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

Get Fully Funded

Should you print, stuff, and mail your own fundraising letter? If you have fewer than 200 mail recipients, the answer is probably yes. When you get more than 200 donors, you may be eligible to mail at nonprofit postage rates as low as 19 cents per piece (as of July 2023). No labels needed!

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The Top 8 Ways to Increase Your Prospect List

The Fundraising Authority

Involve Your Board When was the last time you sat down with each of your board members – individually – to ask them who was on their radar screen and who should be on yours? Your board likely has a great network… now is the time to start using it! ( Be sure to read: How to Motivate Your Board to Raise More Money ) 3.

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Elevate Your Fundraising Game with These Essential Nonprofit Books

Pamela Grow

What are the nonprofit fundraising and communications books you turn to, time and time again? Creative Deviations, How you can infuse your story-telling, fundraising and direct response with more creativity by John Lepp For years, my go-to bible for direct response was Denny Hatch’s Million Dollar Mailings. What’s your favorite?

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Eight Fundamental Concepts for Successful Non-Profit Fundraising Events

The Fundraising Authority

Your goal as a fundraiser is to make sure that you are maximizing your events to raise as much money as possible, without wasting valuable time and resources. A smaller amount of time should be spent on ticket sales, and even less on added revenue streams. Add them to your mailing list. 8: Event revenue grows over time.

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WARNING: Four trends that will shake nonprofits in 2024. Here’s how to pivot…

Pamela Grow

Then, once nonprofits recovered their wits and resumed asking, fundraising initially rebounded big time. Small to mid-sized nonprofits: rather than hiring your fifth development director in three years, consider outsourcing your creative and/or grants, freeing up your fundraiser’s time for growing relationships. You get the drift.

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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

EveryAction

This may mean asking someone five times or more to get an actual response. The hearing is next Tuesday at [time]. The Campaign Workshop is an award-winning political consulting firm that specializes in targeted communications, digital, mail, and video for advocacy and political campaigns. Don’t lose hope!

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#GivingTuesday Fundraising Bootcamp

Greater Giving

This is a great time to set up your GivingTuesday donation page, plan a few publicity blasts, and start approaching donors about commitments. Include Direct Mail and Local Media Outreach in #GivingTuesday Fundraising. If you’re only just hearing about GivingTuesday now, it’s not too late to participate!