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AI Prompts to Jumpstart Your End-of-Year Fundraising

sgEngage

Open that blank doc and start by answering questions like: “What impact can our donors make by contributing to our mission this year?” This means optimizing your messages for each platform, from direct mail to Facebook ads. Step One: Create segmented messages to carry through your campaign!

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How to Bundle Your Nonprofit’s Donor Communications

Bloomerang

You can use a calendar, whiteboard, Excel sheet , Word or Google Doc, or other resource to do this. Just go with whatever helps you organize all of the donor communications, when you plan to mail them, and how they tie in together. Mail dates for each donor communication. Create your bundling plan. . Your plan should include: .

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The Ideal Year-End Fundraising Campaign Timeline

CauseVox

Autumn definitely means “go time” in the life of a fundraiser, often because it signals the start of year-end , a period of time you may get upwards of 60% or more of your annual donations. Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it.

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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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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

It does Direct Marketing but not Major Gift fundraising (or it does Major Gift fundraising but not Direct Marketing); we need support in both areas. The current software does not interface with our current/new technical environment (MS-Exchange and Office, or Google g-mail, calendar, docs, etc.).

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Empowering Your Board to Fundraise: Treating Your Board Members as Major Donors

NTEN

Staff may be disappointed in the Boards’ fundraising performance and may not have empowered them to succeed. In other cases, staff assumes the Board is aware of their fundraising responsibilities. Then we have some Board members who were recruited or inherited without the understanding of their fundraising responsibilities.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. It is a must download! SwipeGood :: swipegood.com.

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