Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

They can’t be expected to keep track of their giving status–especially if you’re on a fiscal year and they think in calendar years. . I like to call first-time donors who made an above-average first-time gift. Begin with an ice breaker to make it fun. Please put it on your calendar for next year as a ‘must do.’

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It is a direct way to connect with your donors and ask them if they’d like to make a final gift to your organization before the new year. If they feel like they are an important part of your cause and that their donation will go toward making a difference, they’ll be more likely to make a gift. Thank your donors. Tell a story.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

You can say something like this: “ Thank you again for your generous gift to XYZ organization! We are honored that you trusted us with such a significant gift. Otherwise, it’s just a fun meeting. There’s nothing wrong with fun, but you need to be strategic in your work. Or “What do you do for fun?”.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

And because we love rapid ideation and an excuse for a fundraiser here at Whole Whale, we’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. Get a selection of your breakfast favorites and a variety of milks — make it extra fun with a pajama party vibe for your supporters. Online Course.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Being the sole support for your nonprofit is one way to ensure that the organization will die with you — unless you leave funds in a planned gift for the future of the nonprofit. Now, of course, we all dip into our wallets here and there for things. How fun and easy, right? That’s not a problem. Has this happened to you?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

You see, your annual fundraising plan is a treasure map that leads you to the exact activities that will raise the most money for your nonprofit over the course of the coming year. For example, a new project provides grocery store gift cards to college students coping with food insecurity. That’s your fundraising goal. And another.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Getting started: The nonprofit tools you need to set up shop and grow your organization TechSoup is a global nonprofit organization that offers discounts and technology solutions as well as IT consulting and courses to nonprofits. Online training courses abound, and your bookkeeper or board treasurer will likely be familiar with Quickbooks.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

How do they make sure gift officers aren’t overloaded? Without correct constituent information, you are wasting money with every solicitation and missing out on gifts. On average, 8% of constituent records are matching gift-eligible but have not been identified. How will they re-engage these donors after the crisis?

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. Online Course. Help your supporters out and create a Donation-for-Dad gift that gives them a nice printable or ecard telling their dad that a gift was made in his name. Of *course* there’s a National Garage Sale Day.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nonprofit Storytelling Conference AFP ICON and NTC are fun and educational, but they’re really big conferences! If you work in development, major gifts, grants, or event planning, you’ll love the emphasis on identifying and crafting compelling stories that make your marketing and fundraising more effective.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

For example, you might fill your calendar with various recurring and one-time opportunities based on your program’s needs. Use your volunteer calendar or communications platform to share event logistics like the start and end times for each opportunity and their locations. Be clear about shift times and locations.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

To help you build your content plan, Neon One has created a 2024 Nonprofit Calendar that you can download as a PDF or add to your existing personal calendar. To download the calendar or learn more about nonprofit content planning, here’s a quick overview of this article: What’s in Neon One’s 2024 Nonprofit Calendar?

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Of course, after you generate that revenue, you want to build relationships with the users that start these fundraisers for the long haul. For example, if you’re hosting one of the aforementioned virtual fundraisers on Facebook, you can tell supporters about it through Messenger and invite them to join in the fun.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 23, 2022

Make sure they have the right date and time for your auction to mark in their calendars so they won’t miss your event. Or maybe you’re planning for a fun theme your bidders can dress up for. You can also motivate them to participate in your auction by visually showing off items or gift baskets you’re auctioning off. Dress code.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

An organization that started a drive-through hot chocolate and cookies fundraiser during the pandemic turned it into a fun in-person event, and it sold out! Block off time on your calendar for fundraising planning. Give yourself three two-hour blocks over the course of a week or so. Will you seek a matching gift?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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. And when you are kicking off your fiscal year or your calendar year, set those expectations high so people know what they can do to be helpful.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

There are tons of fun and random holidays nonprofits can take advantage of to create unique and interesting fundraising appeals. Have some fun with it by creating teaser videos to create anticipation on social media, like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Minnesota does every year on Facebook (and this year on YouTube, as well!).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

He offers courses, consulting, and coaching to transform your organization and your leadership. Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Swag or merch: calendars, printables, planners, notebooks.

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Qgiv

MARCH 28, 2022

Of course, donations are a common source of funds for nonprofits, but other than that, how do nonprofits make money? Adding a matching gifts integration and recurring donation upgrades to your form is a great way to maximize the contributions you receive from your supporters. Fundraising events. and signage to recognize your sponsors.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2020

To help your team similarly during this isolating time, we put together some engagement ideas and activities to get on your employees’ calendars. Pro-tip: when sending out a calendar invite, try to make the event for the same time each week to avoid conflicts and keep it top of mind. Virtual Happy Hours. Virtual Show and Tell.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Its fair trade boutique offers a line of women-made, fair-trade products including stylish apparel, accessories and gifts with one purpose - to help women in need help themselves. Global Girlfriend works with over sixty women's cooperatives and NGOs in 20 countries. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Use your calendar to block off personal meetings (from a date night to parent teacher conference meetings) just like you do at work and hold to it just like you would a conference call. Ask someone who knows you best to hold you accountable and be open to feedback. Don’t waste a possession.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Use your calendar to block off personal meetings (from a date night to parent teacher conference meetings) just like you do at work and hold to it just like you would a conference call. Ask someone who knows you best to hold you accountable and be open to feedback. Don’t waste a possession.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Second, year-end giving gives nonprofits an opportunity to use a big chunk of their resources to meet their annual fundraising goals, and it gives donors a last chance to get a tax-deductible gift out the door. Will you have partner or major donor support through a matching gift? How has COVID impacted your organization?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 28, 2021

Use your calendar to block off personal meetings (from a date night to parent teacher conference meetings) just like you do at work and hold to it just like you would a conference call. Ask someone who knows you best to hold you accountable and be open to feedback. Don’t waste a possession.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2022

Donors find the idea of winning a coveted prize to be exciting, fun and new, and nonprofits have an opportunity to expand their reach beyond an existing donor base to a broad audience that cares about the cause. In this scenario, you can get very targeted with your prize, and have fun catering to your members’ preferences!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2015

Find ways to capitalize on participant enthusiasm and ask them to immediately commit to the next event – provide a calendar invite they can easily access from their phone at the event, give them the option to sign up to be the first to know when the next event is announced, or ask them to take a public pledge to continue fighting for your cause.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Emma Lewzey will identify the specific shifts you must make to raise more 5- and 6-figure gifts–without letting fear, intimidation, or imposter syndrome get in your way. We’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. And I got two o’clock Eastern. Emma: Let’s do it.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

But the bigger takeaway here is that February 14 is possibly the biggest untapped day of giving on the calendar. billion on gift-giving, flowers, and chocolate on Valentine’s Day 2017. Toys for Tots does an amazing job of capitalizing on the toy purchasing to give deserving kids gifts. Named Cause Gifts. Mother’s Day.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

Nearly 70% of people make gifts to charity during their lifetimes but only 6% leave a bequest. And again, this idea that death is as natural as birth, it’s inevitable sooner or later, we’re all hoping for later, of course, but, at times in life, it’s more top of mind. But first, I want to share a statistic with you.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2022

For instance, you might explain that a $100 gift can purchase supplies for 10 shelter dogs, or a monthly $20 donation helps keep your children’s after-school program running. A fundraising 5K/Fun Run. Major Gifts: The Ultimate Guide to Kickstart Your Program. Use this guide to build your major gift fundraising program.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Emma Lewzey will identify the specific shifts you must make to raise more 5- and 6-figure gifts–without letting fear, intimidation, or imposter syndrome get in your way. We’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. And I got two o’clock Eastern. Emma: Let’s do it.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2023

Sharing the impact a donation will have on your athletes personally or on the team as a whole will galvanize your supporters to make a gift to your team or program. Virtual Sports Fundraising Ideas Virtual walk Take your traditional 5K, fun run, or walk online by hosting a virtual walk-a-thon.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

If you’re watching the recording, I hope you’re having a good day, no matter where you are, but we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. If you’re going to share this with a board member, that’d be kind of fun too. And so this is where it gets kind of fun.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This isn’t to underplay Christmas’s role but to include the other moments of the fall and winter calendar which are culturally significant to minorities within our potential donor pool. Kislev is a month in the Hebrew calendar and usually falls in November or December. This festival lasts eight days and nights. There are 7.5

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

They give you the gifts that keep on giving. million organization, $900,000 of that is philanthropy, and you’re at the end of your calendar year and so far you’re at about $790,000. I want to make sure my year-end gift is enough.” Your gift has been received. Lori: I’m doing okay. Steven: Yes.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

And I have the honor of teaching the fundraising courses for both Temple University and their 10-week online certificate program and Messiah University for their undergraduate courses. population make 72% of all gifts to nonprofit organizations. They make 72% of the gifts coming from individuals. of the U.S. of the U.S.

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