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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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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Twenty Hats

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

They are collaborators and relationship-builders , each with a specialization that is needed to fully leverage community involvement. They build relationships with staff and (oftentimes) clients. You become an essential part of the leadership team, equal in status to development. Do you belong on the Leadership Team?

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Managing relationships. Wiens also discovered during her research that people with burnout immunity have a special relationship with stress. After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania.

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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. Capital campaigns build stronger relationships with major donors.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 31, 2024

While tax summaries might seem like just another administrative task, savvy nonprofits use them as powerful cultivation moments to deepen relationships with donors. Major gift officers often prepare TOTAL GIVING statements before meeting with their major donors because they, too, lose track of their cumulative generosity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Make a “ stretch gift ” that is very generous and is outside your normal giving pattern. Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). It doesn’t have to be a gift. Then help implement these tools.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

These tips include how to make a planned gift request without making it awkward. Build personal relationships : Cultivate personal connections with your aging donors. This inclusivity can foster a sense of shared philanthropy and strengthen the overall relationship with your nonprofit. We’re all aging, right?

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

There are many factors in fundraising, from early engagement to a donor’s ultimate or legacy gift. Some of these factors are environmental and out of your control: the economy, politics, changes in leadership, and pandemics. Professional development officers are relationship builders. Senior officers can help mentor new staff.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

posted by Kelly Hart Fall 2021 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. Leadership must recognize this impact on their staff and adapt to strengthen and build a more resilient workplace to achieve sustainability. Adjust your leadership style. Build relationships. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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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. Trust is the foundation of all lasting relationships. Where do checks go first?

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Candid

MARCH 2, 2022

They’re the ultimate testing ground for your donor stewardship tactics, as you’ll be asking for quite a lot — extra-large gifts, multi-year commitments, feasibility study interviews, and more. Does donor fatigue stem from simply asking donors for gifts too many times? It’s natural to fear donor fatigue during a capital campaign.

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Campaign Donor Gift Test 111

Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2021

The real work of major gift fundraising is relationship building. This is why the fundraising adage “ major gift officers have to get out from behind their desks ” has long been accepted wisdom. . The truth is not everyone will want to build a relationship or be “wined and dined.’ . — Fear of Being Held Back.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 27, 2024

Start where you are and be realistic about the mindsets of those in leadership across your organization. The days should be long gone that a woman receives mail without her correct name, usually due to making assumptions based upon relationships. Change organizational culture to impact the bottom line Know thyself.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We aren’t tempted by the glamour and glitz of major gifts , the gold-lettered names on a wall or building. No, we prefer to build relationships en masse, using data-driven insights to tell us what our donors really want. Annual giving folk are a strange breed. I know because I’m one of them. I want to let you know that this is okay!

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Workplace giving software is any digital platform that enables corporate giving programs , such as matching gifts, volunteer grants, and corporate volunteerism. Nonprofits can invest in software that enables donors to take advantage of their employers’ workplace giving programs, such as matching gift software.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

By definition, board members should be counted on to make sacrificial gifts or at least to consider the organization a high priority for their philanthropy. Too often being elected to an organization’s board becomes a sort of gift to friends or dedicated volunteers. Reality 2: It’s all work and no pay.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 21, 2021

By: Stu Manewith, Director of Thought Leadership and Advocacy at Omatic Software. This is because fundraisers — up and down the pyramid — miss out on fundamental information that can help them better build relationships, effect the best possible messaging, and elicit support to further the mission. And 2020 didn’t help.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As the field of volunteer engagement has become more professionalized and as organizations grow and mature, many that historically benefited from auxiliaries now recognize some of the challenges inherent in these relationships. Those recommendations are then presented to leadership. But there are also many that are, well, less so.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This means you’ve got (1) motivated leaders; (2) volunteers; (3) leadership; (4) a board, and (5) staff. You need a leadership team committed to your mission and willing to give and get. Human Resources. Running a nonprofit is a team effort. If you’re the only one, it’s going to be hard to get off the ground. Fundraising Vehicles.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

We’ve recently witnessed an unprecedented number of what many consider to be “transformational gifts” across the social sector. The momentous impact the gift will have on the trajectory and pace of the organization and its work. The common thread?

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

For context, when we talk about major donors, we’re referring to donors who make a significant gift to your org – one that’s above and beyond the typical gift that arrives in the mail. Usually, $10,000 is a common benchmark (but splitting that into two payments of $5,000 over two years could still be considered a major gift.).

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Qgiv

JULY 14, 2021

Additionally, you will need to develop the timeline for realization of gifts, investment revenue, and construction plans to be sure that cash flow matches the timing of expenses. A Cohesive Fundraising Leadership Team. The leadership team, and its ability to carry out the project, is a major factor for any donor. Motivation.

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Bloomerang

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofit professionals, donors and volunteers put themselves on the front lines of service to others with their gifts of time, talent and treasure. Professional and volunteer nonprofit leaders who, without fear, hesitation or anxiety, ask for gifts of time and money to fuel the good works of the nonprofit sector.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 5, 2022

With close to 80% of charitable gifts coming from individuals (including bequests), is your organization allocating 80% of your fundraising plan on strategies to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward individual donors? Have you asked them for a major gift, a multiple year pledge or even a planned gift?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 16, 2021

For the last three years, I’ve devoted virtually every day to the challenge of training professionals and especially volunteer fundraisers to overcome the fear of asking for gifts for their favorite nonprofits. My specialty is addressing the solicitation of major gifts, particularly from individuals. Blunder No. Blunder No.

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DipJar

MARCH 21, 2022

Without the right tools, you could go into a donor relationship missing valuable information about the donor’s values, interests, and financial situation. Matching gift database: Using a matching gift tool , you can discover if a potential donor’s employer offers gift matching. Matching gift eligibility.

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