Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2014

So have their fundraising preferences and expectations. The Constituent Lifecycle: A Complete Guide to the Donor Experience from Blackbaud. As you read this eBook, I encourage you to look for opportunities to improve your existing constituent relationships and ways to build new ones. People have evolved.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Of course we could talk about how to apply the science of persuasion to many different areas of our lives, but let’s stick to the topic of improving your fundraising appeal (download the ebook ). Here’s how the science of persuasion can be used to create more effective fundraising appeal letters—email or direct mail.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2019

The following article is an excerpt from the “ CSR 2020: Experts Look Ahead “ eBook published by Blackbaud Corporate Solutions. Social fundraising has grown to include individual driven peer-to-peer fundraising, crowdfunding and more.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

Couple that with the rising cost of donor acquisition and you’ve got an incredibly difficult environment for fundraisers (and their nonprofits) to succeed. Pitman , CFCC, The Fundraising Coach. It goes beyond the fundraising appeal to seeing a gift as a step in a relationship, not a one-off business transaction.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2015

So you need to work even harder to find their interests, engage them and build a relationship. Here’s a sneak peak at two ways to do this, from Blackbaud’s new ebook, Drab to Fab: Peer-to-Peer Event Makeover : 1. The one thing you do know is that this group is charitable. Unique Communication Plan.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2014

Nancy helps nonprofits build strong and lasting relationships with the people whom they need to act—to give, volunteer, participate and more. Please join me in thanking Frank Barry and the Blackbaud team for sharing donor retention guidance from some of the smartest fundraising experts out there. Guest Post by Nancy Schwartz.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2014

Guest post by Marshall Simmonds, Senior Vice President of Flash mobs and an Account Manager at Blackbaud. He’s passionate about working with Blackbaud’s clients to solve their complex business issues. Download this new eBook written by 13 npExperts! — It’s rather funny where inspiration often comes from.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2020

This is a topic near and dear to my heart –as we at Blackbaud have had the opportunity to watch countless “resilient nonprofits” use technology to reimagine their operations under social distancing guidelines and economic uncertainty. We are also working to automate the sorting of incoming email to our general inbox.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2015

Discounts are really a registration “drug” In a way, fundraisers can become addicted to offering registration discounts, and participants can really get used to using them. To show your appreciation, discounts can be used as retention incentives for top fundraisers and team captains. This isn’t fair!

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These solutions optimize and expand your fundraising and donor stewardship activities to help form long-lasting relationships. A donor database is a software solution that nonprofit professionals use to access insights into their supporters’ engagement histories, track key fundraising metrics, and measure success. Segmentation.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2017

For 5 years the Blackbaud Institute has brought together experts in the nonprofit sector to speak on a wide variety of topics. From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. In this post we’ll cover: How to Achieve Integrated Marketing Success. by Roger Craver.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2020

Resilient fundraisers stand ready to take on whatever the day brings, even if it wasn’t part of the plan. In a recent webinar , I chatted with Steve MacLaughlin, VP Data and Analytics Strategy at Blackbaud , Katrina VanHuss, CEO at Turnkey , and Jen Shang, Co-Founder and Co-Director at the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 27, 2014

Madeline Turner is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub and the managing editor of the Content Marketing Program at Blackbaud. YOU create them, and you do so by nurturing the relationship. Madeline Turner is the managing editor of the Content Marketing Program at Blackbaud. This goes beyond a simple (but genuine) thank-you.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2014

™ program, a group consulting service that helps nonprofit organizations deepen constituent engagement and accelerate online fundraising. Prior to Blackbaud he was the acting CFO/COO of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington DC. . You can’t take that next step until you do.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Creating a relationship with individuals in your database can be tricky, especially if you wait too long. William Naylor of TechnologyforChange suggests using a welcome message series to ensure a strong relationship with new contacts. Our friends at Network for Good have a new ebook available, “10 Resolutions to Make (and Keep!)

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Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2014

™ program, a group consulting service that helps nonprofit organizations deepen constituent engagement and accelerate online fundraising. Prior to Blackbaud he was the acting CFO/COO of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in Washington DC. . You can’t take that next step until you do. Nonprofit Marketing'

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). When writing your fundraising appeals, it’s important to opt for the latter.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

For 5 years the Blackbaud Institute has brought together experts in the nonprofit sector to speak on a wide variety of topics. From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. Data to create context, how our fundraising stacks up to peer programs.

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