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. Who are your major donors?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 15, 2024

Fundraising is a profession directed at nurturing friendships that culminate in gifts of time, talent, and treasure. Here are 10 issues around fundraising ethics from my time leading advancement programs for higher learning institutions. Personal gifts : We often work with donors of substantial wealth. “De

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Personal acknowledgments, impact reporting, and a strong monthly giving program are some of the cornerstones to a high donor retention rate. But there’s one unsung strategy that can elevate your donor retention rates, while expanding mid-level and major giving: multi-year gift agreements.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Being up to date on fundraising trends for the year ahead is important so you can diversify and maximize your fundraising success! Reflecting on the past success of your fundraising efforts while also learning about emerging fundraising trends can help you decide how to best allocate resources for the upcoming year.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Believe it or not, I’ve found that there are parallels between one of the greatest Halloween movies ever made and major gift fundraising. Steward donors and encourage them to become loyal to your organization. . Well, donor loyalty is the biggest factor in determining and stewarding potential major donors.

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Ann Green

JUNE 30, 2022

The mid-point of the year is always a good time to see if you’re meeting your fundraising and communications goals. In this continuous time of uncertainty, your fundraising may be down. You may need to make some changes to your fundraising plan and other goals. If you’re doing okay, keep it up. Don’t fly blind.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to attract corporate matching gifts: Dear Charity Clairity, I have a question about how to attract corporate matching gifts. Matching gifts are truly the social benefit sector BOGO. Raise one gift, get the second gift free!

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 31, 2024

You know they’re in there, somewhere in your donor database. You just need to find them – those small donors who could turn into major donors. For this article, we’re going to unpack how to do this with prospective major donor prospects who may have been hiding in your database for years, or may be relatively new.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2023

Today’s question comes from a director of development who wants advice on how to quickly and efficiently find the best major gift and planned giving prospects: Dear Charity Clairity, We recently purchased donor analytics and now have a database overlay indicating who has major gift and planned gift likelihood.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 3, 2023

There are many ways your nonprofit can raise money for its cause, from launching peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns and hosting events to asking local businesses to sponsor your work. But one of the greatest sources of nonprofit revenue is major gifts, which are the largest individual contributions your organization receives.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your biggest major donors simply cannot be treated like all your other donors. If you’re like most mid-size and larger nonprofits, they are funding the great majority of your operation. It’s about alignment with what a major gift represents. For them, $25,000 is a mid-level 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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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Less than one in five new donors who donated on GivingTuesday will give a second gift, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. Yet general statistics don’t have to be your reality! Rachel Muir’s terrific post, Four Strategies to Retain Your #GivingTuesday Donors , shares her thoughts on this vital subject.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. In this post, I’ll explore the fifth strategy. . Another reason you need to embrace this type of strategy is because it will help you understand why your efforts succeeded or failed.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2023

Those at the top are “major.” Those in the middle are “mid-level.” In a dynamic energy vortex people swoop in and out, depending on what pulls them toward your center. Pushing folks up a ladder is really hard work, and sometimes their weight will simply be too much. Think of Sisyphus trying to roll that ball up a hill.

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EveryAction

JULY 31, 2023

Needless to say, if you’re a fundraiser, meeting your organization’s fundraising goal is top of mind in the fall and winter. One way to bring any organization’s end-of-year fundraising strategy to the next level is a matching gift strategy. In the end, the nonprofit receives two gifts for the cost of soliciting one!

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Unless you’re the first Executive Director or CEO of your organization, you are the pilot on a connecting flight. I pushed some of them hard to give up their default/learned style of supervising. Especially if that hasn’t been your experience in life or work.  What is servant leadership? The bully bosses. The narcissist.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning can help your organization meet challenges effectively and take advantage of new opportunities. The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. Let’s get started.

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Ann Green

JULY 12, 2023

The midpoint of the year is always a good time to see if you’re meeting your fundraising and communications goals. For this post, I’m assuming your fiscal year is the same as the calendar year. In this continuous time of uncertainty, your fundraising may be down. If you’re doing okay, keep it up. Don’t fly blind.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The purpose of a nonprofit budget is to help you better plan your income and expenses in order to accomplish your goals. On an individual level, we may use this important tool to make sure all of our living expenses are covered while simultaneously saving for a big vacation. Choose the best budgeting model for your nonprofit. .

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy encompasses more than just earning donations from supporters. 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. 10 steps to build your fundraising strategy.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 26, 2021

If that sounds like you, a coach can help save you time and make the most of your resources—as well as help you raise more funds. . Do you find that your fear, assumptions about donors, and general icky feeling about fundraising hold you back? The right fundraising coach can help you generate funds that surpass your investment.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

DECEMBER 6, 2022

While in-person events are largely back and can have many benefits, hosting a virtual auction can help reduce costs, keep people engaged with your efforts from the comfort of their own home or remote location, and provide an easy fundraising opportunity for nonprofits (with the right software and systems, of course!).

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Top Nonprofits

JUNE 28, 2023

Major gifts are the largest gifts your nonprofit receives. And no matter what a major gift looks like for your organization—whether that be $10,000 or $100,000—these large donations can do wonders for your nonprofit. Let’s begin! an individual has to be in the right financial position to do so.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2022

Donors who just made a donation to your nonprofit during the end-of-year giving season might not think you need another donation from them so soon after they made their last gift. They also might have stretched their budgets for holiday gifts and travel and don’t have as much to give as they would during other times of year.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 18, 2021

In my previous post I outlined the 3 types of marketing automation tools fundraising operations really should understand. Plus I recommended you deploy high-level automation to support the raising of major and planned gifts. Plus, I said it can help you move your mid-level donors up. Quick review.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 16, 2021

In this previous post we discussed the fact that lower-level, basic automation works better for raising low-dollar donors. . That’s why you need more sophisticated automation if you want to raise major gifts and planned gifts, and you want to move mid-level donors up the pyramid.

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Ann Green

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Thanking donors is crucial for securing gifts—especially for small nonprofits trying to build a support base. Show your gratitude with these creative ideas. For small nonprofits in particular, these relationships are critical to growing and scaling your work to drive additional impact.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Fundraisers at mission-driven organizations know that relying on only one avenue for funding the mission isn’t sustainable—the key to successfully raising the money your organization needs to operate programs and advance your mission is to diversify your fundraising programs. Convenience.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 17, 2023

Why do gift officers quit their jobs so frequently? Gift officer turnover is holding so many nonprofit organizations back. Gift officers are feeling burned out, ignored, pressured, and that their time is being wasted. If you’re a gift officer, are you feeling frustrated with your organization? What about you?

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2021

So you want to start up (or restart) a donor acquisition program. The reality is, whether you are trying to grow a new file or stop attrition on your existing file, there’s no better way to obtain and keep new donors than with a well-executed donor acquisition program. Think of this as your sketch artist’s drawing.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Your donors fuel your organization’s work, so it’s crucial to maintain a healthy, thriving base of supporters. A major part of connecting with these individuals and optimizing the giving experience is utilizing the data you collect about their giving trends to inform your future fundraising decisions. . Great question!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

According to fundraising expert and author Penelope Burk, 67% of respondents attending a donor cultivation event credited it as the reason why they made their gift. . They also offer a fun, relaxed, social setting for you (and your board) to get to know your donors free of intimidation and formalities. . Step 1: Who.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2021

When you’re determining who to cultivate for your major donor portfolio, do you simply look at everyone who gave more than $1,000 (or whatever your major gift amount is) and dump them all into your portfolio for the year? I was making it up as I went along. . Tier your donors.

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Selfish Giving

AUGUST 21, 2019

There are four parts to this post. This question had one follow up question: If you do require a minimum revenue commitment, what is it? But some of the individual responses to this question might be helpful to your organization. The majority of partners understand the minimum commitment and are comfortable with it.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This post is a guest blog by Jay Love, co-founder and current Chief Relationship Officer of Bloomerang. As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you might feel like your fundraising efforts stall from time to time. Strengthening your stewardship strategy. Facilitating matching gifts. Collect donor data.

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