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Bloomerang
JULY 7, 2023
Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on the best words and phrases for successful fundraising appeals: Dear Charity Clairity, I’d like to spiff up my appeal writing. To make philanthropy about your donor’s experience, not yours, use “you” rather than “I,” “our,” or “we” (unless it’s “we, together”).
Bloomerang
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Let’s Define Your Community Since your mission is to facilitate philanthropy in order to move your mission forward, let’s talk about your philanthropic community – the donors, volunteers, advocates and ambassadors who fuel your work, making your impact the greatest it can be. Fundamentally, all of philanthropy is a value-for-value exchange.
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The Modern Nonprofit
APRIL 13, 2021
There’s reputable neuroscience research showing that people’s brains light up when they hear their own name. So our brains are actually hard-wired to respond to appeals that speak to us directly. That means you’re focusing on your nonprofit, rather than your donors. Take a look at your appeal letter.
Classy
APRIL 29, 2021
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NTEN
DECEMBER 1, 2013
You can support NTEN in Giving Tuesday and join Beth Kanter for a live discussion of collective philanthropy - get the details here. Check out the 124 NTEN Members participating in Giving Tuesday below. Find them all at GivingTuesday.org 2-1-1 Tampa Bay Cares, Inc.
NonProfit Hub
OCTOBER 31, 2018
This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine. Giving to nonprofits—and philanthropy in general—might seem to be a selfless act, but it still relies on humanity’s natural selfishness. The post How to Read the Minds of Your Donors appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. Hot take: donors are selfish. We all are.
Connection Cafe
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
But for the nonprofit sector, the Tuesday following Thanksgiving is so much more. 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, every day. And nonprofit organizations can’t do it alone. Charitable giving to the nonprofit sector has been stuck at 2% of GDP for the last 40 years.
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