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Climate Justice in the field: An interview with the Donors of Color Network

Candid

Though the growing climate crisis makes headlines every day, its enormity and complexity can be overwhelming to donors who often struggle to know where to begin and how to devise equitable strategies to address its impacts. Listen to Dosunmu reflect on what they are up against when appealing to new funders entering the field.

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

Candid

Real-time data also tends to reflect the largest contributions, primarily from institutions and high-net-worth individuals, as these are the types of donations that make headlines. Real-time data includes a combination of grants and pledges. We recommend that others do the same. . foundation grantmaking.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On the “birthdays” section of their website, after discovering that many others with the same birthday as you––and 47,492 people in total at the time of writing––have asked for donations instead of presents for their birthday, charity: water tells you how cool celebrities like Depeche Mode and Tony Hawk pledged their birthdays to the nonprofit.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And the headline was that this $471 billion was a new record for charitable giving in the United States. So first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising. So like, if I’m asking for a multi-year pledge, I might have questions around, how can I pay that pledge?

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Taking Major Gifts Online: Tactics for Going Digital

Connection Cafe

Personalize the donation forms and autoresponders for major donors so that the headline, opening statement, and donation amounts, reflect messaging for specifically for them. Depending on your technology, you can set up a donation form to enable donors to make pledges.

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