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Answer these 6 questions to frame your fundraising plan structure

Get Fully Funded

Drafting a fundraising plan can be intimidating, especially if it’s your first time and you have no fundraising plan structure. Your answers will give your fundraising plan structure and allow you to move forward with this important task. Use the tools you need, just don’t try to keep everything stored in your brain.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats. Storytelling engages our sensory cortex in the brain , allowing the listener to feel, hear, taste, and even smell the story. Step 1: Understand story structure.

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Force Multiplier Podcast Episode 1: Addressing Hidden Hunger in our Communities

Saleforce Nonprofit

We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. The result was a 450% increase in donation processing capacity in the short term, with processed gifts jumping from 6,000 per day to 20,000 per day.

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Nonprofit Website Best Practices: 10 Ways to Make Your Investment Count

Neon CRM

Your site map, data structure, and server security all play an important role in how search engines index your site and assess its relevance to various search topics. Highlight your annual reports, financial statements, and other details that show how monetary gifts are used and the impact they have.

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Your Guide to Hiring Staff for Your Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

I have seen founders have success hiring a first employee to take over social media, email marketing, gift entry and acknowledgments, and event planning. There are many other ways to structure the responsibilities of your first hire. Provide them with office supplies, or give them a gift card to purchase the items they need.

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What Every Nonprofit Website Should Include

Allegiance Group

Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. An optimized donation page not only enhances the experience for visitors but also streamlines the process of gift-giving, resulting in improved online fundraising outcomes for your organization.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. You know, one of the things about being a donor, it’s not just giving a gift, it’s building a strong culture of philanthropy.