Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

Nonprofit marketing leaders are always thinking about how to best communicate with their donors. Personalized and valuable communication is what builds relationships, and long-lasting donor relationships are what set the foundation for nonprofit growth. You’ll be exploring: What type of donor data should you collect?

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2023

But one of the most important forms of fundraising is seeking out major gifts. Whether your organization is new to the nonprofit scene or you’ve been fundraising for decades, you know the importance of securing major gifts for your cause. This is done through the donor prospect research process. Have you heard of the 80/20 rule?

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Achieve

JANUARY 22, 2024

Because mid-level donations play an essential role in your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy, cultivating and stewarding strong mid-level donor relationships is vital. With a solid technology foundation and plan, your nonprofit can develop a robust mid-level giving program and ensure your organization’s long-term stability. Let’s begin.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2024

Building a legacy giving program requires nonprofits to market the opportunity to leave a legacy gift. Today’s legacy giving donors and tomorrow’s prospects are engaged online. Email provides nonprofits with abundant opportunities to get legacy giving messaging in front of donors. Aren’t legacy giving donors direct mail donors?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 9, 2022

As a nonprofit fundraiser, you’ve probably heard some variation of the phrase, “treat every donor like a major donor.” If you treat every donor like a major donor, you’d probably run out of team member time. Plus, not all of your supporters want to be wined and dined like a major donor. Who are your major donors?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“Why is a hospital foundation getting involved in quality-of-life issues?”. This is one of the first questions donors ask. This simple answer is why MHP Foundation is shifting our fundraising focus to the social determinants of health within our community. Motivating Donors to Support Social Determinants of Health.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In her previous role as Foundation Manager for the VRMC Foundation, she managed the annual giving programs, assisted and oversaw the annual budget and marketing plans, and managed a major gift donor portfolio of over 150 donors. If not, it’s time to strategize how you’ll retain year-end donors for the long term.

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2022

The foundation of an effective fundraising strategy is built on the relationships your team forms with the people who power your mission. Magic happens when you build those kinds of relationships with your prospects and donors. Magic happens when you build those kinds of relationships with your prospects and donors.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Engaging donors is no simple task. Building long-lasting fruitful relationships with your donors requires diligence, hard work, and careful planning. But if you follow the principles of the donor engagement cycle, you can use them as a framework around which to build the rest of your donor stewardship plan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

It also demonstrates how each ebook that is added to the Bookshare collection is a brick in our members’ foundation of independence and inclusion. That’s why a group of Benetech supporters recently came together to give the gift of reading in honor of our long-time board member Jim Kleckner.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

As you incorporate these tips, work at fostering genuine supporter relationships, and strategize ways to improve the donor experience, you can generate more reliable revenue streams over time. Boosting revenue starts with forming stronger ties with the people who support your mission: your donors. Personalize donor outreach.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Allison Quintanilla Plattsmier , CFRE, CNP, CNC, Executive Director of the Jordan Thomas Foundation and Owner of AQP Consulting. The ability to track and monitor those relationships should be the #1 priority for organizations seeking to expand their donor base or increase their revenue. 1) Kindful :: kindful.com.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Keeping your database on spreadsheets While spreadsheets might seem like a simple and cost-effective way to manage donor information, they can quickly become unwieldy and inefficient as your organization grows. Solution: Invest in a dedicated donor management system or customer relationship management (CRM) software.

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

While Scott is far from the first to focus on giving major gifts with no strings attached, the scale of her philanthropy is causing many funders to rethink long-held beliefs about what requirements should be paired with a donation. Or a major donor may provide funds specifically for scholarships or building a new wing for a hospital.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Using her musical abilities and skills as an entertainer while donning one of her signature sequined jumpsuits, Ellen helps nonprofits across the country raise millions of dollars annually and engages donors in a fun, engaging, joyful, unique, memorable and authentic way with huge heart.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 16, 2021

For the last three years, I’ve devoted virtually every day to the challenge of training professionals and especially volunteer fundraisers to overcome the fear of asking for gifts for their favorite nonprofits. My specialty is addressing the solicitation of major gifts, particularly from individuals. Blunder No. Blunder No.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 12, 2022

Your best donors are those with whom you already have a foot in the door. Too often nonprofits make the mistake of beginning with ability (wealth), ignoring the fact the Rich-So-and-So they are targeting has (1) no interest in their cause, and (2) no linkage that makes it possible for them to connect with this prospective donor.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Start with stewardship Research suggests that meaningful donor connections with nonprofit organizations are a key factor in determining their giving patterns. So think about how you can use this time of year to focus on donor stewardship and relationship-building. Creating short, personalized thank you videos to share with supporters.

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sgEngage

APRIL 20, 2021

The average recurring donor gives an astounding 42% more per year than one-time donors. When implemented effectively, recurring gifts have the potential to increase supporter engagement and multiply your earnings. Get recurring gift options in front of your donors where they already spend most of their time: online!

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Useful analytics come from a comprehensive data set, typically from a donor management software, that can be manipulated into an intuitive report that anyone can digest. Reports generated around donor engagement can measure campaign involvement, giving history, and other trends that can help guide your strategic processes.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Securing major gifts is an incredibly strategic effort. Each step you take with a prospect, from the first communication to receiving a gift, needs to be carefully tracked and planned for. At DNL OmniMedia, we help nonprofit organizations use their technology for more effective fundraising and donor stewardship.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 22, 2021

As advancement leaders at higher education institutions consider their options in the age of COVID-19, they’re rethinking conventional wisdom by choosing Salesforce to build lifelong alumni and donor relationships. With Salesforce.org, Morehouse has developed better-informed campaigns aimed at alumni and donors.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Working in major gifts means tracking relationships, points of contact, and data with multiple high-level donors. It’s a lot to keep track off and while it’s easy to get bogged down in the day to day details, major gifts is all about the long game. Good reporting is just one way to keep your major donors prospects organized.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 3, 2023

End of year giving trends Giving Tuesday vs December 31 Maximizing both Giving Tuesday and Decemeber 31 End of year giving trends Giving has been declining since 2022, so year-end fundraising can be a great opportunity to raise more for your organization and hopefully recover some lapsed donors!

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Still, it can be challenging to navigate the complexities of workplace giving without a solid foundation of knowledge on the topic. In this guide, we’ll explore six tips to help your team build a successful workplace giving strategy that maximizes your impact and engages individual donors and corporate partners alike.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 8, 2012

The following is a compilation of online discussions of faux donors trying to scam colleges, schools, and nonprofits. These tales were provided by Barbara Esteve at Cedar Crest College, Roylene Gallas at the Little City Foundation, Don Martin at St. She transferred this caller to a major gift officer. They researched online.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 24, 2023

Self-service tools let your donors manage various parts of their engagement, such as how often they give, what activities they want to participate in, and how they prefer to be contacted. Self-service tools are far more practical for enterprise-sized organizations with thousands of donors. Empower donors to manage their engagement.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

Spend time strengthening donor relationships. For example, if you discover your donor retention rate is falling, you can focus on donor stewardship in the months leading up to Giving Tuesday to boost retention. Or, you may notice your donor base is trending toward a certain demographic, such as younger donors.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Fundraising is important for nonprofits because it supports each organization’s work by providing financial revenue and setting up opportunities for future engagement with donors. Focus on Acquiring and Retaining Donors. Use a CRM to help w ith donor research . Why is fundraising important for nonprofits? Develop a Strategy.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

The donor data you have is only as good as how it’s organized. What You Can Do With Nonprofit Database Segmentation Broadly, nonprofit database segmentation is the process of breaking your donors into specific categories based on the information you know about them. That immediately creates the personalization your donors demand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

That’s exactly what the Latino Community Foundation did. Tell us briefly about the mission of the Latino Community Foundation (purpose, staffing/budget size, and fundraising history). The Latino Community Foundation (LCF) is the premier Latino fund in California. Foundation with 4 core staff members.

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Bonterra

APRIL 11, 2024

We have the first complete development plan in our history, and a real strategy to execute it. It is a really tangible action by the foundation as a true partner to say we believe in this, and we want to be part of the solution. We had the best fundraising year we've ever had last year and raised $250,000 more than we expected.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2015

Last year, Give Local America raised more than $53 million from more than 306,000 gifts in 2014. In the next couple of weeks we will launch the #iGiveLocal program to encourage donors across the country to act on behalf of their favorite nonprofit(s). 1) #iGiveLocal. Interested parties can also sign up for our Thunderclap.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

These hardships make it even more challenging for nonprofits to conduct successful fundraising and encourage donors to give more to their cause. Given the high cost of new donor acquisition, the best course of action may be to focus on the supporters you already have and get them more involved in your mission. 10) to major gifts (e.g.,

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CauseVox

JULY 14, 2022

It will include staff members, board members, and ideally some excited volunteers who will help make calls to prospective donors. Of course there are other benefits to running a capital campaign: you’re likely to get many new donors and new major donors. One of your best bets is to target people who have made major gifts before.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 10, 2023

While this is true and serves as the foundation of peer-to-peer fundraising (hence the name) there’s another component that needs some attention. Your CRM is the central location for all of your collected supporter data, such as contact information, donation history, and engagement histories. Analyze gift sizes.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 23, 2024

On the flip side, community foundations and local nonprofits can organize citywide or regional giving days, like Spur Local’s Give Local Together Campaign , rallying entire communities in support of various causes. Packed with insights, this page builds trust and invites potential donors to join your mission.

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