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40+ Ideas to Light a Fundraising Fire Under Your Nonprofit Board Members

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40+ Ways Empower Your Board Members for Fundraising Season Inform Hold a fundraising season kick-off dinner Give board members the option to give rather than fundraise Share 2021 Giving Tuesday Stats Stay in touch on fundraising goals and progress Share: How Nonprofits Build Donor Trust – Be Transparent Train on new fundraising software (like (..)

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Nail Your Request for Donations During Economic Ups, Downs, and Crisis Times

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Sometimes you can ask for donations solely online; in other cases, it may be better through a one-on-one meeting, a presentation, or a phone call. Before you write that post/pick up the phone/set up that meeting, the best thing you can do is BE PREPARED (you’re seeing this theme a lot here – have you noticed?). So do I.” “I

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Rally More Support for Your Cause: 3 Simple Ways to Add New Event Participants

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Register for our Event Fundraising Newsletter to receive monthly content and resources specifically for event fundraising professionals. Sample tweets, emails, Facebook posts, employee memos, phone scripts, communication plans, and anything else they’ll need to inspire and manage their team. Join Today. And I mean everything.

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Relationships That Raise Funds: 5 Tips for Creating Successful Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers

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First and foremost, determine which existing audiences you wish to engage (board members, major donors, past event fundraisers or attendees, all donors, volunteers, etc) in your fundraising and how you will reach out to them (email, social networks, mail, phone, on-site events, etc). 3) Involve. Understanding the Value of Team Captains.

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It?s Never too Early to Start Your Annual Campaign

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What content is needed to make this campaign successful: newsletters, testimonials, etc.? Consider email, handwritten notes, and phone calls. You can build your email templates and draft your call scripts now so that you can thank donors in a timely manner. What is the story you want to tell for 2020? Develop content.

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Ideas You Can Use To Thank Donors During the Holidays

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Recent print collateral, such as a newsletter or annual report. If you don’t have their phone numbers, send an email letting them know you would like to call them and ask if they’d be willing to share their phone number and the best time to reach them. It helps to provide the people making calls with a script.

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44 Ways to Turn Your Supporters into Fundraising Superstars

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Register for our Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Newsletter. Supply sample fundraising emails, Facebook posts, tweets, phone scripts, thank you notes, approved logos, etc. Looking for additional resources like this? Yep, that's a real person. One that's passionate about a cause and ready to be a fundraising super star!

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