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How to Use Prospect Research to Improve Your Asks: 5 Tips

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But the value of prospect research extends beyond the cultivation stage —the data you gather can also be pivotal in the solicitation process, helping you tailor your fundraising asks to each prospect and increase your chances of success. Keep your database clean. Let’s get started! Eliminating duplicate data entries.

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5 Corporate Philanthropy Roadblocks—and How to Solve Them

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For matching gifts, these typically include matchable donation minimum and maximum amounts and a match ratio to determine the match size. The best solution is to equip your team with a robust (and continuously updated) corporate giving database. Lack of knowledge of corporate philanthropy participation processes. An individual?—donors

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Encouraging Donors to Participate in Corporate Giving Programs

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Then, we’ll share a few tried-and-true tips for simplifying the process and overcoming obstacles before they arise. For many donors, their lack of participation in relevant employer giving programs comes down to two things: lack of awareness and a complicated request process. Complicated Request Process. Match ratios (i.e.,

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Matching Donations: A Nonprofit’s Guide to Doubling Impact

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You’ll fold matching gifts directly into the online donation process by embedding a search tool into your donation or confirmation page. Recent corporate matching gift technology innovations have simplified the follow-up process even further. For example: Disney will match donations between $25 and $25,000 at a ratio of 1:1.

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How to effectively communicate impact to nonprofit stakeholders

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The problem with ratios. They often use financial ratios to measure a nonprofit's impact, but these do not most accurately showcase a program's efficiency. Story Writing Workshop: Define the spaces where you want to share stories of impact and have stakeholders engage in the process of writing these together.

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3 Ways to Incorporate Matching Gifts Into Your Fundraising Strategy

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You can even use a tool like 360MatchPro by Double the Donation to check out the industry’s leading matching gift program database , through which donors can check their eligibility for matching programs in seconds. Mentioning matching gifts during your donation process results in a 51% increase in donation amount. Capital Group.

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What is Corporate Giving? The Ultimate Guide to Earning More

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The concept of a matching gift is simple: An employee contributes to their nonprofit of choice, and their employer matches their donation at a predetermined ratio. The process involves the following steps: A donor contributes to their nonprofit of choice. Add your program to a corporate giving database.

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