Thu.Sep 22, 2022

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Creating Fundraising Systems for Your Nonprofit

The Fundraising Authority

This is a two part article on how to create fundraising systems for your nonprofit. In Part 1, we will talk about what fundraising systems are and why they are important for development. In Part 2, we will show you how to create systems at your organization. One Seriously Stressed Out Nonprofit. Let me tell you a story. It’s about a nonprofit I once worked with.

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How Storytelling Can Help Personalize Donor Communications

NonProfit PRO

Storytelling can entertain, educate and entice people to act. Nonprofits have more stories at their fingertips than any other organization. Nonprofits that create an internal storytelling culture can excite staff and volunteers, entice new supporters, strengthen relationships with donors, and raise more funds.

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The 5 Rules of Successful Annual Appeal Fundraising Letters

The Fundraising Authority

An organization’s annual fundraising appeal letter is a yearly letter that gets sent out to your current donors asking for general operating funds for your nonprofit organization. It usually gets sent to every donor in your donor file (or at least, every donor that has been active over the past several years) and normally gets sent out around the same time each year (the time of year differs by nonprofit, but once you pick a time of year, you normally stick with it).

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8 Questions to Ask to Get Inside Your Donor’s Head

NonProfit PRO

The better you know your donor, the better your appeal is going to be. That’s obvious. The problem is your donor is probably coming from a completely different experiential background. How do you get inside that person’s head?

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Instead of Disruption, Leverage What Already Exists

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Jim Bildner & Stephanie Khurana. For as long as most of us can remember, social enterprises and social movements have sought to disrupt systems from the outside or to make fundamental policy changes from the top down. But while these tactics have often worked in the past, their increasing lack of efficacy in today’s world suggests the need to rethink their allure in favor of new strategies that leverage what already exists, in order to bypass the dysfunction that constrains change a

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How Do Nonprofits Make Money?

The Charity CFO

Nonprofits exist to meet a societal need or provide a public benefit. Unlike an organization whose primary goal is to make money, nonprofits exist to meet a community’s needs. That said, while it’s not your primary purpose, your nonprofit must find ways to make money. . So what are those ways? How do nonprofits make money? Let’s take a look….

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Are You Ready to Panic Yet?

NonProfit PRO

Change is inevitable, but nobody likes it — me included. What doesn’t change is that every year around this time, fundraisers are starting to get overwhelmed. Some are even starting to panic.

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Postalytics Launches First Nonprofit Direct Mail Automation Software

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofit marketing teams and agencies can now automate the creation, integration and tracking of direct mail marketing campaigns with innovative new software that has just launched in the U.S. from Postalytics.

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Planting the Seeds for Change during National Adult Education Week

Volunteer Match

This week is National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week and we want to show some #LocalLove to Literacy Minnesota , the only statewide, volunteer literacy organization in Minnesota. Sophie Phan, Volunteer Outreach Coordinator and volunteer for Literacy Minnesota, believes in English literacy as a powerful means to broaden educational and economic opportunities for immigrants and refugees in the United States.

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Crisis to Resilience: A CNP Story

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Crisis to Resilience: A CNP Story. Article reposted with permission from Reginald Davis, CNP, Strong City Baltimore CEO. Reflecting on the last two years as CEO, I find it difficult to believe how much has happened with Strong City Baltimore and the world around us. I entered with excitement, hope, and trepidation. Following the retirement of a long-standing CEO, I assumed the top job for a sprawling organization with a rich history, commitment to enabling social change agents, and an opportunit

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How Innovation Is Driving Change for Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

For this edition, we wanted to dig into the innovation happening in the world of nonprofit fundraising, so we gathered some great minds to provide their insights and perspectives for you. Innovation is for everyone in the nonprofit community, and by embracing it we all win together.

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Comment on Fundraising is Not Always Fun: 7 Strategies to Help You Cope by Nicholas Gulde

Amy Eisenstein

Such helpful advice, especially the practice of trying to meet a donor out of the office every week, at least one donor. Thank you!