Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2024

So, you better believe prioritizing monthly giving will make a big difference. Ideally, you would test different donation form variations to see which perform best for you. TIP 3: Devoting time and attention to your major gift strategy doesn’t have to be a full-time job. It just takes focused attention. Yes, it’s work.

Tips

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

To get the attention of your donors and increase their engagement, you can make your impact report come to life. By optimizing your digital report to offer a seamless, user-friendly experience on any viewing platform, you can sustain your audience’s attention and strengthen the connection they feel with your organization.

Digital

CauseVox

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Tailoring your communication to different types of donors post-GivingTuesday not only shows you understand their unique interests but also creates a more personal connection. Engage with Multi-Channel Fundraising Tactics Your donors live in different spaces—online, offline, and everywhere in between. It’s not too late!

Campaign

Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Something as simple as a letter with their name on it can catch their attention and make your message seem more meaningful. For example, an optimistic tone might include phrases like, Change is possible, while a professional tone could say, Your investment is making a notable difference. Put Thought Into Your Designs.

Mail

NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2025

The Difference Between Giving and Generosity When I first started working in fundraising, I thought the ultimate goal was clear: help people give. But tactics can be bent toward very different ends. It’s how someone gives their money, yes—but also their time, their attention, and their trust. And yes—giving is good.

Difference

sgEngage

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Or think of the difference between organizations that have formal lines drawn between departments versus those with a “let’s pitch in and get it done” mentality. A successful communication plan considers different audiences, communication channels, and vehicles. Your staff is certainly one. Connect the dots for the team.

Change Management

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Also aboard the rocket carrying Athena is NASAs Lunar Trailblazer , an orbiter that will map the different forms of water that exist on the surface of the moon, providing key information for future settlement and exploration. Ingels argues that the project still merits a level of attention to design.

Florida

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Cross-posting to multiple platforms, like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and X, can help you reach different segments of your audience, and this audience can be further targeted through paid social campaigns that attract new donors and drive traffic to your website.

Digital

sgEngage

APRIL 14, 2025

The Blackbaud Impact Awards shine a spotlight on organizations and individuals who are moving the needle and achieving remarkable outcomes that make a difference. Pay close attention to formatting, word limits, and deadlines. A strong award nomination is your opportunity to tell your story and showcase your impact.

Award

Mashable Tech

JULY 9, 2025

The only difference was that there was a specific storyline and context we had to match the song and lyrics to. So, I had fun experimenting with different melodies that can really show off her vocals. That brought a whole different kind of energy and attitude to the music. There’s nothing subtle about it.

Group

CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Segment Your Donors It’s not always advisable to take a “one-size-fits-all” approach to fundraising because your supporters have different income levels, motives for giving, interests, and intended engagement levels. As you plan your end-of-year giving campaigns, segment your donors, paying special attention to lapsed and first-time donors.

Campaign

Mashable Tech

JUNE 5, 2025

2025 is no different, with a fresh crop of viral slang that’s quickly become shorthand for everything from viral moments to internet culture’s quirks. In a different context, when someone says they’re "cooked," it means they're out of options, overworked, or done for — like they’ve been taken to their limit.

Internet

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Whether we realize it or not, music is processed across multiple brain regions tied to attention, memory, and emotionmeaning even passive listening can impact how we focus, feel, and make decisions. Theres a difference between active listening and what we call purposeful passive listening. Both are powerful, but for different reasons.

Brain

Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In our experience, weve found many nonprofits operate on a myth of uniqueness the idea that they’re fundamentally different from the private sector and the rules that apply to business dont apply to them.

Nonprofit

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 10, 2024

According to fundraising copywriter and author Jeff Brooks, “ Donors to political campaigns and donors to charity are mostly different people.” There’s no correlation whatsoever around elections hurting fundraising. Cancelling your campaign is guaranteed zero income and fundraising revenue you can never get back. There’s one caveat.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Next, I paid attention to why people cared about the organization. I paid close attention to their experience as a donor, and I stayed in close communication with them. Instead, let people know exactly how they can make a difference. Keep their interest and attention through consistent communications. So, I jumped in!

Fund

sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Not surprisingly, it is a sentiment that is percolating across nonprofit organizations as Gen Z professionals turn to mission-aligned work and generational differences necessitate continued learning and communication by senior staff to ensure these younger workers are welcomed and equipped to succeed. Its a pattern seen in every decade.

Action

CauseVox

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the end of the year approaches, the pressure is on to convince potential donors that your nonprofit deserves their attention. Weve rounded up some general guidelines to keep top of mind as you spin up different subject lines: 1. you can incorporate this into your subject line to really get their attention.

email

Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Whether delivered through traditional direct mail or digital channels like email , donation request letters offer flexibility to suit the preferences of different donors. One of the best ways to do this is by sharing a story about someone whos benefited from your organization and how your donors helped make a difference in that persons life.

Template

sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2025

This detailed plan defines the activities your nonprofit will use to steward donors at different levels and how often youll complete each activity. Every donor is different, so its natural that not everyone will want to engage with your nonprofit in the same ways. The answer is a donor stewardship matrix.

Donor

Fast Company Tech

JUNE 5, 2025

Galinsky concluded that what we wear affects how we think and behave, specifically our attentiveness and focus. They are tools we can use to access a different level of ourselves in the workplace and beyond. Your clothes, which are a part of your personal brand, are no different.

Children

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

However, when the board is preoccupied with day-to-day tasks, it diverts attention from strategic priorities. The executive director should work with the board chair to define and communicate the difference between governance and management.

Nonprofit

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

I read as fast as I could, slowing down whenever something really grabbed my attention. Theres a big difference between someone who wants a job and someone who wants this job. But for a high-impact, high-trust role at a pre-seed VC fund like mine, it makes a world of difference. It forced me to slow down and pay attention.

Application

Futurism

APRIL 14, 2025

As wildly overinvolved parents shell out to give their kids growth hormones to make them taller, some research suggests that putting them on drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have the opposite effect. But that's not the only controversy around prescribing ADHD drugs to kids.

Mind

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

You have 2 seconds to get their attention and get them to read on, so use it wisely by opening with something powerful, surprising, or starting in the middle of the action or story. How will it make a difference? A : Response rates differ by channel, for example, direct mail vs. email. A compelling opening line.

Problem

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Start by identifying colleagues in different teams whose work interests you. So, I decided to pay deep attention and to figure out what was needed, before it was neededto make it interesting by thinking ahead, not waiting for instruction. Your advanced perspective lets you spot opportunities others simply can’t see.

Work

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For example, you can test your subject lines by sending half of your audience an email with one subject and half an email with a different subject. These lines should be punchy and attention-grabbing to stand out in supporters inboxes. Evaluate which subject line leads to the most email opens. Optimize your subject lines.

email

Fast Company Tech

JULY 23, 2025

Treat it like a living system—dynamic, interdependent, and regenerative—and a different design logic emerges. Energy (attention, data, and trust) is metabolized into creativity, innovation, and renewal, not just raw output. Routine analysis that once devoured strategic attention now finishes in minutes.

Team

NTEN

JUNE 16, 2025

Honor different lived experiences – Make sure your instructions and examples respect diverse family structures, income levels, gender identities, and life situations. Make sure you show diversity in people in different roles — not just in the people you’re serving. Don’t focus on people suffering, in sadness or poverty.

Websites

Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In this age of digital overload and short attention spans, nonprofits that want to raise more money will instead create and sustain authentic, productive, long-term relationships with a network of individuals, corporate executives, government representatives, and/or impact investors.

Fundraising

sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

You might have a larger number of duplicates, or a faster rate of incoming records, but the point is that if you have someone willing to put in the effort of a big database overhaul, it shouldnt require magicjust focused attention and purpose-built fundraising software. The same can be true for your organization.

Software

Fast Company Tech

MAY 19, 2025

When we decide we want to change in some way, it can be extremely difficult to snap out of our typical decision-making to opt for something else, even if we genuinely care about living differently. We can shift our focus to different aspects of a situation to align our emotions with our objectives.

Brain

Candid

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Insurance companies also treat flooding differently, so philanthropic funding is needed even more. Still, the storm helped draw attention to the issues Eller outlines and, more positively, to the regions community capacity to do so much more with an influx of government and philanthropic investment.

Hurricane

sgEngage

MAY 21, 2025

People have lower attention spans than ever before. In 2004, the average adults attention span on a screen was two and a half minutes. Test again with a slightly different variant to see if you can get an even better result. Does ascending or descending order make a difference? Recently, it has dropped to 47 seconds.

Donation

The AI Alignment Forum

APRIL 30, 2025

To mitigate this risk with AI control, we need very different techniques than those in the original control paper or Ctrl-Z , because research sabotage differs from those settings in two crucial ways: Firstly, the AI cant cause a catastrophe by behaving badly on just one occasion.

Research

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

What sets Marey apartand has caught the attention of risk-averse studiosis its training data. Its also operated differently. Filmmakers can input storyboards or keyframes; actors can film demo reels on their phones, which producers can then use to generate scenes showing the actor from different angles or performing new movements.

Generation

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

What would make the difference between rejecting the Letter of Inquiry or sending the organization through to the next round? Is there a problem you can reveal that needs immediate attention but that no one is really paying attention to? What kinds of details would jump out at you?

Grant