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Getting Forward to Normal: A Bump in the Road for Monthly Giving

NonProfit PRO

For the past decade, only two things were certain every year: The Detroit Lions (my wife's favorite team) were not going to win a playoff game and digital monthly giving was going to increase by more than digital one-time giving. It was inevitable. That was until last year.

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. Uncontested space is the gift of Blue Ocean Strategy. Actually, the process is based on three decades of research conducted by authors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Miami, Detroit, the New York City metro/New Jersey area, the San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia, and Boston. Focused on restaurant recovery and entrepreneurship, the Grants for Growth program will award $10,000 to a hundred businesses on Uber Eats in ten U.S. cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., January 12, 2022.

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How Game On Cancer Cracked the Code on Engaging Physicians and Cancer Survivors

Connection Cafe

Our Team MVPs campaign s urprised physicians, brought in hundreds of new donors, and filled our major gifts pipeline. . In partnership with the Detroit Lions and the Detroit Pistons, Game On Cancer is a year-round campaign that has successfully raised over $5 million in 5 years – 100% of which has been dedicated to that mission.

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How Nonprofit Staff Training Is Evolving Due to COVID-19

Top Nonprofits

How do we solicit gifts during a crisis? Rodney, the major gifts officer, is working from a home office that’s actually a dining room table. Sally, the matching gifts officer, is working from an apartment-based home office, and the upstairs neighbors are big fans of step aerobics. What will our post-COVID-19 efforts look like?

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Your Brand Story: Change the Fundraising Game by Driving Donations and Building Relationships

Connection Cafe

Fundraising professionals continuously seek better methods to cultivate individual donors and obtain major gifts. As The Children’s Center in Detroit learned first-hand, their unique and compelling brand story was the secret sauce for touching the hearts and moving the minds of donors. It was a game-changer. The challenge.

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A Message from Your Donors: Wish You Were Here

Connection Cafe

When he’s not working with nonprofits or being a hapless Detroit sports fan, he’s busy watching reruns of Downton Abbey and Parenthood. Are they giving online, are they coming to your events, where are they making their gifts, and are they registered for your newsletter? — It’s rather funny where inspiration often comes from.

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