iMarketSmart

APRIL 7, 2023

I began noticing the disparities early in my fundraising career. Much of the fundraising advice shared at professional conferences did not seem to accurately reflect what I was experiencing with donors. I began asking myself if the seemingly ill-suited advice was: Celebrating the fundraiser more than the donor?

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Interrogating how legacy social media platforms and their harmful content policies impact nonprofit communications, organizing, and fundraising can lead us to prioritize equity and safety when moving to new platforms—or choosing to stay on existing ones. For nonprofits, this moment presents an opportunity for a social media strategy “do-over.”

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Clairification

APRIL 25, 2024

Get on the Pathway to Passionate Philanthropy, Not Forgettable Fundraising In Part 1 I laid out why philanthropy inspires, and fundraising tires. Fundraising must be done, of course, but there’s something about how it’s too often practiced that turns too many people off. It’s the “fund” part of the word.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image Credit: itsnnnoa on unsplash.com Nonprofit facilities communicate, and we need to be more conscious, thoughtful, and vocal about what they say about who and what our organizations value. Community Inspiration Finally, at the top-most level, a nonprofit facility can signal both the value of its mission and the people it serves.

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Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Image via winnifredxoxo on Flickr This month's thought-provoking article in the Harvard Business Review is titled 3 Ways to Determine What Your Customer Really Values. Let's change the title to 3 Ways to Determine What Your PARTNER Really Values and see what we can learn about corporate partnerships. ⚖️ Commoditized vs Customized.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2023

Join this free webinar to learn the secrets of turning one-time donors into recurring donors and how to increase the value of each supporter. We’ll also reveal where online donations over $5k are most likely to occur and what types of fundraising can result in $1,200 per donor over the course of a year.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 25, 2023

Thus, as a fundraiser, part of your job when interacting with a major donor prospect is to help the donor explore and understand their identity. They do possess very specific values, beliefs, and motivations, but if they haven’t taken time to reflect on them, they may not realize how closely these tie in to their decision to give.

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Veritus Group

APRIL 17, 2024

If your organization views donors as a source of cash rather than as true partners, your donors will not feel valued, and they will not stay. The post How Does Your Organization Think About Fundraising? (#2 2 of 6) appeared first on Veritus Group.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 15, 2024

But you can make an especially robust case that this is indeed the case in fundraising. What does it take to be successful in fundraising? Fundraising is a profession directed at nurturing friendships that culminate in gifts of time, talent, and treasure. I love the expression that fundraising occurs at the speed of trust.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

APRIL 17, 2023

For non-profit organizations, fundraising is a crucial aspect of their operations. The real challenge lies in retaining those donors over the long-term and increasing their lifetime value. The real challenge lies in retaining those donors over the long-term and increasing their lifetime value.

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Jeff Brooks

MARCH 2, 2023

Does your organization need a list of “core values”? Maybe, sas the Monday Morning Memo at Does Your Company Have Core Values? But sometimes your published core values can do as much harm as good. Values matter a lot. And donors want to be part of organizations that share their values.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In the world of nonprofit fundraising, much of what is considered best practice is steeped in tradition, passed down through generations of fundraisers. It’s imperative for nonprofit fundraisers to prioritize evidence-based strategies that yield tangible results. Tip #5: Use “gift” instead of “donate” for potent messaging.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Successful direct response fundraising campaigns feature many finely tuned elements, including demographically appropriate appeals, images, materials and keen insights about the best timing of solicitations.

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Mission Minded

MARCH 20, 2024

Why do we communicate with and cultivate donors by sending signals that are inauthentic to the ideals of equity woven into our brand, values, and mission? The post The Problem with Fundraising Communications appeared first on Mission Minded.

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Fundraising Coach

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I've said for years that fundraising is all about leadership. One of the best ways to grow in our ability to lead is to get clear on our values. When we know what we value, it makes it easy to figure out why some people, places, or practices are stressful to us. And while you're there, sign up to get the free Values Worksheet.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2024

I’ve referred to this phenomenon many times as ‘fundraising climate change’, and it is a centerpiece of my special report on how you need to adapt to the huge shifts happening in the fundraising world. Using humor, his goal was to draw attention to equally incorrect assumptions fundraisers make about major donors.

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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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Jeff Brooks

MAY 8, 2023

Here’s an easy formula for making your fundraising more relevant to donors. It’s just two words: So That , from the Linked in newsletter, Fundraising Friday. If you’re an organization insider, the value and importance of these things is likely self evident. No sense of the value or importance of the activities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

The landscape of nonprofit fundraising has changed dramatically in 2024. Imagine your nonprofit’s social media fundraising strategy as planning a trip to a new country. Ready to meet (and exceed) your 2024 fundraising goals? The rest must provide value to your audience like a gift.

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iMarketSmart

JULY 10, 2017

Too many nonprofits fail to inspire people to give because they don’t understand value. An exchange of money from supporters to nonprofits only occurs when a clear value proposition is presented helping them justify the expense. Nonprofits need to think of themselves as value providers. Increase the value.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Fundraising is evolving quickly. Have you noticed that everything feels a little different in 2024 compared to five years ago, especially when it comes to fundraising? The pace of change in fundraising trends can be rapid, driven by factors like technology, donor expectations, and economic shifts. Is your organization ready?

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 6, 2024

These interactions can be anything from attending a fundraising event to donating online. In this guide, we’ll explore three ways your nonprofit can inspire these positive feelings among donors through online fundraising. Let’s get started with the most important part of the conversation: choosing effective technology.

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As I've been thinking about it, the three things that help leading through uncertain times fit perfectly with fundraising too. We shouldn't be surprised - fundraising is all about leadership. So leadership principles should apply to fundraising too. 3 Commitments for Fundraising in Uncertain Times. See what I did there?).

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NextAfter

APRIL 27, 2023

Pop the confetti and cue the music because we’ve just hit a major milestone: this week we logged our 5,000th digital fundraising experiment in our experiment library. Lesson 1: Be a Smooth Operator Many fundraisers fall into the trap of focusing exclusively on simplifying the giving process. What are you talking about?”

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

AI Fundraising Idea Generator [40 Fundraising Ideas in 3 minutes] Do you want to host a great Fundraising Event for your Nonprofit, Church , School, or anything else? Check out how an AI Fundraising Idea Generator can help you come up with effective ideas in minutes.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 13, 2023

Fundraising ideas for nonprofits are one of the more exciting ways to add needed momentum to your mission. Fundraising ideas for nonprofits to fuel the mission So, how do nonprofits make money ? Common ways include donations, grants, and fundraising. The idea behind nonprofits is to support the public good. With over 1.3

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Bloomerang

MARCH 26, 2024

When you’re a busy fundraising professional, it might seem like you’re jumping from one campaign to the next. However, I encourage you to take some time to analyze your online fundraising campaigns to optimize your overall fundraising results. It seems often easiest to “rinse and repeat” last year’s campaigns. Access your data.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The fundraising world has seen many trends over the years. While not all of these trends have stuck, there has been a steady increase in digital fundraising —and for good reason. Digital fundraising opens up new possibilities for reaching a wider audience and raising significantly more for your cause as a result.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 11, 2022

Use this guide to help evaluate whether a streamlined software solution that manages many of your nonprofit’s core activities--such as accounting, CRM, and fundraising--will offer a good return on investment and enable you to maximize your impact on the communities you serve.

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Ann Green

MAY 20, 2020

Over the years I’ve come to find the value of keeping things simple. In your fundraising appeals, don’t bury your ask. How Jargon Destroys Nonprofit Fundraising & Marketing. In a way, the COVID-19 outbreak has forced us to keep things simple since we’re limited in what we can do, especially outside the house.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you understand how much time, resources, and planning goes into running a successful fundraising event. Successfully securing corporate sponsors for your fundraising event can not only give your budget and staff’s bandwidth a boost. This is where corporate sponsors can help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

By Jennifer Wemhoff , Communications Manager at GolfStatus.org – the leading event management platform for golf fundraisers. When it comes to fundraising events, one of the biggest lessons learned from the pandemic years is the unique value of golf fundraisers. 1) Golf’s Popularity Will Remain Above Pre-Pandemic Levels.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 16, 2023

Supporters are more active than ever, but fewer are donating to nonprofits. Join Classy and Nonprofit Pro as we discuss what's driving this shift in donor behavior and strategies to combat it. Don't miss this opportunity to gain strategic insights and tools that will increase the lifetime impact of your supporters.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2021

In part one of this series, I outlined my top six fundraising strategies for 2021: . Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Donors will run from fraud.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 4, 2021

Early in my nonprofit career, I learned that the job of a fundraising professional was securing resources to achieve a financial goal that would serve my employer. So, what does it look like to begin transforming your development practice in the context of community centric fundraising ? Rachel D’Souza-Siebert. Donor Engagement.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2024

In today’s fast-paced and economically uncertain world, nonprofit organizations (NPOs) face the critical task of fundraising effectively. Generosity unlocks the funds needed to propel your mission forward, and finding donors with both the wealth and generosity to give is critical to fundraising success. you’ve got a lot of competition.

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Veritus Group

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

When your back office isn't equipped to support your fundraising efforts, you're going to see higher levels of donor value attrition. The post How Your Back Office Can Destroy Your Fundraising appeared first on Veritus Group.

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