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Book Review | Fundraising for Introverts: Harnessing Our Powers for What Matters

Pamela Grow

The book is a masterful blend of practical advice, psychological insights, and personal anecdotes that will resonate with introverts from all walks of life. With a compassionate approach, Fundraising for Introverts gently encourages you to embrace your innate qualities.

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Delivering Happiness CEO Jenn Lim Shares Insights About Four-Day Workweeks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Other research has shown that having a four-day workweek can include cost savings, increased productivity, and employee retention. Question: How does a company blend a four-day workweek with flexibility of working from home and requiring employees be in the office certain days of the week?

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Why Diversifying Your P2P Strategy is Critical to your Organization’s Health

sgEngage

Let’s touch on a few easy ways to ensure you’re mixing up your P2P strategy and blending it with your organization’s overall fundraising strategy. Over time and with an emphasis on retention, fundraisers became territorial about their participants. So where should you start with diversifying your P2P fundraising?

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Donor Privacy: Protecting Your Revenue and Reputation Online

OneCause

Nonprofits understand that donor retention is a much more cost-effective and desirable strategy for stewarding a healthy, loyal donor pool than new donor acquisition. Yet one factor in poor donor retention that nonprofits still need to appreciate fully is the negative effect of inadequate donor privacy policies.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Or if a certain donation thank-you gift reliably increases donor retention, offer it in campaign after campaign. For nonprofits, this means focusing on donor participation and retention rather than just total dollars raised or how good something looked. Blend time-tested principles with bold new applications.

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3 Principles Fundraisers Should Adopt from Service Providers

Connection Cafe

I saw the results of my efforts: strong working relationships, good client retention, and overall positive feedback. But as much as fundraising is a calling, it’s also a career that requires business development, sales, client retention, and articulable value propositions. Treating Donors Like Customers (But Not in a Bad Way).

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7 Keys To An Effective Corporate Culture

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The workforce included a blend of long-term employees with a rich company, product/service and customer history, employees who had been at the company for five to seven years, and then new hires with a fresh perspective and keen sense of new technologies and techniques. That blend worked best when the mix included virtually all A-players. •

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