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An Insider’s Guide to Growing Your Nonprofit’s Gifts and Wills Program

Bloomerang

Legacy gifts are an area of revenue in the nonprofit sector that few can afford to overlook. With that in mind, I recently interviewed a professional rooted in this complex area. Gary Moyle is a legacy manager with decades of experience, working for the Martlets Cancer hospice in England. The effort you put in will pay off!

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How Game On Cancer Cracked the Code on Engaging Physicians and Cancer Survivors

Connection Cafe

A cancer survivor and their network of loved ones want to come together and do something meaningful and they often turn to a national organization. This fall , Game On Cancer , a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign at Henry Ford Health System , finally cracked the code o n engaging patients and physicians. Pre-Game .

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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. Explore Bloomerang’s sample job descriptions for positions like major gift officer and development director. Hold interviews. The answer could be “both.”

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How can nonprofits partner with underserved minorities to build better communities?

ASU Lodestar Center

For those involved with nonprofit resource development, there has been an obvious redirection of financial gifting to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) - especially BIPOC-run and BIPOC-serving agencies. This is a step toward equity, but what nonprofit agencies are already well-equipped with the necessary resources?

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10 Questions You Can Ask Major Donors to Build the Relationship

Get Fully Funded

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. Try to make the conversation a conversation, not an interview. Or get ideas for spot-on gifts you can give them later. Maybe they play tennis, just like you.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

If you need help developing your character, review Bloomerang’s guide to conducting nonprofit interviews ! PUNT Pediatric Cancer Society in New York shines as an example of storytelling at an event. A gift shared. It is important to tell the story as it was told to us. Watch below. Storytelling at an event.

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Five Ways to Ensure Your Event Makes Headline News

Connection Cafe

We’re having a 5K/bike ride/walk this weekend … it’s for a good cause” is not as newsworthy as “couple to marry while running in a 5K for breast cancer research, this is why…”. A reporter for a regional print newspaper, The Daily Herald, called for an interview shortly after the Trib Local piece was published. Share these.