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Creating Fundraising Systems for Your Nonprofit

The Fundraising Authority

This is a two part article on how to create fundraising systems for your nonprofit. In Part 1, we will talk about what fundraising systems are and why they are important for development. In Part 2, we will show you how to create systems at your organization. In short, this nonprofit lacked fundraising systems.

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Elevating your major gifts and planned giving with data-driven decision-making

EveryAction

This is why data-informed donor screening and segmentation practices are so important: with the right tools and practices, your team can maximize and optimize fundraising efforts to raise more money, spend fewer resources raising it, and increase your impact on the communities you serve. Plenty of people with children donate money, too.

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Multi-Year Gift Agreements: Your Donor Retention ‘Ace-In-The-Hole’

Bloomerang

But there’s one unsung strategy that can elevate your donor retention rates, while expanding mid-level and major giving: multi-year gift agreements. Studies also show that the best major gift and planned gift prospects are donors that have been retained for multiple years. Does this r eally improve donor retention?

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Doing Your Appeal In-house? 5 Tips to Save Time & Money

Get Fully Funded

Below are my 5 top tips to save you precious money and time when preparing your own appeal. Puts color on the front of the letter and grayscale on the back to save money. Then reimport the list to your system to save those changes for good! Calculate personalized gift strings based on the donor’s last gift amount.

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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

Get Fully Funded

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You can automate this with your online donor management system. A perfect thank-you letter does both.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What’s The Best Way To Frame Monthly Gift Asks To Minimize Accounting Complications Between Restricted And Unrestricted Gifts?

Bloomerang

Today’s question come from a nonprofit leader who wants advice on how to frame monthly gift asks to minimize accounting complications between restricted and unrestricted gifts: . Is promoting giving for a specific purpose helpful in attracting monthly gifts? Make a Monthly Gift. Let’s take them one at a time.

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5 Myths That Are Sabotaging Your Major Gift Strategy

Saleforce Nonprofit

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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