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[WEBINAR] Fundraising Appeal Throwdown

CauseVox

Whether you’re running a crowdfunding campaign, virtual fundraising event, #GivingTuesday campaign, year-end fundraiser, or more – you need a great fundraising appeal. You’ll come away knowing exactly how to write a strong appeal for any fundraiser you may be running. Don’t miss out!

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13 Tasks to Do Right Now to Plan for Fundraising Success

Get Fully Funded

You need a plan for fundraising success. Actually, you need both short-term plans, like those to manage your fundraising activities through the holidays, and longer-term plans that will carry you through all of next year. But for most people, planning for fundraising isn’t easy. 13 Pre-Planning Best Practices for Fundraising 1.

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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

NTEN

On August 2-3, I attended the 5th biennial Money for Our Movements (MFOM) social justice fundraising conference in Baltimore, Maryland, convened by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training. Everyone is a fundraiser: People donate to entire organizations, not just to one department (or silo).

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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action

Amy Sample Ward

First, we created an open Google Doc where we put in the introduction language, so anyone that clicked through from someone’s blog or Twitter post would have context about what was happening (and included a numbered list up to 53, so people could easily see where to add their name and blog address). Amy (& Stacey).

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

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Hero language: When you tell a donor that your nonprofit wouldn’t exist without them, you are speaking the truth. Hero languages reinforces the idea that they made the right choice and increases the possibility that they will give again. But the rules are a bit different around IRS language. So why be shy about saying it?

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Getting Started With Planned Giving

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The good news is that it’s easy to start a simple planned giving program at your nonprofit with just a couple of steps that can easily be part of your annual fundraising plan. In Fundraising 101, we learn about the donor pyramid and how different kinds of donations fit into the overall picture. Planned Giving 101.

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Vendor Relationship Management: Why Nonprofits Should Care

Tech Soup

Doc Searls on VRM. To get a better sense of VRM in context of nonprofits, we spoke with one of the movement's volunteers, Doc Searls. The language is complicated for someone unfamiliar with the concept. VRM operates on the customer or individual's side. The ProjectVRM site , a wiki, is a bit daunting to the VRM novice.