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Why Ongoing Professional Development Is Essential For The Nonprofit Community

Bloomerang

Amy Eisenstein, CEO and co-founder of the Capital Campaign Toolkit, and Adrian Sargeant, co-director at the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy, conducted a study titled “ Major Gift Fundraising: Unlocking the Potential for Your Nonprofit *.” . AfriKids , a U.K.

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How Investing In Ongoing Nonprofit Professional Development Keeps Fundraisers On The Ball And Ahead Of The Game

Kindful

British children’s rights nonprofit AfriKids sent two of its staff members to a recent International Fundraising Congress in the Netherlands. Mercedes Brown, the manager of individual giving at Dallas Theater Center in Texas, was anxious to start a recurring gift program at the organization.

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Your Cause Camp 2018 Lineup is Here

NonProfit Hub

Lori’s gift is to help nonprofit organizations communicate powerfully so they raise exponentially more money. She speaks worldwide, enjoying the opportunity to work with colleagues in places like Mexico City, London, Paris, Italy, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Slovakia. ignitedfundraising.com.

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Guest Post: Collections Access - Open the Door Wider

Museum 2.0

This image, created by artist Courtney Bellairs by photographing an artifact in the Sandy Spring Museum collection, was for sale as a limited edition giclee print in the museum’s gift shop for the duration of the related exhibition and remains for sale via the artist.

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Guest Post: One Museum's Experiment with Threaded Comment Stations

Museum 2.0

Jasper Visser and his colleagues at the not-yet-physically-open National Historisch Museum of the Netherlands have impressed me with their innovative, thoughtful approach to developing a dynamic national museum. This gift, however, especially convinced younger participants.

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[VIDEO] Best Practices for Recurring Donor Acquisition

Bloomerang

So if you look at the fact that if you’re sending out appeals, you might get on average $58, on average, the gifts were $58 from appeal donors. But if you get them online, typically that gift is a little bit higher, between $96 and $111, depending upon which study you look at. So gifts fit their budget.

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5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit.

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Responses were received from 2,383 individuals in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Face-to-face fundraising is mentioned most frequently by respondents from the Netherlands, major donor cultivation is cited by respondents from Canada, India, and the U.K.,

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