Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

While goals are vital to success, SMART fundraising goals help make sure you’re setting goals that you just can’t miss. Can’t miss” goals! In some form or fashion, we’ve all heard how essential goals are. Set a goal! Set a goal! Set a goal! Goals, goals, goals….

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Remember SMART goals? If you’ve attended management workshops that drilled you on the SMART goals, now is the time to use them. The acronym SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Notice that I set a goal that’s specific, and you have to assure that it’s realistic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2024

Things like smart computers that learn, better ways for different programs to work together, and ways to customize how things are done. By keeping track of these metrics , you can spot areas to improve, see how well you’re meeting your goals, and show stakeholders the difference your grants are making.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Before you begin any project involving data analysis, start by clearly outlining your goal so you know which metrics to analyze. First, we’ll cover how to determine your goals for your monthly giving program. When laying out your goal, consider following the SMART model for goal setting. Determine your objectives.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Enter your Smart Donations URL. You can accomplish the same effect on Twitter by pinning a link to Smart Donations with a call-to-action on the top of your page. Set (and Promote) a Goal Setting a goal for your Campaign and promoting the goal on social media can be an effective way of driving online donations.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 6, 2024

Only to be interrupted by a notification on your phone for a new *free* webinar promising the latest in fundraising innovation (probably something AI-related). All day long your goals are hijacked. Engaging, consistent donor communications provide the engine behind your fundraising program. Ann Handley. Subscribe here.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning is the process of creating a blueprint that guides an organization for a specified time period and helps accomplish its goals. The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. Let’s get started.

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Whole Whale

MAY 23, 2022

Father’s Day is a great day to plan a fun fundraising campaign to honor the Dads in our community. Have a specific Father’s Day fundraiser. Make sure your fundraiser is focused on Father’s Day happening on Jun 19th, 2022 this year. Get creative with your fundraising campaign and make it personal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Below are the notes from the “10 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Trends to Watch in 2022” webinar presented by Heather Mansfield on December 1. The webinar was designed as a supplemental course to the webinar series required to earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising. Grow Your Email List. Email #2 ?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2023

Do you ever feel like working toward your nonprofit’s long-term goals seems more like a game of chance than a tactical approach? It requires your staff and board to work together to develop a game plan for achieving specific goals, prioritize the most important first moves toward those goals, and adapt your plan as needed.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Outline your digital marketing goals. Before you start crafting your messages, it’s important to define clear goals to guide your digital marketing activities. Use the SMART framework to get all of your team members on the same page: Specific. Encouraging supporters to host birthday fundraisers on your nonprofit’s behalf.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Each episode is packed with insights , strategies, and real-life experiences designed to help you flourish in your fundraising endeavors. In this episode, learn about strategic areas to focus on for better results and use the SMART framework to make sure your goals guide your planning. Listen to this episode.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you understand the importance of a well-crafted fundraising development plan. Whether you’re creating a new plan or adapting an existing one to address new trends and unprecedented events – a common occurrence in recent years – it’s important to remember that fundraising plans are dynamic.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2024

Elevate Your Impact: Crafting a Winning Fundraising Plan for Your Next Charity Event As a nonprofit professional, you understand the importance of effective fundraising. A well-crafted fundraising plan can be the difference between exceeding your goals and falling short. These goals should be both financial (e.g.,

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

Have you ever been pulled into a meandering project with no clear direction or goals? Any major project—such as implementing new fund accounting software—needs a well-developed charter to keep stakeholders focused on the goals and desired outcome. How does this project fit within your mission, values, and goals? out of scope).

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Those are the two main questions that an annual fundraising plan must answer to help you become more successful. This blog post explores how to create an annual fundraising plan and even provides a helpful annual fundraising plan template to help putting together your fundraising plan easier. Here you go!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

No matter where you are on your journey in the nonprofit world, fundraising is the lifeblood that fuels the important, world-changing work you do. Your passion and drive demonstrate why donors should give to your cause, but finding new donors and keeping existing ones takes something more: a solid fundraising strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 6, 2019

By Katie Casillas , director of marketing at GolfStatus.org , an event management platform specifically for golf fundraisers. Golf fundraisers are a huge opportunity for outreach, stewardship, and certainly for fundraising. 1) Clearly define your goals for the event on the front end. Is fundraising your key priority?

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your marketing strategies and the marketing channels you use can drastically affect your fundraising success throughout the year. Nonprofit marketing goals often focus around building recognition, fostering community, and increasing your funds raised. However, marketing for nonprofits can come with its difficulties.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

By Korrin Bishop , writer at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Teamwork makes the dream work, so set aside time early on to get internal alignment on your fundraising strategies.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Every dollar counts in the fundraising world, so the free marketing that social media provides can be crucial to raising awareness for your cause without breaking your budget. From sharing your mission to advertising fundraising campaigns, social media offers plenty of opportunities to help you boost your fundraising efforts.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

While the end of the year can be a time to relax and unwind, it’s also a season for nonprofits to ramp up fundraising. But, actually, you want to do the opposite: By running a smart, strategic end-of-year giving campaign, you can take advantage of those natural trends and raise even more. Goals S.M.A.R.T. Give these tips a try.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

At the heart of fundraising are the supporters who believe in your cause and want to place their trust, and dollars, into your organization to make a change in the world. With an informed development plan, there is no reason that 2023 can’t be your best fundraising year to date and a prime year for major giving. The good news?

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Need to create your 2021 fundraising plan? Register for the course, “How To Create A Fundraising Plan For 2021” for only $115. “If And as far as fundraising planning goes, your fundraising plans were thrown off. Creating a Fundraising Plan. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Autumn definitely means “go time” in the life of a fundraiser, often because it signals the start of year-end , a period of time you may get upwards of 60% or more of your annual donations. Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you are trying to fundraise without an annual fundraising plan, you are trying to bake a pie with a lot of ingredients but no recipe. Do you really want to make fundraising so hard? Do you really want to make fundraising so hard? Can you do it? But… that either requires a good memory or a lot of guesswork.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There are tons of resources out there about #GivingTuesday Fundraising. Our #GivingTuesday Fundraising Bootcamp can get you started learning about GivingTuesday fast, help you set up your first GivingTuesday fundraiser, and boost your revenue this year even more over previous years. GivingTuesday Fundraising in 30 Seconds.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A raffle is an easy way to increase fundraising revenue and engage supporters at events. Raffles often take place at fundraising events like galas or auctions. Connect with corporate partners and individual donors to ask if they’d be willing to donate raffle prizes to your fundraiser. Raffle basket FAQs How does a raffle work?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 21, 2022

Staying up-to-date on the latest trends can help you expand your nonprofit marketing and achieve your goals in new ways. Partner with Businesses to Achieve Shared Goals. Smart business leaders know this. Have an online fundraiser or volunteer training. Figure out your goals: What action do you want people to take?

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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Crank up your nonprofit fundraising with a benefit concert! Benefit concerts are often celebrations of major achievements or a part of a larger fundraising campaign. Advantages for nonprofits of hosting benefit concerts Hosting a benefit concert for your organization offers numerous benefits, such as: Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2019

As a member of a nonprofit fundraising team, you always have your eyes on a fundraising goal and are working to improve your online donor engagement strategy. . Fundraising, however, can take many different forms, so it can be difficult to know which is best to improve your online donor engagement. Tips & Tricks.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Wouldn’t life be easier if people opened and read your fundraising emails? So, what can you do to get more people to open and respond to your fundraising emails? If you’re using email as a fundraising and donor communications tool, you can’t afford to send anything dull. He or she will personally read your fundraising email.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With the common goal of creating value in mind, businesses have wisdom from which nonprofits can make a greater impact and perform at their most effective. Sign up today for an all-in-one fundraising and community engagement platform that won’t break the bank. Invest in marketing. Focus on both short-term and long-term ROI.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You need a plan for fundraising success. Actually, you need both short-term plans, like those to manage your fundraising activities through the holidays, and longer-term plans that will carry you through all of next year. But for most people, planning for fundraising isn’t easy. 13 Pre-Planning Best Practices for Fundraising 1.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. 1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Not all fundraising programs look alike.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Discoveries are the “sharpening your ax” mode smart nonprofits invest in before taking a swing at technology challenges, and avoiding them can result in a big miss. A tech “discovery” is the initial, independent phase of a technology project where key analysis, design and planning are performed BEFORE a buy or build decision is made.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

At the heart of fundraising are the supporters who believe in your cause and want to place their trust, and dollars, into your organization to make a change in the world. With an informed development plan, there is no reason that 2023 can’t be your best fundraising year to date and a prime year for major giving. The good news?

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