Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

For each of your online campaigns, your revenue goal should tie into your overall fundraising strategy. With all of the new, innovative fundraising tools available online, the price of your campaigns may go up, making it challenging to actually get a return at all. The post Are your online campaigns raising or losing money?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 1, 2022

When done well, your newsletter can even help your organization raise money. When asking members of The Storytelling Non-Profit community about their organization’s newsletter campaigns, the top challenge their organizations were facing was to find the right type of content that keeps their audience engaged.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 31, 2023

Trust in Tales : Learn how storytelling, from real-life testimonials to impactful narratives, influences donor engagement across ages. Engaging Beyond Money : Why modern donors, regardless of age or income, crave a deeper connection with the causes they support. Get the lowdown on the latest giving trends.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s an ideal community to connect co-workers, influencers, donors, and corporate sponsors. Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community. Compared to other social networks, LinkedIn Ads are expensive and the site spends your money fast.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

For some things, spontaneity is highly desirable, but any fundraising professional will tell you that planning a campaign isn’t one of them. Having a detailed strategic plan in place before embarking on a fundraising campaign can be a huge determinant of its success, even before the first dollar is raised. Fundraising plan summary.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2023

There are always questions about the future of fundraising: What trends will take hold? The event space for nonprofits has predominately focused on traditional walks, runs, rides, and galas, and while there is nothing wrong with these types of events, there are so many additional tools that charities can use to fundraise in unique ways.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Every dollar counts in the fundraising world, so the free marketing that social media provides can be crucial to raising awareness for your cause without breaking your budget. From sharing your mission to advertising fundraising campaigns, social media offers plenty of opportunities to help you boost your fundraising efforts.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Ideally, I’d also like to find out how they’re using the money—the more specific, the better. Right now, my donation amount is mostly influenced by my budget. I think this is a great example of how important storytelling is. When you make a donation, what do you expect to happen next? Is there anything else you’d like to share?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What does it have to do with fundraising and nonprofits? For fundraisers, I recommend you keep a donor gratitude journal. When you do, my bet is you’ll see your job is much more about love and impact than it is about money. Today I’d like to address something practical: How we learn. Why am I bothering with this?

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Classy

JULY 28, 2021

See What’s New In Fundraising. Get ready to deep dive into new considerations based on new data and what it shows us for the future of fundraising. Taking time to segment your donors and customize their donation pages can positively influence their giving behavior. See Where Your Fundraising Stacks Up.

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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. NEVER THINK DONORS KNOW WHAT YOU DO WITH THEIR MONEY. Since every staff member influenced or was affected by the campaign even in small ways, they should hear its results.

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Campaign Fundraising Database Journal 52

CauseVox

JULY 31, 2023

Through a combination of fundraising efforts, community engagement, and storytelling, Giving Days aim to create a surge of donations and raise awareness about the vital work your nonprofit organization is doing. Set Clear Goals It is important to define your fundraising target, donor engagement goals and impact-oriented objectives.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

On April 16-18, 2023, 3,600+ fundraising professionals descended on New Orleans, LA for AFP ICON’s 63 rd annual conference, the largest turnout in six years. Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z all share an interest in engaging with organizations through peer-to-peer fundraising. Know your data in and out,” says Emily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. Engage influencers and free agents. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 2, 2020

A chief initiative is the focal point of your fundraising or communications plan. When it comes to comms and fundraising (or anything really!), I've worked with massive fundraising and communications plans that had the best of intentions but ultimately set us all up for everyone up for failure. What is a Chief Initiative? ?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2017

The challenge ahead is how to adapt and develop your fundraising practice based on the trends we can see now, and still be agile moving forwards. This is vital to any fundraiser. This year, npENGAGE contributors broke down the how and why and provided a great lens on the ways big data can help your fundraising and your mission.

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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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Achieve

AUGUST 18, 2023

It’s no secret that effective marketing helps maximize the fundraising potential of your nonprofit’s events. For events that have a high fundraising potential to start, such as live auctions, being strategic in your marketing efforts can lead to significant revenue generation. Incorporate testimonials. End with a call to action.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

We develop our skills by seeking, absorbing, questioning, adapting, and experimenting, oftentimes bringing diverse influences together to create something that’s unique for our clients’ needs, but with connections to other relevant spaces. Because many nonprofits rely on galas for the bulk of their annual fundraising (networking!

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2022

Nemours invests in programs and services that benefit the health and lives of children and understands that there are also social, economic, behavioral, and environmental factors that can influence a child’s physical health. What they did: Nemours Children’s Health got creative with Qgiv’s peer-to-peer platform.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2019

“The next generation of donors” is not just the latest fundraising trend or catchphrase for development teams. Nonprofit organizations have always tried to understand how to shift and modify their fundraising strategies to appeal to and resonate with the future generation of donors. It’s estimated that 45 million U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Their marketing has tangible results: in 2012 alone they raised $33 million, and over $8 million of that was raised through their online fundraising platform. As each fundraiser shares their campaign with their personal network via word of mouth and online, the number of people who know about charity: water quickly multiplies.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Read on to discover the value of data-driven storytelling and how this key feature increases trust and enables your nonprofit to drive more revenue. Data-driven storytelling and the Theory of Change Like words, numbers tell a story. How is their money helping someone living in poverty?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. Harvey McKinnon and Andy Robinson will discuss how to build stronger donor relationships and how you can use this strategy to improve every kind of fundraising. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.”

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2018

Fundraising for your cause is exciting, challenging and should be unique to your mission. Annual appeals, #GivingTuesday and end-of-year fundraising campaigns are imperative to sustaining your operating costs, however, stimulating a donor or member to give beyond those efforts can be challenging.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Information Sharing and Storytelling. Try these suggestions to connect with your HR colleagues: Provide recruitment messages with impact data and storytelling. Their ability to influence peers over time is the type of champion you want and need. Increase Employee Giving. Strengthen your Internal Partnerships.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2018

With crowdfunding a VIP experience or unique brand related reward can be offered to fundraisers that participate in a challenge, share on social media or get a certain amount of donations. Storytelling: Leverage crowdfunding strategies to share stories of your social good with all your stakeholders: investors, customers and employees.

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Causes Marketing Technology Social Media 29

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. Learn how Qgiv can help you and your volunteers make the most of your fundraising efforts! This will influence how many volunteers you’ll need to recruit and train. Request a Demo.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Year-end fundraising season is upon us. Whether your organization is large or small, you’ll want to capitalize on December’s fundraising opportunities—from GivingTuesday to end-of-tax-year gifts. Organizations that are consistently killing it during year-end fundraising season have three things in common.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Online fundraising has been on an upward trajectory for years. But because of pandemic-related restrictions on in-person interactions, online fundraising increased by 32% in 2020. After a year of significant growth, online fundraising grew by a more modest 3% in 2021 , and the number of gifts increased by 5%.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It’s no secret that fundraising in the time of COVID looks very different. Nonprofits, schools, churches, and many other organizations were forced to get creative to come up with fundraising ideas during COVID. When the pandemic first started, who could’ve guessed that it would change the way many nonprofits fundraise forever?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2018

With crowdfunding a VIP experience or unique brand related reward can be offered to fundraisers that participate in a challenge, share on social media or get a certain amount of donations. Storytelling: Leverage crowdfunding strategies to share stories of your social good with all your stakeholders: investors, customers and employees.

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Causes Marketing Technology Social Media 20

Qgiv

JULY 29, 2021

Mobile fundraising empowers people to give on the go! Whether supporters are donating through text or accessing your online donation page on their smartphones, it’s imperative that your organization has the tools, resources, and best practices to conduct a successful mobile fundraising campaign. What Is Mobile Fundraising?

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Online fundraising has been on an upward trajectory for years. But because of pandemic-related restrictions on in-person interactions, online fundraising increased by 32% in 2020. After a year of significant growth, online fundraising grew by a more modest 3% in 2021 , and the number of gifts increased by 5%.

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Ideas Online Fundraising Tips 77

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Jesse Lane will share the super-simple process for raising more money for your nonprofit. And if you’re watching this recording, I hope you’re having a good day, no matter when and where you are because we are here to talk about the four-step plan to get more donations and greater fundraising results. I’m excited.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 2, 2023

Social Media is A Powerful Tool for Activism and Fundraising As social media has become the go-to marketing strategy for many businesses, it has also aided in fundraising efforts for individuals seeking a creative and modern take on collecting funds. This can help drive up donations and create a sense of momentum around the cause.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Online fundraising sites are powerful tools to help you fundraise. Take your fundraising game to the next level with a dedicated fundraising website. Fundraising websites are powerful tools to help you raise more money; it’s the rallying point for all of your planning and messaging. 1) Visual Storytelling.

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