The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The following is an excerpt from our class How to Find New Major Donors and Get Them to Give to Your Non-Profit. Who qualifies as a major donor prospect for your organization? As you are looking for donors to make contact with and insert into your fundraising funnel, you don’t want to waste time.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

A well-rounded fundraising plan should include a variety of strategies like a signature event, appeals, monthly giving, and at least one online fundraising campaign. Just like anything else, you need a plan for fundraising online. With so many tools available, it’s easy enough to start an online fundraiser.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

from our friends at Double the Donation Major giving strategies play a major role in many nonprofit organizations’ fundraising success. And the larger your organization, the larger the gifts you can expect to receive⁠—that is, of course, when your team has a plan to cultivate and steward key donors.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 29, 2023

Let’s imagine a familiar scenario: the end of your nonprofit organization’s current fundraising campaign is approaching. Around the office or in your virtual workspace, fundraisers bustle, scheduling presentations, making calls, and otherwise wrapping up on a high note.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

By Korrin Bishop , writer at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. They set aside time daily to prepare themselves with actions such as: Learning about new tools to enhance their campaigns.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

For many organizations, year-end fundraising campaigns represent a significant portion of their annual revenue. Nearly one-third (31%, to be exact) of annual giving occurs in December: It’s one of the most important months for fundraising! Take a look at past fundraising campaigns and use your successes to inform your plan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

By Laura Bucher , Storyteller at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. But there are two things that are certain: social distancing will continue to be a reality and your donors will continue to believe in your mission. Not to worry.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Below are the notes from the “10 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Trends to Watch in 2022” webinar presented by Heather Mansfield on December 1. The webinar was designed as a supplemental course to the webinar series required to earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising. Why Quarterly Impact Reports?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

By Denise Dunbar , a Digital Fundraising Strategist at MobileCause , where she helps nonprofits accelerate their fundraising and engagement efforts through giving and marketing strategies. In fact, according to the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report , 33% of donors give tribute gifts to family and friends.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

By Christy Smaglio , Instructional Writer at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Donor retention is a crucial aspect of a productive fundraising strategy. Here are seven excellent methods of increasing donor retention and how to automate them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2024

The landscape of nonprofit fundraising has changed dramatically in 2024. Individual giving has seen a steep decline, with donors becoming more selective about the causes they support. While paid ads and steeply-priced lead lists may deliver short-term results, long-term donor relationships are built on trust and community.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Related Webinar: Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits. Today, nonprofits worldwide have access to online fundraising tools that could not have been imagined at the turn of the millennium, and current best practices are shaped by 20+ years of innovation and experimentation. 1) Implement Donation Page Best Practices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Many nonprofit organizations struggle to engage their board members with fundraising, especially the act of asking another person for money. Some individual board members may want to start with “easier” tasks like thanking donors, but eventually, they should be directly helping raise thousands of dollars annually.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Nonprofit fundraising had been due an upgrade to catapult it into the modern era for a while. That brings us to the state of nonprofit fundraising today. For a clearer picture of the sector, let’s look at some of the best nonprofit fundraising methods out there — encompassing a range of old and new methods.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

By Emily Rose Patz , Senior Copywriter at DonorPerfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Those aboard the online fundraising train tend to not look back. Even if you’re confident that online fundraising is the right direction, it’s hard to know how and where to get started.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

By Stephanie Kanak , Content Strategist at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Did you know that 63% of Giving Tuesday donors only give on Giving Tuesday ? What if you could convert those one-time donors into engaged supporters that give again?

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

This is a blog post by Amy Eisenstein, ACFRE, and Andrea Kihlstedt, co-founders of the Capital Campaign Toolkit. Are you worried that if you ask for big campaign gifts, donors won’t give smaller amounts towards your annual appeals? Having nightmares.

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Donorbox

DECEMBER 6, 2023

According to studies, challenge gifts attracted 23% more donors and 18% more dollars than identical fundraising campaigns without the matching gift challenge. A challenge gift uses nonprofits’ […] The post How to Use Challenge Gifts to Bring in More Funds appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 15, 2023

During this webinar we’ll cover how to craft a successful communication strategy for major giving campaigns. Chad Paris of ParisLeaf and Ben Miller, SVP of Data Science & Analytics at Bonterra, will provide insights into messaging, materials, partners, and tools needed during each phase of the campaign.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 26, 2023

At the end of 2022, we asked 1,000+ nonprofit professionals what worked well in 2022, what they believed would work well in 2023, and their general outlook on the current fundraising climate. Based on survey results, we found that fundraising success is determined by the media channels nonprofits use to share their message and mission.

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Candid

MARCH 2, 2022

Capital campaigns are big undertakings, for both you and your donors. They’re the ultimate testing ground for your donor stewardship tactics, as you’ll be asking for quite a lot — extra-large gifts, multi-year commitments, feasibility study interviews, and more. Start by understanding the root causes of donor fatigue.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

Whether you’re a seasoned nonprofit professional or you’re new to the sector, you’ve seen an effective holiday fundraiser. From Mother’s Day campaigns raising money for breast cancer research to Christmas fundraisers collecting gifts for children in need, great holiday fundraisers stick in your mind for years afterwards.

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Candid

APRIL 6, 2023

Peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns have become an increasingly popular strategy for nonprofits in recent years. Think about peer-to-peer fundraising as a ripple effect: One person connects their friends, which expands into reaching those friends’ social circles, and so on.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 11, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Keep Your Donors Coming Back: Effective Strategies for Nonprofit Donor Retention and Recurring Gifts Ever wondered how some nonprofits have a dedicated group of repeat donors while others are constantly chasing new ones? The secret lies in mastering donor retention and recurring gifts.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For these reasons and more, direct mail donor acquisition works. The Benefits of Direct Mail for Donor Acquisition What’s so appealing about direct mail? There are many reasons why direct mail donor acquisition can be a compelling fundraising tool that produces results that digital methods simply cannot. Here’s why!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Did you know that, on average, 88% of total nonprofit donations comes from just 12% of donors? This small portion of your nonprofit’s supporter base is known as your major donors. To secure the support of these crucial donors, your nonprofit needs to build a robust major gifts fundraising strategy.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 17, 2022

A lot of what we do in fundraising was inherited or just common knowledge. We rarely know who coined certain development terms or originated some of the activities and fundraising we use today. The concept of a “mega gift” was coined by the late Jerold Panas , a fundraising pioneer in our industry.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Donor segmentation can be an effective tool to use throughout your fundraising efforts, including in your text fundraising appeals. Creating separate text appeals for different donor segments allows your organization to send more engaging messages to your supporters, which can increase the money you raise for your mission.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question come from a nonprofit employee who want advice on how to budget and pay for capital campaign fundraising expenses: . We hired a Campaign Consultant. ” And, for a capital campaign, you’ve likely been charged to raise quite a LOT.

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Classy

JULY 30, 2021

He highlights the importance of email marketing, lead generation, outreach campaigns, customer profiling, and acquisition to maximize ROI for all businesses. When launching an email campaign to raise funds, it is imperative to perfect the copy, segment your email lists, fine-tune the graphic assets, and more. Emphasize the Cause.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The most effective nonprofit fundraising typically involves a combination of engagement and revenue-generation strategies. Lucky for you, employee matching gifts and nonprofit fundraising events are two of the most significant tactics for charitable organizations today. Let’s begin!

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CauseVox

MARCH 9, 2021

Recurring donors are a fundraiser’s dream. They tend to give 2x more over their lifetimes than those who repeatedly give one-time gifts. As fundraising becomes more and more digital, creating sustainable and predictable donations takes on new importance. That means your recurring donors deserve more of your time.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 3, 2022

You survived the end-of-year fundraising season ! . After you’re done celebrating your wins, it’s time to evaluate the success of your end-of-year fundraising campaign. . Why you should evaluate your end-of-year fundraising campaign . So, ask yourself : What was your original fundraising goal?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Thanking donors is THE most important step in fundraising. Get this one right, and fundraising gets easier. Mess it up, and you’ll eventually lose the donor. Unfortunately, most nonprofits view thanking donors as an afterthought instead of treating it with the importance it deserves. Make sense?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2023

You’ve completed thorough prospect research , cultivated and provided a site visit, prepared a first-rate proposal and secured a meeting to make a solicitation, but the major donor prospect responds with a “no.” Winning fundraisers know how to handle it. You can apply the same rationale to fundraisers.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fundraisers like you have a lot of work to do to make the world a better place, so any time you can save on administrative tasks is incredibly valuable. Fundraising automation saves your nonprofit valuable time and resources by streamlining time-consuming tasks, so you can devote more to time advancing your mission and raising more money.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. But there is so much more to properly thanking donors. Send your thank-you quickly.

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