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Product Update: CauseVox Auto-Pledge Helps You Get More Large Gifts

CauseVox

In recent years, pledges have fallen out of fashion: it’s not how today’s donors give, and it’s difficult for fundraisers to track and manage fulfillment. With Auto-Pledge, pledges will never be the same! That way, large gifts become approachable. With Auto-Pledges, even your biggest asks become easy.

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Multi-Year Gift Agreements: Your Donor Retention ‘Ace-In-The-Hole’

Bloomerang

But there’s one unsung strategy that can elevate your donor retention rates, while expanding mid-level and major giving: multi-year gift agreements. Studies also show that the best major gift and planned gift prospects are donors that have been retained for multiple years. Does this r eally improve donor retention?

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[ASK AN EXPERT] In Which Year Are Gifts Made On Or Before December 31, But Received In January, Counted?

Bloomerang

Today’s question come from a nonprofit employee who want advice on which year to count gifts that are made on or before December 31, but not received until January: . Our auditors later told us the gifts should have been recorded as pledges, with the payment showing as being applied in the new year. — In a Dilemma.

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How to Set up Up Your Donation Page on Causevox

CauseVox

If your donation form is overly long, clunky, or confusing, you’ll be dealing with angry donors, losing out on revenue, and scaring donors away from coming back to make a second gift. CauseVox offers a free guide to help you set up a winning recurring gift campaign. But what does it mean for a donation form to be truly outstanding?

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Use This Sample Letter With Your Board To Boost Year-End Giving

Bloomerang

Self-reflection / Gift of significance Before describing three suggested actions, allow us to share something important that we’ve learned. Of course, so many of you have already given this year, thank you so much for that. Yet, as board members, other donors look to you to give gifts of significance. It could even be all three!

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Make a “ stretch gift ” that is very generous and is outside your normal giving pattern. Take free or paid classes, courses, or webinars to learn how to fundraise.

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12 Lessons For Fundraisers After Hearing “No” From A Major Donor Prospect

Bloomerang

After a fundraising career of making solicitations for three different institutions of higher education and now serving as a trainer/consultant for a wide range of nonprofits, I’d like to share several fundraising lessons on what to do after your major gift ask is turned down. Very often donor prospects will ask for more time.

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