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Creating a Fundraising Culture in Your Nonprofit

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While each nonprofit is different and each donor relationship has its own intricacies, there are three general phases that define the donor journey: cultivating, soliciting, and promoting stewardship, and in each phase, there is the opportunity to promote a strong fundraising culture. The Cultivation Phase.

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How to Run a Capital Campaign

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You’ll want to put together a list of questions to help you determine if your community is on board, and then interview all the stakeholders. So what kind of questions do you ask these stakeholders to figure out if this capital campaign thing is right for you? Are there any concerns or questions you have about the project?

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How to Streamline Your Grant Management Process with Technology

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Admins can configure exactly what type of evaluations reviewers can offer, including numeric scales, letter grades, or even answering specific questions. And don’t forget to adjust an application’s status field during this phase, letting everyone know where that request is in your team’s workflow. Remember those request statuses?

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Facebook Ad Strategy for Non-Profits & Charities: 9 Things to Understand and Test

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You need to give your ads time to go through Facebook’s ‘learning phase’ : this is where Facebook finds the first 50 conversions from your ads, then builds a statistical model to find the rest of the people who will convert. Write 3 different copy versions – one as short as you can manage, one longer version, one with a question.

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Reading Donor Signals for Events: Knowing Who to Invite and When

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The Four Phases of Responsive Fundraising Listen Listening is where effectively reading donor signals is incredibly important. Regardless of the channel (website, email, mail, or the phone) or medium (in-person or digitally) you want to connect with donors in a way that is one-to-one, contextual, and collaborative.

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How to Build Your Capital Campaign Plan

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The easiest place to start is with the practical question of how much your project is going to cost. You can always adjust it after your silent phase , and there’s no shame in that. Typically about one year of that time is spent focused exclusively on major donors (this is called the silent phase). Making a Budget for Your Plan.

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10 Strategies for Segmenting Donors for Communication

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Psychological segmentation answers the question of why your donors choose to support your organization. When donors become part of your community, they typically move through five phases of involvement, landing on the one that best suits their level of commitment. Now they’ve opened the door to a conversation with your nonprofit.