Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

If you’re starting a new nonprofit, you already know that you need to raise money. 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. Many founders do.)

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Whether you’re a school sports coach, a member of a PTO or booster club, or the manager of a nonprofit sports organization, you understand just how vital fundraising is to keep your team going. On the other hand, if you’re just getting started, you’re probably looking for the perfect fundraising idea for your team.

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Fundraising Coach

APRIL 9, 2024

Let’s explore two fundraising scenarios. School A and School B are both holding month-long read-a-thon fundraising campaigns to cap off the end of the school year. School B uses the pledge fundraising model and asks students to collect $3 pledges for each hour spent reading from their sponsors. What is pledge fundraising?

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 1, 2024

Understanding the giving habits and motivations of your millennial audience will give you a leg up in the fundraising space. This group has begun to dominate across donor demographics, which your organization has probably seen if you’ve done a fundraising assessment recently.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

The end of the year is a critical time for nonprofit fundraising. A well-crafted year-end fundraising plan helps nonprofits define clear and specific fundraising goals, identify potential donors, and tailor their messaging better to resonate with their supporters.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Fundraising events have always been a cornerstone of nonprofit organizations’ efforts to engage donors and garner financial support. Let’s explore strategies to maximize the potential of fundraising events to both retain your loyal donors and capture their friends’ attention and support.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 11, 2023

In each post, one donor will share what inspired them to make a donation and why they donated to that specific nonprofit. Our hope is that this series will provide fundraisers with an even better understanding of what motivates people to donate to the causes they care about. The Nonprofit : Out Boulder County.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. The pandemic has drastically altered the ways nonprofits interact with their supporters. But not all nonprofits are effective on social media.

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Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 15, 2023

After 30 years in nonprofit leadership, I’ve come to believe that there is one key skill that can boost your personal and professional success. And it’s the fundraising skill that can make your resume – and your leadership - stand out. The Power of Those Who Ask Being a good fundraiser is about so much more than dollars in the door.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

By Audrey Phillips , a customer success manager at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Explain your motivation. Include all necessary tools to fundraise, if applicable.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 26, 2023

7 Omnichannel Customer Engagement Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations When it comes to nonprofits, engagement is the lifeblood that fuels volunteer participation, donations, and advocacy work. Chapters Why being omnichannel is important? This digital shift was accelerated further by COVID-19.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you might feel like your fundraising efforts stall from time to time. Maybe you’re experiencing the summer fundraising slump. Ensuring that your fundraising efforts receive a high return on investment (ROI) is critical for keeping your nonprofit running smoothly.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2021

It would be nice if a product fundraiser miraculously raised money on its own, right? You offer something for sale that benefits a nonprofit, and people scoop it up! You must be in the driver’s seat and have a solid grasp of best practices when running a fundraiser, including a product fundraiser. Why are you fundraising?

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Picture this: You’re about to hold the fundraising event of a lifetime. Planning your fundraiser now feels time-consuming and stressful, and you’re not sure if you can get your event ready in time. Send updates and targeted communications. For example, let’s say your nonprofit is organizing a fun run fundraiser.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 23, 2024

It enables organizations to communicate seamlessly with volunteers, track their activities, monitor progress, and use resources. Benefits of Utilizing Volunteer Management Software Enhanced Communication Effective communication is crucial for volunteer management.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Are your board members resistant to fundraising ? Do you have a difficult time motivating them to participate in this essential activity—one that helps your nonprofit carry out its mission? . However, before you can inspire them to become effective fundraisers, you must first take responsibility for their resistance. .

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 2, 2024

The nonprofit sector is filled with shifting best practices, emerging technology solutions, and noteworthy trends. By investing in employee training opportunities, your nonprofit can equip its staff with the latest tips and tools for success. Amplified community impact. More professional connections. Improved employee retention.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you know how important hosting fundraising events is to both expanding your donor base and retaining existing donors. By giving supporters a way to connect with other like-minded supporters and your nonprofit’s staff, you can facilitate community and deep relationships at these events.

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 31, 2023

When you create marketing content to reach out to donors or introduce your nonprofit to a wider audience, how do you describe your organization? Do you stick to the basics, repeating your mission statement and the same fundraising appeal every time? Storytelling makes supporters feel more connected to your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2023

By Lyn Chamberlin , President at Lyn Chamberlin Leadership – an award-winning nonprofit brand strategist who works with organizations and successful women to create transformative brand narratives. Your organization’s brand story holds immense power, especially for nonprofits striving to engage donors, volunteers, and partners.

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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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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Knowing your audience members’ relative age range can help you choose how to communicate with them. Knowing about their hobbies can help you create events and fundraising opportunities that align with their interests. The more dedicated your supporters are, the more likely they will be to make a donation to a nonprofit like yours.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 3, 2022

More and more nonprofits are implementing DIY (do-it-yourself) fundraising in their yearly fundraising strategy–and for good reason! DIY fundraising offers your nonprofit a more hands-off approach and gives the reins to your most loyal supporters. Birthday Fundraiser. Event-based Fundraiser.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 16, 2024

If fulfilling your mission and being identified as an employer of choice are priorities for your nonprofit, invest in employee professional development. This guide outlines four tips for nonprofits of all sizes and levels of sophistication to improve their professional development programs. Encourage participation in your program.

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Ann Green

APRIL 14, 2022

Donor engagement is vital to nonprofit success. By donating, volunteering, and spreading the word about your organization, donors fuel your nonprofit mission. . As a fundraiser, you need to increase donor engagement , and the only way to do that is by tracking engagement metrics and monitoring your success. By Ally Smith.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2024

When it comes to reaching your nonprofit’s revenue goals, major gifts are critical. For the average nonprofit, roughly 80% of all revenue comes from only 20% of its donors—and most of these earnings are major gifts. As Freewill’s guide to major gift fundraising explains, there are four main components to the process.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Your nonprofit has several needs and limited resources. Available funds are low, and you know it will take more than one fundraiser to get your books where they need to be. To tackle this need for extra funds, many nonprofits launch concurrent fundraising events.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JULY 3, 2023

Crowdfunding Videos: 7 Ways They Will Help Your Nonprofit Campaigns Incorporating crowdfunding videos into your nonprofit campaigns can provide a multitude of benefits. We’ve curated the seven ways crowdfunding videos can help enhance your nonprofit campaigns. The role of content is vital in a crowdfunding campaign.

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Candid

APRIL 24, 2024

Imagine a world in which philanthropy professionals are focused on improving their practices to transform philanthropy through centering communities, lightening the burden on nonprofit organizations, and holding themselves accountable to their values.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2023

The easiest planned gift for your supporters to make is to leave a portion of their estate to your nonprofit as a bequest in their Will. Even if you don’t have a planned giving campaign devoted to Make-A-Will Month, you should at least promote it several times via email, social media, and other communications. That is simply not true.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 4, 2023

By Michelle Kocin , Digital Marketing Manager at Sylogist Mission CRM – a donor management, fundraising, and volunteer management platform build for nonprofits and NGOs in the Microsoft Dataverse. When we look at the giving landscape in North America, the preferences and motivations for giving vary across different generations.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 30, 2014

To be successful fundraisers, we need to understand how to communicate to our audience segments in order to make the right kind of ask. And now with millennials coming of age, many of us nonprofit professionals are working to understand their giving potential and, more importantly, how to tap into it. Encourage us to volunteer.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2022

Fundraising events shine the spotlight brightly on event day, event week and beyond, if you do it right. Why should we run auction fundraisers? There are pros and cons to each type of fundraiser, depending on the audience, your in-house capabilities and your resources. In-person event fundraisers are fun!

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 29, 2024

For example, giving back through philanthropic initiatives shows that you care about your community. Additionally, revisiting your marketing campaigns can help you connect with local audiences, reach new audiences and generations , and personalize communications. Offering corporate sponsorships or partnerships to nonprofits.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

It’s a horrible feeling when the tried-and-true fundraising methods that have worked in the past stop working. or the fundraising letter you hoped would generate $7,000 barely nets $3,000…. …or or your online fundraiser barely brings in $2,500 when you were counting on at least $4,000. Fundraising is about relationships. .

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Is your nonprofit gearing up to plan the event of a lifetime? Fundraising events bring in vital donations and have a huge impact on furthering your mission, but they take time, resources, and planning. From there, consider your fundraising goals. As nonprofit technology has advanced, so have gamification strategies.

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