Selfish Giving

JANUARY 4, 2023

Several of you remarked how fun it was to have a contest and to do something different! 3 Things to Do Now to Crush It in 1st Quarter 2023 How to Overcome Your Prospect’s Fears Who is Your Perfect Partnership Prospect (PPP)? How to Use Twitter for Partnership Prospecting ? Congratulations to the winners! ??

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Nonprofit email marketing is still a great way for nonprofits to reach the right people with the right message at the right time. It’s a great tool especially when you connect your email engagement work to your nonprofit’s big mission goals. But nonprofit email marketing can be complicated!

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Clairification

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The job of the smart fundraiser is inspiring passionate philanthropy to make people’s lives better. But none of us is born with a fundraising gene. And no one ever really teaches us how to write a smart fundraising appeal. The truth is writing a compelling fundraising appeal can be tricky.

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Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As a seasoned corporate partnership professional, Abby knows how critical social proof is for securing partnerships. That's why she partnered with me to write several case studies and to improve KAB's corporate partnership landing page. Discussed how KAB's corporate partnership landing page could be improved.

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Selfish Giving

JULY 13, 2022

For readers new and old, here's how to get the most out of my newsletter. Whitelist my email address. ?? Take a moment to whitelist my email, joe@selfishgiving.com. Whitelisting an email address just means you add it to your approved senders list. If you hit a paywall, I can email you the article. Have a question?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

For most of us, fundraising isn’t something that comes naturally, especially a straight request for donations. It’s the great irony of fundraising – we love to help but we don’t like to ask for help. It’s the great irony of fundraising – we love to help but we don’t like to ask for help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

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. AI as a writing tool can make you even more efficient and give you time to do other things like plan great fundraising campaigns. At the office.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Laurel Dykema Guest Post by Laurel Dykema When I started my nonprofit writing career, I was a new college graduate with a lot to learn about nonprofit communications. For example, you can turn a Facebook post that performed well into a fundraising email. Or could you reference a relevant news story in an upcoming email?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today I’d like to address something practical: How we learn. What does it have to do with fundraising and nonprofits? How we learn is super important, as it’s the foundation of our ability to succeed. We tried all sorts of things to get attention and see how far we could push the boundaries. Why am I bothering with this?

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Ann Green

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Year-end fundraising season is underway. It’s just as important, if not more important, to plan how you’ll thank your donors. There are many ways to thank your donors after an appeal – by mail, phone, email, on your website, or a combination of those. Write your thank you letter at the same time you write your appeal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

While ChatGPT may be all the buzz, have you considered how it and other artificial intelligence tools could enhance your fundraising efforts ? For nonprofits, it’s proving to be a valuable resource for writing communications, deepening engagement with supporters, and fundraising.

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Selfish Giving

APRIL 13, 2022

These days I'm writing a lot of case studies for partnership teams that are eager to use "social proof" to recruit more corporate partners. A few other things I've learned writing case studies. It's about learning how to use the case studies as a tool to recruit partners. I'm there to write the first draft. I get that.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A good fundraising email subject line can make or break your request for funds. You see, most people focus just on the email itself and the subject line is an afterthought. You see, if the email doesn’t get opened, you get no donations. Heck, you’re probably inundated with email. Big mistake. Read that again.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

It’s Fall and that means it’s time to find the perfect fundraising letter template. If your Fall fundraising appeal is all planned out, well done. I have a fundraising letter template that works. Don’t send your fundraising appeal to people who don’t want to hear from you anymore. And good news! Ready for it?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Welcome to our monthly post where I share writing ideas for newsletters, social media, blog posts, and more! These writing ideas for November come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. Fill out the form below to get December’s prompts emailed to you the end of next week. 11/20: Absurdity Day.

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Selfish Giving

APRIL 27, 2022

This is too bad because you all know how much I like, use, and recommend Twitter. While I'm not cutting the cord on my social media accounts, I am recommending that nonprofits - and more specifically partnership teams - spend less time focusing on social and more time on email and building their email list(s). I like this idea!

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Selfish Giving

JULY 12, 2023

Here's the prompt I want you to use: Write a [type (e.g., informal, professional, with a Boston accent)] sales email for a corporate partnership with [nonprofit], which is the perfect partner for a company that wants to give back and reach a valuable target audience. Here's the prompt I want you to use: Write a [type (e.g.,

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

A well-rounded fundraising plan should include a variety of strategies like a signature event, appeals, monthly giving, and at least one online fundraising campaign. Just like anything else, you need a plan for fundraising online. With so many tools available, it’s easy enough to start an online fundraiser.

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 27, 2024

Since you’re on this website, you are showing an interest in nonprofit fundraising and marketing. So I wanted to write to you about the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. I love this conference so much, I risk never getting this email to you because I might keep writing and writing and writing.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Effective Lifecycle Email Marketing for Nonprofits (Strategies + Examples) Do you want to gain more email subscribers for your nonprofit organization and keep these supporters giving again and again? Email doesn’t have to be complicated. Email marketing is an effective tool for nonprofits. Follow these tips below.

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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. It made me curious about whether we could help a client see a lift in giving by segmenting storytelling content in email appeals. Here’s an example of one of the campaign emails.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Sounds complicated, how would we do that? What segments do we have and how should we communicate differently to each of them? Here’s some visual proof that your fundraising communications are not one size fits all. Step 1: Use actual names At the most basic level, start by using a donor’s first name in the email or letter.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

End-of-year fundraising season is upon us, and if you’re like most fundraisers out there, you’re probably frantically trying to write killer appeals. Hours of writing, editing, rewriting, and testing go into crafting something that inspires donors to give. But how do you do that? Think about it.

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Ann Green

AUGUST 16, 2023

Thanking your donors is just as important, if not more important than fundraising. Yet many organizations spend a lot of time putting together a fundraising campaign and treat thanking their donors as an afterthought. It’s not only important when you’re running a fundraising campaign, but also during the “between times.”

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Ann Green

APRIL 22, 2024

We also have email, the internet, and social media, just to name a few. How does your nonprofit organization compete with all this? Email may be your primary mode of communication and there’s a reason for that. It’s fast, easy, relatively inexpensive, and almost everyone has an email address. It’s a lot!

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re looking to brush up on best practices for annual appeals, boost your fundraising game on social media this GivingTuesday , or build expert storytelling skills to win over supporters this giving season and beyond, we’ve got you covered with this list of 12 free nonprofit books. The hardest part of fundraising is making the ask.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

But your staff members can’t always afford to spend time writing emails to donors on top of their other responsibilities. That’s where email automation comes in. By automating your basic email needs, you can engage donors more efficiently. What is Email Automation? Let’s dive in!

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Nonprofit Fixer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Writing grants for your nonprofit organization can entail a lot of work. If you start from scratch with every grant proposal, the work of grant writing can become incredibly hard. Luckily, there is an easier way to write your grants throughout the year: start with a boilerplate grant proposal. Keep reading to find out how!

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Ann Green

AUGUST 4, 2021

Thanking your donors is just as important, if not more important than fundraising. Yet many organizations spend a lot of time putting together a fundraising campaign and treat thanking their donors as an afterthought. Put all the tax-deductible information after your message or in the automatically generated thank you email.

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Lets Talk Nonprofit

JULY 5, 2023

If you're writing an online application and the response allows 300 words, do you need to use all 300 words? What's the right length of the fundraising materials you write for your nonprofit? ARE YOU WRITING A GRANT PROPOSAL? ARE YOU WRITING A FUNDRAISING APPEAL? The same question holds true for grants.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

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. Included in this article you’ll find: The results of our flash polls we conducted on year-end fundraising. 78% had not started writing as of late August.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 27, 2023

These writing ideas for August come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. Fill out the form below to get September’s prompts emailed to you next week. Create awareness for your cause by using the hashtag #nationalnonprofitday, thank supporters, or kick off fall fundraising a little early.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Below are the notes from the “10 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Trends to Watch in 2022” webinar presented by Heather Mansfield on December 1. The webinar was designed as a supplemental course to the webinar series required to earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising. Thank you and Happy New Year!

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Words are everything in fundraising. The way you tell your story and engage people in your message can make or break your fundraising efforts. And how do you tell a good story? So, what does it look like to use storytelling in fundraising, especially when it’s done well? Again, words matter.

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Ann Green

JULY 28, 2020

This could be a tough fundraising season, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do a campaign this fall. Thanking donors often takes a back seat to fundraising when you should spend equal time doing both. Many organizations just thank their donors after they receive a gift and then disappear until the next fundraising appeal.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 9, 2023

Maybe you’ve experienced this with a fundraising letter that performed so poorly you called it a failure and didn’t want to try it again. Maybe you’ve experienced this with a fundraising letter that performed so poorly you called it a failure and didn’t want to try it again. Your words matter when you’re trying to get people to donate.

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Candid

MARCH 5, 2024

Fundraising can be an ongoing challenge for any nonprofit organization, but for newly established ones, it can be a daunting hurdle. So, how can a new nonprofit develop a pool of prospective donors when they’re still building their visibility and reputation? Second, develop a realistic fundraising plan.

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