NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Join us for an enlightening session on how to leverage matching gifts during the crucial end-of-year giving season to boost your fundraising outcomes. Access the top best practices for implementing a matching gift strategy that generates results during the busy giving season.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Imagine someone wants to donate a huge gift, but you’re not entirely sure how to accept it. Here's how a gift acceptance policy can help.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 11, 2024

If you’re always looking externally for your next major gift prospect, you may overlook a loyal supporter already in your database. Here are seven types of donors your nonprofit can locate internally.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Join us for an enlightening session on how to leverage matching gifts during the crucial end-of-year giving season to boost your fundraising outcomes. Access the top best practices for implementing a matching gift strategy that generates results during the busy giving season.

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Gift Strategy Impact Advice 130

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 5, 2023

Tax letters should aim to engage recurring donors and encourage them to either make an extra gift, upgrade to a higher level, switch to a higher retaining way of giving, or give the ultimate gift. Here's how you can do that.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Join us for an enlightening session on how to leverage matching gifts during the crucial end-of-year giving season to boost your fundraising outcomes. Access the top best practices for implementing a matching gift strategy that generates results during the busy giving season.

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Gift Strategy Impact Advice 130

NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Artificial intelligence is particularly exciting for major gift fundraising. Here's how you can use AI to boost your fundraising success.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 30, 2023

If you’re planning a capital campaign, or perhaps in the midst of the long quiet phase slog, challenge gifts are the perfect way to reenergize your community of stakeholders and donors.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 16, 2024

Here are some of my top tips for ensuring your major gift officers are prepared to ask for and close on a donation.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As year-end giving heats up, here's a handy list of major giving tips to help make this overwhelming time more manageable and successful.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 2, 2023

Let's discuss ways that fundraisers can utilize this strategy to acquire and properly manage major gifts. In fundraising, there is one singular approach to success, and that is relational fundraising.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

From 2020 to 2022, National Geographic Society nearly doubled its average gift amount to $324 and made significant strides in the number of major gifts received — at a time when major gifts are declining sector-wide. Here’s a look at the organization’s path to success.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 28, 2023

Legacy gifting offers nearly guaranteed revenue that an organization can count on for long-term planning. But accepting and managing legacy gifts can sometimes pose challenges or even bring up the question, “Is that possible?” regarding less-common donations like annuities or real estate.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I believe that, over the next 10 years, major gifts fundraising will grow rapidly and become more sophisticated and donor-centered. So, here are some things to think about if you are new to major gifts fundraising.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Here is some insight on when and how to make your ask for a second gift. The value of your donors goes up when they donate a second time.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Major gifts fundraising is generally misunderstood. There is more to it than the art of asking. So, if you are facing ignorance in your nonprofit, here are some ways you can educate your fellow team members on the role.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 17, 2022

BNY Mellon Wealth Management released its 2022 Annual Charitable Gift Report, which found that charitable giving started to rebound in 2021 after declining in 2020, with the number and total dollar amount of gifts increasing 10%, and the average gift size also increasing (27%).

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 4, 2024

Here's how this can help with major gift offers. As "The Godfather" showed, you're most persuasive when you give people what they want most.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

That’s why we’re starting a major gifts program.” This is how many leaders think the economy of a major gifts program works. These leaders need a dose of economic reality as it relates to major gifts. “We need more money. They decide to do it and — bam! — the money starts to flow in immediately.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

If you are patient — and thank them, steward them and engage them — you’ll be able to ask them for extra gifts, special projects and upgrade them to higher levels. Some donors may only be able to give a nickel per day. Then goes to a dime, to a quarter, to a dollar.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Have you ever blundered into disaster asking for a major gift? A blunder is a careless mistake. It happens when you don’t 100% have a handle on what you’re doing, so taking good care becomes challenging. Let's review the top eight blunders I have encountered.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 16, 2021

What he said is that the investment in a major gifts officer (MGO) was not worth the result in revenue in the first two years of the MGOs tenure — and that those donors were better off just being communicated with by direct mail. Now, to be fair, he didn’t exactly say it that way.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Retaining gift officers is critical for all nonprofits with development departments. Here's how to boost their job satisfaction.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This is a wondrous motivation behind inspiring gifts of time, talent, and treasure generously given to touch, improve, and save more lives, especially to help those who are struggling. No nonprofit will achieve its gift income potential without a robust major gifts initiative. There’s never been so much leadership gift capacity.

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EveryAction

JULY 31, 2023

One way to bring any organization’s end-of-year fundraising strategy to the next level is a matching gift strategy. Understanding matching gifts Matching gifts are a type of corporate philanthropy where companies pledge to match employees’ donations to eligible nonprofits. Maximize corporate philanthropy funding.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

While Millennials and Gen Z donors made financial gifts, both groups also engage in a range of non-financial charitable activities.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 25, 2022

I am often asked for a formula for adding major gift officers (MGOs) to an organization. And while there are many variables to consider, they boil down to these four points.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 20, 2024

While every organization is different, there are some guiding practices that nonprofits should follow in order to attract and retain major donors. Here is some insight into what two nonprofits are doing to steward their major donors.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A major gift caseload is not just a bunch of donors who meet a certain giving or capacity criteria. Current giving and capacity play into the selection of a caseload pool. From this pool, you should qualify the donors who want to connect.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Here is how to use gift histories to help forecast future fundraising goals. Determining where the funds will come from to deliver on the mission can feel a bit like a numerical game of Tetris, trying to make all the pieces fit together no matter how strange the final configuration.

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Hands on Fundraising

AUGUST 27, 2024

Memorial gifts – the most emotional gift? It’s not a gift you look forward to making – or inspiring. As a fundraiser, a memorial gift is one of the most emotional gifts you will likely receive. When I […] The post How do you handle the most emotional gift?

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 18, 2022

One of the most critical tools in an annual giving director’s toolkit is a gift chart. Follow this four-step process to create your own gift chart. This chart should be based on accurate target ask amounts for each potential donor in your database.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 1, 2023

Many agencies feel client pressure to reach a certain goal, and it’s safer to focus on one-time gifts. So how do you convince your agency to add monthly giving to your appeals?

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 6, 2022

To improve retention, you simply must get that second gift from your donor as soon as possible. Can we finally bury that myth that you can’t ask too soon? Research proves it’s just a myth. Those organizations that do that are ahead of the curve.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 14, 2021

In major gifts, there is nothing better than a good finance person to be your partner. If you have a good one, pour on the love. They need affirmation just like you do, and they do not get enough of it. If you have a bad one, try to win them over through education, information and appreciation.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 23, 2021

Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, inspired the largest gift ever made to public higher education: $550 million. It’s a gift with very few restrictions, made outright over the span of 10 years to the university, its medical school and athletics.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 1, 2022

Many fundraisers have inquired about asking donors for gifts, and more specifically, how to get over the fear of it. Very simply, there is only one way to get over that fear.

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