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How to Make a Gift Chart to Reach Your Annual Giving Goals

NonProfit PRO

One of the most critical tools in an annual giving director’s toolkit is a gift chart. Follow this four-step process to create your own gift chart. This chart should be based on accurate target ask amounts for each potential donor in your database.

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Getting to a Transformational Gift

NonProfit PRO

Setting goals for the donors in your portfolio is important, but there’s another level of planning that successful major gifts officers do that leads to a transformational gift. Here are 6 tips on how successful major gifts officers can cultivate a transformational gift.

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What to Do When Your Agency Doesn’t Want to Ask for Monthly Gifts

NonProfit PRO

Many agencies feel client pressure to reach a certain goal, and it’s safer to focus on one-time gifts. So how do you convince your agency to add monthly giving to your appeals?

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The complete year-end guide to maximizing matching gifts

EveryAction

Needless to say, if you’re a fundraiser, meeting your organization’s fundraising goal is top of mind in the fall and winter. One way to bring any organization’s end-of-year fundraising strategy to the next level is a matching gift strategy. In the end, the nonprofit receives two gifts for the cost of soliciting one!

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Gift Histories Predict the Future

NonProfit PRO

Here is how to use gift histories to help forecast future fundraising goals. Determining where the funds will come from to deliver on the mission can feel a bit like a numerical game of Tetris, trying to make all the pieces fit together no matter how strange the final configuration.

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Your Major Gift Work Is Not About the Money

NonProfit PRO

As a major gifts officer, the primary question asked is, essentially, “How’s the money coming in?” The goal you made also set an expectation that a certain amount of money would come in. The finance office needs to know because it can't pay the bills with air. So, it is a fair question.

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SpaceX’s Inspiration4 Campaign for St. Jude Surpasses $200M Fundraising Goal

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Though the campaign goal was met, it will continue raising money through February 2022. Inspiration4 returned from orbit Saturday, raising millions for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the process.

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