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6 smart fundraising strategies to drive major giving success

EveryAction

from our friends at Double the Donation Major giving strategies play a major role in many nonprofit organizations’ fundraising success. And the larger your organization, the larger the gifts you can expect to receive⁠—that is, of course, when your team has a plan to cultivate and steward key donors.

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Understanding the Psychology of Why Donors Give to Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When time and resources are scarce, it’s easier to send out the same fundraising message to everyone in your community. When a major event happens, such as the pandemic, wars, or natural disasters, they make a decision for the donor that this is the wrong time to be asked for a gift. How Can you Encourage Your Donors to Give?

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Helpful Ways to Measure and Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Performance

sgEngage

This technology has helped Cassie Chilcutt, prospect research manager for the Conservancy, reduce major gift officer portfolios by more than one-third after removing low-likelihood prospects. “(It) It) has helped me identify the correct constituents to place into gift officer portfolios,” she said.

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Nonprofit Planned Giving: 4 Commonly Asked Questions

Greater Giving

Within that category, only a small amount of income comes from a large number of small and mid-sized donors, and the rest comes from a few major donors. While major donors could give to your organization in a number of ways, one of the most useful but most overlooked is planned giving.

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10 Types of Planned Gifts Your Team Should Understand

Achieve

The high ROI of planned gifts and their accessibility to wider groups of donors has always made them a smart investment of your time and development resources. You should instead focus on explaining the different types of gifts that your nonprofit can accept and what their positive impacts would be on your mission.

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Major Gift Metrics: What You Need to Know

DNL OmniMedia

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you know that raising major gifts is one of the most strategic efforts your organization will complete. Major gifts are not only a highly-strategic effort, but also a high-stakes one— for many nonprofits, over 80% of their total fundraising dollars come from major contributions alone.

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The True Key To Unlocking Giving Is Generosity

Bloomerang

Wealth screening has traditionally been a go-to method for identifying potential major donors , but it overlooks the essential factor that determines a person’s likelihood to give: Generosity. These individuals possess the resources or wealth necessary to make substantial donations that significantly impact your cause. The results?

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