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The 5 Rules of Successful Annual Appeal Fundraising Letters

The Fundraising Authority

An organization’s annual fundraising appeal letter is a yearly letter that gets sent out to your current donors asking for general operating funds for your nonprofit organization. It usually gets sent to every donor in your donor file (or at least, every donor that has been active over the past several years) and normally gets sent out around the same time each year (the time of year differs by nonprofit, but once you pick a time of year, you normally stick with it).

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How Storytelling Can Help Personalize Donor Communications

NonProfit PRO

Storytelling can entertain, educate and entice people to act. Nonprofits have more stories at their fingertips than any other organization. Nonprofits that create an internal storytelling culture can excite staff and volunteers, entice new supporters, strengthen relationships with donors, and raise more funds.

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4 Types of Donor Personas for Effective Nonprofit Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ask any nonprofit fundraiser if he or she wants to increase the results of their fundraising efforts and you’ll get a resounding “yes”! The next question, of course, is how? The answer is in understanding your goal and audience, and then matching your pitch to the prospect. In other words, you create donor journeys. . If you’ve never done so, developing donor journeys (also known as donor journey mapping) can feel like quite an undertaking.

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Leverage your online community for maximum member engagement and loyalty

Nimble AMS

Your members want to connect. The Community Brands 2022 Association Trends Study reports that the first reason members join associations is to network, and the sixth is to socialize. Is your association maximizing the reach of your online community? With proper practice, your organization can leverage your virtual community to drive engagement, boost retention, and attract new members. .

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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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Creating Fundraising Systems for Your Nonprofit

The Fundraising Authority

This is a two part article on how to create fundraising systems for your nonprofit. In Part 1, we will talk about what fundraising systems are and why they are important for development. In Part 2, we will show you how to create systems at your organization. One Seriously Stressed Out Nonprofit. Let me tell you a story. It’s about a nonprofit I once worked with.

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3 Steps for Launching Successful Giving Tuesday and Year-End Giving Campaigns

NonProfit PRO

Giving Tuesday officially launches the end-of-year giving, and is a great opportunity to connect with current and potential constituents to keep your cause top-of-mind during the season of philanthropy. Here are three ways you can ensure a successful year-end campaign.

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How Nimble AMS empowers your stakeholders to become innovators

Nimble AMS

Is your association innovative? Are you increasing staff productivity through AI and predictive analytics or are you sticking to your values by highlighting your member benefits? “Innovator” might currently be a buzzword, but your organization should still be striving to blaze technological trails and deliver superior member value. . To drive innovation within your association, leaders will need to become problem solvers , prioritizing new opportunities and adopting flexible practices across t

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7 Ideas for Pushing Your Board Forward in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Blue Avocado

Article In Brief: The Problem: While nonprofits say they support improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) actually doing it requires getting the board to buy-in to the need for culture change. Why it Happens:There are many reasons DEIB efforts fail including not being a part of the strategic plan, lack of board champions, and […].

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8 Questions to Ask to Get Inside Your Donor’s Head

NonProfit PRO

The better you know your donor, the better your appeal is going to be. That’s obvious. The problem is your donor is probably coming from a completely different experiential background. How do you get inside that person’s head?

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The BEST Online Payment Processing for Nonprofits: Our Top 18 Picks

Wild Apricot

The BEST Online Payment Processing for Nonprofits: Our Top 18 Picks If you want to collect donations online (and you do!), you’re going to need an online payment processor. Payment processors are a key piece of setting up your online payment.

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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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Managing Emotions in Workplace Conflict

Charity Village

Original Broadcast Date: September 22, 2022 Summary: Conflict is inevitable in the workplace, yet 70% of people deal with it by avoiding it. Many comment that it’s the emotional intensity that poses a challenge for them. But not all conflict is destructive, and emotions are an important information source to be incorporated into resolutions. And […].

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DonorDrive and Leading Enterprise Nonprofits Join Forces for TwitchCon 2022

DonorDrive

DonorDrive is hosting its annual DonorDrive Charity Arcade at TwitchCon 2022, a convention organized by Twitch, the world’s largest livestreaming platform. The event provides a vital opportunity for DonorDrive’s enterprise nonprofit clients to connect directly with content creators, corporate brands, and their existing supporters in one collaborative, energetic environment to foster potential fundraising relationships.

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Is Multichannel Marketing Right for Your Organization?

NonProfit PRO

A multichannel marketing strategy means consistently interacting with your target donors on a variety of channels. The more channels you can reach them on, the faster you can turn a prospective donor into a first-time donor. Here are five advantages of this strategy.

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Tips to Craft Your Year-End Campaign

DonorPerfect

Excellent year-end campaigns strike a balance between hitting uplifting emotional beats that are relevant to your mission and delivering a compelling case for why people should support your nonprofit. They’re specially crafted for each recipient, and encourage your community to dream big about the future they’re helping make possible. Your appeals reach homes at just Read More ».

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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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Reckoning: Towards sustainable healthy work in crisis, health & nonprofit sectors

Charity Village

We often talk about burnout, compassion fatigue and the need for resiliency in our workforce. We are beginning to reckon with the reality that it is our systems that are failing, not our workers. What will it take to create sustainable work in helping professions, for volunteers and staff? Stacy Ashton, Executive Director, Crisis Intervention […].

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Getting You Ready for Giving Season 2022 [With a 3-Step RoadMap]

Donorbox

The giving season, the season of giving, year-end – whatever you call them, the last few months of the year are critical to your fundraising efforts. In fact, more than 30% of annual giving happens in December, and 10% happens in the last three days of the year alone! And it’s never too early to […]. The post Getting You Ready for Giving Season 2022 [With a 3-Step RoadMap] appeared first on Nonprofit Blog.

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How Care and Nurture Turned Into a Big Gift

NonProfit PRO

It's critical for nonprofits to stop and think about how they can pour themselves into people’s lives and help them fulfill their interests and passions. If you can do this successfully, which we know you can, it will pay off economically in surprising ways.

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Approaching GivingTuesday with a collective lens

Big Duck

The post Approaching GivingTuesday with a collective lens appeared first on Big Duck.

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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.

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The secret to recession-proofing your fundraising this Fall

Charity Village

With Fall right around the corner, organizations are planning their fundraisers, everything from galas to golf tournaments. But how can organizations ensure that they are making the most of their Fall fundraisers, and with the current recession, how are they setting themselves up to recession-proof their fundraising? With the pandemic and current economic state, fundraising […].

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How To Achieve Work-Life Balance, Prevent Burnout, Retain Nonprofit Employees, And Increase Productivity

Bloomerang

This is part one in a two-part series from Madison Gonzalez on the importance of helping employees achieve work-life balance. . Helping Nonprofit Employees Achieve Work-Life Balance Isn’t Optional. Work-life balance. You’ve probably heard it mentioned many times before. Many of us may roll our eyes or chuckle at the thought that we could achieve it.

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Where to Begin Building Trust

NonProfit PRO

Trust is your organization’s most valuable asset. In the case of donors, this means they need to be willing to support your mission with their dollars so you will make something they think is important happen.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 238: Creating an Advocacy Agenda

sgEngage

Whether it be convincing a board of directors, finding the time and resources, or seeking funds from grantmakers, many foundations face hurdles in creating an advocacy agenda. Chynna A. Phillips, senior director of policy and research at Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina, and Melissa Levesque, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Coastal Community Foundation, spoke with Blackbaud’s Sally Ehrenfreid, government relations lead, about implementing advocacy in foundation

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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6 Memorable Donor Stewardship Ideas for Your Nonprofit

Greater Giving

Your nonprofit should develop a wide-reaching donor stewardship strategy to build strong, long-lasting relationships with supporters. But your donor stewardship shouldn’t just be broad—you also need to make sure that your stewardship efforts are memorable. Creating unforgettable donor stewardship experiences for your nonprofit’s supporters helps your organization stand out from the crowd.

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KPIs Every Nonprofit's Website Reporting Should Include

Tech Soup

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that provide insight into the performance of any given process or tool. When it comes to nonprofit websites, these metrics can help you determine how effective the site is at driving donations, volunteer sign-ups, awareness, or other organizational goals. With the proper tools, there is a wealth of data available regarding your website's performance.

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How Record Inflation Is Hurting Nonprofits and How They Can Fight Back

NonProfit PRO

Since we have not seen inflation at this level in decades, many nonprofit organizations simply don’t have much experience dealing with it. Here are some of the biggest ways that inflation may be affecting your charity and our best advice for navigating through this fiscal storm.

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Four Blackbaud K–12 Schools Earn 2022 WebAwards Honors

sgEngage

For the fifth consecutive year, Blackbaud K–12 websites were honored in the annual WebAwards. Congratulations to Xaverian for winning Outstanding Website and to Northwest Academy, Ransom Everglades School and Sewickley Academy, for earning Education Standard of Excellence honors. The WebAwards are a prestigious and competitive competition hosted by the Web Marketing Association.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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How To Show The Value Of Your Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Today brings a new book and step-by-step guide for specialists, professionals, managers and independent contracts who want to achieve success in their work. Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack J. Phillips , authors of the book, Show The Value Of What You Do , developed the ROI Methodology in the 1970s and refined it in the 1980s when their first book describing the p

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Recapping the Education & Nonprofit Keynotes at Dreamforce 2022

Saleforce Nonprofit

If you haven’t heard, Dreamforce 2022 is happening right now. And how fitting that this year marks the 20th annual Dreamforce — and it’s also the first time we’re getting the Salesforce family back together in person since 2019! Between a global pandemic, supply chain constraints, and macroeconomic headwinds, the world has changed since we last gathered in person for Dreamforce 2019.

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Go Beyond Board Recruitment With the Theory of Change

NonProfit PRO

Throughout the nonprofit sector, there is significant activity around building a board that is inclusive and reflects the constituency of each nonprofit. The end result: more effective services. But recruitment is just the first step in achieving these outcomes. One tool that can help: The Theory of Change. .

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Your Digital Strategy: 3 Long-Term Improvements to Consider

sgEngage

For modern nonprofits, comm unicating with d onors , spreading awareness, and connecting with your beneficiaries requires a sophisticated online strategy. While there are many quick fixes nonprofits can make to update their digital strategy incrementally, making real changes often requires taking a long-term approach. Ask yourself what your non profit’s digital strat egy looks like now and what you would like for it to be in a year from now.

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.