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What Are You Doing with Your Donor Data?

Greater Giving

Your donor data may include phone numbers, emails, birthdays, donation history, and even meal preferences. Giving history: Better understand donors’ giving patterns and preferences by tracking donation amounts, frequency, dates, and specific campaigns they’ve supported. Donors’ giving history can be an incredibly helpful data point.

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

Candid

Holding questions about power and privilege in mind, is it still justifiable that such waste is required of nonprofits? Alternative Supports (<1 percent). Organization’s Founding Date/History. What might funders do in 2022 to begin addressing this mismatch between our stated values and the reality of our operations?

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Mastering Major Gifts: The Ultimate Guide to Raise More

Bloomerang

Identification factors Generally, donors with a history of giving, high engagement with your organization , and a high generosity score (capacity for donating) will be the best major gift candidates. Look at each supporter’s giving history and identify trends. Keep in mind that donors give because they’re passionate about your mission.

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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

sgEngage

Always be mindful of the burden you’re placing on applicants. Alternatively, you could forsake a participant application process in favor of shifting power immediately. Creating an environment that allows them to deliberate with an open mind and heart. Distance from an issue (or community) is not the goal here!

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How to Buy Fundraising Software That Lasts: Essential Guide

Bloomerang

Keep in mind that the most effective fundraising software offers multiple tools within the same platform. Track donors’ engagement histories, such as the date of their first donation, events they’ve attended, and volunteer opportunities they’ve participated in. These solutions typically include features such as: Constituent timelines.

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Sectorness: What does "nonprofit" do for us?

ASU Lodestar Center

Who thinks social service organizations should fly under the same banner as those that organize the public for political change? It isn't the missions that have so much been invented, mind you — it's the idea of collective sectorness. In a recent chapter on the history of the U.S. Look at it this way. I mean, really.

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Lead Gift Committees: Success with High-Powered Volunteers

Top Nonprofits

Alternately, you may worry that many of the people on that committee don’t have lots of connections to wealthy people. First, keep in mind that most people—even seasoned volunteers—have a limited understanding of what it is to do real major gift work. This committee may very well make you and your team anxious.

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