The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

DECEMBER 4, 2018

With Giving Tuesday behind us, it's time to highlight just a few of the organizations who ran stellar campaigns, activated supporters, and beat their fundraising goals. Successful fundraising campaigns come in many shapes and sizes, and not every tactic works for every organization's audience. Best Emails: Heifer International.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

As you conduct daily operations at your nonprofit, you’ll find that getting your nonprofit’s development strategy right is one of the most important pieces of the nonprofit management process. Your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy can’t achieve its aims without the proper goals and workload distribution.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Imagine this scenario—your nonprofit wants to diversify its fundraising streams , specifically with planned giving. You have a strong prospect in mind: a longtime donor who’s been deeply connected and involved with your mission for years. Make a stellar online impression backed up with testimonials. Best of luck!

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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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Achieve

MAY 19, 2022

stellar guest experience. Such is the life of a nonprofit fundraising professional! But the truth is, it’s impossible to provide a great auction guest experience if your team’s back-end planning doesn’t go smoothly. . Planning an auction can seem more stressful than other fundraising events, because there are. Creating a.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The last couple of years have been all about virtual when it comes to fundraising. But out of this huge challenge, we’ve seen some amazing creativity crop up as nonprofits revamp their fundraising approaches to be safe and successful. Many of the fundraisers also hosted Zoom watching parties of the livestream program.

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Classy

AUGUST 6, 2021

Pass-through parameters are special tags you can add to the end of a website address that allow you to pass information from your website or email campaigns to your Classy donation page. Create a Stellar Donation Page on Classy. Engage Donors Year-Round With These 9 Email Templates. What Are Pass-Through Parameters?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email is a powerful marketing tool, but to get results you need to learn how to write fundraising emails that connect emotionally and inspire people to give. It takes careful strategy and deep knowledge of your donor to get the results you’re looking for. Nothing about your fundraising email should be left to chance.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A list curated and sponsored by: Classy ––a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. What’s more, overall giving statistics show that 11% of annual donations happen during the last three days of the year.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The year is quickly coming to an end, but there is still plenty of time to pack in free professional development training to help you be more successful as you finish out 2019 and start looking at 2020. How to Raise More Money Than Ever Before During the Year-End Giving Season. Hosted by: Blackbaud. Don’t miss it!

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

That’s right, nonprofits receive 50% of their annual donations in the last three months of the year—is your nonprofit ready for year-end giving? Getting year-end giving right is something that takes some time and thought and I’m going walk you through the process in 7 easy steps. Have a strategy. .

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 15, 2017

Craft a stellar job description. Diversify your marketing strategy. Before we can walk you through writing your job listing or show you how to advertise your post, there’s one vital strategy that will make the rest of these tips fall into place seamlessly. Devise an appropriate recruitment strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2016

Also, if you have not read it, Kivi Leroux-Miller has written a stellar piece called “ The Heroes and Villains of Give Local America Story. based software company, created Give Local America so community foundations could host annual one-day fundraising events. Last year, Give Local America raised $68.5 But not this year.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2012

Today’s "Behind the Convio Admin Curtain" installment is full of juicy Convio best practices, and even a restaurant recommendation for stellar chocolate chip pancakes right outside Boston. JAF: Two projects using Convio that I'm most proud of are: Girl2Woman.org , a microsite that we developed on Pagebuilder, and our online fundraising.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Road trips are an excellent platform for causes to tell important stories, engage volunteers, and fundraise in an innovative way. Road trips touch on so many different goals that organizations focus on that it’s hard to believe how few major nonprofits have embraced the road trip campaign strategy. Diverse Goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

By Audrey Phillips , a customer success manager 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. One thing that makes a peer-to-peer campaign unique, however, is the individual and team fundraising pages.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2022

As nonprofit fundraisers, we’re always thinking about our donors first. But donors aren’t the only people who make your fundraising events and campaigns successful, and they aren’t the only people whose needs you should be considering. Fundraising campaign promotion to their audience. ” tweet this. Gift match agreement.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

If you want to handle event planning, ticketing, registration, communications, and fundraising by hand, we salute you—but you probably wouldn’t be reading this guide to event management software for nonprofits. This is an important decision, as your choice will inform how you manage events for the next few years.

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Classy

AUGUST 23, 2021

Optimize your campaign, boost your organization’s visibility, and take a sizable step toward your year-end fundraising goals with this list of quick tips. . Learn How to Build a Stellar Campaign With Classy Academy. Keep your progress bar hidden until you’ve reached one-third of your fundraising goal. Bi-weekly .

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Qgiv

JULY 6, 2021

This guide to fundraising auctions for churches is for you! While pen and paper auctions may have been the norm a few years ago, fundraising auctions are rapidly moving online. Below are our picks for must-have software for fundraising auctions. Social media is a must-have for any fundraising event. A great CRM.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To avoid missing out on key support, create a stellar first impression with a strong nonprofit homepage. To implement these accessibility guidelines with ease, leverage a nonprofit website builder with built-in accessibility tools, like an accessibility widget, front-end editing to add in alternative text, and automated responsive design.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

over the past year ? This means that online giving has just achieved its sixth consecutive year of growth. Is your digital marketing strategy taking full advantage of this trend? What are Some Other Ways I Can Reach My Fundraising Goals? . Nonprofit Source is a go-to for all nonprofit digital marketing strategies.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2021

Maybe the company kept a low profile this year because they figured their platform was in the spotlight enough during the last US Presidential administration. I thought about my own kids, especially my daughter, who at 10-years-old is just on the brink of entering the social media realm. And that thought scared the s**t out of me. .

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 18, 2014

Wabash is small (901 students last year), all male (one of three such institutions left in the country), a traditional liberal arts school and the best decision I’ve ever made. Wabash knows how to leave a BIG impact, and can “school” other nonprofits on running a successful fundraising campaign. It’s a long-term strategy, not a tactic.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2020

And, more importantly, culture eats strategy every single time. . . This is where it gets a little tricky because none of your colleagues signed up to be a “ fundraiser ” and they visibly cringe when you mention it. Simply put , culture is the way things get done. What is a Culture of Gratitude? . Yes, of course they did.

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