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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

Furthermore, 43% of those gifts were made by Baby Boomers while only 11% were made by Millennials , according to Fidelity Charitable. It will be up to nonprofits to direct appealing engagement and fundraising strategies towards young individuals to avoid a detrimental depletion of funds over the next several decades.

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?3 Reasons to Integrate Your Organization’s Systems

Saleforce Nonprofit

When supporter information remains segregated, fundraising initiatives can be crippled. This is because fundraisers — up and down the pyramid — miss out on fundamental information that can help them better build relationships, effect the best possible messaging, and elicit support to further the mission.

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Inspiring Loyalty: Donor Stewardship in Arts and Culture

Connection Cafe

Sara Woldt is an MBA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration with career interests in marketing and development. Stewardship is often discussed as it relates to university advancement and is more rarely discussed in terms of arts and cultural organizations. Beyond the Gift.

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“Getting Real” with Donors: Creating a Culture of Philanthropy for Securing Unrestricted Gifts

Connection Cafe

Sara Woldt is an MBA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration with career interests in marketing and development. Too often nonprofits cloak fundraising for general operating funds with fundraising in the name of a new building or a new educational program.

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From Year 1 to Year 2: The Importance of Retaining First Gifts

Connection Cafe

Sara Woldt is an MBA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration with career interests in marketing and development. Fundraising professionals continually speak about the importance of retaining new donors , but few have developed methods that are cost effective and efficient.

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Building the Future: A Legacy of Success

Connection Cafe

Unfamiliar with the field of development—and already frustrated that his youngest daughter had taken the nonprofit road rather than getting a “real” job in business—he was even less thrilled when I told him that “development” meant fundraising, in this case for a small liberal arts college in western Wisconsin. Dad continued.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).