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Lessons from MotivateMonday | Getting comfortable with acknowledging memorial gifts

Pamela Grow

How does your nonprofit acknowledge memorial gifts? Thanking in-memoriam gift donors, and notifying the family of the deceased can be a tricky situation. Should you include gift amounts in the notification to the family? Can you solicit additional gifts from in-memoriam gift donors?

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Father’s Day Fundraising: 9 Ideas That Will Get People Donating

Whole Whale

Father’s Day is a great day to plan a fun fundraising campaign to honor the Dads in our community. Also, Dads can be notoriously difficult to find a gift for as there are only so many coffee mugs, golf balls, and ties one person can need. Have a specific Father’s Day fundraiser. Make it personal. Have a goal in mind.

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How to Run Facebook Fundraising Ads: 5 Simple Steps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Digital fundraising professionals face a significant new challenge when it comes to fundraising on Facebook. Running Facebook fundraising ads is an excellent way to reach your target audience and optimize for donations while generating data that allows you to measure your success. 2) Identify your target audience.

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Turning Fundraising into a Game: Groupon, Zynga and Care2 do it, Why Don’t You?

NetWits

Register for our Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Events Newsletter and get a monthly dose of quality content. Groupon , Care2 , Zynga and the like are already using gaming elements to drive fundraising, engagement, word-of-mouth sharing and stickiness amongst other things. Are you ready to add a gaming element to your fundraising efforts?

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Fundraising Success Stories | Examples & Tips to Learn From

Bloomerang

We love hearing about nonprofits’ successful fundraising strategies in action, and sharing these stories allows nonprofits to learn from each other. Learning about other organizations that overcame similar challenges will help your organization develop solutions to apply to your own fundraising efforts. .

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6 Ways to Improve Your Year-End Donor Cultivation

Qgiv

In her previous role as Foundation Manager for the VRMC Foundation, she managed the annual giving programs, assisted and oversaw the annual budget and marketing plans, and managed a major gift donor portfolio of over 150 donors. Announce your year-end fundraising total. Show donors how you’re putting their gifts to good use.

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Habitat NOVA Converts Volunteers to Donors with VolunteerHub’s Salesforce Integration

Volunteer Hub

Habitat for Humanity Northern Virginia (Habitat NOVA) is on a mission to help families build strength, stability, and self-reliance to create better lives for themselves and their children through the purchase of their first home. Features that Impact Habitat NOVA’s Volunteer Program and Fundraising.