Ann Green

JULY 8, 2025

In your fundraising appeals, don’t bury your ask. Instead of saying something like – We’re helping underserved communities who are experiencing food insecurity, say – Thanks to donors like you, we can serve more families at the Northside Community Food Pantry. You can start with a story, followed by a clear, prominent ask.

Food

Ann Green

MAY 19, 2025

For example, a food bank might create a dedicated in-kind donation page listing all the specific food items theyre running low on and what they would like donated. As Managing Director of DNL OmniMedia, Carl works with nonprofits and their technology to foster fundraising, create awareness, cure disease, and solve social issues.

Nonprofits

Jeff Brooks

MARCH 12, 2025

Good fundraising writing starts with good sentences. Instead of By 7am, all the food was gone. Make it All the food was gone by 7am. Theres nothing inherently wrong with passive voice, but it can make sentences less clear: All of our food was quickly eaten. Should be: Hungry neighbors quickly at all of our food.

Food

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JUNE 24, 2025

But nonprofits are grappling with a very different — and challenging — fundraising landscape this year. By Rasheeda Childress Mid-Ohio Food Collective The Mid-Ohio Food Collective is worried about potential funding cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and what they will mean for the people the food bank serves.

Food

Ann Green

JANUARY 20, 2025

The concept of relationship fundraising has been around for a while, even though its not always implemented. That includes fundraising appeals. If your giving is declining, you should have more success if you can move away from transactional fundraising and focus on building relationships. Generally, it happens way too often.

Energy

Ann Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Its important for you to remember these four words – Ask, Thank, Report, Repeat If your nonprofit follows this fundraising formula, you should be more successful. Going a step further, fundraising expert Penelope Burk recommends seven touches before asking for another gift. The Better Fundraising Co. Recognize each donor.

Retention

Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Between the festive giving mood and donors rushing to make tax-deductible gifts before the end of the year, the holidays are the most important time of year for fundraising. While classic fundraising appeals can encourage contributions, year-end is also a great time to experiment with unique fundraisers that make your nonprofit stand out.

Fundraising

Ann Green

JULY 29, 2025

Keep these in mind when you’re writing a fundraising appeal, thank you letter, update, or any type of donor communication. Plain and simple, your fundraising appeal should have a prominent ask and entice someone to donate. Avoid terms like food insecurity and underserved communities. Is it Clear? What is your intention?

Communication

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 11, 2025

Green Your Detox: Eco-Conscious Foods and Habits for a Clean Liver Detoxifying the liver is essential for maintaining overall health, as this organ plays a crucial role in filtering toxins from the body, processing nutrients, and supporting metabolic functions. In addition, consider the environmental impact of food packaging.

Food

Selfish Giving

JULY 2, 2025

Not something you hear every day: "The eagles drive our fundraising."​ When their chicks hatched, the nonprofit raised $100K through a naming fundraiser. Thinking of sending a fundraising letter from two people? With an audience this big, brands will be circling soon. Here's how to do it right​.

Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

JULY 3, 2025

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Nonprofit governance and management

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Transportation costs compound these challenges, forcing difficult choices between accessing financial services and meeting other basic needs like food or medicine. Solutions-focused donor communication Successful fundraising campaigns highlight specific solutions to financial access barriers.

Homelessness

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Most nonprofits rely on a few annual fundraising events to bring in much-needed donations and to raise awareness for their cause. There are so many forms of fundraising events, from charity runs to fundraising festivals. These goals will help you plan your event with a specific objective and fundraising target in mind.

Recruitment

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 18, 2025

While many organizations focus on public relations and fundraising strategies, smaller, often overlooked factors can significantly shape how your nonprofit is perceived. While those methods work for some organizations, digital-first strategies can cut complicated logistics and open your fundraiser up to non-local supporters.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 27, 2025

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Nonprofit governance and management

Ann Green

JANUARY 27, 2025

Monthly giving is one of the few types of fundraising that does well. Whether youre a big or a smaller organization or your fundraising went well last year or it didnt, monthly giving makes so much sense (or cents). You most certainly should send fundraising appeals to monthly donors, but not the same ones you send to other donors.

Retention

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.

Public and Social Policy

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 12, 2025

As you plan the fundraising events on your nonprofits calendar this year, you likely have questions about which formats will attract the largest audience: in-person, virtual, or hybrid. Virtual and hybrid events absolutely still have a place in the nonprofit fundraising world. Consider fundraising auctions, for example.

Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. Volunteer Recruitment: A QR code displayed on banners at a maker’s market or fundraising event can simplify sign-up for interested people.

Recruitment

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2025

A peer-to-peer campaign (or P2P) is a type of fundraising where individuals organize and host a campaign on behalf of a nonprofit organization and collect donations from their friends. 2) Dig Into the Details As with any fundraising campaign, there are logistics to consider with a P2P campaign. How will you keep track of results?

Participation and motivation

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Organizing hands-on volunteering events like community clean-ups, food drives, or shelter support days offers students the opportunity to make an immediate difference while connecting to the nonprofits mission. Pair food drives with storytelling sessions where students learn about local hunger challenges.

Energy

Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

According to the M+R Benchmarks report , fundraising mobile messages generate an average of $92 in revenue for every 1,000 messages sent. Chances are, if youre a nonprofit professional, youre curious about how mobile giving can improve your nonprofits fundraising efforts. Take stock of your fundraising programs.

Nonprofits

Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This initial time investment is needed to create a focused organizational plan that enhances fundraising and prepares the organization for new challenges. For example, an organization with the primary mission of providing financial literacy courses and counseling for low-income families may add service areas such as providing housing or food.

Organizational Development

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

And that means you have to figure out how to fundraise for your new venture. Should you start a GoFundMe or turn to a Facebook fundraiser? To fully fund your mission, you have to become a fundraiser. First Steps: Learning and Planning As with all big projects, its important to learn all you can about how to fundraise.

Nonprofits

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2024

bill paying; food deliveries; books and magazines, and much more). Major gift fundraising — From A to Z Fewer people giving gifts, but the overall value of donations going up, means you – whatever your size — must engage those individual major donors. Or maybe you thought this was a presumptuous ask.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Candid

MARCH 31, 2025

Beyond fundraising: How building community strengthens nonprofit sustainability. Fundraisers need to adapt. According to a Foundation Source survey , Gen Z and millennials start giving at a young agedonating items, volunteering, and supporting fundraising campaigns. The next generation seeks social change from the ground up.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 27, 2025

Its no secret that effective fundraising fuels your nonprofits workbut not all of the donations that may be useful to your nonprofit are necessarily monetary. For example, an animal shelter could share how many pounds of pet food or cat litter its donors contributed. In-kind donations (i.e.,

Public and Social Policy

Selfish Giving

JANUARY 8, 2025

Customers are encouraged to donate at the register and through annual fundraiser programs. Big Lots Big Lots conducts annual in-store fundraising campaigns to support On Our Sleeves , a movement focused on children's mental health. Bags are being sold online and in Harps Food Stores through the end of February.

Retail

iMarketSmart

APRIL 11, 2025

The two deadliest words in fundraising are: Annual Fund The first word suggests one gives simply because the Earth orbits around the Sun again. Each track or path quantifies the projected impact, either for each gift requested, or if a certain amount is secured e.g., stocking a shelf in the food for one month for every $1,000 given.

Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 23, 2025

One survey respondent from New Hampshire said, “Many of the food insecurity resources are being cut. Continue to your page in 15 seconds or skip this ad. window.dfp_npp_interstitial = googletag.defineSlot("/124057991/npp_interstitial", [[640,480]], "napco-ad-npp_interstitial").addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("pid",

Nonprofit governance and management

Clairification

MARCH 3, 2025

Id like you to think of them as your newly essential fundraising and communication strategies. If you were meeting your communitys need for food pantry distribution last month, are you still meeting it today using the same strategies and sources of funding? These are the two qualities most needed in todays topsy-turvy world.

Food

Candid

JANUARY 29, 2025

For example, a strategy focused on high-net-worth individuals requires not only a robust major gifts stewardship and solicitation program, but also engaging board members with connections to wealthy individuals and a commitment to fundraising.

Insurance

Candid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Friend-raise before you fundraise Trust is the foundation of any partnership, and building trust takes time. When fundraising for the Beloved Benefit, we didnt just ask businesses to write a check. Successful long-term corporate partnerships dont happen by accident. This makes it much easier for businesses to say yes.

Collaborations

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2025

Social media is an increasingly powerful fundraising tool, considering that 55% of people who engage with nonprofits on social media end up taking some sort of action. With this perspective, nonprofits can better identify opportunities to tailor marketing and fundraising campaigns to stakeholders preferences.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JULY 23, 2025

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Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

Burnout Among Nonprofit Staff The second development is widespread burnout among nonprofit staff who make up 10 percent of the American workforce fueled by many factors including a tougher fundraising environment. Been helped by a food bank or a church in your local communityor know someone who was? Have you visited an art museum?

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

When it comes to food insecurity, there are many myths and misconceptions that can get in the way of lasting solutions all while real people in the communities our nonprofits serve continue to suffer. Explore the realities and challenges of food insecurity.

Nonprofit governance and management