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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This year’s top auctioneers are driving impactful change, raising crucial funds and leveraging their expertise to make a difference for great causes worldwide. In fact, she will often offer a surprise song during fundraising to encourage more donations – her songs have raised up to an additional $10,000 for her beloved clients!

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What To Do When Lead Development Staff Won’t Leave Their Desk

Bloomerang

Teach your staff to fish: People aren’t born knowing how to build a major donor pipeline and expertly move folks through this pipeline. Unless your staff member has done this effectively before, and was mentored by someone who knew what they were doing, they’re going to naturally be resistant. per dollar raised compared with $0.50

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[ASK AN EXPERT] How to Engage Major Donor Prospects Who Blow Hot, then Cold

Bloomerang

Who were your heroes and mentors growing up? . What do you want to teach your children and grandchildren? . This was not an insurmountable problem, but it was something that needed to be authentically raised with the prospective donors. . What can you tell me about your family? If you had a family slogan, what would it be?

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Nonprofit Giving Trends and Future Fundraising Strategy

Bloomerang

Development staff, and even development board committees, are shoved to a corner and ordered to “go raise money.” Or as my mentor and teacher Hank Rosso said years ago: “ Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.”. to raise $1), special events ($1.50 to raise $1). Your job is to help them do so.

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Tips for Activating a Culture of Wellbeing in the Nonprofit Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being. Whiteboard of love – written praise for staff accomplishments, Reserved parking space awarded to an employee each month who had done a great job.

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#OceanLoveEarl: RIP Earl Kanter, MD – 12/23/21 – 6/23/13

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He introduced surfing to the Jersey Shore in the 1960′s – He was an early adopter, teaching himself how to surf and owned the first Greg Noll surfboard. Even at age 90, he was wanted to learn new computer tricks and was open to “reverse” mentoring from his grandson, Harry. ” Dad’s Beach.

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

NonProfit Hub

Tom Ahern makes his living by writing cases and direct mail … by doing audits, reviewing and recommending fixes for donor communications … and by teaching others what he’s learned during decades of trial, error and the occasional spectacular success. And hundreds of top mentors contributed to what’s rattling around in his head.

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