iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

How do you find, attract, and qualify people who can give major gifts to your nonprofit organization? And as technology and data analytics have progressed, so have the various methods for building caseloads. But before we can explain why it’s better, you need to know why the traditional methods don’t work. Quantities.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In part three of this series on how to become a great nonprofit storyteller, I talk about the practical skills you need to tell an effective story. Read parts one and two. In part two, I touched on the storytelling elements that will inspire your audience and encourage them to take a desired action. . You can choose from: .

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 5, 2023

NPQ : What brought you to write this book? And so my first day on the job, I did two Google searches. Two was: how do you fundraise? The idea behind it was, if you’re new to this, if you don’t know anything, grab this book and it’ll at least give you a starting point.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

When set up right, your nonprofit accounting system will help you manage your nonprofit and streamline processes like budgeting, projecting cash flow, and even hiring. The problem is that if you’re like most, you haven’t paid a lot of attention to your accounting system. Maybe that’s you! I promise you will.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 12, 2023

Wealth screening data gets a lot of attention and usage from nonprofits looking for a quick way to identify people more likely to make a major gift. They give off the “Why are you calling me?” So how does this happen, and what role does wealth screening data play? Where Do Wealth Screeners Get Their Data?

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The Agitator

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

I say “almost” for two reasons. Early Tuesday morning, before the sun was up, I checked in with Steve MacLaughlin , Blackbaud’s VP of Data and Analytics and author of The Data Driven Nonprofit. Incidentally, Steve’s book is a classic and you can see the Agitator’s review here ). There are some who love it.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Organizations that do have a strategic plan continually express the advantages that this type of preparation gives them. Whether you’re crafting an emergency plan to react to unexpected external circumstances or creating your strategy for the next two to five years, this guide will help your nonprofit get the most out of its strategic plan.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

It gives your audience a tangible transformation to observe through the sharing of the written word, photos, testimonials, and videos. Nonprofit storytelling helps give a face and a name to the mission your organization carries out. Act two – Confrontation. Act Two – Confrontation . Act one – Set Up.

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Joe Garecht

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

I’m happy to tell you that this isn’t the case. While it is true that practice will make you a better fundraising writer, and that there are lots of tricks that experienced copywriters know that will help you raise more money, the fact is that nearly anyone can write good fundraising letters. 2: Be Emotional.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you are trying to fundraise without an annual fundraising plan, you are trying to bake a pie with a lot of ingredients but no recipe. Can you do it? Do you really want to make fundraising so hard? Your plan will: Keep you focused on what works and stop you from chasing every shiny new idea.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Listen carefully and you’ll hear the call going up in charity offices everywhere: What’s the plan for our end-of-year fundraising campaign ? The data shows that a staggering 40% of all charitable revenue touches down between Thanksgiving and New Year. Gather as much information (within reason) on your donors as you can.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

It is tempting to allow board members to skip fundraising, but this useful list is designed to give board members a wide range of tasks they can choose from to support the financial growth of your organization, and only a few involve directly asking for money. Give in-kind support to the organization in a way that actually helps.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

JANUARY 11, 2024

She emphasizes the irreplaceable value of personal connections, noting, “There’s nothing that replaces the trust that’s built between two individuals.” Her approach involves candidly sharing challenges and authenticity, which she believes leads to more fruitful outcomes in giving conversations. Break down silos.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 12, 2023

We hope that by collaborating to tell better stories about how the rich get rich and the poor stay poor, movements—including activists, communicators, storytellers, and strategists—can begin to transform an oppressive capitalist economic system and build a free, just world in which all people can live with dignity. By telling good stories.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 12, 2022

If you looked up suggestions for which major gifts metrics and KPIs your organization should be measuring, most of what you’d find would seem fairly reasonable. They don’t measure the value your donors get from engaging with you and supporting your mission. The point is, major gifts fundraising is about delivering value.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email is a powerful marketing tool, but to get results you need to learn how to write fundraising emails that connect emotionally and inspire people to give. That means you can’t throw just anything in an email, push “send,” and expect thousands of dollars to pour in. That means you may need to leave out a few things.

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

You can watch all the ads here. This article is a must read for cause marketers for two important reasons. Second, in my survey earlier this year, you - my readers - said you wanted to learn how to better measure the impact of a partnership on your nonprofit and your company. The exercise will be good for you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

If you had a time machine and could go back to before coronavirus (COVID-19) impacted the world, how would you prepare? What would you do differently? We surveyed over 700 nonprofits to find out what advice they’d give themselves and others about fundraising in the new normal. Here’s what they told us: 1.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Raising the money you need to fully fund your budget doesn’t happen by accident. You need a plan for fundraising success. Actually, you need both short-term plans, like those to manage your fundraising activities through the holidays, and longer-term plans that will carry you through all of next year. Write it down. .

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

In this conversation between Cyndi Suarez, NPQ ’s president and editor in chief, and Isabelle Leighton, executive director of Donors of Color Network and former founding director of Equality Fund, the two leaders discuss how to move the philanthropic sector toward racial and social justice.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

What did you do? And what should you do over the next several months? That’s what I want you to think about today. . Giving 2020 facts that may surprise you. Giving during the pandemic and recession did not go down; it increased, albeit modestly. Giving by bequest increased 10.3% (9% adjusted).

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

But now, as the war in Ukraine has raged on for nearly two years, scientists are tasked with documenting every new environmental crime that Russia commits. The 630-page document found that if global temperatures should reach above 1.5 You cannot think about climate change when you have [an] immediate threat to your life.”

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Nonprofit Fixer

APRIL 25, 2023

You’ll learn what makes up the coaching experience, what makes it different from consulting, training, teaching, or therapy, and whether it’s right for you. Ideally, your coach should have 3-5+ years of experience as an executive or executive director of a nonprofit organization. How Much Does Nonprofit Leadership Coaching Cost?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I’ll teach you all about this during our upcoming webinars. ). But to really connect your email engagement to your bigger organizational goals, you need a lot more information. For example, you really want to know how many people open most of your emails and how many opened just one or two in the last 90 days.

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The Agitator

APRIL 26, 2018

Increasing retention post-first gift is a major part of this and we should pat ourselves on the back (not too hard) for this. But there are only two ways to grow: growing the value of donors or the number of them. But organizations also have their own unique points of focus. Hope it, and this analysis, is helpful to you.

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Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 28, 2020

If you’re involved in nonprofit fundraising, at some point you will inevitably need to come up with donor giving level names. By encouraging donors to give monthly, you not only build loyalty, familiarity and commitment, but you can also plan your revenue better. After 1-3 months, see which helped you more.

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Bloomerang

JULY 16, 2021

The journey to find that next big gig can be tiring, grueling, and painful, and at times it can feel like you’re banging your head against the wall. What do you do when you wake up the next morning? You might be ashamed or embarrassed to admit you’ve been laid off, but that’s natural. But don’t take it from me.

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Fundraising Coach

MAY 25, 2021

After all, it’s unlikely your mission and case statements will be read by many people outside of donors, volunteers, grantmakers, and sponsors, all of whom you must convince that your nonprofit is worth supporting. Organizing and keeping these documents straight can be especially useful if you are balancing multiple major asks at one time.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 4, 2022

But sometimes, these two processes conflict. Giving motivation comes from the social emotion system. This system can block giving motivation. (The When these two merge, a story becomes the donor’s story. Fundraising story should answer. That was a big turning point for me. Number problems.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 18, 2021

So, that begs the question, how do you create effective ads that will maximize the $10K Ad Grant and bring thousands of cause-minded people to your website? We want to show you a key step of our process so that you can effectively maximize the Google Ad Grant on your own. That is frustrating to say the least! What are Keywords?

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

Cyndi Suarez: I’m so glad to have the two of you together. Javier, Darren brought you up at a roundtable we had back in December. He described something you talk about, three types of organizations. And I want you to look around the room, and this is what a winning team looks like.” And I’d love to go into that.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2022

Fundraising events shine the spotlight brightly on event day, event week and beyond, if you do it right. Why should we run auction fundraisers? Events give people a reason to come out and support the cause and are the perfect backdrop to share how your charity makes a difference. In essence you may be competing with yourself.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 19, 2023

TOBiologists model sustainable giving in nature with a simple game.[1] The numbers game In the extreme version, two players each risk becoming either Player 1 or 2. If players choose rationally, Player 1 won’t give. At the point of crisis, giving is irrational. Who considers you irreplaceable?” “Who

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

With assistance from their local union, surviving workers did not give up. They visited Emilia Romagna for two weeks, a region known as a world leader in the cooperative movement. Based on this data, the economic impact of full employment for 2,250 graduates exceeds $67.5 How do you develop a successful cooperative business?

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

Cyndi Suarez: Can you share a little about the state of Tribal sovereignty in Maine? And many of these things—probably starting with the Penobscot River Restoration Project, 1 but stretching back this last decade or two—mark a shift in education and insight and a new form of activism, I think, by us as Wabanaki people. CS: Thank you.

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Nonprofit Fixer

JULY 14, 2021

This list is designed to give board members a wide range of tasks they can choose from to support the financial growth of your organization. Some individual board members may want to start with “easier” tasks like thanking donors, but eventually they should be directly helping raise thousands of dollars annually. Be informed 5.

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The Agitator

JUNE 11, 2018

The piece I’m talking about is “How the first YEAR of your charity donation ends up in the hands of the chuggers” and talks about how the payback period on face-to-face recruitment is one-to-two years(ish). I’ve put it in a postscript at the bottom if you really want to read it.). You spend money to acquire customers and donors.

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