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The 10 Biggest In-Person Ask Blunders

Bloomerang

For the last three years, I’ve devoted virtually every day to the challenge of training professionals and especially volunteer fundraisers to overcome the fear of asking for gifts for their favorite nonprofits. My specialty is addressing the solicitation of major gifts, particularly from individuals. Blunder No. Blunder No.

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Bright Idea: Create Fun School Fundraisers at Just the Right Time

Qgiv

Communities in Schools of Central Texas is a nonprofit that works to prevent students from dropping out of school. Their school-based staff work directly with 96 elementary, middle, and high school campuses in Central Texas. Communities in Schools of Central Texas coupled graphics with impact statements on their peer-to-peer site.

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How can nonprofits strategically implement digital tools to achieve impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Today’s internal management software can track and categorize every donor interaction, gift, and desired style of communication, and they can manage physical and virtual events, cover all areas of fundraising, and are easy to use. Professionally, Josh is the director of community impact for Madera Residential in Lubbock, Texas.

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Top Lessons from GivingTuesday 2023

Neon CRM

GivingTuesday is an opportunity for people to give back to their communities by donating money, volunteering their time, or advocating for causes that they believe in. With those statistics in mind, let’s take a look at what this reveals about donors. What Causes Do Donors Support? Who Is Giving?

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How to Make Your Donors Feel like Heroes

BoardAssist

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. How to Make Your Donors Feel like Heroes. I said call and congratulate your donors on how they are making an impact. Your donors made a difference, let them know!

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How Online Fundraising, Gamification and Social Media Helped Raise over $2 Million Dollars in One Day

NetWits

Most nonprofits need to raise money to survive. Giving Day’s) like those held in Minnesota, Colorado, Pittsburgh, Ohio and Texas have raised tens of millions of dollars and generated significant publicity for their nonprofit communities. 148,000 in prize money contributed by five foundations. It’s a day-to-day fact of life.

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How Investing In Ongoing Nonprofit Professional Development Keeps Fundraisers On The Ball And Ahead Of The Game

Kindful

A fundraising professional from Texas crafted a monthly giving program from scratch. When it was over, they used their newfound knowledge about proper donor stewardship in a campaign that raised more than five times its original fundraising goal. What do these scenarios have in common? .