Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2019

They find great satisfaction and pride in funding growth and expansion. The key to achieving your nonprofit’s greatest goals? 1) Invite major donors to be an integral part of the work they’re funding. The specifics of what their money would be funding. What you expect the end result to be.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

And the larger your organization, the larger the gifts you can expect to receive⁠—that is, of course, when your team has a plan to cultivate and steward key donors. When the context is nonprofit fundraising, the “cause” is the donor, and the “effect” is the funds they provide. Feel like your fundraising team could use a boost?

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

From there you can create two versions of your appeal: 1) thanking active donors for their previous contributions and asking for a final end-of-year gift to maximize their support, and 2) reminding lapsed donors about your organization’s important work while also letting them know they still have time to make a donation. Get in touch here!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

There’s a good reason why an iconic nonprofit like the World Wildlife Fund sends stickers and a stuffed animal to donors who sign up to adopt a tiger, a giraffe, or another animal. Giving funds is easier and more satisfying when a contributor knows exactly what their donation will cover. 3) Give something real. 4) Give outcomes.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

Nonprofits of all sizes have one need in common: funding. Small nonprofits face even more challenges when it comes to securing funding in comparison to larger organizations—from low donor retention rates to limited resources to an overall lack of unrestricted funding.

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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2024

Propensity (habit): Along with having sufficient funds and a connection to your cause, major donor prospects should demonstrate a habit of giving to charitable causes like yours. Your current projects and goals: Give prospects an inside look at what their donations can fund by explaining your current goals and projects.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 23, 2023

Gift baskets are a staple of silent auction fundraising events. If they bring home a high-quality, interesting gift basket, they’ll have a memento of a good experience that will remind them to stay involved with your nonprofit. To make the most of your baskets, you’ll need to get creative and make them stand out. Let’s get started!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. Make a “ stretch gift ” that is very generous and is outside your normal giving pattern. Is the donor renewal rate low?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

You may find that there are other organizations seeking to achieve similar goals that you can tackle together or connections they can introduce you to. Follow the lead of this executive director who launched her two-person nonprofit team into the limelight simply by joining in on the community conversation. The best part?

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2024

One of my favorite colleagues and co-host of our Eskin Fundraising Training Non-Profit Empowerment webinar series, Rhanda Luna, has been hired as Director of Corporate Giving and Special Events for SAFE, based in Austin, Texas. Review progress on these goals and objectives at least quarterly. Explore opportunities for growth.

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Candid

DECEMBER 20, 2023

After all, the only way you can fulfill your organization’s mission is if you can bring in the funding you need to support your programs and initiatives. You should also have a plan for how to effectively manage your funding, which is where your financial strategy comes into play.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning is the process of creating a blueprint that guides an organization for a specified time period and helps accomplish its goals. The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Imagine this: you set what you think is an ambitious fundraising goal for your virtual event and then watch as you double, triple, quadruple that goal in the days leading up to the event. Then, you cross the finish line – and end up raising 12 times your fundraising goal ! Ah, the powers of technology.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Confirms to the donor that you got their gift. Closes the loop on this gift and prepares them for the next gift. After all, they gave your organization a gift. Your donation will help us meet our goals…” As a donor, I don’t care about your goals. Thank you for your generous gift to xyz organization.’

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 29, 2023

When it’s all about you and your need to raise your annual fund, you actually repel donors. Program goals must be set before fundraising can begin. If it’s just not possible to raise that amount, adjust your program goals. Working without a plan will never fully fund your mission. Make the shift to become donor-centered.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Julie Ordoñez will outline a proven strategy, messaging and action steps you can implement right away to close major gifts faster, ethically. We’re here to talk about 3 steps to closing over $10,000 gifts by December 31st. It is not too late to raise major gifts this year. Julie: Let’s do it. That’s right.

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Candid

MAY 28, 2024

Your long-term funder could be the one to go to for an increased or additional gift—but you have to know how to approach them. Your goal is to preserve and, if possible, strengthen your relationship with that funder. Even then, it’s important to approach the program officer and see if there are funds available for a new program.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you know that raising major gifts is one of the most strategic efforts your organization will complete. Major gifts are not only a highly-strategic effort, but also a high-stakes one— for many nonprofits, over 80% of their total fundraising dollars come from major contributions alone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

According to the 2020 Benchmarks Report , revenue from monthly gifts increased by 22% in 2019 and now accounts for 17% of all online revenue for nonprofits. For example, the Nature Conservancy offers both honor gifts and memorial gifts – each with their own donation page. 4) Know the Power of Email Fundraising.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 19, 2022

However, the most popular posts have been in the areas of fund accounting, grantmaking, fundraising, and data intelligence! With an accessible operating reserves policy, your team, board of directors, and donors know the reasons you would use your operating reserves and the amount that needs to always be in the fund.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Discover how a nonprofit endowment fund can help your nonprofit! Nonprofit endowments 101 How endowments work Nonprofit endowment fund rules and policies Benefits of nonprofit endowments How to start an endowment fund Nonprofit endowments 101 Exactly what is an endowment fund? Term endowments. Quasi-endowments.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The following checklist covers the basics of everything you need to get funded , become official, and stay organized: Define your nonprofit’s mission clearly. It motivates you to design impactful programs and raise funds for your organization, and it’s the whole reason you’re taking on this new adventure. Organize your resources.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 18, 2023

Many schools rely heavily on donations from generous families, community members, and alumni to supplement limited government funding. If you’re a teacher, parent, or volunteer, you know that coming up with the funding your school needs can be difficult, especially in the midst of global challenges that are out of your control.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 17, 2021

We invited special guest Brad Davies, Fundraising Expert from NextAfter to share his experience and talk through a specific strategy on how to grow your organization this year and turn your 2016 fundraising goals into a reality. If you don’t have a plan, you won’t perform well and you won’t achieve your goals. Fist things first.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

If those new donors never make a second gift, that return on your investment won’t grow. But, if you can inspire new donors to give a second $50 gift, you’ll net $60 instead of $10. Giving from individual donors is down , which means organizations are increasingly relying on gifts from major donors. Made in-kind gifts?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

While overall giving is up, that’s because of extremely large gifts from wealthy benefactors that skew the numbers. My guess is that many of you are scrambling to try and meet your fundraising goals. This can cause leaders to look for any and all sources of funding to close the hole created by a dried-up revenue stream.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Do you think a donor wants to be asked for a capital gift in April, a bequest gift in July, and an annual gift in November – all in the same calendar year? Asking hinges on which department gets credit for securing the gift. Asking depends on which campaign gets to include the gift towards reaching their monetary goal. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2015

If you are stumped for how to write performance appraisal goals for a particular title and role in your organization, purchase Paul Falcone 's book, 2,600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals. Drive the necessary development efforts to meet the organization's annual revenue goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 14, 2015

If you are stumped for how to write performance appraisal goals for a particular title and role in your organization, buy Paul Falcone 's book, 2,600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals. Drive the necessary development efforts to meet the organization's annual revenue goals.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In 2019, Facebook provided $7 million dollars in matching funds for the first gifts made on Facebook on Giving Tuesday. Very few nonprofits received matching funds, but over $120 million was raised for charity. We rarely get gifts we don’t ask for. A lot more people will raise funds for us if we ask than if we don’t!

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Bonterra

APRIL 11, 2024

Request a demo Go beyond the check Empower your grantees to sustain grant funds, diversify revenue, and build a broader base of community support. Amy Barch Founder and Executive Director, Turn90, Jumpstart grantee “Investing in Jumpstart was a no brainer. How will Bonterra support grantmakers through the program?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A very common “go-to” funding idea for small nonprofits is fundraising events. They’re transactional by nature and not a good long-term solution for funding. Diverse funding streams are the key to success. But if the event meets your goals for revenue and awareness, it might be ok. Probably not!) Point blank.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Don’t talk about your year-end fundraising goal. For donors who want their money to be used in ways that change lives, a gift to your organization is the right year-end move. Start with your biggest donors and work your way down the list with the goal to connect with as many as possible. Secure a last-minute matching gift.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

After all, nonprofits need gifts and donations to sustain them, no matter what their mission or goals might be. Your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy can’t achieve its aims without the proper goals and workload distribution. Work with your development director to identify organizational goals.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

It needs to be warm, sincere, and prompt so that it closes the loop on the gift and makes the donor feel great about their giving experience. We call it the Cycle of Giving and here’s how it works: The donor gives a gift. The nonprofit receives the gift. It makes me wonder if I gave my gift to the right organization.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 15, 2021

I’ve heard that to be a major gift officer you have to have access to people with money, be comfortable socializing with them, and speak their language. Let’s not immediately assume that our fundraising goals and our human ones are incompatible. Is major gift officer the only viable career in fundraising ?

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The final third might be the bane of a productive, accountable board: they simply won’t do much at all, except (hopefully) donate funds. By definition, board members should be counted on to make sacrificial gifts or at least to consider the organization a high priority for their philanthropy. Reality 2: It’s all work and no pay.

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