sgEngage

JULY 12, 2021

Pitman, founder and CEO of Concord Leadership Group. Listen in to hear what Marc has to say about the effects of uncertainty on nonprofit leadership, what needs to be left behind as leaders and organizations move forward, and what isn’t coming back post-pandemic. The effects of uncertainty on nonprofit leadership.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

By Kyle Brown , COO at DonateStock – a fundraising platform that makes stock gifting to nonprofits easy and accessible. As leadership and development teams lean in for a final push, donors are receiving countless requests for limited financial support. . Why Stock Gifting? Nonprofits receive larger pre-tax gifts (vs.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One-off fundraisers have their time and place, but if you want to truly make an impact, it’s time to start thinking about major gifts. Some of the most meaningful gifts to your organization likely come from the same small percentage of donors. If you haven’t refreshed your major gift program, now’s the time to start.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The Art of the Ask: Crafting a Winning Major Gifts Strategy In the world of nonprofit fundraising, major gifts stand as a cornerstone, providing substantial financial support that can significantly impact an organization’s ability to serve its mission.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 30, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Too often we only invite those making major gifts into the strategy fold. These four are key: 1.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 18, 2023

We’ve done our research and heard what nonprofit professionals have to say about matching gift software. And we’ve compiled a list of matching gift software reviews from the leading provider, Double the Donation , for your benefit. The smoother the transition, the quicker your team can begin driving matching gifts for your cause.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2022

Tools like iWave streamline our prospect research by automatically aggregating and analyzing publicly available data to create rich (pun intended) donor profiles for our major gift officers. Donor prospects in Salesforce with an iWave Score of 4 get added to the major gift portfolio. An ask too high and you might miss a gift entirely.

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sgEngage

JUNE 16, 2021

Now it is the influx of crisis donors who made their first healthcare gift during the pandemic who are grabbing the spotlight. Use Your Gift Types: Identify those donors who may have changed their gift type to you from cash to recurring or even stock gifts. There’s an undeniable shimmer and attraction to everything new!

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Get specific about how a gift today will translate to impact tomorrow—and wherever possible, quantify!

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Top Nonprofits

MAY 4, 2021

Pitman’s new book, The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You are Meant to Be it occurred to me that I’d probably never considered the word “doubt” as anything positive. I will be completely honest with you here: I just don’t find enough time to read books on leadership.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And if you’re looking to increase your organization’s corporate revenue as well, wealth screening and matching gift efforts go hand in hand. To boost your wealth screening and matching gift strategies simultaneously, equipping your team with the right tips and tools is critical. Understanding Matching Gifts.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

And the larger your organization, the larger the gifts you can expect to receive⁠—that is, of course, when your team has a plan to cultivate and steward key donors. Effective major gift fundraising focuses on cultivating relationships with that 20% of donors, and we’re here to help guide your efforts to maximal success.

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Double the Donation

JANUARY 30, 2024

Larger donations play important roles in fundraising success, especially since major gifts of more than $1,000 account for 85% of the average nonprofit’s revenue. The challenge here, though, is that many nonprofits don’t (or can’t) consistently pursue major gifts while juggling many other day-to-day needs and goals.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 16, 2016

Williams has accrued more than 35 years of professional nonprofit leadership experience working as an organizational consultant. There’s a singular question that you can ask at your organization to figure out how to find more gifts. Who is the “someone” where major gifts are coming to? Ask This Question.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Julie Ordoñez will outline a proven strategy, messaging and action steps you can implement right away to close major gifts faster, ethically. We’re here to talk about 3 steps to closing over $10,000 gifts by December 31st. It is not too late to raise major gifts this year. Julie: Let’s do it. That’s right.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 8, 2013

At KELL Partners , we couldn’t migrate them to a NPSP-based solution without a decent batch gift entry solution. You have to match those gifts to existing donors or create new ones if they don’t exist. You have to make sure those gifts aren’t already attached to pledges. More than worth the time it will save.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nonprofit leadership is challenging in the best of times, and even more so now. Leadership expert Marc A. In this session, he’ll show you why doubt is a normal part of leadership, and the surprising gift it can be if you have the courage to use it. What do you do when you don’t know what the next steps are? About Author.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We are here to talk about philanthropic leadership. That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool. And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. Who doesn’t want that, right?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s long been documented that the most successful nonprofits have (1) a board that plays a critical role in their fundraising and (2) built a strong collaborative partnership between the board and leadership staff. Yet, as board members, other donors look to you to give gifts of significance. What is a gift of significance?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2020

Truman No man becomes rich unless he enriches others -- Andrew Carnegie Perception, visibility, and influence will help you stand out from the gifted group of stars that surrounds you -- Joel A. Garfinkle.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

McCollum divides her book into three parts: Understanding the hurdles to women’s advancement Overcoming the hurdles Eliminating the hurdles She professes that women have unique gifts and abilities. Leadership Development : Do women have access to effective development? Businesses need talented women, now more than ever.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2020

Leadership During Times of Change. Leadership strategies. Thinking about how to go after major gifts in the future. WEBINAR: Leadership During Times of Change. How do leaders embrace their role in the new normal today? What does it mean to lead strategically and purposefully? How values lead to actions. Mark McCampbell.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Check out our last installment here !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2016

The Building Movement Project is conducting a national survey on Nonprofits, Leadership and Race. The 2016 Nonprofits, Leadership and Race Survey will provide valuable information about the current components impacting leadership in the nonprofit sector. The survey should take about 20 minutes to fill out: bit.ly/BMPRaceSurvey.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 18, 2023

That Monday you get a personal email thanking you from the Volunteer Manager that offers to be a reference for you should you ever need one and includes a $5 gift card to Starbucks (they speak your love language!). Have leadership, staff and/or clients give them praise, thanks, or awards. Offer special privileges, incentive, or access.

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sgEngage

MARCH 13, 2024

Create a plan for boosting revenue: Growing the average gift size is another strategy to increase revenue. Can your P2P fundraisers ask for a bigger gift? Can team captains encourage their teams to ask for a larger gift? Rely on leadership: Team captains remain crucial to the success of team events.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to persuade leadership to get donor thank-you letters out sooner: Dear Charity Clairity, I just took a new job and have discovered they don’t get thank you letters out for two weeks. We then looked at the total gift journey. To me, this is unacceptable.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. It is not enough to simply send a tax receipt with a form letter when you receive a gift.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

I’m looking at: How easy is it to make a gift? How do they respond to a gift from a new donor? A few years back a colleague — I don’t recall who — recommended making a gift to St. Do they value small donations? What kind of follow-up do I receive? Which is what’s needed in your donor communications right now.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today’s question comes from a major gift fundraiser who wants advice on whether it’s better to ask for too little or too much. . Dear Charity Clairity, I’m new to major gift fundraising, and struggle with how much to ask for. Especially when your goal is a major gift, and you’re approaching a current donor.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 8, 2022

Capital campaigns are laser focused on the top-level gifts. In most campaigns, the top ten gifts account for half or more of the campaign goal. That laser focus has several consequences because major gift fundraising is relatively inexpensive. Perhaps they outgrow their facilities. And those relationships are not one-and-done.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Truman No man becomes rich unless he enriches others -- Andrew Carnegie Perception, visibility, and influence will help you stand out from the gifted group of stars that surrounds you -- Joel A. Garfinkle.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2023

After a fundraising career of making solicitations for three different institutions of higher education and now serving as a trainer/consultant for a wide range of nonprofits, I’d like to share several fundraising lessons on what to do after your major gift ask is turned down. Very often donor prospects will ask for more time.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But, internally, the nonprofit has a leadership mess and toxic environment. There is a major nonprofit that — I know if you heard its name, you would, by all accounts, say, “Wow, what a great organization that is doing such amazing work.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

When a customer takes time to contact your organization, that comment, suggestion, question or complaint should be seen as a gift. Yes, a gift! Why a gift ? Customer Feedback Customer Satisfaction Customer Service Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Thanking Customers' An opportunity to make something more clear.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

These tips include how to make a planned gift request without making it awkward. Providing educational materials, workshops, or seminars on estate planning and the benefits of making a planned gift, in person and via online video, is crucial. Timing is crucial when discussing a planned gift. We’re all aging, right?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2019

If the institution doesn’t require that major gift officers make an annual giving ask as part of their strategy (which I always recommend), then annual giving teams often “lose” their best donors when the donor graduates to a major giving level. The Importance of Leadership Annual Giving. What is Leadership Annual Giving?

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