Robert Weiner

AUGUST 1, 2014

I was recently contacted by the vendor behind a new cloud-based donor management system with this question: We have noticed that our clients have become much more conscious about archiving/deleting old donor/prospect records because our pricing model is based on the number of records. But don’t delete them. What do you think?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 30, 2018

This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine. We’re talking top donors, biggest grants, etc. You have to spend money to make money, as they say. Multi-channel marketing is important, but it’s also important not to waste money in places where your audience isn’t responding or simply isn’t there.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

While virtual fundraising was already gaining traction pre-pandemic, it certainly became a dominating force during the pandemic. These recurring donations can really add for education nonprofits, since monthly donors give 42% more in one year than one-time donors! Use Data From Past Events to Set New Fundraising Goals.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine. What if I told you that you can enter the minds of your donors without even meeting them? By using data, case studies and a bit of basic psychology, you can gain valuable insight about your supporters that can lead to an improved fundraising strategy. We all are.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2020

To help prevent these issues, many schools and PTA groups have placed an increased focus on raising revenue through school-wide fundraisers. A few popular examples include the classic walk-a-thon and magazine sales. However, many parents dread the fundraising season at their children’s schools. Limousine rides.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Today, the school continues to engage her in meaningful ways, not just as a donor, and she looks forward to being one of those visiting alums. He attended various alum lectures and could see the impact that donors made at the university. Alums often visited her classes to talk about their careers and ways to connect. The result?

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This article originally ran in our Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a free bi-monthly magazine dedicated to providing focused content on a particular topic. To reserve your free copy of our January/February issue on donor retention, sign up today. . ————————————————. Send the larger donors a special gift. Featured Fundraising'

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 8, 2018

This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine. Fundraising: a concept those of us in the nonprofit sector may groan about, but understand that it’s a necessary evil. With that emerging honesty and trustworthiness, the way we fundraise has to change too. And seemingly, it’s worked. Giving circles.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 22, 2019

This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine. The same decline in drive can happen within your organization, so here are some foolproof ways to meet and exceed all your goals for fundraising in 2019. Raise as much money as you predicted? 31, we should have acquired 150 new donors who are middle-class women.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Some organizations use donor perks or benefits to do this. As you create or adapt your donor benefits, you may find the list compiled below helpful.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 2, 2014

As the end of the year draws year, it seemed a great time for us to stop and really think about the donors that make the work we all do possible. For advice on the topic, we turned to fundraising pro Rachel Muir. How to Make Your Donors Feel like Heroes. I said call and congratulate your donors on how they are making an impact.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

Marketing goals: You must have marketing goals that are tied to your fundraising plan. How much money do you need to raise? How many new donors do you need? Your SMART goals might look like these: Increase our donor list by 10%—from 950 to 1,045—by Dec. It’s just fundraising math! And everything in between.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Thousands of nonprofits use EveryAction every day to raise money, manage offline fundraising through pledges and grants, send emails, run nonprofit digital advocacy campaigns, and so much more. Higher Conversion Rates = Raising More Money. It's offline fundraising tools were built for development pros.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This month the news is about WiFi embedded in a magazine, Braille smartphones, ultramobile devices, innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the mobile app of the month. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2014

The 2014 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report was released last week and one of the more interesting findings was that donor retention remainsa lower priority. As my colleague Frank Barry mentioned, most nonprofits stink at donor retention. Nearly 3 out of 4 new donors never make a second gift. New video to share.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This article originally ran in our Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a free bi-monthly magazine dedicated to providing focused content on a particular topic. Tom Ahern is an expert on using donor communications to increase fundraising dollars, and he works with organizations every day to help them achieve their goals.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine. Rejoice, fundraisers—after months of hearing “I only give toward the end of the calendar year,” donors are finally in the spirit of giving. Create a calendar indicating when you plan to reach out to donors, post on social media, send out emails, etc.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 11, 2019

Sponsorship programs aren’t for every organization, but they can provide some much-needed relief when money is tight. For example, if you regularly host fundraisers, consider having a company sponsor them. How much money do they make? Money raised? If you’re considering starting your own, take a look over these tips.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The following is an excerpt from October-December 2016 Edition of AsianNGO Magazine. 2) A Revival in Email Fundraising. In response to declining engagement and reach on social media, in 2017 nonprofits will begin to refocus their efforts on email communications and fundraising. Email hasn’t even hit its peak yet.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2014

The 2014 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report was released last week and one of the more interesting findings was that donor retention remainsa lower priority. As my colleague Frank Barry mentioned, most nonprofits stink at donor retention. Nearly 3 out of 4 new donors never make a second gift. New video to share.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Time is a precious resource for fundraisers. So when it comes to divvying up your time among donors, it’s crucial to maximize every second and every minute. But too often, we ignore that logic when trying to solicit donors. Planned giving reminds us to follow up with the loyal donors too.”. On Unassuming Donors.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 23, 2014

We’ve all done a little fundraising in our lives. One day, they returned from school with orders to sell anything from popcorn and candy to gift wrap and magazine subscriptions; as parents, we were left to do most of the legwork. Today, fundraising is a little different. Today, fundraising is a little different.

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Achieve

AUGUST 13, 2015

Fundraising & Philanthropy Australasia Magazine. In this case, it asks individuals who are interested in the cause to help raise money. With Millennial donors, in particular, the process of learning how their gift is used is vital, together with constant communication along the way. This piece originally appeared in.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This article originally appeared in our November/December 2015 issue of Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a free bi-monthly magazine. In the world of fundraising, making the ask is one thing; sealing the deal is another. Every donor is different and every situation unique. Talking about why you need money is not an ask.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 19, 2016

This article was originally featured in our Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a bi-monthly printed magazine offering insight from the best in the industry. But relationships, including the ones you have with your donors, don’t survive well on autopilot. In other words, you may be great at wooing and winning over donors.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 7, 2015

His experiences range from fundraising and marketing to PR and grant writing (to name a few), so we thought he’d make an excellent interviewee for a follow-up story for our latest Nonprofit Hub Magazine issue focusing on donor retention. The chorus goes like this: It’s not about the money, money, money.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

There’s an ad in the new issue of Fundraising Success magazine that caught my eye. It says “Listening is the new fundraising.&# When it comes to building relationships, which is what fundraising is all about, listening is key. . It’s a nugget of wisdom that means you should listen twice as much as you talk.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

The other day I spoke with a major gift fundraiser who had quit her job with a large health care facility. Everything was about numbers and, for her, this prevented her from focusing on truly building relationships with the donors to whom she was assigned. Unless your donors are AI-enabled (not yet!), Robots are about order.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This article originally ran in our Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a free bi-monthly magazine dedicated to providing focused content on a particular topic. To reserve your free copy of our January/February issue on donor retention, sign up today. . ————————————————. When’s the last time you interacted with your form as a donor?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 15, 2010

on What Gives Our Prayers and Thoughts are with the People of Haiti on the Boho Magazine blog Help For Haiti Earthquake Aftermath. Making an individual donation to an organization is a great way to help, but why not organize a group fundraiser, and increase your impact? give money, not things; 2. Her advice is: 1.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 5, 2016

Whether it's a favorite show on Bravo, the tabloid magazine we read in the check-out line at the grocery store, or that box of Girl Scouts cookies hidden in a desk drawer, there are certain things we become attached to and will not give up, on pain of death. In fundraising, many of us share a guilty pleasure: social media fundraising.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Join fundraising master trainer, Chad Barger, CFRE, for a workshop focused on finding potential supporters for your nonprofit organization. Chad will review the best practices in fundraising prospect identification and provide practical tips for how small nonprofits can maximize their network. Full Transcript: Steven: All right.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

Fundraiser. loses 70% of donors after the first gift. And to make matters worse, the probability that a donor will make five consecutive gifts is only 10-15%.These By the time you’ve added a new donor, half of your previous new donors are out the door. On Twitter. Research shows the average nonprofit in the U.S.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine. As nonprofit professionals, most of us are already in the business of people, whether we’re building houses, raising money, educating children or another noble pursuit. Yes: donors want to further the cause—of course! was critical to businesses and nonprofits.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 25, 2009

There’s an interesting piece in the May issue of Fundraising Success Magazine identifying 25 random things about fundraising. The most read part of a fundraising letter is the PS. Balance that with giving donors choices about when they receive appeals from you and you can’t go wrong.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 11, 2014

I have (tried to) run a nonprofit at my college, a campus magazine set up with attached 501(c)3 entity so as to give us financial flexibility and maintain independence from our student senate and Board of Publications. Instead, it took us a year just to start uploading digital copies of our magazine onto Issuu. 4) Fundraise! (No,

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. Learn how Qgiv can help you and your volunteers make the most of your fundraising efforts! Volunteers help nonprofits expand their donor networks. Request a Demo.

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