Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 31, 2021

If this sounds like a heavy lift for your organization, automated workflows might be your lifesaver. These automatic monthly transactions allow donors to maintain their relationship with your organization without much work. DonorPerfect experts designed the 2022 Fundraising Calendar to help you improve your organization’s key metrics.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it. Here’s an example of what a year-end fundraising communications calendar can look like before Dec 1: Want this template to create your own year-end fundraising plan? It builds great urgency.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The best campaigns—whether they’re crowdfunding, social media, matching gifts, or something else—will need your whole team to maximize your results. Gift matching programs are designed to drive support for your organization without even asking your donors for more of their own dollars. Here are four steps to getting organized.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Your programs may also rev up during the holidays, providing meals and gifts, keeping homeless people warm, or preparing for an influx of post-holiday pets needing homes. According to the calendar, we’re supposed to start counting our blessings around Thanksgiving and work our way up to total and complete joy by New Year’s Eve.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Despite increasing commercialism, the holidays traditionally get people thinking about ways they can give—whether they’re wrapping gifts for loved ones or donating time and money to a cause they care about. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays. Team up with local news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Leadership skills are only just about our inner-selves, it is also how we relate to other people and manage those relationships, especially in the workplace. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Sound proof the office. Gift exchanges or potluck not during the holidays.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2024

Retaining your donors requires building relationships with them, and those relationships will rely heavily on effective communication. Donor retention is, at its heart, about building relationships. Update your donation form and include the opportunity for a donor to leave a note about their gift. What do you notice?

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Discover how to communicate why donors should make a gift with Nathan Hill, Marketing Director @ NextAfter. When you ask for a gift, every donor has the same question: “why should I give to you?” You’ll learn why donors are highly motivated right now and how you can pave the way for them to make gifts.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 7, 2016

January should be focused on building those relationships from last year and beginning to develop a game plan for the coming year. Putting donors into a box sounds like the opposite of what you should do. If you know the motivation behind the gift, you know how to keep a relationship growing in the future.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For instance, your major gift officer may use an app to look up more information about major prospects prior to initial meetings. You can check the latest engagement details for individual supporters and use that information to build better relationships with them.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

And regardless of what you hear or think about online giving, most gifts still come via the mail. Upgrading your donors’ gifts. Asking lapsed donors to renew their gift. Don’t solicit any donors until you have shown them what results you have accomplished with their first gift. Thanks Gail! Creating a dynamite case.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Connections: Relationships to lawmakers, celebrities, newsrooms. A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. Swag or merch: calendars, printables, planners, notebooks. Thank them on the anniversary of their gift, directly tying it to a win or impact. It is seen as wasteful overhead.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

And we’ve forgotten that fundraising is not about programs, it’s about relationships. But email marketing at its best allows us to scale 1:1 relationships more efficiently than ever, using the medium to create valuable connections with our donors. But the subject line sounded grandiose and possibly hyperbolic.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Then two hours later, you’re sitting there looking through past writing projects and online templates hoping to find inspiration without a single word written… Sound familiar? Plug-in some information and quickly move relationships forward. Use Fundwriter to write for your internal and external audiences. There’s a Fundwriter.ai

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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. And if you’re like a lot of fundraisers, you probably have some desires that you’re experiencing when it comes to major gift fundraising. There we go.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

This sounds so obvious, but not planning ahead is easily one of the most frequent mistakes I see organizations making. Once you’ve ironed out your timeline and key goals, it’s much easier to plan strategic campaigns and upcoming content calendars. . Setup matching gifts to encourage support. . Mistake #1: Not Planning Ahead. .

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Since they aren’t 100% reliant on donations as their sole source of income, YMCA executive and board leadership may not embrace fundraising, relationship building, and a culture of gratitude as much as typical nonprofits might. Because according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project, only 19% of first-time donors will give a second gift.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Can you inspire them to make another gift by proactively telling them about how their previous gift made a difference? Some tools we suggest using include: A campaign calendar that includes when you’ll send your appeal, post on social media, hold events, connect with major donors, etc. Are you sure?

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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. And if you’re like a lot of fundraisers, you probably have some desires that you’re experiencing when it comes to major gift fundraising. There we go.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Steven: You got a spot on the calendar every year. One of them is misaligned and then we try to fundraise in that framework, we’re never going to, (a) reach goals, we’re never going to be securing a donor’s best gift in every scenario, and it’s always going to be difficult. . more like transactional gifts.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey McKinnon and Andy Robinson will discuss how to build stronger donor relationships and how you can use this strategy to improve every kind of fundraising. And then when that’s over, I’m going to talk a little bit about questions you can ask to strengthen and deepen the relationships. . This is great. .

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Next time you send an email appeal, create a list of people who are subscribed to your communications but haven’t made a gift yet. Put together a brief survey and send it to new subscribers who haven’t made a gift yet. Conduct Surveys Looking for a way to collect valuable information about your audience? Send a survey!

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

Thank Your Donors and Demonstrate Impact Measuring and Analyzing Results Cultivating Donor Relationships 1. Different types of donors—age, gender, gift size, frequency, type or level of involvement, etc.—probably Resist the urge to focus on impressive-sounding statistics over individual stories.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

It’s cultivating relationships with funders. And if you can develop those relationships with funders, if you can develop great core content, if you can leverage materials for different kinds of proposals, then that is really going to set you up for success. . How are they good at building relationships?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

If you depend on a foundation with whom you have a long-standing relationship, what happens when the grants manager—your primary contact—retires and the Trustees decide to support another cause? I watched my numbers very carefully that year and was thrilled when all my best donors sent in their gifts. But that was totally fine.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

They give you the gifts that keep on giving. And I’m on the upswing, so if I sound a little groggy, that’s why. 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.”

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

You are running your annual campaign, you may be running a capital campaign, and/or you may be running like an endowment campaign, or maybe even some kind of restricted gift campaign. And to me, that’s how you solicited the gift, so what prompted this gift? What prompted that gift? And then what about appeals?

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Chad: Sounds great, Steven. Unless we have a connection to them, unless we personally know them or a board member has the relationship with them, they’re not really approachable to us. Who should you seek to build a relationship? It’s the relationship-building field. Build that relationship. of the U.S.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2021

You might be surprised to learn that email is a more reliable way to reach your supporters and build relationships with them. Make it sound interesting and juicy so folks will sign up. Another organization offered a beautiful digital calendar image on the first day of every month. No one wants another newsletter! Get creative.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

We’re going to talk about the difference between securing a one-time gift versus reliable, recurring, major funders. And the first fundraiser to get 10 donors to increase their annual gift wins.” So when you’re engaging them, you’re really highlighting the win-win relationship in all of your communication.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

We’re going to talk about the difference between securing a one-time gift versus reliable, recurring, major funders. And the first fundraiser to get 10 donors to increase their annual gift wins.” So when you’re engaging them, you’re really highlighting the win-win relationship in all of your communication. You can choose Sandy.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Carlyn Schulzke and Matt Hayes will discuss how current data on donor demographics impacts major-gift donations with specific emphasis on simple, safe and secure methods of attracting and engaging with cryptocurrency donors. Full Transcript: Steven: Okay. Matt, Carlyn, I’ve got 3:00 p.m. So help to build their confidence.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

So most of my recent experience has been in planned giving, gift planning, legacy giving, that type of work. The other thing to maybe start sounding like a broken record is really to tap your network. And it wasn’t because it was a bad relationship. And this time there was just so much uncertainty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

You need to understand how a good relationship with each group can benefit your organization, and how a bad relationship can hurt it. Make a list of all your constituencies and next to each one list the benefits that a great relationship with that group would bring to your organization. And everyday until…. Until one day….

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Carlyn Schulzke and Matt Hayes will discuss how current data on donor demographics impacts major-gift donations with specific emphasis on simple, safe and secure methods of attracting and engaging with cryptocurrency donors. Full Transcript: Steven: Okay. Matt, Carlyn, I’ve got 3:00 p.m. So help to build their confidence.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Meaning on average 8% to 10% of unique visitors to a website will make a gift. For example, you might describe the sights and sounds of your arts organization’s recent performance, or the smells and tastes at your nonprofit’s latest bake sale. give a gift, donate much-needed supplies, or come volunteer.).

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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. And that sounds kind of self-evident but it is often the case that sometimes tactics lead in communications.

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