Get Fully Funded

MARCH 8, 2023

In 2022, online giving grew by 12.1% , motivating nonprofits to find more ways to connect with their supporters through digital channels. As a result, more organizations are looking for ways to implement an omnichannel fundraising and marketing strategy. And above all, always include your nonprofit’s name and logo prominently.

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Affnetz

AUGUST 7, 2023

Free And Affordable Nonprofit Software Solutions Free And Affordable Nonprofit Software Solutions / mike crum Free and Affordable Nonprofit CRM, Donor Management, Fundraising, Stakeholder Engagement Software Solutions Nonprofits are infamous for tight budgets.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 29, 2022

It’s been one of those weeks so I am just gonna get right to the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have some trends reports, some Instagram rebellion, an update from Facebook for nonprofits, a checklist to avoid spam filters, and more.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There are many ways you can use text-to-give to improve your fundraising strategy. Consider incorporating these tactics to maximize support for your nonprofit: Select a Text-to-Give Provider. Use Text-to-Give in Fundraising Events. Incorporate Text-to-Give in Ambassador Fundraising.

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Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As a fundraiser, you’ve surely run into obstacles during fundraising campaigns before. Maybe you’re still a few hundred dollars away from your goal during your most important fundraiser of the year, but it feels like you’ve totally run out of donor opportunities. Text-to-give.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JULY 19, 2022

Keeping up-to-date with current fundraising events is integral to maximizing your incoming revenue. On the heels of a global pandemic and an looming recession, it can be impossible for fundraising professionals to know for certain what the fundraising industry will have in store this year. . Embracing virtual fundraising.

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Getting Attention

AUGUST 2, 2011

Nonprofit Management 101 is a practical, comprehensive handbook for marketers like you, introducing you to key practices throughout your organization. Fundraising from Individuals, Companies, Foundations, and Grant Writing. Marketing, Public Relations, and Events. Collaboration, Partnerships, and Mergers.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 24, 2023

Your school needs a strong fundraising strategy to bring in extra revenue, engage your community members, and power your school’s mission. Whether you’re hosting an auction in-person, virtually, or as a hybrid, you can rally supporters around your fundraising goals and engage students, parents, teachers, and community members alike.

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The Agitator

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Attention all you introverted marketer/fundraisers out there. better marketers and fundraisers. I say: Passion is OK, unless it leads to dense communications.]. communications fun fundraising nonprofit management premium' You’re vindicated. It’s not true that you don’t like people.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

DECEMBER 13, 2022

To succeed in today’s competitive grant writing environment, fundraisers and nonprofit professionals must practice and master critical skills to develop winning proposals. PCC , you will discover your personality style and learn how to best communicate with others to avoid interpersonal conflicts — at work and in life.

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The Agitator

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

With November almost half gone, there’s not much we can timely advise regarding your year-end marketing/fundraising program. Acquisition communications direct marketing Don''t Miss these Posts fundraising marketing metrics media usage nonprofit management nonprofits online fundraising social networking premium'

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Having the right tools in your fundraising toolkit makes your life easier. And your fundraising more productive! It takes an entrepreneurial heart to start a nonprofit, fundraising and marketing skills to grow it, and leadership skills to manage it. Is my nonprofit’s logo clear and easy to read?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 2, 2011

That’s why I was really intrigued when Darian Rodriguez Heyman, former Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation, told me he was bringing together 50 of the sector’s leading experts to create the newly released guide book, Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals (Amazon).

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The Agitator

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Chuck Longfield, founder of Target Analytics and chief scientist at Blackbaud, is one of my favorite fundraising analysts and observers. Of course, that’s because if you can communicate with someone. He preaches a lot about retention and how monthly giving programs relate to it.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Today she has some ideas on how to take that donor data and turn it into a communications startegy. In the last post, I talked about some of the basic metrics that nonprofit organizations could start measuring regularly in order to track donors to ensure that the donor base grows over a period of time. New Donors.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 3, 2024

million nonprofits, 1 million have annual revenues under $50,000, which must be used on supplies, fundraising, paid staff salaries, and marketing. You’ll Enjoy Resource Optimization ERP software allows you to manage nearly all business activities from one platform, reducing the need for multiple third-party programs.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 18, 2018

Time to wind down the week with the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of marketing and fundraising. Try these 7 Nonprofit Management Tips To Advance Your Career. Upcoming Events for Nonprofit Communicators. Registration is now open for the Communications Director Mentoring Program.

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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. Isn’t fundraising just sales? Fundraising is different. Fundraising is different because charitable decisions are different. But fundraising is different.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning FAQs What is strategic planning for nonprofits? During the strategic planning process, you should identify areas to spend money effectively in ways that increase your fundraising return on investment. Our nonprofit shouldn’t take any risks. Volunteer boards should take charge of fundraising.

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Ken Goldstein

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

A point I''ve been harping on for some time whenever I speak to groups of nonprofits is the importance of communicating to your supporters the way they want, not the ways you''re used to. This is what we mean by multichannel communications. Here’s what She has to say about managing multichannel communications.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We've searched far and wide for the best and brightest nonprofit conferences from all around the country! We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Nonprofit Management. Marketing & Communications. Nonprofit Technology, and more! Nonprofit Management / #AMI2019 / @NPL_Alliance.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 30, 2017

Here’s the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words. Don’t be shy – tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. . We need to hear from you! And this is his typical day: 5:30 a.m.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 22, 2020

Most of the time donors spend involving themselves with your organization happens without a fundraiser present. For this reason, nonprofits must embrace a system that refreshes portfolios thanks to a constant stream of fresh opportunities, thereby reducing ‘hoarding’ by gift officers. Fundraisers desperately need support.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 31, 2011

I’m hosting this month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival , where the theme is quirky, kooky, and off-beat nonprofit marketing and fundraising ideas. If I had to pick one subsector of the nonprofit world that does some really creative marketing, I’d have to pick local animal shelters and humane societies.

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The Agitator

APRIL 8, 2013

“What differentiates great fundraising from the average, good or poor?” ” These are the questions Professors Adrian Sargeant and Jen Shang set out to answer in a year-long study aptly titled: Great Fundraising. ‘Great Fundraising’ is defined not in absolute money terms but in terms of massive growth.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Whether you run a nonprofit and need staff training, or are building your own skills, our new courses offer a comprehensive training program in topics from volunteer development and grant writing to fundraising and budgeting. There is something for every member of your nonprofits' staff!

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The Agitator

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Thanks to Joanne Fritz at About.com for alerting us to the latest report on cause marketing from Cone. Cause marketing is Cone’s specialty … they know their stuff. The 2010 Cone Cause Evolution Study notes that moms and Millenials (age 18-24) are the biggest believers in cause marketing.

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The Agitator

OCTOBER 2, 2011

At first glance, this article from the McKinsey Quarterly — We’re all marketers now — might seem too ‘foreign’ to the experience of nonprofits and fundraisers to bother with. So, what does this mean in fundraising terms? But I urge you to read it. Believe me, it does apply.

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The Agitator

MARCH 7, 2013

Jeff Brooks at Future Fundraising Now just ran this guest post — Why donors get jaded, and how you can stop it — from George Crankovic at TrueSense Marketing. That’s part of fundraising too. ” So, he views the problem as chiefly one of poor communications. ” Amen! More on that next week.

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The Agitator

OCTOBER 2, 2011

At first glance, this article from the McKinsey Quarterly — We’re all marketers now — might seem too ‘foreign’ to the experience of nonprofits and fundraisers to bother with. So, what does this mean in fundraising terms? But I urge you to read it. Believe me, it does apply.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When it comes to fundraising, we often strive to use storytelling and tugging of heartstrings to appeal to potential donors. Research conducted on effective marketing tactics and donor psychology are extremely beneficial to crafting communications that engage donors. But there is a science behind doing this well.

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EveryAction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We've searched far and wide for the best and brightest nonprofit conferences from all around the country! We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Nonprofit Management. Marketing & Communications. Nonprofit Technology, and more! Nonprofit Management / #AMI2018 / @NPL_Alliance.

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The Agitator

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Editor’s Note: This guest post by international fundraiser Francesco Ambroghetti was triggered by our piece, Your Call Is Important To Us. accountability charities communications fundraising legacy marketing nonprofit management nonprofits online fundraising planned giving You Deserve a Raise premium'

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The Agitator

AUGUST 4, 2010

Our always-thoughtful fundraising colleague, Lisa Sargent, recently interviewed a dozen plus nonprofit execs re the fundraising issues they’re facing today. She publishes her observations in this report, What’s Working in Donor Fundraising and Development Today ? It’s definitely worth a read.

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The Agitator

AUGUST 6, 2012

But as he answers with respect to all marketing in his post, The circles of marketing , Seth Godin would say … The Product. As Godin says: “When the thing you sell has communication built in, when it is remarkable and worth talking about, when it changes the game–marketing seems a lot easier.

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The Agitator

OCTOBER 6, 2010

So I grumped about readers not offering their comments on my choice for best fundraising website, after I nominated Charity:Water. Regarding Charity:Water, their featured September online fundraising campaign raised over $700,000. Each of you responders deserves an Agitator raise! Even their report is well done. Anyone envious?!

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The Agitator

MARCH 6, 2014

Donordigital has just released a study on integrated fundraising — Integrated Fundraising: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly — based upon ‘secret shopping’ at 16 major US nonprofits.

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