Connection Cafe

AUGUST 27, 2018

Mighty Citizen has designed dozens of donation forms—certain donation form designs work better than others. Lucille was vibrant and kind and generous until, one day, lung cancer struck. She doesn’t know much about lung cancer charities. But when she eventually finds her way to a relevant charity’s website—e.g.,

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Canva is a great tool for designing images. Design a local route with varying distances to be both competitive and family-friendly. Do a walk-slash-hike for charity: Choose the tallest peak in your town or neighborhood (unless you live in Washington or Oregon, then find something a bit more manageable). Bike-a-Thon.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This can be anything from a gift certificate, branded swag, or just bragging rights. The purpose of no-shave November comes from cancer awareness. More specifically, it’s a fundraising concept that began in the 2000s to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer. Of course, don’t forget the prizes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 18, 2012

Find a way to organize your constituents either with a database product or if yours is a small charity, a spreadsheet with columns that allow you to keep notes about interactions and personal information. Determine how many gifts at varied levels you’d like to shoot for. Analyze, sort and prospect. Plan and communicate. Get another!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2014

You can design your own t-shirt with Teespring's online tool or you can work with one of the company's consultants. You can see how this works at the case study: How the ACCO Used Crowdfunding to Help Kids with Cancer. It allows you to track donors, prospects, members, while managing gifts, pledges, and payments.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, as we get started fundraising in 2021, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan that designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your goals in today’s context. Or you will need to increase the average gift from your existing donors. Goal: Increase the average gift size by 3%.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2019

As we crawl into a new year, hyper-personalization is a buzzword slowly creeping into the charity lexicon and bound to increase its prominence as the year unfolds. And how can charities, like hospital foundations, use it to increase donor loyalty and generate higher return on investment (ROI)? Made a first gift and when.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

In addition to charitable organizations, the IRS distinguishes many other types of tax-exempt organizations with the 501(c) designation. For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. Hold interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Like GoFundMe, Booster lets you to raise money for any cause by designing and selling your own t-shirt. With $300 million in annual revenues, CustomInk is eager to extend its reach into the charity apparel space. Two More Charity Platforms that Will Keep the Disruption Going. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2011.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

million charities in the United States alone and around 10 million worldwide. The American Cancer Society: When prospects explore ways to give on the ACS website, they see a clear statement about what they can expect for their donation. Your gift means we can continue to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

billion on gift-giving, flowers, and chocolate on Valentine’s Day 2017. Toys for Tots does an amazing job of capitalizing on the toy purchasing to give deserving kids gifts. The May holiday might call to mind breast cancer awareness or newer contenders like #EveryMotherCounts. Charity Date Auction. Mother’s Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Tell me about your project, The Generation Project The Generation Project is a new charity that seeks to revolutionize educational philanthropy by giving donors creative control over their gifts to kids in low-income communities. Donors will be able to discuss gifts and interactively engage with one another.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Whether you’re a humane society, a food bank, a veteran’s charity, a public health nonprofit, or any other kind of social good organization, this nonprofit calendar can help build your content plan for 2024. Here’s an example: September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month while October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Dan Pallotta’s recent TED Talk, “The way we think about charity is dead wrong” , has garnered more than 1.2 Dan Pallotta would go on to invent the multi-day charitable event industry with the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Days. But we don’t want people making money in charity.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

This blog post is for nonprofit organizations and charities that are looking to increase their online exposure (without spending loads of money) so they can receive more volunteers, donations, attention etc. Gift guides are usually best served a few weeks before a major gift-giving event like Christmas or Mother’s Day.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2018

In other words, of all the donors who made a gift to a particular nonprofit in 2016, only 45.5% made another gift during 2017. Another charity has become more personally important to them since their last gift—e.g., their parent was diagnosed with cancer so they want to donate to cancer charities instead.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Since many of your board members are professionals in the charitable space, they likely know other high impact supporters to contact and request gifts from. Participants garner support from their friends and family leading up to the big day and accept gifts during the game itself. Then, divide your participants into teams.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

Here are 13 Innovative Online Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits and Charities. Team Bungie alone raised over $80,000 for charity as part of a team-based board game competition by sharing their team page with their networks, creating a sense of urgency, and using incentives to drive up donations. DIY Fundraising.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

Here are 13 Innovative Online Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits and Charities. Team Bungie alone raised over $80,000 for charity as part of a team-based board game competition by sharing their team page with their networks, creating a sense of urgency, and using incentives to drive up donations. DIY Fundraising.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Here are 13 Innovative Online Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits and Charities. Team Bungie alone raised over $80,000 for charity as part of a team-based board game competition by sharing their team page with their networks + using incentives to drive up donations. DIY Fundraising. Easily Set Up Your Campaign Site.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I know we’re all gifted fundraisers in the house for the most part. And if your people in your organization are healthy, meaning they are doing the work that they are best designed to do, if they got a little extra, that comes with the job. Okay, y’all. Some of us are like, “Am I though?” Absolutely.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Variations on “Gift” and “Give” were very popular this year. Several organizations have developed very successful year-end matching gift campaigns. Very innovative and clever way to turn something only seen by fundraisers to help drive year-end gifts. RE: Urgent deadline: all gifts DOUBLED!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Your blog is your gift to them, as well as to yourself. So, here is Nancy Schwartz’s gift to you: Year-End Fundraising Checklist for Nonprofits. Don’t miss out on gifts because your form is a turnoff. Think about how much of that money is wasted on awkward gifts- the junk. Imagine that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Less than 24 hours ago, Epic Change launched its TweetsGiving 2009 , a 48-hour charity event to encourage people to express their gratitude using online tools and at face-to-face meet-ups. This two-day event, which ends on Thanksgiving, also invites people to donate to Epic Change. .

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