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How to Deal With Territorial Attitudes in Your Organization

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Your work as a fundraiser is to help donors experience the most possible joy through giving by enabling them to give to projects and programs that light them up and will help change the world. And it follows that it should be your goal to create an environment that makes this process easy and delightful for your donor.

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The Importance of the Thank You: Creating an Attitude of Gratitude

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Most nonprofits know how important it is to send acknowledgment letters after receiving gifts. We dutifully thank our donors for the recorded gift and tell the donor about the many great works we perform because of the gifts we receive. We need to foster an attitude of gratitude and create a culture of thanking our donors.

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10 Elements That Contribute To Fundraising Success

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But those of us who have seen the color of our hair change during the course of our careers in asking for gifts know there are no guarantees. Attitude plays a huge role in determining how successful solicitors will be. To borrow a sports analogy, they have a perpetual attitude of “give me the ball” during the big moments of the game.

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Helpful Ways to Measure and Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Performance

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This technology has helped Cassie Chilcutt, prospect research manager for the Conservancy, reduce major gift officer portfolios by more than one-third after removing low-likelihood prospects. “(It) It) has helped me identify the correct constituents to place into gift officer portfolios,” she said.

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Thinking About Donors as Customers

Bloomerang

We actually didn’t mind and adjusted our attitude. David Dunlop, former senior development officer at Cornell University and inventor of Moves Management , boils it all down to “changing people’s attitudes so they want to give.” Donors frequently need guidance about where and how their gifts will have the biggest impact.

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Incorporating Last Year’s Lessons into 2021 End-of-Year Fundraising Plans

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What we know is this: gifts from individuals, no matter how they are directed, are driven by a sense of generosity. We suggest a gift of <last years gift x2> to help us reach the goal. Celebrate the non-financial gifts. The gifts of time, talent, treasure, testimony is not to be underestimated. (To

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Do Negativity And Alarm Really Raise More Funds?

Bloomerang

One important study shows that a positive image of a child leads to a higher average gift donation than a negative one. Other studies show that use of positive empathy—like a happy face—encourages donors because they either see the result of their generosity, or they want to experience the joyful mood portrayed in such an image.

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