Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Personal meetings, time to read for pleasure, exercise, even morning prayer— every moment of my life is budgeted based on my absolute priorities and passions. 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.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 28, 2021

Personal meetings, time to read for pleasure, exercise, even morning prayer— every moment of my life is budgeted based on my absolute priorities and passions. 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.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2019

We want to eat healthier and get more exercise. Step 4: Create Goal Calendars. For each area, create a calendar to make sure everyone knows what’s expected for each month (or even week or day). Consider these calendars: A central communications calendar informs everyone the ways your organization is communicating to supporters.

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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.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The welcome series isn't an exercise in talking about yourself and what your mission and programs have accomplished. If you decide to include a fundraising appeal as part of your welcome series, be sure to suggest both a one-time gift or a smaller monthly gift. Use a Mobile Email Template.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2013

Honorariums and memorial gifts are meant to celebrate an occasion or celebrate the life of a friend or relative. Should I ask if you’ve ever made an honor or memorial gift, most of you would say “Yes!” And, should I ask if that was a current gift – a one-time gift given from disposable income – most of you would say “Yes!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

The Gifted Learning Project: Whenever you plan a fundraising event, double check the calendar and dates in all your external communications. Introducing the idea and smaller ways to practice the new way of thinking can help make this exercise more productive. Social Media.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

When you exercise IMC and have a consistent image across all platforms, people begin to recognize your identity and associate it with the specific good that you do. In a 2009 campaign, the American Red Cross achieved an 11:1 ROI and increased the average donor gifts by 43 percent with an integrated campaign. Avoid Duplicate Messages.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 28, 2022

Your nonprofit’s future will look less daunting if you project your fundraising revenue while you’re planning your year, including mapping out what you plan to do in each program and calendaring all your marketing and fundraising activities. . This is an important exercise for every nonprofit. Yes, there will still be some unknowns.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

Create a grant calendar by January 1 of the top 10 grants we’ll go after this year. Create a grant calendar. See if you can set one overall SMART goal for your entire fundraising effort for the year, like this: “Raise $153,000 this fiscal year using appeals, grants, events, monthly donors, Facebook fundraisers, and major gifts.”.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I remember trying to sell calendars as a public school fundraiser when I was about 8. This exercise doesn’t have to be scientific or precise. I heard about this exercise at a conference and thought “I want to try this.” For a shelter: Your gift of $19.03 For a self-esteem program for teen girls: Your gift of $18.25

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 18, 2022

Do your research and see what grant opportunities are out there, get their deadlines on your calendar, then start working your way through the list. Product sale customer list: When you raise money through a product sale (like a t-shirt or calendar sale), you may be excited to see all the new names and emails populating your database.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And with major gifts and sponsorships, that’s also about cultivation, but also building out who is going to do the cultivation? And I want you to also look at logic model sample and a SOAR analysis because that could really kind of help you think through some of the priorities in the planning exercises. .

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

I watched my numbers very carefully that year and was thrilled when all my best donors sent in their gifts. I remember ONE corporate donor who didn’t make his usual $10,000 gift to us and instead sent his charitable giving to New York. Since I had money coming in from so many sources, we hardly missed that single gift.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

So when I’m talking about giving generously, board members need to make their own personal gift. Although my fiscal year was in October, the calendar year worked and I would do it in January. I may drop off a gift. But I don’t want to put the cart before the horse, so we’re going to take these one at a time.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

But if you can get inside a donor’s mind, I think that is the secret to reducing your attrition, which means increasing the number of people who renew and give you gifts year after year. . And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. It’s closer to the gift. .

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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. Team calendar sales When the new year arrives, so does the need for a new yearly calendar. Schedule a photoshoot and assign players to different months.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

population make 72% of all gifts to nonprofit organizations. They make 72% of the gifts coming from individuals. And we’re going to look for factors that identify a good major gift prospect. You know, it’s nothing screams, I’m a major gift prospect, but they’re there. Who do you exercise with?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

One exercise you might want to go through to define success is to gather a diverse group of staff and have them answer the following questions: How do you define success for our organization or program? It also works well with matching incentives, so your goal could be to help leverage a larger donation from an existing donor.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

But it’s not very likely that somebody who is unaware is going to go from being unaware of your organization to, all of a sudden, making a big gift, let’s say, or taking an action that involves like a deep commitment. Or they might get a personal email from somebody on staff or a letter that has been customized a bit.

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