The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Strategic Planning for Year-End Fundraising: Setting the Stage in September September serves as a transitional gateway bridging the carefree summer days with the strategic year-end hustle for nonprofits. So, let’s demystify how to pave the roundabout of a successful year-end fundraising campaign.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

Read time: 7 minutes If you’re a professional fundraiser, every day is giving day. Unfortunately, not all of our donors are themselves professional fundraisers — so creating a special, attention-grabbing Giving Day that gets your audiences excited and engaged can be a big boost during an otherwise quiet time of year.

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OneCause

MARCH 14, 2023

As those in the nonprofit world realize, few things are as effective—or as time consuming—as fundraising events. It’s important to have an effective event fundraising marketing plan to save time and execute flawless fundraisers. What should my team consider when developing an event fundraising marketing plan?

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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’? Share enthusiastic endorsements from recognizable opinion leaders, celebrities, or experts. Focus on selling – Judge ads by sales results, not awards.

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Greater Giving

MAY 5, 2023

How to Plan Successful Auction Fundraising Events Auctions are a popular and effective fundraising method for nonprofits. In this blog post, we will explore the benefits of auction fundraising for nonprofits and provide tips for planning successful auction events.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

Drafting a fundraising plan can be intimidating, especially if it’s your first time and you have no fundraising plan structure. You see, a good fundraising plan isn’t something you knock out in an afternoon. Your answers will give your fundraising plan structure and allow you to move forward with this important task.

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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. Leverage digital channels. Your event website becomes the home base for marketing your golf fundraiser.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 24, 2023

Email is a major communication channel for many nonprofits. It’s a relatively inexpensive way to connect with your supporters and an essential part of most fundraising campaigns. Make sure they’ve heard it before you launch your next fundraising or advocacy campaign. At the top of that time period, you send a direct mail appeal.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Facebook fundraising makes it easy for supporters to show their support of your mission with a quick donation. Facebook fundraising tools are designed to keep people on the site rather than send them to a crowdfunding platform or other website. Despite the downsides, Facebook can be a powerful fundraising tool.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 8, 2021

Email marketing is one of the most cost-effective marketing channels, enabling you to talk directly to your past, current, and potential donors. This post offers five ways you can optimize your fundraising campaign and create winning emails as we all prepare for the biggest season for nonprofit fundraising — end-of-year giving.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Does thinking about meeting your year-end fundraising goal give you night sweats? What if there was one thing you can do right now to ensure your fundraising success and boost year-end gifts? Celebrate your board members for participating in the thank-a-thon with food and prizes! Your voice mail or email? Much lower!

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CauseVox

MAY 16, 2022

You may be wondering, will adding fundraising tickets to the event just complicate things? Luckily, CauseVox is here to help you plan your next ticketed fundraising event. The first step when planning a fundraising event today is to decide on the format. Fundraising Calendar Template. How much do you want to raise?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. What is a read-a-thon fundraiser? How to host a read-a-thon fundraiser. Why should you host a read-a-thon?

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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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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Leverage Multiple Marketing Channels If you want to attract the attention of as many supporters as possible, develop a multichannel marketing strategy. Direct mail: For a more traditional approach, send fundraising flyers , event invitations, and thank-you notes to members of the community through the mail.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the modern fundraising world, creating an online fundraising strategy is essential to the success of your nonprofit. As the world continues to grapple with the ups and downs of COVID-19, it’s essential to meet your donors where they’re most comfortable, and that means coming up with inventive online fundraising ideas.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2022

Giving Days are time-sensitive fundraising events aimed at rallying communities to maximize engagement and donations to your institution and so much goes into running a successful one. We wanted to see if this was a channel that our community responded well to. As you can imagine, it was! Take a multichannel approach.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

While the dollar amount per donation earns the “micro” label, it doesn’t necessarily mean your fundraising will decrease. It can be participating in a TV text-to-give appeal from your couch, supporting a fundraiser on Facebook or rounding up the spare change on your morning coffee. What about traditional philanthropy? .

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

When it comes to fundraising for Mother’s Day, let’s start with some facts. Americans are estimated to spend a whopping $25 billion dollars to celebrate their mothers and the other important women in their lives for Mother’s Day. And yet, Mother’s Day is often an untapped day of giving when it comes to annual fundraising.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

As nonprofits continue to navigate this “new normal” of event fundraising into 2021, a focus on virtual fundraising should be at the top of your priority list. In fact, data has found that nonprofits who are hosting virtual events are using the same channels and tactics to steward donors as they would in the in-person setting.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 25, 2024

Channel the audience reading your newsletter—what’s helpful to them? Recap Events From volunteer days to fundraising galas, organizations have a lot of events that not all members can attend. In addition to announcing upcoming events, remember you can use your member newsletter to summarize and celebrate past events.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

These tips can apply to any type of nonprofit event: whether you’re hosting a charity auction , a fundraising 5K, conference, webinar, and so on. You can send them free merchandise through the mail or connect them with virtual networking opportunities to help them feel more connected to your organization. Let’s get started!

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Achieve

APRIL 28, 2022

Your supporters have their individual engagement preferences, and it generally takes numerous interactions across channels before a follower is ready to donate. engagement channels. Target the approaches and channels where your donors and potential donors are already active and receptive to your messaging. As a result, your.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Numerous celebrities used TwitPic to report while on location at a recent Stand Up To Cancer fundraiser. It would be great to see nonprofit new media managers and bloggers do the same at galas, fundraisers, meetings on Capitol Hill, protests, etc. TwitPic.com allows you to easily share photos on Twitter in real-time.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

The sorry state of donor retention has been a topic of discussion for at least the past decade, since the Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report began collecting data. They don’t care if the touch comes from marketing, fundraising, or programs. mailing address; phone number; tax identification number).

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As the world opens up to in-person fundraising experiences once again, some organizations have fully embraced the return to traditional fundraising methods and events. However, for many nonprofit organizations, virtual fundraising will continue to be a part of their fundraising strategy for years to come.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Strategic partnerships and research inform her approach to new challenges and when drafting fundraising communications. It’s been proven time after time that data-driven strategy creates the most successful fundraising results. Advanced reports can highlight information like new donors, at-risk donors, and lapsed donors.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As the Director of Nonprofit Services, she ensures their nonprofit clients will become tax-exempt and have the necessary resources to fundraise and stay in compliance. She is passionate about fundraising, especially direct mail, and loves helping nonprofits start their giving programs. Additional Resources.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Higher education giving has traditionally relied on major gifts, annual funds, and direct mail as the primary means of engaging new donors. Many K-12 schools have found success by centralizing their asks in celebration of the students, faculty and staff building a legacy. Allow supporters to fundraise on behalf of giving day projects.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Pride Month is a great time to celebrate and reflect on the work activists and nonprofit organizations are doing to support the LGBTQ+ community. The LGBTQ+ Donor Engagement Program exists to support annual fundraising events. Join the Stonewall Community Foundation mailing list to get notifications about future grant opportunities.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Technology: As you can probably imagine, it’s important to ensure you have the right infrastructure to support donations, advanced segmentation, e-mailing those segments , tracking gifts and pulling reports to capture progress. We entered all gifts with an appeal code in our nonprofit fundraising software.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. Each physician registered with the campaign and created their Team MVP online fundraising page and were ready to start. . First Quarter . Second Quarter .

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Care2

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

In a report outlining results from the 2010 year-end fundraising, M&R analyzed thirteen of their clients results and shared some great data. What do these year-end fundraising results mean to your nonprofit’s fundraising program? Messages from Celebrities that are truly connected to your nonprofit’s issue. (For

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

have further validated the effectiveness of text-to-give fundraising. give fundraising for everyday use, versus only for emergency or disaster relief. The high numbers of respondents who are aware of mobile giving highlight that text-to-give fundraising has reached "critical mass" with consumers. Channel of Influence.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The year-end giving season offers a unique opportunity for engaging with your supporters and fans, whether your ultimate goal is deepening relationships or fundraising. Spend time with your team thinking about how to frame your current work and how to sharpen your fundraising ask. Plan Your Year-End Messaging.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Fundraising is all about relationships. . If they donate by check, you should send them a hard copy thank-you letter with tax information by regular postal mail, sent within two business days of when you receive their check. You can include a mail option and a QR code linking to an electronic survey.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Second, year-end giving gives nonprofits an opportunity to use a big chunk of their resources to meet their annual fundraising goals, and it gives donors a last chance to get a tax-deductible gift out the door. We want to help nonprofits that implement year-end fundraising campaigns be successful. Goals don’t come out of thin air.

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