sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2022

As a nonprofit professional, you know how important fundraising is to the mission-driven space. Fundraisers raise awareness for your brand, drive donors to contribute to your organization, and push you closer to accomplishing your mission. However, fundraising events can be a source of stress and frustration for some nonprofits.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

When you’re halfway through the year, it’s a good time to conduct a midyear fundraising evaluation. Because wherever you are with your fundraising, no matter how far behind you think you are, with six months remaining in the year, you have plenty of time to make changes and raise more money. Or if you aren’t a numbers person.

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CauseVox

MAY 16, 2022

You may be wondering, will adding fundraising tickets to the event just complicate things? Luckily, CauseVox is here to help you plan your next ticketed fundraising event. The first step when planning a fundraising event today is to decide on the format. Fundraising Calendar Template. How much do you want to raise?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Plan Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign. By involving your most loyal supporters in peer-to-peer fundraising, you’re more likely to increase brand awareness of your organization, securing new donors, and extending the reach of your campaign. Create a peer-to-peer fundraising toolkit for your supporters.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The terms “LYBUNT” and “SYBUNT” are often used to segment communications to donors that have given before but not within the current calendar/fiscal year. The hidden gold mine of deeply lapsed donors A certain group of lapsed donors should ALWAYS receive your fundraising materials. These are considered to be “ recently lapsed” donors.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

If you want to attract more participants to your peer-to-peer fundraising event, consider how you’re marketing it! What other ways can you get more eyes on your fundraiser? Read on for Qgiv’s peer-to-peer fundraising best practices for event marketing. Direct mail appeals are most successful with Baby Boomers.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As you begin planning your final fundraising push for the Season of Giving, make a point of honoring multiple faiths and cultures by creating a more inclusive end-of-year appeal. Understanding who gives, why, and when can help your nonprofit make more sensitive and inclusive appeals at the close of the calendar year. Online Giving.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Direct mail is a major workhorse for all nonprofits. And regardless of what you hear or think about online giving, most gifts still come via the mail. This week guest blogger Gail Perry is back with her top tips to help us all raise more money by mail. 112 Tips to Raise More Money by Mail. Thanks Gail! Jerry Panas).

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

There are year-end fundraisers and volunteer appreciation events to attend, donors to thank, holiday cards to get in the mail, and last-minute appeals to send out. According to the calendar, we’re supposed to start counting our blessings around Thanksgiving and work our way up to total and complete joy by New Year’s Eve.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Fundraising is more tech-powered than ever before. With so many tools out there to choose from, your opportunities for customizing your organization’s tech stack are virtually limitless, especially when it comes to fundraising apps. but now, you can take all that information on the go with Bloomerang’s mobile fundraising app !

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This guide is here to help you learn more about nonprofit fundraising platforms, what’s available to your organization, and when you should consider using each. Amongst the many tools nonprofits can benefit from, fundraising tools, CRMs, and marketing tools are the must-haves for organizations seeking success. Key fundraising tools.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2014

Guest post by Mazarine Treyz, author of The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising , called one of the Top 10 books of 2010 by Beth Kanter, and author of the Networked Nonprofit. Your Fundraising Career Empowerment Guide , was given a 5 star review by About.com. . Make a donor retention calendar to keep your donors loyal!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

They can’t be expected to keep track of their giving status–especially if you’re on a fiscal year and they think in calendar years. . Ideally, mail callers stationery in advance (or send them copy they can print on their own stationery) so they can follow up with a thank you note or a letter with a remit envelope, as appropriate.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As we reach the end of the year, it’s time to start thinking about your final fundraising push! End-of-year giving letters are a great way to ask your donors for one last donation before you start fresh and strive to meet new fundraising goals in the next year. These letters can come in many formats, from direct mail to emails.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2022

Giving Days are time-sensitive fundraising events aimed at rallying communities to maximize engagement and donations to your institution and so much goes into running a successful one. Create a clear work plan or communications calendar. Start with a direct mail campaign during your quiet phase to special groups.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

As nonprofits continue to navigate this “new normal” of event fundraising into 2021, a focus on virtual fundraising should be at the top of your priority list. In a survey of 200 nonprofit organizations, Freewill found that nonprofits using virtual technology plan to steward major donors as follows: Phone conversations (21.6%).

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2023

Is the secret to growing your fundraising hiding in your CRM? Your nonprofit CRM is much more than a storage space for addresses and phone numbers. For instance, you might find that people who are invited to an event after making a gift are more likely to make a second gift within the calendar year. It just might be!

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2020

You have to collect stories and photos of program participants, get their consent, pull data on your programs, clean up your donor database, plan events, schedule donor meetings, print materials, fix your mail merge and lick a thousand envelopes ? Set an operations calendar. Direct Mail. all in one month. . Keep it tight.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Yeah, engaging those board members to be fundraising ambassadors. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 23, 2022

The best way to market any fundraiser is by using a multi-channel approach. While it may be tempting to stick to one marketing channel, a multi-channel strategy uses email, social media, text messaging, and direct mail, to reach a wider audience and generate more excitement for your auction. Direct mail marketing.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Put together a master marketing calendar. To make your multi-channel marketing efforts successful, it’s important to implement a campaign calendar. Your communications across every channel you use should be included on the calendar. Direct mail. Direct mail still works as a means to raise funds and get noticed.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

For context, when we talk about major donors, we’re referring to donors who make a significant gift to your org – one that’s above and beyond the typical gift that arrives in the mail. Diane was named a top-25 fundraising consultant by Philanthropy Media in 2016. If your donor declines, try setting up a phone call instead.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

How are those fundraising organizations going to thank and steward those new donors? According to research : An average organization with a database of 50,000 records could be wasting up to $3,200 per mailing due to inaccurate addresses and deceased records. Find constituent phone numbers. Can’t do it yourself? Ask for help!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

She’s an executive fundraising coach. And yet the most charitable giving that happens in all of the calendar year is December 31st. I’ve been a development director, and I’ve had over 12 years of experience being a fundraiser. You’re like, yeah, I didn’t know fundraising was a full-time thing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. It is a must download!

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Achieve

MAY 19, 2022

Such is the life of a nonprofit fundraising professional! Planning an auction can seem more stressful than other fundraising events, because there are. It’s time to add “purchased auction fundraising software” to the list. Managing checkout, allowing guests to pay for their phones. Creating a. stellar guest experience.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Second, year-end giving gives nonprofits an opportunity to use a big chunk of their resources to meet their annual fundraising goals, and it gives donors a last chance to get a tax-deductible gift out the door. We want to help nonprofits that implement year-end fundraising campaigns be successful. Goals don’t come out of thin air.

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Qgiv

APRIL 15, 2021

Donor data can help nonprofits make better fundraising decisions. Your supporters likely participate in or fundraise for your peer-to-peer events too! With proper event data management, you can harness that data to improve on fundraising events, retain more donors, and raise more money for your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

The study reports that many of these organizations recognize the need to innovate and experiment with social media, but still rely on direct mail, email, and web sites for fundraising. Most do not have a replacement strategy for these tried and true methods. This is troubling given the changing media landscape.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For your nonprofit, this means the holiday season opens the door to opportunities for fundraising success— and there’s no better way to kick off this successful year-end fundraising push than to participate in Giving Tuesday ! Use a text fundraising campaign. People are busy around the holidays. Keep it simple.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

. — Did you know that nearly 90 million Americans use their phone to read email ? ComScore reports that nearly 90 million Americans use their phone to read email – and that number grew by 28% over the past year. Just stop it. Stop and accept. View it in your browser.” ” line had taken over his mobile in-box.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Every fundraising campaign your nonprofit engages in should have a clear, realistic goal attached to it. Are you counting on year-end gifts to reach your annual fundraising goal? Segmenting your target audience will also dictate whether your organization should appeal through mobile, snail mail, email, social media, or phone calls.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Jacobwith will show you five powerful and simple “must do’s” to cut through year-end fundraising noise, help increase your Giving Tuesday success, and increase donor retention. We are here to talk about Five “Must Dos” for Year-End Fundraising Success. Yes, it is year-end fundraising season. Lori: I think we should.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

As Maeve Strathy puts it, “direct mail is not dead and works very well when integrated with other outlets.” Think about the most effective ways to reach your donors whether it’s social media, direct mail, email or something else altogether. Some organizations make use of fundraising events as a means to raising year-end donations.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fundraising season is upon us and it’s time to set some big year-end fundraising goals and go after them! We call it Fundraising Season and the key to maximizing your revenue potential during this special time of year is to have and execute a plan. So, what does an integrated year-end fundraising campaign look like?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 26, 2016

We have officially crossed the mid-way point of the calendar year! Even though it might be a little far off, now is a great time to start strategizing your year-end fundraising plans. This might include direct mail letters, email appeals, Giving Tuesday , telemarketing and more. Pull out your smart phone and film just 1 minute.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Let’s be honest: Planning a fundraising gala is no small task. Whether you’re planning a fundraising gala on your own (which we sincerely hope you’re not) or you have a whole committee of people (which has its own challenges), these questions will be useful as you plan your next fundraising event. What’s Our Fundraising Goal?

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