NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2023

Let’s get started! Setting fundraising goals is an essential first step in the campaign planning process because it provides a clear vision of what your organization hopes to achieve and adds accountability for tracking performance. Define your goals. Narrow down your fundraising ideas.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 24, 2024

Accountability is good – even for major gift officers. Use the wrong ones, and your fundraising revenue will start trending the other way. The study found that using small-dollar metrics to hold major gifts fundraisers accountable hurt these charities – A LOT! But then, in month seven, they win a $250,000 gift.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Do you think a donor wants to be asked for a capital gift in April, a bequest gift in July, and an annual gift in November – all in the same calendar year? But that’s what all too often happens when you silo departments and campaigns: Asking becomes centered on your organization’s processes. No, they don’t.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2024

When you make assumptions about your major donors and prospects, the damage is even more severe. Because the stakes of your relationships with major donors are very high. Major donors contribute over 80% of funding to most nonprofits. What Are Some Common Major Donor Assumptions? And it’s annoying. Well guess what?

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JULY 31, 2023

But with so many potential donors out there, how do you know where to focus your efforts? In this guide, we’ll explore how nonprofits can use data to identify and engage prospective donors, leading to increased funding. Let’s get started! The answer lies in data.

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Ann Green

AUGUST 2, 2023

Even though it might be sweltering outside, now is a good time to start planning your year-end fundraising campaign, hopefully in an air-conditioned space. I’ve put together a checklist to help you get started. You can also use this for fundraising campaigns at other times of the year. Do you have a campaign plan?

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Affnetz

JANUARY 2, 2023

We had no annual campaign and our major donor program was nonexistent as I was singularly focused on foundation funding. You need to get in front of and stay in front of individuals who, unlike foundations, might fund you for many, many years with proper stewardship. Foundations Are Only a Part of a Fundraising Program.

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The Storytelling Nonprofit

APRIL 30, 2024

When non-profits undertake fundraising campaigns, segmentation is often involved for the gift array in the ask. The case for this is that non-profits can get a better return on investment when sharing the stories broadly since a lot of time and resources go into developing them.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Instead, make sure you’re segmenting your donor base when planning how to communicate with them. Instead, make sure you’re segmenting your donor base when planning how to communicate with them. For instance, if you want to increase donor retention with an outreach campaign, you wouldn’t want to target donor prospects.

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Affnetz

JANUARY 12, 2023

How to keep a development director more than 18 months. fundraising campaign management / By Mike Crum. I had envisioned having the opportunity to get a lay of the land, figure out where the bathrooms were in the office, etc., The average Development Director (person who heads up fundraising for a Nonprofit) is 1.5 Hello McFly!

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

You’ve outgrown your space, and you’re ready for your first capital campaign! So, no matter if you need $20,000 or $200,000 or $2,000,000 (or something else), here’s the basic formula you should follow for your first capital campaign to raise money for a facility. Your capital campaign will also bring you: New donors.

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 20, 2024

Planned gifts often constitute some of the biggest gifts charities ever receive. We’re going to give you three legacy giving language tools you can use to bring up the idea of a planned gift, and none of them require going near the subject of death. But winning them requires you to make the donor think about their own death.

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Top Nonprofits

MAY 24, 2023

Capital campaigns are major undertakings that will require investment and involvement from your nonprofit’s entire community. In particular, your organization’s major givers will play a pivotal role in the success of these large-scale projects. So, at what points in the process should you thank your major givers?

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to record and frame a combined ask (operations, campaign or program funding, etc.) for a capital campaign. . Dear Charity Clairity, We are running a capital campaign to open a home, plus fundraising for operations. — Conflicted and Conflated.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 31, 2024

You just need to find them – those small donors who could turn into major donors. But assuming you can identify new major donors among the thousands of supporters, prospects, and prior low-level donors, how do you connect with them on a personal enough level to nurture them into becoming major donors?

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

How do you find, attract, and qualify people who can give major gifts to your nonprofit organization? Gift officers lose so much time on prospects who don’t want to give, don’t want to talk, and don’t have the capacity to give transformational gifts even if they wanted to. It’s a problem as old as fundraising.

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Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 11, 2023

If you manage partnerships for Komen, share some of the signature campaigns from the early years of Pinktober. How to do cause marketing with a drive-thru coffee company. I'm talking about nostalgia with some nostalgia of my own today. This post was a big hit last fall. I've updated it with some new pumpkin spice! ? ? EVERYWHERE.

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Ann Green

MARCH 28, 2024

As much as I dislike cleaning and organizing, I’m happy once it gets done. Often getting started is the hardest part. Just think how happy you’ll be when you’re done. Here are a few suggestions to help you get started. Don’t wait until right before your next mailing or campaign to clean up your donor data.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 10, 2024

AI and machine learning are the new buzzwords in the prospect identification field proposing yet another solution to the challenge of building caseloads of major donor prospects. But can they really help you fill a caseload with qualified major donor prospects better than other methods? What Is Machine Learning and AI?

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Candid

MARCH 2, 2022

Capital campaigns are big undertakings, for both you and your donors. They’re the ultimate testing ground for your donor stewardship tactics, as you’ll be asking for quite a lot — extra-large gifts, multi-year commitments, feasibility study interviews, and more. It’s natural to fear donor fatigue during a capital campaign.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 9, 2022

As a nonprofit fundraiser, you’ve probably heard some variation of the phrase, “treat every donor like a major donor.” If you treat every donor like a major donor, you’d probably run out of team member time. Plus, not all of your supporters want to be wined and dined like a major donor. 9 steps to identify your major donors.

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Selfish Giving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

How to Use ChatGPT to Write Partnership Outreach Letters ? How to Use ChatGPT to Write Partnership Outreach Letters ? I'm a subscriber and am "gifting" you the article.) I want to research this more when I get back from vacation. For the next two Wednesdays, I'll be in Italy and then Washington, D.C., Incredible trip!

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Ann Green

JANUARY 25, 2024

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? In this post, I’ll tell you why monthly giving is important for your nonprofit, how to start or grow your program, and how to nurture it going forward.

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The Storytelling Nonprofit

MARCH 5, 2024

The key issue here is a discernment of the content going out in emails and how aligned it is with your overall goal for email. The key issue here is a discernment of the content going out in emails and how aligned it is with your overall goal for email. It costs staff time and resources to get one email out. Got a press release?

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

With that, let’s get started. It involves your efforts to recruit new supporters, engage with existing ones, and grow your organization’s influence, all with the goal of funding your mission more efficiently. That’s why developing a strategic fundraising plan is necessary. We’ll cover: Why you should create a fundraising strategy.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Major donors make a major impact on your nonprofit, but it can be a bit scary to ask major donors for a donation. If you’re new to major donor work, you know what I mean. And the best way to get to know your major donors is to ask good questions that spark conversation. Start With Gratitude.

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 1, 2024

The first campaign as we know it today was run by the YMCA after a couple of branch leaders realized a greater good could be achieved if the Y pooled its efforts so that together they could more fully serve a rising need and a greater good. Philanthropic facilitation is as old as human history. We built things together.

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Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 4, 2023

I think of fundraising as mostly consisting of three P’s: the Pitch (what you say do donors), the Platform (how you deliver that pitch) and the People (who is doing the fundraising). This post will help you think about the basics of creating a fundraising calendar and I will give you a template to get you started.

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Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 8, 2024

It’s well-known in the nonprofit world that the second gift, sometimes even referred to as “the golden gift,” is when donor retention rates start to rise. So why do donors continue to give to your nonprofit after their first gift? How do systems of expressing gratitude work and why do they matter for retaining donors ?

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Ann Green

APRIL 14, 2022

Increasing donor engagement can motivate a donor to give a second gift and keep them donating. These metrics will help you understand how engaged your donor base is and help you identify areas for improvement. The “recency” dimension is the amount of time that’s transpired since a donor’s last gift. How often does a donor give?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

To help you capitalize on the start of the biggest donation season of the year, Classy.org is answering top questions from nonprofits that are zeroing in on the year-end giving season. It’s the perfect time to nail down your strategy and decide how you’ll stand out. Show them precisely what impact their gift will make.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

The year-end giving season is your nonprofit’s final push to meet and exceed your financial objectives before the start of next year. to submit tax-deductible gifts. to submit tax-deductible gifts. In this guide, we’ll review the importance of year-end giving and the best strategies to use to plan a successful campaign.

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

She's a junior at the George Washington University majoring in journalism and mass communication and minoring in public health. I'm seeing more of #3 - videos in email campaigns. This might be a great way to introduce yourself to prospects and get noticed! Here's a step-by-step guide on how to include video in your emails.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There is still time to get your organization ready with a few easy steps. . donors at every level (not just major donors), and potential new supporters expressing interest in your cause. . And make sure you have a good appreciation system set up during the campaign so that folks know you received their donations. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, if your organization has the bandwidth, photos and videos are a major plus. ? This guide is meant to help you prepare for each season in your fundraising year. Winter 2022. Implement a multichannel fundraising strategy with plenty of different opportunities to give. Revenue from Facebook fundraisers alone grew by 14% last year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

Even if you’re confident that online fundraising is the right direction, it’s hard to know how and where to get started. The good news is that once you embrace digital donor engagement tools, most of the grunt work – like donation forms and gift acknowledgements – is done for you through automation.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

These 5 reports will help us figure out who is in your database So to get started, log into your database and note the total number of people. If anyone needs a quick tutorial on the basics of running Bloomerang reports, this is a great place to start! Report #1: Total number of donors Let’s get started.

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