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P2P Donors Are Not Strangers: Convert Them into Real Supporters

sgEngage

She’s the development director at a local chapter of a large, nationwide nonprofit organization. Like many nonprofits, her chapter hadn’t met its annual fundraising targets for the past couple of years. Individual giving was down, and so were major gifts. Sound familiar? Our conversation continued.

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Nonprofit Strategic Planning: Ultimate Guide + 7 Examples

Bloomerang

For instance, say your organization has an incredible grant writer, an excellent executive director, a communicative and empathetic major gift officer, and very capable fundraisers. You may provide an overall fundraising goal for your fundraisers and major gift officer to work on together. Donor-centric stewardship. Online fundraising.

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Removing Barriers to Giving, or How Traditional Development Gets in Its Own Way

The Storytelling Non-profit

In annual giving, for instance, we may ask for a percentage increase over the last gift. No, but there are mid-level and smaller major gift size asks we can make. In a ladder of engagement model, for example, there would be many steps between signing a petition and organizing a local chapter of an organization.

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Thoughts on the Blackbaud – Convio deal

Robert Weiner

Support advocacy, volunteer management, complex events, electronic communications, content management, online payments, and merchandise sales. Supports multiple locations or chapters, multiple currencies, multiple languages, and multiple character sets. Complex family, social, business, corporate, and financial relationships.

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Blackbaud Partners for Your Nonprofit: 10 Top Picks

DNL OmniMedia

We also develop customized fundraising tools for the Luminate platform, including P2P, advocacy mobile apps , gift entry portal, an email authoring app, a web survey app, TeamRaiser extensions and overlays, member center customizations, and more. Fundraising products for Luminate Online. Learn more about our array of products.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool.

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6 Key Qualities of Successful Grassroots Campaigns

Connection Cafe

As CEO, I don’t execute grassroots campaigns anymore — I’ve had to pass the torch to my colleague Henah and turn my attention to major gifts — but I still supervise them, and I participate in them. We are six full-time employees, and only two of us work exclusively on development. Never underestimate the appeal of a clever pun!