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How to Host a Pledge Drive: The Complete Guide

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A pledge drive is a fundraising campaign where donors promise a gift amount to your organization based on a goal set by you or your participants. As your organization or participants meet those goals, donors increase their pledged donation. Create your pledge drive plan The first step to host a pledge drive is to create your plan.

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The complete year-end guide to maximizing matching gifts

EveryAction

Understanding matching gifts Matching gifts are a type of corporate philanthropy where companies pledge to match employees’ donations to eligible nonprofits. Upon establishing that they qualify for a match, they complete a brief (typically online) submission form to be reviewed by their employer.

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Supporting a Nonprofit Business Plan: A Leader’s Guide to Guiding Your Board

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That way, you will know what decisions your board is making and can provide them with the data that will guide them to the right ones. Mission statement: Clear statement of the nonprofit’s purpose, future aspirations, and guiding principles. It provides the evidence needed to help guide big-picture decisions.

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Text-to-Give: The Ultimate Guide to Mobile Fundraising

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This guide will explain how the process works and ways to optimize your campaigns to raise more from this channel. Text-to-give (also known as text-to-donate, text-to-pledge, or text fundraising) is a form of mobile fundraising that asks donors to send a keyword to a text fundraising phone number.

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Donor Management Software: Buyer’s Guide + 16 Top Solutions

Bloomerang

In this guide, we’ll cover how nonprofits can leverage their donor management software as well as how your organization can find the best solution to solve your most pressing needs. The first step to finding your donor management software solution is to review the different systems that are available to organizations like yours.

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Donor Database Management: A Quick Guide to Prospect Setup and Tracking

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Strengthen Transparency and Communication: Documenting moves management within your donor database and reviewing the plans regularly can strengthen transparency and communication with fundraising staff. Is a pledge paid over a period of time acceptable? Code Preparation : Review all table codes within the database and impacted fields.

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The Ins and Outs of Facebook Fundraising: A Complete Guide

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When it comes to Facebook Fundraising, we wrote the ultimate guide ! Whether that describes your organization or not, it’s helpful to start with a review of the basics to fundraising on this handy social media channel. Reviewing other opportunities to engage on your website. How do users start Facebook fundraisers?