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How to Emphasize Blended Gifts in Your Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

Historically, major gift officers solely sought donors with the capacity to make major gifts, and planned gift officers focused on prospects with the result being a planned gift. But now, blended gifts are the future of gift planning.

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Launching a successful nonprofit communications campaign

Candid

To spread the word about a new initiative or build awareness around your mission-driven work, effective communication with your audiences is key. This is where a communications campaign can come in handy. But managing a campaign’s moving pieces can be challenging. To set your next campaign up for success, we are breaking up the process of building a campaign into five simple steps.

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IRS Reminds Tax-Exempt Organizations of Annual May Filing Deadline

NonProfit PRO

The Internal Revenue Service reminded thousands of tax-exempt organizations of their May 15, 2023, filing deadline. The annual filing due date for certain returns filed by tax-exempt organizations is normally by the 15th day of the fifth month after the end of an organization's accounting period.

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How to Write a Nonprofit Business Plan in 12 Steps (+ Free Template!)

Wild Apricot

Learn why a nonprofit business plan is so important and how to write one! Plus get great examples and a free nonprofit business plan template.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Interactive Marketing: How Nonprofits Can Captivate in a Noisy World

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofit donors are increasingly immune to traditional marketing and advertising. Wherever we go, from billboards on the highway to pop-up ads on our favorite websites, countless brands vie for attention. As a result, we’ve learned to tune them out or avoid them. That's why interactive marketing is so effective.

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Welcoming Our New VP of Design, Jasmine Patel!

Forum One

I am thrilled to introduce Jasmine Patel, who has joined the Forum One leadership team as our Vice President of Design. With a deep background in the arts and a passion for work that impacts the world, Jasmine brings in-house and agency experience to her role. Most recently Director of Digital Experience at the Philadelphia Museum of Art , she has developed creative strategies for global consumer brands, like Virgin Mobile and American Express, as well as for cultural institutions and other miss

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How can we bring radical honesty to communications?

Big Duck

The post How can we bring radical honesty to communications? appeared first on Big Duck.

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Smart, Sharp Tools For Quality Fundraising Data

NonProfit PRO

Make 2023 a year of growth and enhance your fundraising data with Melissa’s smart, sharp data quality tools! Learn how Melissa can help you verify global address and contact information to stay in touch with donors, create mailing lists to expand your outreach to the best possible supporters, and keep your funds secure with eIDV by downloading our new Solutions Catalog today!

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What’s in My Inbox | Every Day’s a Reason to Celebrate: Leveraging Holidays for Nonprofit Marketing

Pamela Grow

When it comes to marketing, holidays have long been recognized as powerful tools for for-profit businesses to engage with their target audience. Holidays like Christmas, Easter, and Halloween offer excellent opportunities for building comprehensive marketing campaigns that appeal to a broad audience. Nonprofits have a terrific opportunity, too, to leverage the spirit of holidays to effectively engage their supporters and align them with their mission.

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D&O Insurance for Non-Profits: The Key to Non-Profit Risk Management

NonProfit PRO

Running one of the 1.5 million non-profit organizations in the United States can be fulfilling and meaningful. It can also bring significant risk of loss exposures. Every year, non-profit leaders are exposed to Directors and Officers (D&O) claims made against them and their organizations. Read on for more information about the growing exposures non-profit directors face, and the peace of mind D&O insurance can offer non-profits.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Nonprofit Data Collection Best Practices

Neon CRM

There are a million and one data management best practices that nonprofit organizations can follow—but if you actually tried to put a million and one practices to work all at the same time, things would get confusing fast. Good thing you don’t have to! When it comes to nonprofit data collection, most best practices are built on a foundation of transparency, efficiency, and responsibility practices; but when starting or updating a data collection plan for your nonprofit, you should, primarily foc

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3 Ways to Optimize Your Fundraising Communications Using Constant Contact and DonorPerfect

DonorPerfect

This blog was written by Constant Contact Every nonprofit has unique challenges – but at the heart of each one is a constant: the need to amplify and grow its fundraising efforts. Forging connections with your donors and fully leveraging their support to sustain your organization is critical, and while you may have a group Read More » The post 3 Ways to Optimize Your Fundraising Communications Using Constant Contact and DonorPerfect appeared first on Nonprofit Technology & Fundraising Blogs.

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Data Management for Peer-to-Peer Campaigns: 5 Best Practices

DNL OmniMedia

When you think of peer-to-peer fundraising, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? It’s probably something along the lines of, your supporters raising money on your behalf. While this is true and serves as the foundation of peer-to-peer fundraising (hence the name) there’s another component that needs some attention. We’re talking about data management.

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Tiltify Partners with Double the Donation for 360MatchPro Matching Gifts Integration

Double the Donation

Double the Donation and Tiltify answer the call for advanced matching gift functionality with an all new integration between Tiltify donation forms and 360MatchPro, the leading matching gift automation software for nonprofits and educational institutions.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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How To Be A Go-To Person At Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Bruce Tulgan ’s book, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work is all about how to win influence, beat overcommitment, and get the right things done in your workplace. Tulgan says that what truly sets “go-to people” apart is how they think and what they do, including: They understand the peculiar mathematics of real influence – doing the right thing for the long term.

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Why Banking and Finance Industries Need Learning Management Systems?

Gyrus

The banking and finance industry is full of challenges. That's why, in order to cope with the challenges, you need a specialized solution like LMS.

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6 Ways to Effectively Maximize Text Message Fundraising ROI

Qgiv

Text fundraising is a great resource for nonprofit organizations to have in their tool belts. This fundraising method boasts a 98% open rate, which is much better than email’s open rate. Plus, with most texts being opened within the first two minutes of receipt, you can raise funds quickly for your nonprofit. But how do you effectively maximize text message fundraising’s ROI?

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10 Troubling Observations about the State of Fundraising Today

sgEngage

The resiliency of fundraising teams has been tested over the past few years; thankfully, organizations were able to adapt despite tremendous uncertainty. However, based on data from the Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management Community, ten concerning trends have emerged from this time as well. Your job is to understand how these challenges apply to your organization and ensure that you have a strategy to counter them. 1.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.