EveryAction

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Whether they are donating their time, their voices, or their dollars, it’s essential to make sure your supporters know how valued they are—and fully grasp the impact of their generosity. This is a great way to thank and highlight your most dedicated supporters—and motivate others to rally behind your cause, too. Here’s what they said.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

The past couple of years have represented a challenging time for nonprofit fundraising. In difficult circumstances, it’s helpful to return to the fundraising basics to ensure you’re making the most of tried and true strategies to boost your nonprofit’s donation revenue. Prioritize building strong supporter relationships.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Navigating the complexities of year-end fundraising for nonprofits can often feel like threading through a maze of challenges. Understand the Power of Data Leveraging data to understand your donors is critical because it allows your nonprofit to drive the strategies that connect your cause to your donors’ passions.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

There’s strength in numbers, and you need to build a base of educated and engaged advocates to raise their voices with you. Cornershop Creative Lesley Molecke, founder When your cause is compelling and your argument is strong, it can be easy to find folks who will get on board with enthusiastic lip service.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? Put a human face on the cause through case studies, testimonials, and videos. A relatable human voice connects. Creativity matters only if it sells.

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Media Cause

JUNE 22, 2021

Why leveraging different calls-to-action actually deepens relationships with your constituents and supporters. In other words, you don’t need to choose between advocacy and fundraising. What’s more, this campaign cultivated recent donors and primed others for an impactful fiscal year end fundraising campaign. Email Cadence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2022

The pandemic has caused many mission-driven organizations to re-evaluate their mission, reconsider their strategic plan to accomplish it, and then engage donors and advocates from this new position. A mix of opinions will ensure that many voices are included. Have you noticed, in the last year or so, how many nonprofits have rebranded?

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Explore Media Cause experts’ top five communication tips to consider as you roll out your advocacy , fundraising , and engagement strategies during an election year. This year’s calendar requires careful planning and timing based on your organization, issue area, and advocacy, fundraising, and campaign activations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Note from Beth: December is a time when start to reflect on the past year and future online trends for fundraising. I think of GivingTuesday as a great example of a sharing economy fundraiser. Insights The Sharing Economy Tells Us About The Future Of Fundraising By Rob Wu, CEO + Co-founder of CauseVox.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 25, 2022

This thank you letter can be the gateway to building a long lasting relationship between the donor and your cause. Learning how to write a donor thank you letter is a skill all fundraising professionals need. Using a story can immediately and tangibly connect donors to the person or cause that they have helped.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

For the past 60 or so years, and especially since the advent of the internet, social capital —interpersonal relationships and networks—has become increasingly crucial. Your cause is important, and you should always keep your mission in the front of your mind. Yes: donors want to further the cause—of course! Get out there.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 2, 2022

Translating a cause you care about into compelling words for a fundraising appeal can be a challenge. All of these things can get in the way of you actually writing the fundraising appeal that you need to write in order to raise money. That roadmap is called a fundraising appeal brief. I talk about briefs all the time.

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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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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Proclamation requests: It’s easy to generate proclamations from cities, counties, and states declaring a specific day or month in honor of a cause or group. Raise the Roots is a digital agency providing nonprofits and small businesses with expert digital strategy and support to raise awareness, voices, and money.

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Achieve

JANUARY 22, 2024

Because mid-level donations play an essential role in your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy, cultivating and stewarding strong mid-level donor relationships is vital. As a result, you’ll need a dedicated donor communications team ready to initiate and maintain these mid-level donor relationships.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Autumn definitely means “go time” in the life of a fundraiser, often because it signals the start of year-end , a period of time you may get upwards of 60% or more of your annual donations. Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Cause Camp 2020 is going to feature next level content. Cause Camp 2020 Host. Through speaking, training, and consulting, she shows social purpose organizations how to use social media and storytelling to build communities, showcase impact, and advance their causes. We’re so proud to introduce our amazing speaker lineup!

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So, a year-end fundraising goal and plan is important for nonprofits to take full advantage of donors’ kindness. After over 20 years of fundraising, consulting, and teaching nonprofits across the U.S., After over 20 years of fundraising, consulting, and teaching nonprofits across the U.S., If they don’t answer, no worries.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Fundraising is more tech-powered than ever before. With so many tools out there to choose from, your opportunities for customizing your organization’s tech stack are virtually limitless, especially when it comes to fundraising apps. but now, you can take all that information on the go with Bloomerang’s mobile fundraising app !

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Donor engagement is what your organization does to build and strengthen donor relationships and the methods you use to keep donors active and involved. Solid donor engagement strategies help organizations improve their donors’ connection with their work, establish strong donor relationships, and retain their donor base.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 18, 2023

Imagine multiplying your team’s fundraising productivity without hiring more people. Let’s have a look at how you can elevate your fundraising game. A Helping Hand in Automation Whether you’re a team of one or one hundred, there’s no denying that fundraising comes with its fair share of repetitive tasks.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2019

This transformation has shifted the expectations of individuals around how they operate in the world – how they give to causes they care about, connect with colleagues, choose brands and make purchases, and participate in CSR initiatives. Supporting individual and the causes they care about presents unique opportunity for to do so.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As you begin planning your final fundraising push for the Season of Giving, make a point of honoring multiple faiths and cultures by creating a more inclusive end-of-year appeal. Solicitations can heighten awareness of your mission, build relationships, and increase revenue, but the message has to reach the recipient.

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

Here are the top three:  Increase awareness of your cause. With the number of podcast listeners ever-increasing, you can strategically use this media form to bring awareness to your cause. As you discuss your nonprofit’s cause and programs, listeners will be more likely to emotionally connect with your organization and get involved.

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Greater Giving

JULY 20, 2022

Nonprofits are struggling to connect donors with the cause—but these four donor engagement best practices can open up new communication channels. In The State of Nonprofit Fundraising 2022, we found 30% of nonprofits reported donor fatigue as a significant barrier to their fundraising success. So what can nonprofits do about it?

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2012

This will help you build a personal relationship with supporters. What content will be important to them: projects that have reached completion, fundraisers, or volunteer events? In setting your nonprofit's goals, think about what kind of relationship you want to have with the people who connect to your page.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As another challenging year comes to a close and your end of year fundraising winds up, how did your peer-to-peer strategy perform? Either way, it’s important to go into 2022 with a strong digital fundraising strategy to take advantage of an increasingly more captive online audience. . Did you hit or miss the mark in 2021?

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Achieve

OCTOBER 28, 2015

What can you do when interest in your cause begins to wane? It’s a scary question, and one that many fundraisers and nonprofit marketers will face at some point. The more voices you allow to be heard around the table, the stronger your organization will be. Your donors aren’t invested in your cause. Philantopic. ,

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2022

It will be up to nonprofits to direct appealing engagement and fundraising strategies towards young individuals to avoid a detrimental depletion of funds over the next several decades. Millennials are drawn to volunteer opportunities that impact the lives of others and support causes they care about , Sheela Nimishakavi states.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

People need to know how to handle when they are: Triggered – when a word or action causes a strong reaction Flooded – when an overwhelming number of emotions all at once causes physical stress responses. Is there a process to ensure everyone has access and opportunity for their voice to be heard?

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Image courtesy of The Connected Cause. Smaller nonprofits, and even larger ones, are constantly evolving as they find their captive audience and grow their voice. Building donor relationships relies heavily on a nonprofit’s staff. Does your CRM help you build and maintain relationships? Authorization.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

While acquisition is definitely a worthwhile goal, a sensible fundraising specialist will tell you that another top priority of any given fundraising project should be retaining the dedicated supporters that you already have. . It’s best to send these polls after a fundraising event or after a gift is made.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This year, Giving Tuesday falls on November 28th, and nonprofits are gearing up for what has the potential to be one of the most lucrative fundraising days of the year. As important as donations are, the incredible value of #GivingTuesday is the opportunity to build relationships with your supporters and engage your community.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Adding a golf tournament to your fundraising event roster is a win-win for your nonprofit and your donors—your nonprofit adds a reliable income stream and your donors get to support your mission through a fun activity. Your event website becomes the home base for marketing your golf fundraiser. Leverage digital channels.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Every dollar counts in the fundraising world, so the free marketing that social media provides can be crucial to raising awareness for your cause without breaking your budget. From sharing your mission to advertising fundraising campaigns, social media offers plenty of opportunities to help you boost your fundraising efforts.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 23, 2024

We all strive to keep our cause, our mission, afloat and thriving. It shows respect for your supporters’ choices and can improve your relationship with those who stick around, making your community even stronger. Your message never reaches its audience, lost in the digital void. Because the rules of the email game have changed.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

50% of nonprofits receive the majority of donations from October through December, so it’s critical that you have a plan in place to maximize your fundraising efforts during this time. It’s crucial to understand just how important year-end fundraising is for your organization. to submit tax-deductible gifts.

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