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3 Donation Categories: How to Organize Nonprofit Gifts

Achieve

Throughout your donor acquisition and stewardship efforts, you likely solicit various types of support for your cause and earn more than just monetary donations. Let’s review the various types of donations you might accept, including why they should be categorized and how to organize them. Why categorize donations?

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Due diligence before you donate

ASU Lodestar Center

Americans donate nearly $300 billion annually to more than 1.2 million charities and religious groups, according to Giving USA. Most donors believe that they are giving to worthwhile causes, but few conduct the necessary research to determine how effectively an organization uses donations to accomplish its mission.

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From Lost To Loved: Turning Lapsed Donors Into Devoted Donors

Bloomerang

According to the world’s leading expert on planned giving, Dr. Russell James, data shows that 78% of Will documents that transfer dollars to charity tend to be signed by people in their 80s, 90s, and beyond. Before we talk about how to win them back, you need to consider why they left. They could be in their 70s or 80s.

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Five Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits That Don’t Work (or Why You Aren’t Raising Enough Money)

Get Fully Funded

Their donations create an emotional investment for them in the work you’re doing. We’ve had a couple clients over the years who both received a large grant from the State of Tennessee. The local restaurant wants to host a chicken wing night and donate 20% of all sales to your nonprofit! Has this happened to you? Not hardly.

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Buy & Sell Stuff on eBay and Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Bernie Berlin is a Tennessee-based blogger , mixed media artist and manager of a one-woman dog rescue operation, A Place to Bark. In September, she asked her readers and organization's supporters to donate artwork to be auctioned on eBay. MissionFish collects the donation from the seller, pays the nonprofit and provides a tax receipt.

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Nonprofit CRM Trends Plus How to Choose an eCRM - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Were finding that a lot of fundraising organizations (charities, political parties, associations) need a technology that allows flexible branding, so their donors dont feel theyre being "handed off" to a separate site.but they also need something that isnt too expensive, inflexible, and hard to implement.