Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 13, 2023

But is feeling like an imposter at work really a syndrome? Or do most people actually face down imposter syndrome at some point in their careers? With a few key mindset shifts, we can finally start to believe that we ARE the leaders our organizations and communities need. What is imposter syndrome at work?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I had the pleasure recently of teaming up with my fundraising bestie and copywriting guru Julie Cooper to host an “ End of Year Appeal Writing Made Easy ” workshop. The response was overwhelming and we received a ton of really great questions. The response was overwhelming and we received a ton of really great questions.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re new to major donor work, you know what I mean. You’re probably asking for an amount that’s a stretch for you and it’s going to bring up all kinds of personal issues for you, especially if you have a negative mindset around money or wealthy people. But you know what makes it easier?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

Drafting a fundraising plan can be intimidating, especially if it’s your first time and you have no fundraising plan structure. In other words, you have no format, no template, and no idea where to start. But if you want to fully fund your nonprofit, you simply must have a plan. I’ve been there.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When you think of fundraising ambassadors, you might think of celebrities who use their fame to mobilize support for their favorite nonprofits. But fundraising ambassadors do not have to be celebrities. But fundraising ambassadors do not have to be celebrities. Sounds great, right?

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 10, 2024

But can they really help you fill a caseload with qualified major donor prospects better than other methods? Let’s start with understanding what we’re talking about. What Is Machine Learning and AI? It cannot know the values that drive a person to give or participate as a volunteer.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The season of gratitude is upon us and there is nothing more important you can do than thank donors for their support this year. After all, the season of giving is also almost here and before you start asking and asking, do some thanking first. Here’s why: go back to basics for a minute. I thought so.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Aaron: Yeah, let’s do it. . Good morning if you’re on the West Coast I should say and if you’re watching the recording, I hope we’re having a good day no matter when, where you are. And I’m so happy to see a full room here. We’d love to hear from you.

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Ann Green

JANUARY 25, 2024

Monthly giving is one of the few types of fundraising that did well last year. If your organization doesn’t have a monthly/recurring giving program or it’s fairly small, what’s keeping you from starting or growing your monthly giving program? They might be apprehensive about giving a one-time gift of $50 or $100.

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Bloomerang

JULY 16, 2021

The journey to find that next big gig can be tiring, grueling, and painful, and at times it can feel like you’re banging your head against the wall. It was estimated that about one million people lost their jobs. What do you do when you wake up the next morning? But don’t take it from me.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Good morning if you are on the West Coast, I should say. We are here to talk about philanthropic leadership.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 20, 2022

When you started your organization, you drafted a set of nonprofit bylaws which are the rules spelling out how your new venture would operate and how your Board would govern it. Now, you are not so new anymore. Maybe you just celebrated your nonprofit’s second or third birthday. When was the last time you even read them?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 24, 2022

And we might not have a great answer. At its heart, fundraising is helping others connect an existing passion directly to your cause. We don’t convince donors. We help them realize that they already care. The words you want them to say: “ Wow, it’s like he read my mind! ”. What do they care about?

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The Storytelling Nonprofit

OCTOBER 12, 2022

There are a lot of uses for stories in fundraising programs. We can use stories as a part of fundraising asks, donor communications, and donor stewardship. Using stories in donor stewardship is great for a number of reasons. As I like to say Impact + Accountability = Great Stewardship!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. I’m so glad you’re here. Good afternoon, good morning, no matter where you are.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Major gift fundraising is hard work. It’s about growing a relationship between donor and gift officer, as they work together to advance the donor’s hero story by giving big financial gifts. What is the number one fundraising enemy standing in the way of that happening? Every great story has a hero and a villain.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 27, 2023

Major gifts fundraising is about relationships. You know this, and it’s an easy truth to recite in a job interview. How do you do it with a new major gifts prospect? How is that different from getting a meeting with a previous donor or someone who has supported your organization in other ways?

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 30, 2022

When that happens, it makes the transition to new leadership very hard, when they do decide to step down. Darcella Craven of VetBiz joins me for this episode to talk about the warning signs for when a founder is “too important” to a nonprofit and how to handle the transition when you’re taking over for the founder of an organization.

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Image courtesy of Peter Wood A couple weeks ago, I shared a story with nonprofit executive directors who get my Fundraising Kick coaching emails. It's important enough that I want to share it with you too. My talk was for a mixed audience of nonprofit leaders but I knew I was going to be talking about fundraising too.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Major gifts fundraising faces many challenges. But donor related fundraising challenges often get overlooked in our obsessions with technology, processes, scripts, metrics, our mission, and the current state of politics and the economy, whatever that happens to be at the moment. Here are the three challenges: 1. Is it common?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

For-profit companies have prioritized “customer experience” for years because they know it’s much less expensive to retain a current customer than to acquire a new one. If you want to keep your donors, you need to pay significant attention to the donor experience. This is part 2 in a 3-part series. Read part 1. Brian Solis .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. 1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Not all fundraising programs look alike.

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 1, 2023

So many nonprofits seeking major gifts keep doing what they’ve been told by the so-called experts, consultants, and traditionalists. Do those techniques help activate the emotions that motivate transformational gifts? Why Do Major Donors Give? How do we do that? Sounds great right? Technology.”

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Seth Godin’s tips on Nonprofit Fundraising and Storytelling. Tags : Nonprofit Marketing , Fundraising. In this video, Amy Eisenstein interviews long time marketing Guru, Seth Godin on his thoughts on Nonprofit Fundraising and Storytelling. Video Transcript: hi I’m Amy Eisenstein welcome to ask the fundraising expert.

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 3, 2022

Scenario 1: You have 100 donors who have capacity to give a five-figure legacy gift, and they have a fairly high interest in giving something. Scenario 2: You have another 100 donors who have capacity to give a seven-figure legacy gift, and they have a somewhat low interest in giving to your organization.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As those in the nonprofit world realize, few things are as effective—or as time consuming—as fundraising events. However, they do require investments of your time and resources to drive results, even when held virtually. . What does a multichannel marketing plan look like? Here’s an example: . They are: .

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Selfish Giving

JULY 8, 2009

A summer ritual here on the development team is planning for the next fiscal year, which begins October 1st. Part of that planning process involves a half-day retreat for directors at my boss’ house where we discuss our goals for the upcoming year. I wasn’t surprised that he asked me to talk about social media.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 10, 2021

When you start a new nonprofit, you realize pretty quickly that with so many options, it’s important that you pick the right fundraiser to get the money flowing. Which one should you choose? There are so many things you could try to raise money. And something that you’re excited about hosting.

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NextAfter

MAY 31, 2022

The only way to truly know what works to increase donation and grow generosity is to test. And when I say “test”, I don’t mean: “We tried that last year, and it didn’t work.” “We We started doing that in our emails, and our open rates have been better.” “We We can’t do that – our board doesn’t like it.”.

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 23, 2019

Ours is a culture of convenience; we expect it in every area of our lives. Today, you can purchase a product, listen to music, or share information with your friends easier than ever. Your donors are the same people who buy, download, and share. Staff: Fundraisers / Marketers. The same goes for iTunes and Facebook.

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Lets Talk Nonprofit

JULY 3, 2019

When you keep more donors, you'll raise more money. It's really as simple as that. Smart fundraisers know that the real money lies in "donor retention" - or keeping the donors you already have. You want your donors to keep giving and, ultimately, give more. But you can keep more of them.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2014

But part of the job — as you’ll see in our guest post today — is also giving them the cold, hard reality check that comes from having worked in this field for nearly as long as they have been alive. I truly feel that the number of individuals who are born good listeners are few and far between. I’ll show you.

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The Agitator

APRIL 10, 2018

FUNDRAISING BULLETIN! ” Yes, I realize that half of that sentence wouldn’t have made a bit of sense five years ago. Ripple is the name of the enterprise blockchain solutions company (yes, the post title is a pun; are you retroactively laughing?). The request goes out to donors, who can fund all or some of the project.

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The Agitator

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Yesterday, on behalf of all the client-side readers who have groused to The Agitator, Roger had a go at fundraising consultants. Today I’ll attempt to balance the scales by extracting the kernels of ‘abuse’ we typically hear from consultants about clients. Call our donors … are you kidding?!”.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 20, 2012

Are online donors really fickle? You may be wondering why online fundraising seems to work so great for a few organizations and really poorly for others. Here’s what Blackbaud says . Who are these people who start giving online and then prefer to go to check writing?”

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 8, 2024

If you had more time, you could get more done. We each get 24 hours in the day. How you spend it is up to you. Chances are good that you’ve got time leaks – places where you’re losing or wasting time – and you may not even be aware of it. Talk about a time suck! More time to get organized.

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Fundraising Coach

JULY 27, 2016

It’s also what we’d hope to be true of our donors. That’s why, as fundraising professionals, it’s a large part of our job to entice donors and incentivize giving. And the best way to get people excited about doing something is to entertain them. And how do you entertain dozens or thousands of people at once?

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