Bloomerang

MAY 16, 2023

While many board members give freely and openly of their time and talents, getting board members to engage in fundraising can be challenging. Cultivate a better fundraising experience—for you and your donors. Educate Your Board on What You Need Education is the key to getting board members to fundraise.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

What you might not know is that the right fundraising plan template can make the job much easier. What this means is that over time, your fundraising approach should change to meet the needs of your growing organization. What Fundraising Plan Template is Right For YOU? And no two fundraising plans should be exactly alike either.

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Template Fundraising Nonprofit Calendar 111

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Have you developed nonprofit donor personas? If so, I recommend moving away from those donor personas and toward donor identities instead. . Think about it: Those personas may have been carefully crafted—Soccer Mom, Busy Businessman, Widow, Millennial—but those personas only touch on a small part of your donor’s identity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Sponsored by GalaBid – a digital fundraising platform that helps thousands of nonprofits raise funds through live and online silent auctions, digital raffles, and donations. With a comprehensive fundraising platform , organizations can manage and run an exciting digital auction.

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Candid

MARCH 5, 2024

Fundraising can be an ongoing challenge for any nonprofit organization, but for newly established ones, it can be a daunting hurdle. Given this disadvantage, new nonprofits are typically advised to start with individual donors. Second, develop a realistic fundraising plan. nonprofits while also setting up and launching programs.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

The Campaign Workshop Joe Fuld, president Often campaigns make assumptions that people on the team—volunteers, donors, etc.—understand Board members, donors, coalitions partners, and folks who have signed a national list but have not taken a local action are all good places to find some of your best volunteers. Don’t assume!

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Greater Giving

MARCH 5, 2024

Donors place their trust in non-profits to safeguard their personal information, especially during fundraising events. Upholding data privacy helps promote: Donor Trust & Reputation : Breaches or careless handling of data can erode donor trust, impacting future donations and support. Implement access control measures.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re looking to brush up on best practices for annual appeals, boost your fundraising game on social media this GivingTuesday , or build expert storytelling skills to win over supporters this giving season and beyond, we’ve got you covered with this list of 12 free nonprofit books. The hardest part of fundraising is making the ask.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

Your nonprofit is quickly growing, bringing in more donations than ever before and fostering a strong donor base. These advancements mean you have the budget available to invest in new fundraising software that can streamline your fundraising tasks and empower you to raise even more. Peer-to-peer fundraising pages.

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Software Guide Fundraising Platform 91

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When you think of fundraising ambassadors, you might think of celebrities who use their fame to mobilize support for their favorite nonprofits. Angelina Jolie, Elton John, and Scarlett Johansson use their star power to bring attention to their favorite causes. But fundraising ambassadors do not have to be celebrities.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You worked hard to meet last year’s fundraising goals, and now you’re able to look ahead at a new year filled with new possibilities. To help start your year off strong, consider prioritizing these five fundraising ideas today. So think about how you can use this time of year to focus on donor stewardship and relationship-building.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 20, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Small Team, Big Impact: How to Fundraise Efficiently with Limited Resources In the heart of every small nonprofit or community-driven initiative is a mission fueled by passion, dedication, and the unwavering belief in making a significant impact. Streamlining Fundraising Efforts The key is simplification.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 8, 2024

Fundraising firm RKD Group in Dallas, Texas made its second acquisition in as many weeks. This time the asset is MDM Fundraising, a Christian fundraising and marketing agency specialized in serving rescue missions and ministries. The firm was formerly known as Milwaukee Direct Marketing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A good fundraising email subject line can make or break your request for funds. Your fundraising email subject line has ONE job: to entice the recipient to open the email. Donors who gave to you once will slip away. Why You Need a Good Fundraising Email Subject Line We all know what it’s like to get an email in our inbox.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2022

If you’re ready to buy donor management software, fill out this form and a member of our team will reach out to show you how you can use Bloomerang to raise more funds and make a bigger impact. If looking into donor management software keeps falling to the bottom of the priority list, this post is for you. .

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 29, 2023

Here are some other definitions of freedom ( www.merriam-webster.com ): Being released from something onerous The quality of being frank, open, or outspoken Boldness of conception or execution Unrestricted use You know, several of those make me think of fundraising. Let’s declare war on mediocre fundraising!

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser. There’s a certain yearly cadence to nonprofit fundraising. This means that through most of the year, the fundraising beat sounds more like a faint pulse. Schedule your fundraiser on a Holiday. Patrick’s Day?

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Did you know as many as 81% percent of new donors don’t return to give again? And only 43% of all donors remain loyal? Do you know what your retention rates are or how to increase donor loyalty? Yet too many nonprofits still don’t prioritize donor retention strategies. . And, yes, your donors are consumers.

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Donor Strategy Retention Relationship 141

Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What are the nonprofit fundraising and communications books you turn to, time and time again? Creative Deviations, How you can infuse your story-telling, fundraising and direct response with more creativity by John Lepp For years, my go-to bible for direct response was Denny Hatch’s Million Dollar Mailings. What’s your favorite?

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sgEngage

JULY 15, 2023

Donor relation management is the process by which organizations organize donor data and maintain donor relationships to support a long-term donor infrastructure. By solidifying a methodology for donor management, nonprofit organizations can optimize donor investment and engagement and identify areas for growth.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 25, 2023

You need a strong marketing strategy to make your next fundraiser a success. After all, your valuable donors can’t register for your event or participate in your upcoming campaign if they don’t know it’s happening! But, what if the key to success was already in your donor base? This doesn’t have to be a daunting task.

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Marketing Tips Fundraising Contest 52

Achieve

JUNE 7, 2024

Nonprofit professionals turn to prospect research time after time to enhance and strengthen their fundraising strategies, especially when it comes to their major giving programs. In this guide, we’ll explore the role prospect research can play in solicitation and cover five tips for improving your fundraising asks with data.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Across the fundraising landscape, there is broad interest in reaching prospects and donors with more inclusive, equitable, and responsible messages. Strength-Based Messaging: A Powerful Tool Thankfully, in recent years, new and long overdue attention has been focused on changing the way we build our donor relationships.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 23, 2023

These innovative tools are revolutionising tasks by saving hundreds of hours of manual work through aiding in campaign creation, categorising and drafting email responses, assisting with content creation, and even automating donation processes to personalise and enhance the donor experience.

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Qgiv

MARCH 27, 2023

ChatGPT and fundraising may not be two things you’d think would go together, but the combination works better than you’d expect. What is ChatGPT ChatGPT for Fundraising Appeals ChatGPT for Thank Yous ChatGPT for Resource Materials ChatGPT for Fundraising Ideas What is ChatGPT? Be sure to double check any work created by ChatGPT.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Boost your fundraising team’s effectiveness with Nonprofit Fundraising Software that supports and maximizes their work. Nonprofit fundraising teams are hard-working and dedicated to their cause, but that doesn’t mean that they have time for stress and headache in the workplace. Automate to save your fundraising team time.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

If your nonprofit organization hosts a peer-to-peer event with thousands of happy participants and supporters, but you don’t have a plan to convert those bikers, gamers, walkers, golfers, dancers, scavenger hunters, or pub crawlers into monthly donors, you’re missing out on the point of putting on an awesome P2P event.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you understand how much time, resources, and planning goes into running a successful fundraising event. Successfully securing corporate sponsors for your fundraising event can not only give your budget and staff’s bandwidth a boost. Bolstering their public image by visibly supporting your cause.

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Sponsor Fundraising Companies Demonstration 91

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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Campaign Fundraising Mail United States 88

The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 5, 2022

Stories are an incredible tool for non-profit fundraising. And when a fundraising appeal is easy to understand, there’s one less barrier to someone donating. Your non-profit has lots of stories to tell and some of those will be your best suited stories for non-profit fundraising. . The Problem Story. The Impact Story.

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Profit Story Fundraising Beginner 104

NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2021

Ever wonder if there are things donors want to know but won’t ask? In the midst of a fundraising campaign, you get accustomed to hearing the same questions over and over. Donor meetings can sometimes feel like “kicking the tires” of your cause or project. Once in a while, however, a donor steps outside the norm.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. 1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Not all fundraising programs look alike.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2022

Making fundraising calls can be nerve-wracking, but it helps to have a plan in the form of a fundraising script. In this guide, we’ll offer some tips and sample scripts you can use when calling donors to request a face-to-face meeting or directly request donations. Why and when to use a script for fundraising.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. At one of the first auction events she worked, she was reprimanded for showing a donor a seat a the far end of the room. We’ll do this through the following points: What is donor management software?

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Software Management Donor Guide 103

Candid

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you’re continually looking for new ways to maximize fundraising for your mission, expand your organization’s network, and bring in new supporters. Make sure your donors are your primary storytellers. Connect with other fundraisers. Set up donation pages.

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Strategy Fundraising Social Media Evaluation 70

Bloomerang

JUNE 9, 2021

What’s the formula for effective fundraising?” . This is the “formula” for just about all effective fundraising strategies. Why is this fundraising formula important? A lot of people shy away from fundraising. A lot of people shy away from fundraising. Even our fundraising shows it. Well, here it is: 12141.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

But due to many common challenges to constantly reach new donors, retain existing donors, and increase operational efficiency the amount of effort to impact lives doesn’t always result in the high return it should. In the 2018 Charitable Giving Stats from NP Source , 77% believe everyone can make a difference by supporting causes.

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