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How to Host a Pledge Drive: The Complete Guide

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A pledge drive is a fundraising campaign where donors promise a gift amount to your organization based on a goal set by you or your participants. As your organization or participants meet those goals, donors increase their pledged donation. When creating your plan, start by determining your goals for the pledge drive.

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Money talks: Why tuning into the Giving Pledge matters 

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As the saying goes, “Money talks,” and there’s no better example of this than the Giving Pledge and its effect on the social sector. To date, 241 individuals with a cumulative net worth easily surpassing $1 trillion have made the pledge—a public commitment to give the majority of their fortunes to charity.

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Climate Justice in the field: An interview with the Donors of Color Network

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Though the growing climate crisis makes headlines every day, its enormity and complexity can be overwhelming to donors who often struggle to know where to begin and how to devise equitable strategies to address its impacts. This often prevents funders from engaging, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Life after Common Ground: Part 2 – Click & Pledge

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I started this series by talking about the Nonprofit Starter Pack , now I’m going to focus on Click & Pledge. Click & Pledge isn’t just a Salesforce application, it’s a platform. An organization can build their forms to “speak” to Click & Pledge’s processor. And wow, is it robust.

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Strategies to Build Donor Trust and Retention

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Without it, your efforts to cultivate and steward donors won’t go very far. A trusting relationship with donors contains shared perceptions and values, openness, transparency, and a willingness to grow the connection. Your Perception of Your Donors I’m sure you can remember an interaction that felt purely transactional.

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Here’s How To Increase Auction Revenue By Planting Donors At Your Nonprofit Gala

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Donor plants jump up at your gala’s auction , raise their hand high, and start, or advance, the bidding. A seasoned fundraiser in Jewish philanthropy taught me about donor plants years ago and, celebrating the best of fundraising’s oral tradition, a hallmark of our field, I am passing it on to you. Carefully comb your donor records.

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12 Lessons For Fundraisers After Hearing “No” From A Major Donor Prospect

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You’ve completed thorough prospect research , cultivated and provided a site visit, prepared a first-rate proposal and secured a meeting to make a solicitation, but the major donor prospect responds with a “no.” It’s up to nonprofit leaders to be tuned in and sensitive to the complexity of donor words and feelings.

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