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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

Furthermore, 43% of those gifts were made by Baby Boomers while only 11% were made by Millennials , according to Fidelity Charitable. It will be up to nonprofits to direct appealing engagement and fundraising strategies towards young individuals to avoid a detrimental depletion of funds over the next several decades.

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?3 Reasons to Integrate Your Organization’s Systems

Saleforce Nonprofit

When supporter information remains segregated, fundraising initiatives can be crippled. This is because fundraisers — up and down the pyramid — miss out on fundamental information that can help them better build relationships, effect the best possible messaging, and elicit support to further the mission.

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Leveraging Email Automation to Enhance Donor Relationships

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To prove to them that they do, write fundraising emails that demonstrate each donor’s personal impact. Create templates for campaign updates and fundraising appeals that fill in with each donor’s name, gift size, and tangible impact. In total, we raised [$Total Revenue] to support the local animal shelter.

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“Getting Real” with Donors: Creating a Culture of Philanthropy for Securing Unrestricted Gifts

Connection Cafe

Sara Woldt is an MBA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration with career interests in marketing and development. Too often nonprofits cloak fundraising for general operating funds with fundraising in the name of a new building or a new educational program.

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From Year 1 to Year 2: The Importance of Retaining First Gifts

Connection Cafe

Sara Woldt is an MBA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration with career interests in marketing and development. One would think that after making such an investment of time and precious funds in these new donors, retention would be a top priority – wrong. The Trial Gift.

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3 Major Higher Ed Takeaways from bbcon 2020 Virtual

Connection Cafe

Fundraising during a global pandemic . It’s no secret that the world is going through significant change and fundraising best practices are not exempt from that. Jeremy Wang, Associate VP of Development at Temple University, shared real-life examples for increasing your gift officer productivity.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).