Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By thanking them quickly and personally, communicating impact, and sharing success stories. The terms “LYBUNT” and “SYBUNT” are often used to segment communications to donors that have given before but not within the current calendar/fiscal year. Our letter should thank them for their last gift and remind them of the impact they made.

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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. Sample SMART fundraising goals Reflect on Your Focus Areas Begin by asking yourself some key questions related to your goals and focus areas. Are you on track to meet your goals?

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. Start planning your communications calendar now. Identify your campaign ambassadors and create easily shareable content and stories worth sharing. Now that you’ve created a goal and a plan, you can put your campaign together.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. Start planning your communications calendar now. Identify your campaign ambassadors and create easily shareable content and stories worth sharing. Be sure to customize the campaign to fit your organization’s needs.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

AAPI Cuisines Around the World – Highlight the diversity of AAPI food cultures with cooking demos, food samples, or restaurant partnerships. Share stories that inspire giving. Raffles – Raffle donated prizes or host a silent auction for unique experiences, gift baskets, art, and other items.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Create a broad annual online marketing calendar, which lays out the major marketing initiatives, campaigns, and priorities for the entire year. Note , this was adapted from the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward and I. Share a story, donate money, sign up for a contest, watch a video, etc.).

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Second, year-end giving gives nonprofits an opportunity to use a big chunk of their resources to meet their annual fundraising goals, and it gives donors a last chance to get a tax-deductible gift out the door. Will you have partner or major donor support through a matching gift? How has COVID impacted your organization?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

Your story library: These are the stories that get people hooked on your mission. Stories are the fuel that propel your marketing forward. A story can be as simple as a text you received from a recipient of services. Capture your stories! Number of people reached through news stories?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

As the calendar ticks down towards the end of the year, the fundraising focus shifts to #GivingTuesday – the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, a philanthropic response to the commercial shopping days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Feature donor stories. Make sure all your employees know your #GivingTuesday strategy.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

One agenda item is mentioned, and that is Betty’s cue to break into lengthy stories and opinions, basically hijacking the conversation. He’s the one that somehow manages to turn a conversation about the next fundraiser into a story about his nephew’s baseball game. Solution: Redirect. Repeat after me: “Great, Betty. You know David.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A matching gift is a great opportunity to leverage a generous donation from one donor, or a group of donors, to bring in even more money from other donors for your nonprofit. Their support lets you tell other donors: A generous donor has offered to match every gift made toward the laptops dollar-for-dollar up to $3,000!

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Major Gifts – If you’re a nonprofit major gift officer, then Fundwriter can help you write great donor-facing content like prospect outreach emails and meeting follow-ups. Fundwriter further trains this AI using nonprofit-specific writing samples from websites to appeals to proposals to social posts. The Fundwriter.ai

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

Nearly 70% of people make gifts to charity during their lifetimes but only 6% leave a bequest. You have fallen into a new story. Do not confuse the beginning of the story with the end.” of donors think it’s totally appropriate for you to ask for legacy gifts. But first, I want to share a statistic with you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You may save some of these options for major donors, or sustainers, those who have given at least three years in a row, or donors who helped with a high stakes campaign like establishing a matching gift, putting the organization in their will, helping with a capital campaign or doing something else spectacular. Welcome packet. Touch the work.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By thinking through your fundraising strategy before October 1, you can collect your stories and integrate your efforts, keeping your messaging and images consistent through mail, email, social media, events, and any other channels you may use. You need stories that show the impact your organization makes in the community.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2016

They were able to save the family farm—not only that, but the Executive Director was asked to pose for the Men of Nonprofit calendar because his stress melted away and he regained his youthful, radiant complexion!”. When disaggregated, the numbers tell a completely different story.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

So when I’m talking about giving generously, board members need to make their own personal gift. Although my fiscal year was in October, the calendar year worked and I would do it in January. Then around being an advocate, share their personal stories. I’m elevating the story each time, you know how we exaggerate.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 11, 2024

If you ask well, you may get one gift. If you thank well, you may get a lifetime of gifts. Even donors who give online should get something in the mail, especially if this is their first gift. You absolutely don’t want them to think you cared only about that one gift. Without it, you just have one stand-alone transaction.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

Moral of the story? The Flip Side: A Success Story What happens when you have a diversified funding stream for a nonprofit? I watched my numbers very carefully that year and was thrilled when all my best donors sent in their gifts. Since I had money coming in from so many sources, we hardly missed that single gift.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

But if you can get inside a donor’s mind, I think that is the secret to reducing your attrition, which means increasing the number of people who renew and give you gifts year after year. . And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. It’s closer to the gift. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And here’s just a sample breakdown, $56 billion for individuals and families, $86 billion for health, $211 billion for education and childcare, $40 billion for transportation. And with major gifts and sponsorships, that’s also about cultivation, but also building out who is going to do the cultivation? Is it phone, e-mail?

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

Peer-to-peer fundraising catapults your supporters and donors into your organization’s narrative; it is compelling and increasingly popular because the fundraisers become the heroes of the story. As they do, they’ll spread the word and share your story. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Statistics: The Benefits.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

Peer-to-peer fundraising catapults your supporters and donors into your organization’s narrative; it is compelling and increasingly popular because the fundraisers become the heroes of the story. As they do, they’ll spread the word and share your story. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Statistics: The Benefits.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

We’re going to talk about the difference between securing a one-time gift versus reliable, recurring, major funders. And the first fundraiser to get 10 donors to increase their annual gift wins.” It takes 12 to 18 months to cultivate five, six, or seven-figure gifts. You can choose Sandy. One of them is Sandy.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

We’re going to talk about the difference between securing a one-time gift versus reliable, recurring, major funders. And the first fundraiser to get 10 donors to increase their annual gift wins.” So when we talk about wasting time, here’s a sample of the numbers that I see with folks in terms of how they’re spending their time.

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