Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

It’s Fall and that means it’s time to find the perfect fundraising letter template. If your Fall fundraising appeal is all planned out, well done. If it’s already in process or in the mail, excellent work! I have a fundraising letter template that works. Set goals for your fundraising appeal.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Many non-profit organizations rely on grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies to round out their fundraising efforts. You can use Google to find not only foundation websites, but also lists of grants on non-profit websites (where the non-profit lists all the gifts that have received that year).

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CauseVox

MARCH 9, 2021

They tend to give 2x more over their lifetimes than those who repeatedly give one-time gifts. As fundraising becomes more and more digital, creating sustainable and predictable donations takes on new importance. Let’s take a look at some of the best practices for making recurring donors a part of your fundraising strategy.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

If your fundraising team is stressed and stretched too thin, you’re not alone. Employees still on the roster often have a considerably heavier workload, resulting in 77% of workers feeling burned out at work. Automating just a few tasks in your fundraising team’s workflow delivers interconnected benefits. Burnout is widespread.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

You may be wondering where to focus your fundraising as we emerge from the fog of 2020 and into, perhaps, a less cloudy future when it comes to nonprofit giving trends. I am not surprised, because I’ve been doing this work for four decades and it’s been ever thus. Fundraising should be viewed as a revenue center. Wonder no more.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email is a powerful marketing tool, but to get results you need to learn how to write fundraising emails that connect emotionally and inspire people to give. Nothing about your fundraising email should be left to chance. So, let’s look at the key pieces in detail so you know how to write fundraising emails that get results.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 18, 2021

For many of us, summer fundraising can be frustrating because often our donor communications during this season yield less-than-ideal results. . Determine if a summer fundraising campaign would help your communications. Determine if a summer fundraising campaign would help your communications. Plan a 24-in-24 campaign. .

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? Repeat what works – Run successful ads repeatedly until they stop selling. Show how gifts further the outcomes step-by-step.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 25, 2021

On the surface, this champion may seem very different from “rock star” physicians and from fundraisers themselves. As a fundraiser, you regularly set big, hairy, audacious goals, whether running a billion-dollar campaign or building a new hospital campus. You both lead your institution’s work in critical community partnerships.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

There are year-end fundraisers and volunteer appreciation events to attend, donors to thank, holiday cards to get in the mail, and last-minute appeals to send out. Your programs may also rev up during the holidays, providing meals and gifts, keeping homeless people warm, or preparing for an influx of post-holiday pets needing homes.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We took the process from greeting the fundraising volunteer at your door all the way to helping them connect with your mission, and quite a lot between. In this, we’re going to talk about two kinds of volunteers: program volunteers and fundraising volunteers. Your Fundraising Volunteers. Your Program Volunteers.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It’s time to plan for the most productive time of the year – Year End Fundraising Season! Those of us in the world of nonprofit fundraising are starting to think about how to best leverage the next four months. Get Ready Now For Year End Fundraising So, what does it take to make this your best year end fundraising season ever?

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

One of the most pervasive problems in the nonprofit sector is getting your board to be more engaged , and more specifically, to increase board fundraising. This means that getting board members to ask their personal network for money is the fastest way to hit your board fundraising goals. They simply need to be good storytellers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Creating a sense of urgency also works well for a matching gifts campaign or when showing a donation progress bar with a countdown timer to when a fundraising campaign ends. You can show your clients’ adventures, escapades (this works especially well for animal shelter nonprofits), or triumphs. It’s time to decide.”.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As you begin planning your final fundraising push for the Season of Giving, make a point of honoring multiple faiths and cultures by creating a more inclusive end-of-year appeal. For instance, have you considered including winter solstice celebrations in your holiday gift appeal? There are roughly 400,000 Iranian-Americans.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the modern fundraising world, creating an online fundraising strategy is essential to the success of your nonprofit. As the world continues to grapple with the ups and downs of COVID-19, it’s essential to meet your donors where they’re most comfortable, and that means coming up with inventive online fundraising ideas.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A bad subject line will tank your fundraising appeal. So, I recruited my fundraising friends, like Julie Cooper , Rachel Clemens , John Lepp , Julia Campbell , Alice Ferris , Jim Anderson , Tom Ahern , and Julie Edwards to send me theirs too. always works best. Rachel’s gift matched 2x. Even better?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2019

As a nonprofit organization, the work you do is dependent on the generosity of your supporters. A clear and well-planned fundraising strategy is key to successfully raising the funds you need and retaining more support year over year. One untapped way to boost your fundraising and bolster your entire strategy?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2022

Who they are: United Way of Forsyth County works with local agencies to create effective solutions to challenges facing their community in Winston Salem and Forsyth County. They believe in innovating when it comes to tackling complex issues like homelessness, reading proficiency, and poverty. Not a Qgiv client?

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2021

Our friends at Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region (HSPPR) thoroughly agree that more was absolutely merrier when it came to their 2020 fundraising appeals. Founded in 1949, Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region is the largest animal welfare group for homeless and abused animals in Southern Colorado. The Solution. The Outcome.

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CauseVox

MAY 20, 2022

A donation page is one of the most important components of your website and can make or break your fundraising. For instance, $500 can provide school supplies for 10 kids experiencing homelessness for 1 month. When people can conceptualize the impact of their gift with specific outputs, average contributions increase by 12%.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

And as a nonprofit organization, the start of October also means you’re entering the last quarter of the year and the beginning of the year-end fundraising season. When you’re planning your end-of-year fundraising campaigns, you really won’t want to miss out on all the fun the holidays provide. Halloween Fundraising Ideas.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

For most of us, fundraising isn’t something that comes naturally, especially a straight request for donations. It’s the great irony of fundraising – we love to help but we don’t like to ask for help. Fundraising is not about you. See how that works? Okay, here’s one more technique that can work.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

The best gift a nonprofit organization can receive is unrestricted cash, but an inkind donation of something your organization needs and would have otherwise purchased is also a high-value gift. In reality, the van or other gift you receive is not exactly what you would have purchased. And it’s called an inkind gift.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

In particular, peer-to-peer fundraising has found great success when it comes to pivoting to virtual, as its engagements already happen primarily online. And just because the events of 2020 may have necessitated virtual fundraising, that doesn’t mean it also didn’t come with its own great benefits. Need virtual fundraising ideas?

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Now that we’re entering a new post-COVID era, nonprofit leaders need to think about what virtual fundraising will look like in the future. It looks like virtual fundraising is here to stay! 25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas to Try Out Best Virtual Fundraising Strategies Virtual Fundraising Software: Our Top Picks.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2013

Fundraisers serve a vital function in securing contributions from donors and maintaining relationships with those donors that will lead to more (and bigger!) gifts in the future. If it weren’t for development staff, many nonprofits would be out of business tomorrow! That part is pretty obvious, right?

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Whether you lead a church, a temple, or another type of faith-based organization, fundraising is a recurring task on your to-do list. That’s where peer-to-peer fundraising comes in. Peer-to-peer fundraising is one of the most popular fundraising methods for faith-based organizations. Let’s dive into how. Download eBook.

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Greater Giving

JULY 19, 2021

Golf tournaments are a fantastic fundraising solution to ongoing pandemic problems. Whether it’s your first outdoor fundraiser or your fiftieth, we wanted to put together a quick list for you of last-minute tips, tricks, and most importantly, awesome ideas for raising even more money. Social distancing. Plenty of circulation.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 9, 2023

If you inspire people, you’ll get a gift. Maybe you’ve experienced this with a fundraising letter that performed so poorly you called it a failure and didn’t want to try it again. Or a Facebook fundraiser that raised so little it was embarrassing. Good fundraising stories are full of emotion and draw people in.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A solid donor relationship is the backbone of successful fundraising. Strategically designing the donor journey can make fundraising much easier (and more fruitful!). When a donor clicks that Donate button and makes a gift, what’s the very next thing they experience? Thank you so much for your generous gift.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2013

Fundraisers serve a vital function in securing contributions from donors and maintaining relationships with those donors that will lead to more (and bigger!) gifts in the future. When we create this expense entry, we have to tag the entry as related to “Meals for Homeless Children”, just as we tagged the revenue entry initially.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

While virtual fundraising was already gaining traction pre-pandemic, it certainly became a dominating force during the pandemic. So if you’re looking for virtual fundraising ideas for schools, you’re in the right place! Here are ten tips to help you succeed with virtual fundraising for education: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2017

The last one is tricky if you are not local to the area, but I’m grateful to have a great network of people who work in the nonprofit sector and can make recommendations. It times like this that I wish I had won that Power Ball 700 million plus lottery so I make a significant gift to many areas. Bayou Animal Services.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

1) From the outside, it appears that NGOs in Kenya do not have access to the traditional fundraising services that are so common here in the United States, such as a “Donate” page for processing credit cards and PayPal accounts. Fundraising is never easy, but NGOs who take a long term view of crowdfunding can achieve self-sustainability.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re new to major donor work, you know what I mean. You can say something like this: “ Thank you again for your generous gift to XYZ organization! We are honored that you trusted us with such a significant gift. There’s nothing wrong with fun, but you need to be strategic in your work.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 18, 2022

In our effort to highlight brilliant changemakers, we sat down with Cylinda Nickel at Compassion Services International to dive deeper into their global fundraising initiatives – particularly their work for Ukraine- and hear about her top fundraising tips. Fundraising Campaign Best Practices. Grow Your Email List.

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