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How to Host a Pledge Drive: The Complete Guide

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A pledge drive is a fundraising campaign where donors promise a gift amount to your organization based on a goal set by you or your participants. As your organization or participants meet those goals, donors increase their pledged donation. When creating your plan, start by determining your goals for the pledge drive.

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Product Update: CauseVox Auto-Pledge Helps You Get More Large Gifts

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In recent years, pledges have fallen out of fashion: it’s not how today’s donors give, and it’s difficult for fundraisers to track and manage fulfillment. With Auto-Pledge, pledges will never be the same! That way, large gifts become approachable. With Auto-Pledges, even your biggest asks become easy.

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The complete year-end guide to maximizing matching gifts

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One way to bring any organization’s end-of-year fundraising strategy to the next level is a matching gift strategy. Understanding matching gifts Matching gifts are a type of corporate philanthropy where companies pledge to match employees’ donations to eligible nonprofits.

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Pledges vs. Donations: Understanding the Difference

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For example, if you direct a marching band and plan to launch a campaign, it makes more sense to choose an idea like a practice-a-thon rather than a baseball hit-a-thon. Defining Pledges and Donations When it comes to types of donations, there can be some overlap between the various categories.

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6 Ways To Use Pledge Now, Pay Later In Your Fundraising Campaigns

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Looking for ways to increase gift size and have a predictable source of donor revenue, month after month? CauseVox’s Pledge Now, Pay Later (PNPL) is a state-of-the-art pledge donation option (similar to buy now, pay later for donors!) that’s designed to help you get more online pledges and automatically fulfill them.

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Encourage Donors to Give More Through Layering

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If you can build trust, plus expand a personal relationship with a donor while also having the knowledge of their gift capacity and areas of interest, a possible layering can occur. In my context of layering, it is securing a major gift or pledge in one area while asking them for a second gift or pledge in another or same area.

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What are Challenge Gifts?

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A challenge gift is a donation that creates an incentive for others to give by offering a financial reward based on an established contingency. Challenge gifts are issued only once a contingency, or “challenge,” has been achieved.

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