Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2023

It’s a significant opportunity to increase your nonprofit’s planned gifts by making your donors aware of this. The easiest planned gift for your supporters to make is to leave a portion of their estate to your nonprofit as a bequest in their Will. Even if that gift is only 1% of a donor’s total estate, it can have a huge impact.

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Network for Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Whether you’re looking for your very first subscription gift or you are looking to expand upon the donors you already have, there are a few things you can do to make sure you’re promoting this opportunity in your communications. Brainstorm ideas to talk about subscription gifts differently than one-time donations.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fundraising is a HUGE field and there are many great oranizations that help improve the quality of the sector like the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. List of Nonprofit Fundraising Companies. Aly Sterling Philanthropy.

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DipJar

JANUARY 21, 2021

If only fundraising was as easy as ‘just’ asking for money, right? Pick up the phone to say ‘thank you’, send a personalized email, or mail a handwritten note. The key is to engage them as close to the moment of their gift as you possible because you already have their attention.

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Money Raise Fundraising Newsletter 98

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The sector is moving away from galas and golf tournaments toward a strategic focus on raising more through major gifts. Data intelligence solutions for fundraising can be broken into three categories: . Examples of the types of augmented insights available include wealth screenings, predictive modeling, and segmentation. .

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Whenever I am on the road with clients the conversation always turns to a debate about the value of predictive modeling vs. the value of traditional wealth screening. Some tend to gravitate toward wealth data alone because it feels more tangible—or understandable—than predictive modeling. Building your own predictive models?

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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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Personal Practice Journal Fundraising 119

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Credit card payments are donors’ preferred giving methods— 63% of donors prefer to give online with a credit or debit card , followed by direct mail (16%), PayPal (10%), wire transfer (5%), cash (4%), digital wallet (1%), and text-to-give (1%). There is also a 1% fundraising platform fee on all transactions processed through Bloomerang.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When laying out your goal, consider following the SMART model for goal setting. Here’s how you might apply the SMART model to this objective: Specific: Lay out a specific goal you want to accomplish, like attracting a certain number of donors. Here’s how you can learn from data about these donors: Average gift size.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Fundraising is a HUGE field and there are many great oranizations that help improve the quality of the sector like the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. List of Nonprofit Fundraising Companies. Aly Sterling Philanthropy.

Consultant 52

Consultant Fundraising Phoenix Atlanta 52

Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2023

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Here are some things you might suggest to your boss: We bought the research; now we need to free up some staff time to better target identified mid-range and major gift donors. Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D.,

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 7, 2024

Your Thank You Email How are you making your donor feel after they’ve made a gift to your nonprofit? Feedback/Survey Email Consistent feedback plays an important role in the Simple Development Systems model and you’ll want to incorporate it throughout your digital strategy. How are you making your donor feel?

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you’re always thinking of ways to encourage your donors to increase their donation amounts. This is where suggested donations can play an important role in your fundraising strategy. Offer donors a more flexible suggested giving range based on their previous gifts.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For example, how would you ever put together a fundraising plan —or know which activities you need to be doing all year long—if you don’t know you have a $14 million need? Successful organizations and fundraisers know exactly what they need. This is where fundraising teams go wrong. Start with the numbers. .

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2018

Four years ago, the only thing major gifts officers and direct marketing teams shared was the office bathroom. Mid-level giving programs exist at the intersection between major gifts and direct marketing. Major gifts fundraising is a game of quantum leaps. Unique staffing models are emerging.

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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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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Yeah, engaging those board members to be fundraising ambassadors. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started?

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

How have you considered your donors’ changed perspectives in your fundraising and marketing strategies? You may have cut back on fundraising appeals, assuming your supporters would feel strapped, uncertain and wary of commitment. . How does your business model incorporate today’s constituent perspectives? Pick the top 3 – 5].

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

Giving histories, gift amounts, and frequencies can reveal a lot about future willingness to give. Be sure your nonprofit CRM can create both: Letters and mailings. Design and save direct mail communication documents like solicitations and acknowledgments. When it comes to donor data, there’s a lot to keep track of.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 3, 2024

Text-to-give is a text fundraising method, similar to text-to-donate, that allows your supporters to donate to your organization using their cell phones via text messaging. Firstly, text fundraising capitalizes on the widespread use of cell phones–providing a direct and immediate channel for donor engagement.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2021

If you are raising funds for a new named endowment, or bolstering a current endowment, you are looking for donors with a high capacity and likelihood to make a major or principal gift. A custom predictive model is your best bet for identifying this capacity and likelihood combination. Appeal to former clinicians. Say thank you.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

That’s not to discount the value of the small-dollar fundraising program. But from a revenue perspective, sometimes the greatest value of a small-dollar fundraising program is the extent to which it can operate like a pipeline for the mid-level program. Finding your audience part 2: matching to digital marketing channels.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 17, 2021

After a tumultuous 12 months for fundraising, it’s time to take stock of your nonprofit’s accomplishments and adaptations and then look ahead to build on them. Which of your new fundraising efforts have been successful? Machine learning is the new answer for modern fundraising. Machine Learning & Predictive Modeling.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

I’m going to share 7 insanely easy online fundraising ideas that are making a huge impact for nonprofits. Then I’ll break down how you can apply 6 additional nonprofit fundraising strategies to grow your revenues TODAY. 7 Online Fundraising Ideas (That Actually Work): 1. Had a 55% increased conversion rate.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

So much time, effort and hope goes into a nonprofit’s year-end fundraising campaign that when it’s over, staff scramble to use all their remaining vacation days. Just as your mother wouldn’t let you send generic thank-you cards for graduation gifts, you shouldn’t send a one-size-fits-all thank-you email or letter to all donors.

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Campaign Fundraising Database Journal 52

Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2018

Whether patient fundraising is a new idea at your organization or your development team wants to evolve a long-standing program, the first question is a frequent and practical one. To explain why, let’s consider the two most frequently used tools: wealth screening and custom modeling. Rightfully so.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2015

As a fundraising analytics consultant, I see a variety of development program structures and fundraising strategies. The results of a predictive modeling and/or wealth screening endeavor can improve programs and strategies of all types – Well… that is if you smartly utilize the results of your data. Campaign Planning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

What would you like the world to know about NGOs and fundraising in Brazil? “Abrace o Brasil” is an online fundraising campaign in partnership with Brazil Foundation that gathers 100+ Brazilian nonprofits to crowdfund at the same time. 11% of donors in Brazil give tribute gifts.

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

After working on over 400 nonprofit email recruitment campaigns, and helping clients plan successful recruitment strategies, I’ve realized that most nonprofits don''t send nearly enough standalone fundraising appeals. Email marketing is mainly a numbers game.

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Classy

JULY 7, 2021

Forty percent of nonprofits fundraising online accept ACH direct debits. In the time a donor would need to pull out a physical credit card or mail a check, the likelihood of an abandoned campaign page goes up. This includes an increase in mobile checkout conversions by about 11 to 14% and a 55% larger recurring gift size.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Higher education giving has traditionally relied on major gifts, annual funds, and direct mail as the primary means of engaging new donors. Compounded with the impacts of COVID-19, schools around the world really had to adjust their engagement models. Allow supporters to fundraise on behalf of giving day projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The committee in charge of fundraising was short on cash. And the press scorned the fundraising effort. The publisher of the New York newspaper the World , Pulitzer used all his influence to launch an aggressive fundraising campaign that bypassed the rich and instead solicited donations from average residents.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2013

So your organization mails to the same group of prospects for your annual giving program year after year, looking at LYBUNTs, SYBUNTs, etc., I do highly recommend that you look for a company that has vast experience in analyzing fundraising data for nonprofits, as well as providing direction on how to utilize the results.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Fundraising campaign management. This includes tracking all planning efforts for fundraising campaigns, as well as the progression toward fundraising goals throughout the campaign itself. You can also track team members’ efforts to ensure everyone is on track to meet their fundraising or stewardship goals for the time period.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

We’ve all received a fundraising appeal letter in the mail asking us to donate. You may have given money to some of these groups after receiving a request in the mail. Direct mail DOES work after all. Direct mail DOES work after all. However, statistics show that direct mail works. Lots of people do.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

It’s why we’ve been working on an intelligent model—in geek-speak, a “graph”—that understands real-world entities and their relationships to one another: things, not strings." Target's data this year was drawn from 80 different nonprofit organizations, 38 million donors, 79 million gifts and $2.5

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

Watch the donorCentrics® 2018 Annual Report on Higher Education Alumni Giving featuring Shaun Keister, PhD, vice chancellor of the University of California-Davis, for the online presentation of the Index of Higher Education Fundraising Performance. . As schools dig deeper into the data, they may also take this down another layer.

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