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How to Set Sponsorship Levels and Benefits for Your Next Fundraising Event

The Fundraising Authority

For most fundraising events , the majority of your money should be raised through sponsorships. Without a strong focus on sponsors, your event will not reach its true potential. If you are setting an ambitious fundraising goal for your event, it will be far easier to reach that goal if you can raise 50%+ of the revenue from large sponsors than if you are trying to raise 100% through individual ticket sales.

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Racialized and marginalized people are exhausted. We need a break from talking and thinking about inequity and injustice all the time.

Nonprofit AF

Hi everyone, the weather is finally nice in Seattle, so I want to finish this blog post quickly and take.

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Planning for the New 3 Rs of Engagement: COVID-19 Recovery, Reopening, and Return

VQ Strategies

As organizations begin to recover, reopen, and return to more normalized operations after the pandemic, developing a plan for how to safely and strategically engage volunteers will help ensure that volunteers can be partners in driving impact and achieving mission. This brief video introduces the benefits of planning, includes engagement practices that are vital to update when developing such a plan, and suggestions for how to align this work with your organization-wide plans.

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Use These 13 Energizing Verbs To Make Your Communication More Impactful

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here is some great advice from the book, Anticipate, the Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , by Rob-Jan De Jong. Use these 13 energizing verbs more often when communicating: Discover (instead of See) Explore (instead of Discuss) Radiate (instead of Display) Uncover (instead of Show) Transform (instead of Change) Engage (instead of Involve) Mobilize (instead of Gather) Stretch (instead of Develop) Boost (instead of Increase) Propel (instead of Move) Deliver (instead of Give) Grasp (instead of Under

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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.