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Top 8 Nonprofit Major Gift Asking Blunders

NonProfit PRO

A blunder is a careless mistake. It happens when you don’t 100% have a handle on what you’re doing, so taking good care becomes challenging. Have you ever blundered into disaster asking for a major gift? Let's review the top eight blunders I have encountered.

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Let Your Donors Know How Much You Appreciate Them

Ann Green

Year-end fundraising season is underway. You may have started working on your appeal, which is great. But don’t stop there. It’s just as important, if not more important, to plan how you’ll thank your donors. I highly recommend creating a thank you plan , which will help you show gratitude before, during, and after a campaign. . Many organizations treat thanking their donors as an afterthought and it shows.

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How to Drive Great Partnerships: Reflecting on $20M for America’s Youth

NonProfit PRO

At Boys & Girls Clubs of America, we are grateful to have many outstanding corporate partners. Through the years, we have found that the foundation of a strong partnership is twofold: engagement and long-term commitment.

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Social Media Marketing Tips to Boost Your Nonprofit’s Online Presence

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Social Media Marketing Tips to Boost Your Nonprofit’s Online Presence. Social Media Marketing has proven to be one of the most effective forms of marketing. How are you using it to boost your Nonprofit’s online presence? Check out the tips below. You wanna know how many people are using social media today? 4.70 billion! You know what this means for your nonprofit?

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Hustle Debuts Conversational Video Platform to Elevate Text Message Conversations with Personalized, Short-form Video

NonProfit PRO

Hustle launched its Conversational Video Platform — a comprehensive suite of solutions that leverages short-form video to personally connect brands to consumers, scale communication efforts and deepen trust. .

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Fear is Not the Answer: Building Relevant, Authentic Connections Through Marketing and Development

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

As a non-profit marketing and development professional, I have spent my career figuring out how to cut through the noise of a crowded marketing space. In doing so, my job is to write and design to connect and motivate my audience: be it to volunteer, donate, sign a petition, engage, et cetera. Like many nonprofit professionals, capturing my audience’s attention with copy is one part of a litany of other job responsibilities , not limited to graphic design, social media, communications strategy,

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Newsletter: What’s Your Pumpkin Spice Partnership Strategy? ; Farm-Animal Nonprofits Partner for 'Hunger Games' for Goats ; How & When to Use Slides in Your Partnership Pitch

Selfish Giving

???? Important Notice: I'm off to Italy?? on Sunday and WILL PROBABLY NOT be publishing a newsletter for the next two Wednesdays (September 21st & 28th). Sad, right? But my wife says I have to finally leave the house! ?? I strongly disagree, but she tells me she knows best! I say PROBABLY NOT because I ?? publishing my newsletter. After all, consistency is really my ONLY true talent and virtue!

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Your End Of Year Fundraising Questions Answered

Bloomerang

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. We had close to 2,000 fundraising friends sign up, and we kicked things off by surveying the audience about their year-end fundraising goals (which we defined to include Giving Tuesday ).

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Workplace AI Wants to Help You Belong

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Genevieve Smith & Ishita Rustagi. Picture it: At 11 a.m. on a Thursday, you get a personalized Slack notification prompting you to connect with a colleague you haven’t seen in a while. Then, at a midday team meeting on Zoom, you are alerted about who is speaking up less, so you can invite them to contribute. Later that day, while you are writing, an AI-powered plugin prompts you to use “chairperson” instead of “chairman.” The next day, in preparation for a qu

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How to Get CEOs and Boards to Embrace Year End Fundraising

Bloomerang

The post How to Get CEOs and Boards to Embrace Year End Fundraising appeared first on Bloomerang.

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Understanding Unrelated Business Income in Nonprofits

The Charity CFO

If you know only one thing about 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations , you probably know that they don’t pay federal taxes on their income. . But what if I told you that’s not always true? It’s true that due to their uniquely valuable societal contributions, such as charitable actions or educational priorities, nonprofits receive tax exemption for income from activities substantially related to their primary purpose. .

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Donor Qualification: Understanding the Essentials

Top Nonprofits

Imagine your nonprofit is conducting prospect research and finds a promising potential major donor. Based on factors like wealth indicators and past giving behaviors to other organizations, you assume they’d be a perfect match and expect you could successfully build a relationship with them to eventually solicit a large donation. . However, after investing your development team’s time and effort into researching the donor, meeting them, and inviting them to events, you find that they actually ar

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8 Fall Fundraising Ideas

Nonprofit Megaphone

Every nonprofit staff member and volunteer knows that successful fundraisers are essential for the survival and growth of any organization. For this reason, it’s imperative to choose the event type and components carefully in order to minimize costs while maximizing donor engagement. This is no small feat; it requires considerable forethought, attention to detail, and collaboration with local businesses and community leaders.

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7 Tips for Facilitating Your Next Focus Group

Successful Nonprofits

The post 7 Tips for Facilitating Your Next Focus Group appeared first on Successful Nonprofits.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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Getting Top Grades in Your Research Paper Writing

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Getting Top Grades in Your Research Paper Writing. How to Create an Effective Presentation Using Technology. Presenting your research can be a daunting prospect. The research can take months or even years from the time you decide on a topic and design your data collection to when you analyze the data and write up your results. Your presentation usually takes under an hour, so it can be difficult to decide what to include or leave out.