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How to Use Prospect Research to Improve Your Asks: 5 Tips

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Affinity (warmth): Affinity, or warmth, refers to the strength of an individual’s personal connection to your cause. To maintain clean data, NPOInfo’s nonprofit data hygiene guide recommends creating standardized procedures for data entry for your whole team to reference. Most match at a 1:1 ratio (i.e., $50

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Employee Giving Strategies to Boost Year-End Impact

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Other businesses may increase their match ratios, raise their donation limits, or introduce short-term matching gift initiatives⁠—even if they don’t typically match employee donations. After the campaign, funds raised are gifted to the organization on behalf of which the initiative was hosted.

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Matching Donations: A Nonprofit’s Guide to Doubling Impact

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The top matching gift companies offer generous match ratios and maximum match amounts per employee. For example: Disney will match donations between $25 and $25,000 at a ratio of 1:1. Apple will match up to $10,000 at a ratio of 1:1 for active employees. Google will match up to $10,000 at a ratio of 1:1 for active employees.

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Using Prospect Research to Improve Your Ask: 5 Tips

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This is critical because you want to be able to reference a supporters’ history in your fundraising requests. . Therefore, you’ll want to create a procedure for proper data entry that your prospect researchers can reference. . Most organizations match at a 1:1 ratio, but some companies offer 2:1, 3:1, or even 4:1 matching ratios.

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What is Corporate Giving? The Ultimate Guide to Earning More

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Corporate giving programs fall under the wider umbrella of corporate philanthropy, which refers to any support companies provide to nonprofits. The concept of a matching gift is simple: An employee contributes to their nonprofit of choice, and their employer matches their donation at a predetermined ratio.

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Can Content Marketing Boost Your Nonprofit's Reach and Exposure?

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I am referring to content that, while related to the area in which the nonprofit operates, is designed to be valuable to donors and volunteers. In fact, the ratio of sharing to creating can be skewed in favor of the former. Follow Nexcess on Twitter at @nexcess and check out its tech/hosting blog. About the Author.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

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It was created and hosted by one of the largest design firms in the world, and because of their reputation and great PR team, the call was filled with designers, architects, and executives all ready to join the cause. The other day I attended an information session for a new initiative centered around increasing diversity in design.

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