article thumbnail

Top Do’s and Don’ts for Fundraising While Navigating the News Cycle

Media Cause

As a nonprofit fundraiser, only so much is under your control. At any given moment, world events, social movements, and all manner of crises can shift the fundraising environment as they unfold. 5 Do’s and Don’t of Navigating the News Cycle When Fundraising 1. The nature of the news is frenetic and fluctuating.

News 64
article thumbnail

Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

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’? This engineering insight became his headline: “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in a Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.”

Lesson 59
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Extra Extra: the Benchmarks Webinar Recording

M+R

There’s no wrong way to dig into our annual Benchmarks Study, covering digital programs from marketing to fundraising to advocacy. Some folks head straight to mrbenchmarks.com , exploring the full data set and following their own path down the rabbit hole of charts and findings. This year’s big headlines are: .

article thumbnail

Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Yeah, engaging those board members to be fundraising ambassadors. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started?

article thumbnail

Top Lessons from GivingTuesday 2023

Neon CRM

GivingTuesday 2023 by the Numbers Most leading headlines focus on the overall total dollars raised on GivingTuesday. Digital-forward campaigns are still powerful new donor acquisition opportunities: 57% of new donors who gave to organizations using Neon Fundraise were acquired through digital channels. Resist that temptation!

Lesson 52
article thumbnail

Nonprofit Weekly Roundup: Surprising Twitter Stats, Content Creation, and Media Love for Your Next Event.

Connection Cafe

Some People Make Excuses; Others Raise Money – Fundraising Coach, Marc A. Pitman challenges nonprofits to reframe the slow months and use them to catapult their fall fundraising. I hope this next week is a chart-topper for you. Here’s some of this week’s best content for the nonprofit industry. creating content.

Stats 37
article thumbnail

Think Big (but Start Small) with Nonprofit Innovation

sgEngage

Hecht said innovative organizations start specifically with the business result or ideal mission impact and then chart their path to the outcome by working through the details: What is the experience my donor is having? What is the experience of my staff?