Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

A lot of time, effort, and preparation goes into ensuring end-of-year campaigns produce all the funds needed for organizations to sustain their important missions. Peer-to-Peer fundraising can build a major gift pipeline for your organization as well! In return, donors may provide larger gifts.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2024

While traditional events still have an important place in the fundraising calendar, activity-based fundraising events now encompass a diverse range of experiences, from yoga to pickleball to kayaking and more. Build the right-fit event and they will come. And they will donate. That means more donors and more dollars.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

Match their energy by providing volunteer opportunities, hosting giving challenges, offering peer-to-peer fundraising opportunities, and encouraging community chatter. In fact, you can immediately acknowledge each gift through your fundraising CRM. Tips, Templates, and Best Practices for Your Giving Tuesday Campaign.

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Pamela Grow

JULY 24, 2024

When you combine the associated expenses with the costs of operating your organization day-to-day, you determine that you’ll need to add new fundraisers to your calendar to fund all of these initiatives. In this guide, we’ll provide an overview of this type of fundraiser by answering three of the most common questions about it. Let’s dive in!

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Julie Ordoñez will outline a proven strategy, messaging and action steps you can implement right away to close major gifts faster, ethically. We’re here to talk about 3 steps to closing over $10,000 gifts by December 31st. It is not too late to raise major gifts this year. Julie: Let’s do it. That’s right.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

When we flip the calendar to a new year, many of us become gripped by the desire to build some new habits. Relationship building is the cornerstone of any good development plan, and it can take a while for a potential donor to be ready to give that first gift, or for a current donor to decide to “level up” their giving.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nonprofit leadership is challenging in the best of times, and even more so now. In this session, he’ll show you why doubt is a normal part of leadership, and the surprising gift it can be if you have the courage to use it. What do you do when you don’t know what the next steps are? Could the doubt mean you’re broken as a leader?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A successful year-end fundraising campaign can prepare your team for a well-funded new year. These include: Employee matching gift programs Giving Tuesday corporate partnerships Annual giving campaigns In-kind donation drives Corporate volunteerism [and volunteer grants!] Automatic payroll deductions 1.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

According to our report, Navigating the Unknown: 2020 Findings to Future-Proof Your Fundraising , social media posts were the number one driver of charitable gifts in 2020—ahead of email and direct mail appeals! But as a busy fundraiser or nonprofit marketer, it can be challenging to find the time to make social media a priority.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

From planning peer-to-peer fundraisers to properly marketing your online campaigns, there’s an endless number of items on your to-do lists. Plus, there’s many challenges you have to overcome, such as limited staff capacity, rising costs, and inadequate finances. Managing a nonprofit takes patience, hard work, and a lot of organization.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2022

Part of the Maryville Fund’s success can be attributed to Tartan Tuesday , Maryville College’s annual 1,819-minute giving challenge. Held during the first week of April, Tartan Tuesday invites all members of the Maryville College community to support the programs and causes that are important to them and help the College earn challenge gifts.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

If you loved our 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2018 calendar! Throughout the year we'll be updating this calendar with even more conferences, updated ticket prices, and event hashtags. Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar 2018. It's finally here! Nonprofit Management.

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Allegiance Group

AUGUST 21, 2024

However, focusing your advertising budget on the end of the calendar year comes with several challenges. Let’s explore how a yearlong ad spend can grow your list and prep your organization for a successful year-end campaign. See if a major or corporate donor will offer a matching gift to maximize donations.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

After all, nonprofits need gifts and donations to sustain them, no matter what their mission or goals might be. Create a fundraising calendar for your nonprofit’s development plan. Similarly, the other core team members of your nonprofit (including your major gifts officer, your board, your marketing director, etc.)

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

The nonprofit industry loves talking about how to run a successful GivingTuesday campaign. If those new donors never make a second gift, that return on your investment won’t grow. But, if you can inspire new donors to give a second $50 gift, you’ll net $60 instead of $10. Made in-kind gifts? And why not? Attended classes?

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. There is still plenty of time left in the year -including important events like Giving Tuesday and end-of-year campaigns – to reset and get back on track. Are you on track to meet your goals?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 14, 2021

During challenging fundraising moments, it can be tempting to rest on what you know has worked in the past. Those challenging times are often the best times to step out and try new things. . They used that challenge as an opportunity to partner with Strava, a fitness app, to connect with a whole new set of potential donors. .

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Holiday Gift Wrapping Services Provide affordable gift-wrapping services during the holiday season, using volunteers to wrap gifts in exchange for a small donation. Just make sure you check out your volunteers’ gift-wrapping abilities before you sign them up.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 21, 2022

If you’ve taken on a virtual fundraising campaign before, you know it can be hard work. Members not knowing how to use your virtual donation platform , or not even knowing about your campaign in the first place. Stagnant campaigns. Promote matching gift opportunities. Low social media engagement. Host an event.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Specifically, how they can help – the purpose and amount of the gift you’re requesting. Plenty of studies show most giving is done at the end of the calendar year, and you don’t want to miss out! And my favorite way to add urgency is to consider a matching challenge grant. And you’ll want to use a higher-end response device.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

A 24-hour fundraising campaign like #GivingTuesday (mark your calendar for December 2 nd , 2014) is the perfect opportunity to experiment with new tactics and tools, and to showcase inspiring stories from your nonprofit. So why not take the same concept and apply it to your #GivingTuesday campaign? Check them out below.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

And the best part of hosting a raffle is that you can combine it with another fundraising event or campaign to raise more money for your cause. March Madness bracket challenge March Madness is an exciting time for basketball lovers everywhere, and you can use that to your advantage for a March fundraising idea.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

You can set this keyword to be relevant to your nonprofit’s specific campaign. Your supporters will receive a link that provides donation amounts and information about your campaign. Typically, nonprofits will send a link to their general donation page or specific fundraising campaign page. Acknowledge donations.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

They can’t be expected to keep track of their giving status–especially if you’re on a fiscal year and they think in calendar years. . I like to call first-time donors who made an above-average first-time gift. Please put it on your calendar for next year as a ‘must do.’ Don’t count on them remembering. or “ You did it!

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

Sometimes the only thing standing between you and launching a successful fundraising campaign to fund a new, needed program is an extra set of hands. But through shared documents and calendars via cloud-based platforms, the Executive Director of the horse rescue has the extra help they need to get everything done. Nor should you.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

As mentioned above, a lot of this work is done online, in this case through your social media presence, email campaigns, and website traffic. Several online fundraising solutions can be integrated into email campaigns, text-to-donate drives, and more to make your marketing plan more effective.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

How Automation Can Help You Retain Fundraisers Automating business processes saves time and resources so your team can focus on support for your cause and the more challenging elements of the job, instead of the repetitive, monotonous tasks that sap energy and so much of a fundraiser’s time. Which of those communications could be automated?

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Major gifts. Your fundraising strategy should focus heavily on cultivating major gifts. Events like 5Ks, Giving Day challenges, auctions, peer-to-peer fundraisers, and galas should play a role in your fundraising strategy. Also, review your fundraising metrics and data from previous campaigns. Strategic partnerships.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, have you considered including winter solstice celebrations in your holiday gift appeal? Understanding who gives, why, and when can help your nonprofit make more sensitive and inclusive appeals at the close of the calendar year. Include options such as recurring gift so donors have the choice to give again automatically.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Your fundraising plan should include a detailed activities calendar showing all the various ways you plan to generate funds during the year. Their gift helps fulfill their personal philanthropic goals. Smaller online campaigns. Small online campaigns are great for educating followers and bringing in new donors.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 31, 2022

The calendar does much of the heavy lifting for you, and wallets are broadly open. December 27-31: The final five days of the year are critical for year-end tax-deductibility messaging and are frequently the busiest fundraising days of the year when people begin to make gifts in earnest ahead of the tax deadline.

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2024

According to the Volunteer Management Progress Report , recruitment was the top challenge and priority of volunteer coordinators in 2023. Allow volunteers to sign up from any device and add items to their digital calendars. Nonprofits, advocacy organizations, labor unions, and progressive campaigns commonly use this app.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There are also other fundraising automation tools which can help you schedule and plan your different fundraising campaigns. For example, both Canva and Adobe offer AI editor options which can assist your team in creating better graphics and other content for your campaigns. AI Writing Assistant. How do you use AI for fundraising?

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Campaigns & Ideas. Giving Tuesday Campaigns & Ideas. That’s why it’s important to plan ahead, set goals, and brainstorm some Giving Tuesday campaign ideas several weeks or months in advance. Here are some of our favorite campaign ideas to help you along the way. 4 Giving Tuesday Campaign Ideas For Your Nonprofit.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

It needs to be something that challenges status quo and stirs people’s hearts. People will check you out online before they make a gift, so be ready for them. Detailed activity calendar. Look, it’s tough to build trust and ask for a gift if you don’t know how much something costs. Clear, magnetic BHAG.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Hone in on what you’d specifically like to accomplish through digital marketing, whether that’s recruiting more volunteers, encouraging more people to join your recurring gifts program, or increasing your number of followers on a platform. However, it can be challenging to stand out in an inbox full of other demanding emails.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

The best gift a nonprofit organization can receive is unrestricted cash, but an inkind donation of something your organization needs and would have otherwise purchased is also a high-value gift. In reality, the van or other gift you receive is not exactly what you would have purchased. And it’s called an inkind gift.

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