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Helpful Ways to Measure and Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Performance

sgEngage

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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How to Interview Strong for a Fundraising Job

Top Nonprofits

CFRE, as our guest for a webinar entitled: “How to Interview Strong” or “How Interviewing is Like Asking for a Major Gift”. Since impressing an interviewer – and getting to “yes” — is similar to impressing a major donor prospect, you’ll also come away with an understanding of the keys to effective major gift fundraising.

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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. While all three approaches communicate the same story to the audience , the tone or language changes how the nonprofit connects or attracts the audience.

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Why nonprofits should deploy artificial intelligence to achieve fundraising success

ASU Lodestar Center

Natural-language processing. Natural-language processing (NLP) refers to the capability of AI to understand the text and the spoken word. As organizations have transitioned from a gift officer to a digital gift officer, they have had to reinvent their fundraising model to be a digital-first approach. AI fundraising.

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One Thing Most Nonprofits Stink at (Donor Retention) and How You Can Change It in 2019

Connection Cafe

It goes beyond the fundraising appeal to seeing a gift as a step in a relationship, not a one-off business transaction. Speaking your donors’ language — lose the jargon! Sharing the stories of how your donors’ gifts are making a difference. Enjoy them now; then practice a year-round attitude of gratitude.

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Salesforce crossroads: A decision reached

Judi Sohn

Today, while by no means a perfect fit for all organizations (and yes, it can be buggy and the admin interface still sucks in spots) that condescending “you’re not worthy of us&# attitude is all but gone from Convio. It has built-in functionality for Tribute/Personal Fundraising gift campaigns. We’re living proof.

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Salesforce crossroads: A decision reached

Judi Sohn

Today, while by no means a perfect fit for all organizations (and yes, it can be buggy and the admin interface still sucks in spots) that condescending “you’re not worthy of us&# attitude is all but gone from Convio. It has built-in functionality for Tribute/Personal Fundraising gift campaigns. We’re living proof.

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