. Point-of-sale works. Combine cause with coupons. million for St.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The effective fundraiser is the donor’s guiding sage. In fundraising, this character is powerful and effective. The problem is not with the fundraiser, the donor, or even the public. Fundraising isn’t advancing the donor’s hero story. Fundraising is asking for money by asserting the administrators’ heroism.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 11, 2022

It’s money with a different reference point. This affects fundraising. Large gifts are made possible by large reference points. Gifts of wealth. A donation comes from the intersection of motivation and cost. Most of this series focuses on the motivation side. But often the secret to unlocking major gifts is on the cost side.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 26, 2023

All this just makes the great struggle faced by the heroic leaders more noble. But one day we’ll make a million-dollar sale. You ask, “So, you’re waiting for a million-dollar sale. He responds, “You know, you make a good point. But you can’t expect a million-dollar sale if you don’t have a million-dollar car on the lot.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 22, 2023

5] To play the game yourself, go to [link] Lead with a gift: Back to relationships So, how does game theory apply to real-world fundraising? Lead with a gift: A simple fundraising example Games and theory are fine. What actually works in fundraising? 1] This primal-giving game models reciprocal altruism.[2] How complicated?

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 18, 2021

In my previous post I outlined the 3 types of marketing automation tools fundraising operations really should understand. Plus I recommended you deploy high-level automation to support the raising of major and planned gifts. And if they get it, they’ll be more likely to respond favorably when they finally get asked to help.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2020

the technology that helps raise awareness of the cause. the technology that helps raise awareness of the cause. So, to help you write an effective nonprofit business plan, we gathered together a few useful tips that will help you properly plan your journey to raising awareness about the cause you’re passionate about.

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iMarketSmart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

And yet, outreach is one of the most essential components of major gifts fundraising. If you don’t successfully reach out to donors and prospects to schedule appointments, calls, and meetings, you don’t raise any money. Their first time being approached about engaging more deeply to explore giving a transformational gift.

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

I like this blog post written by Greg Ring over at The Giving Crowd. . In it, he outlines his Four C’s of Successful Fundraising. Although, I’m not sure why he calls it that since there are a lot more than four C’s in the post. I like those points. Transformational giving is a highly-considered sale.

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Selfish Giving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Pollak, My name is Joe Waters and I’m a local cause marketer who writes the blog Selfishgiving.com. The business “profits&# from enhanced favorability in the public eye and perhaps increased sales. You can read more about cause marketing here. Identify and attract more lucrative forms of funding (e.g.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 15, 2018

She helps organizations get more visibility and online connections through improving their social media presence and websites. She also has a ton of free resources like webinars, online classes and blog posts. . Vu takes a humorous, realist approach to nonprofit management with his blog called “Nonprofit AF.”

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2014

You can register now for this free webinar from Gail Perry at Fired-Up Fundraising – Last Minute Fundraising Strategies to Take You Over Goal! Speaking of NTEN, they are redesigning their website and chronicling it in a series of blog posts. But at the rate it’s growing at some point you may have to.

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Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Twitter, Facebook, blogging, etc.), Because the backbone of Foursquare is the businesses at which its members visit, check-in and score points. When you pop into a store, bar or restaurant you can earn points, badges or can even become mayor of your favorite hangout if you “check in&# enough. Here’s how.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 26, 2023

All this just makes the great struggle faced by the heroic leaders more noble. But one day we’ll make a million-dollar sale. You ask, “So, you’re waiting for a million-dollar sale. He responds, “You know, you make a good point. But you can’t expect a million-dollar sale if you don’t have a million-dollar car on the lot.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 9, 2017

” So, moves are what the fundraiser does. Fundraisers achieve their goals if they develop plans for their activities. Moves management in fundraising is the development of plans and activities to raise money. Doing so is smart because it keeps a fundraiser focused on who and what is important. Persuasion?

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

First: when we talk about cost, we’re not talking about fundraising expenses. Rather, 1 out of 5 people with $50 million or more feel extremely financially insecure and 1 out of 10 feel somewhat financially insecure. People are motivated more by stories than they are from a chart full of numbers. But those feelings matter.

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iMarketSmart

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

But in terms of the long-range management of that customer’s account, you’ll be kidding yourself even more than you’ve kidded the customer : An order you get by “beating the buyer ” nearly always turns out to be business that you wish you hadn’t sold.” LIKE THIS BLOG POST? Now I know why.

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iMarketSmart

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Fundraising metrics can’t do everything. So, let’s look at some hard stuff when it comes to fundraising. Fundraising math v. fundraising emotion. Scenario 2 raises four times as much money. And you’ll raise four times as much money.[4] And you’ll raise four times as much money.[4] Scenario 1.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 18, 2022

1] This may be particularly true in fundraising. If the cost feels smaller, a gift is more likely. If the cost feels smaller, a gift is more likely. This can happen when the cost is compared with different reference points. In fundraising experiments, a match works better than an identical rebate.[4] Not exactly.

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Selfish Giving

APRIL 7, 2009

This is according to my three sales people on the team: Joanna, Holt and Ashley. . In the third circle the gang put business journals, competing fundraising events, networking events, Google and the advertisers they see and hear on radio, TV and print. After blogging comes microblogging using Twitter.

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Selfish Giving

JANUARY 7, 2009

I’m unsure how much I’ve told you about my team in the past but it’s comprised of a wonderful group of marketing, sales and event professionals who plan and execute multiple cause marketing programs each year. . As a team in 2009 we agreed that we would: Focus more on affiliate cause marketing.

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iMarketSmart

JULY 24, 2023

Effective fundraising can deliver real value to donors. 1] But fundraising can do more. More precisely, it’s a pro-social code.[3] A gift helps the other player more than it costs. For example, it can enhance public reputation. This external identity has tangible economic value.[1] It comes from a moral identity.

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It''s been my pleasure to get to know Claire Axelrad and her great blog Clairification. I''ve always said my best Halloween costume was to dress as a fundraiser! Witches, Goblins or Fundraising? What’s scarier than fundraising , headless horsemen and spooky ghosts combined? Fundraisers ask when needs are apparent.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

APRIL 30, 2013

For the month of April, I’m hosting the nonprofit blog carnival. I work in sales and he always reminded me, “You have to ask for the sale.” When I became passionate about helping good causes raise funds, he’d say, ‘You have to ask for the donation.’” How has it transformed your work? Why should I care?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 12, 2011

You develop a cause marketing partnership where, for example, they donate a percentage of sales or accept donations on your behalf (like in those coin jars at the register). Setting up Marketing and Fundraising Partnerships with Local Businesses. Joe will explain all of these cause marketing techniques and more.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

JANUARY 29, 2014

Have you ever wondered how your nonprofit could further expand its reach, win over new donors, and raise more money? In Fundraising with Businesses , Joe offers 40 doable ideas, complete with examples and tips for getting started. What inspired you to write Fundraising with Businesses ? You could be doing so much more.

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iMarketSmart

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The monomyth role of the hero’s guiding sage can inform the fundraiser’s work. It can build the fundraiser’s occupational ideology.[2] 2] It can direct the fundraiser’s emotions and career. This can happen when the fundraiser personally adopts this role. A tricky question for fundraisers. with ‘I’m a fundraiser.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2023

Socratic fundraising asks questions. Socratic fundraising can still work. The universal steps for a compelling donor experience are: Socratic fundraising guides the donor through these steps.[1] 1] First, the fundraiser must have a valid reason to ask questions. But sometimes that isn’t feasible. Or they’re too far away.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 17, 2013

In his recent blog post he discusses why we should sometimes avoid “easy leads” and, rather, seek to qualify our leads more vigorously. First let me point out that my firm used to be a bare-knuckle marketing “hired gun” for some of the toughest businesses in the Washington, DC region. 3- It takes time.

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The Agitator

JULY 1, 2018

As our Canadian readers recover from yesterday’s celebration of their 151st Canada Day and American readers prepare for Wednesday’s 242 nd celebration of Independence Day we thought it appropriate to devote this week to reexamining some fundraising fundamentals that may—or may not—be in need of major change or at least updating.

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Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

A few months ago, my colleague Pamela Grow released a new book specifically for nonprofits with a “one person” fundraising shop. Like I do with all books I mention on this blog, the links to this book are affiliate links.). Like I do with all books I mention on this blog, the links to this book are affiliate links.).

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