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Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser

The Modern Nonprofit

So why not jumpstart your fundraising from individual donors this year by adding a non-traditional giving day to your fundraising calendar? June = African-American Music Appreciation Month, Alzheimer’s Disease and Brain Awareness Month, LGBT Pride Month, National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, PTSD Awareness Month.

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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

Get Fully Funded

My calendar and ‘To Do’ list were written in a notebook. Google Calendar has many rivals in the marketplace, but for meeting the scheduling needs of a busy nonprofit, I can’t imagine a more effective tool. When you accept invitations via email, the meeting gets automatically added to your calendar. With a pen.

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Answer these 6 questions to frame your fundraising plan structure

Get Fully Funded

If you can find 10 good grant leads — we can usually find at least 10 hot leads when we do grant research for our clients—then you can fill your grant calendar and keep your grant pipeline full all year long. If you have a donor management system, such as Bloomerang or Little Green Light , you can easily pull a list of donors and prospects.

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How to Grow Your Nonprofit When You’re a Team of One

Get Fully Funded

Donor databases like Little Green Light , Bloomerang , and Kindful do so much more than just track donations. Schedule Keep a work calendar and update it so it’s always current. We like Google Calendar since you can see it on your computer or phone, and once you start building your team, you can share calendars.

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Planning a Showstopping Fundraising Event in 10 Steps

OneCause

If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. He or she will also act as the representative for your event, meaning the individual will pitch fundraising ideas to your nonprofit’s board of directors to get the green light to start planning. Is this an annual event?

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. ” Might have a gift acceptance policy with something in it about pledges somewhere in my brain. Hey, grants.

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Designing Professional Development for the Distracted Learner

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. Organize tasks and Guard Your Calendar. Another common mistake is letting other people fill in your calendar. This infographic is an insightful profile of the way people learn in the modern workplace.