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Phonathons: The Fundraiser’s Ultimate Guide & 15+ Top Tips

Double the Donation

Create a standardized script. Include matching gifts in call scripts. Fundraising advice from phonathon experts. If you can capitalize on that potential during your phonathon, you’ll see a massive increase in funds brought in. Would you consider making a donation of $100 to the university’s endowment fund?”.

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6 Surefire Tips for Asking for Donations Over the Phone

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Have a script when you ask for the donation…. When they are the ones making donation appeals, the asks are more genuine and sincere as opposed to scripted and stiff. Have a script when you ask for the donation… …But don’t read from it. This may seem like contradictory advice, but stay with me!

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40+ Ideas to Light a Fundraising Fire Under Your Nonprofit Board Members

Blue Fox

depend on giving season (and Giving Tuesday) to raise a significant chunk of their annual funding. That means fundraising season is right around the corner. Many nonprofits (most?) In 2020, U.S. nonprofits raised $2.47 billion dollars. What was your piece of that ‘pumpkin’ pie? Let’s talk 2021!

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Davis Parchment, and data scientist Kwame Porter Robinson about the research results, implications, and advice for next steps. Requested Grant Funding Related (20 percent). Over the past two years, philanthropy has asked important questions about equitable access—access to adequate funding, access to digital tools, access to power.

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Passing the Word: Getting Supporters to Share your Cause

Byte Technology

People are busy, and while they may certainly visit your website or Facebook page to donate funds or set aside a day to attend a fundraising mixer or the like, counting on them to help raise awareness is an iffy wager. These tools can be simple, such as examples of fundraising emails, social media posts, phone scripts and even official logos.

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10 Questions You Can Ask Major Donors to Build the Relationship

Get Fully Funded

The more they tell you about what matters to them, the better job you can do of customizing an Ask for them that is an exact fit between your funding needs and their philanthropic desires. Work from a list of prepared questions , but be prepared to go off-script if the donor goes in a different direction. Awesome, right?).

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The Elements of a Successful Monthly Giving Program

Network for Good

A bit of advice about setting goals. Say you want to create a monthly sustainer program to fund more kennel space for elderly rescue dogs. Obviously there’s an ongoing cost to that and you want to fund half of it through recurring giving and half through a corporate partnership with the local pet supply company. Let me explain.

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