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Alumni giving’s growing relationship with high-profile, big money donors 

Candid

Over the last year, there’s been an explosion of multi-million-dollar gifts from donors to their alma maters. Boone Pickens—who died in 2019—gave $120 million as a legacy gift to his alma mater, Oklahoma State University (OSU). Griffin, gave Harvard University a $300 million gift. In fact, last year, alumni giving to U.S.

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Top Lessons from GivingTuesday 2023

Neon CRM

Digital-forward campaigns are still powerful new donor acquisition opportunities: 57% of new donors who gave to organizations using Neon Fundraise were acquired through digital channels. As we’ll outline below, the time of day our clients sent emails on GivingTuesday did not have a direct impact on when donors made gifts.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

If you are ready to turn your board around and increase their comfort level with fundraising, Sabrina Walker Hernandez will show you how! We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. You are worth it.

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Putting a Face on Wonkiness OR Wonkiness is Cool

Connection Cafe

• A gift of $250 allows a member of the OMBW team to testify before Congress about fiscal responsibility. This way, a fundraising ask is also leveraging constituents to action, as well. This way, a fundraising ask is also leveraging constituents to action, as well.

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Why Are Charity Mobile Phone Donation Programs Going Extinct?

Tech Soup

EcoPhones Recycling Fundraiser. Walmart Gadgets To Gift Card Program. The Oklahoma City based cell phone recycling company, Pace Butler has experimented with multiple phone donation for charity programs over the years. Phones 4 Charity. I like their price list of how much they pay for different phones. Very up-front.

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6 Key Insights from the Inaugural donorCentrics Athletics Benchmarking Group

Connection Cafe

That was particularly useful for this setting because we could overlay information such as win-rate and schedule to discuss the impact those variables had on the fundraising trends overall. One was recently able to add this information to their Fundraising database and solicit these individuals.