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Year-end Fundraising Domination!

Connection Cafe

Of course, my first question was what made 2011 year-end fundraising different from years past, and I was excited to hear from Sara Thomas, Senior Manager, Digital Marketing at Ocean Conservancy on their year-end success. Thanks to Sara and Tobi for reinforcing the themes of a multi-phased approach to year-end fundraising and starting early!

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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

World Wildlife Fund Mission statement: The mission of World Wildlife Fund is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on Earth. Explore Bloomerang’s sample job descriptions for positions like major gift officer and development director. Hold interviews.

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

And in doing so, of course, we move forward our nonprofit conservation mission of keeping good stuff out of landfills. Every gift you give away, you don't mail it somewhere. It's the power of each person individually to make a gift to one other person in their local community. I wanted to keep stuff out of the landfills.

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8 Ways to Use Scout Quest Data for End of Year

M+R

Our friends at League of Conservation Voters did this , and ended up raising over $200k from donors who were previously marked inactive! Send targeted messages to audiences who have made larger gifts to other groups, encouraging them to participate at higher levels.

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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Help P2P Fundraisers Meet & Exceed Their Goals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We purposely set a more conservative goal so that our staff could feel the motivating rush of achieving it, and then we could push to exceed the original goal. For people who you know can’t afford a large gift, make a more targeted ask that makes it easier to give. Using past campaigns as a benchmark, we set our goal at $50,000.

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Operation Smile and #BitcoinTuesday

Top Nonprofits

So what that means is I oversee our regional team of seven different major gift officers, raging raising ranging from California, Colorado, Texas, Chicago, New York. So someone could initiate a cryptocurrency gift and it be in our bank account within a 15 to 30 minute period.

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[VIDEO] Building a Better Grants Strategy Post-COVID

Bloomerang

And I want you to think about this because in each of these different phases, there’s different components required. And with major gifts and sponsorships, that’s also about cultivation, but also building out who is going to do the cultivation? it says a million, but it’s a $2 million gift from MacKenzie Scott.

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