Bloomerang

JANUARY 15, 2025

Sending memorial donation notification letters helps build positive relationships with families and strengthen your memorial giving program. This guide reviews best practices for sending these memorial notification letters. You can show the impact of memorial gifts. You can build relationships with families.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Its an opportunity to deepen relationships, show gratitude, and keep the conversation going, turning one-time participants into lifelong supporters. In this guide, well explore actionable best practices for crafting an effective follow-up plan that strengthens connections with your supporters and maximizes the long-term impact of your events.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2025

To effectively steward donor relationships and inspire higher levels of giving, you must strategically engage donors in various ways that deepen their connections to your nonprofit. With your stewardship matrix as a guide, your staff will have a clear roadmap to engaging donors throughout their entire relationship with your nonprofit.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Donation tax receipts allow you to confirm that youve processed and implemented a charitable contribution while expressing appreciation for donors gifts. Donors want to know that you recognize their previous relationship with your organization. How can you show your gratitude and acknowledge their contributions?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

To secure the support of these crucial donors, your nonprofit needs to build a robust major gifts fundraising strategy. Because major gifts are so large, it requires time and dedication to cultivate and acquire more of these donations. Why are major gifts so important for nonprofits? What is a major gift? billion in 2022.

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CauseVox

JULY 2, 2024

Well the good news is that with a matching grant or matching gift, you can! Not only does every donation get doubled (or tripled) but with a match in place, 84% of donors say they’re more likely to give, and a staggering 1 in 3 say they would give a larger gift if matching is applied to their donation.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It’s every major gift officer’s nightmare scenario:You’re at a donor event, making small talk with an attendee you have never met before, and you’re struggling to come up with something to talk about. Here are some guiding rules for finding your next major gift funder with the help of prospect research.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This guide covers what you need to know to expertly manage volunteers through the following sections: Volunteer management: FAQs Volunteer management best practices How volunteer management software can help Volunteer management: FAQs What is volunteer management? 23 Best Volunteer Appreciation Gifts to Show Your Gratitude.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2019

Try filtering for donors who: have a lifetime gift amount of $500+, 10+ volunteer hours, 10+ soft credited gifts, and gifts coded with your social media campaign or your annual appeal solicitation. Perhaps, send a small gift as a token of your gratitude or make a personal phone call to these donors.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Real relationships: Making an ask for a donation immediately after meeting someone is like asking to borrow a car from someone you just met—there isn’t enough trust built to warrant the interaction. Instead, fundraisers should create a series of touchpoints, building the foundation of the relationship before making the ask.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

As a non-profiteer of many years, I have known donor giving programs to be described via a myriad of terms; sustainment, long-term, continued, recurring – all ways to describe the length of the relationship a donor establishes with a non-profit. And their relationship with Water.org starts in a fairly simple way; by checking a box.

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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. Every member of your nonprofit team already knows how to build strong relationships with friends, co-workers, family members, significant others, and more. Building your donor stewardship plan.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The key here is to think through your ideal donors to come up with a number of donor profiles that can help guide your efforts. #2 In order to be a major donor prospect, the person has to have the capacity to give at the level that you consider to be a major gift. 2 – Have the Capacity to Give. Don’t write people off too easily.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2022

However, many nonprofits lack these important guiding strategies. In this quick guide, we’ll explain the crucial steps your team needs to take to build your fundraising plan. Matching gift database tool to follow up with match-eligible donors and encourage them to submit matching gifts through their employers.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

As a tech leader at a growing social impact organization, you know that migrating to an enterprise-scale constituent relationship management (CRM) system can be a daunting proposition. Free Resource Enterprise Nonprofit CRM Evaluation Guide Download now 4. You can only realize your AI-informed future with the right data in place.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

According to the 2020 Benchmarks Report , revenue from monthly gifts increased by 22% in 2019 and now accounts for 17% of all online revenue for nonprofits. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ). For example, the Nature Conservancy offers both honor gifts and memorial gifts – each with their own donation page.

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DonorDock

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Learn how moves management can boost your nonprofit's major gift fundraising by building strong donor relationships. Discover key strategies and best practices to guide your donors from prospecting to stewardship for long-term success.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Once you’ve identified your needs, use them as a blueprint to guide your research and pitches for potential partners. Consider these common types of potential partners: Businesses: According to NPOInfo , identifying where your donors are employed can help unlock corporate philanthropy opportunities, such as matching gifts.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 15, 2024

To help you get started, this guide will discuss four proven tips for procuring auction prizes your audience will want to bid on while sticking to your event budget. Ensure sponsor relationships are mutually beneficial by providing free publicity via your event signage and marketing materials for any businesses that provide items.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Before we discuss how to use data to build stronger relationships for your nonprofit, let’s start with a philosophical question: What is a relationship? There’s a good bit of research focused on the intersection between two people; research on the relationship between a person and an organization is a bit sparse.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Soon, we’ll spend our days purchasing holiday gifts for loved ones, baking, and gearing up for visits from family and friends. Try these 13 successful, yet underutilized strategies to help you raise more money and create stronger relationships this year-end. Secure A Matching Gift Matching gifts are nonprofit gold.

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sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

If your growing nonprofit has never had an official major gifts program or your existing major giving strategy needs a refresh, now is the perfect time to launch or expand your program. Charitable giving has grown nearly 20% in the last three years, with the average gift amount increasing by 10% in 2021. Set Your Major Gift Threshold.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

By Emily Rose Patz , Senior Copywriter at DonorPerfect and lead author of #GivingTuesday Ideas for 2018 , a new guide designed to equip and empower nonprofit professionals to achieve their #GivingTuesday goals. Choose a solution that leads to donor relationships, not one-off gifts. Read it now!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This makes segmentation a necessary tool for your nonprofit to develop relationships with a large number of supporters at once by showing that you care in an efficient and effective way. . We have a new donor cultivation timeline as an example of how to create a special lane for new donors, guiding them slowly toward a second contribution: .

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Donor engagement is a measure of all of the things that make up a complete donor profile, beyond just gift size and superficial demographic information. Some are cries for help: signals that donors are becoming disinterested or disenchanted with your organization, while others are beacons of what could be a lifelong relationship.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

The museum also saved information about donors’ food preferences, average gift amount, and even notes about their past conversations. They can then use the information in the software to reach out to donors with personalized communications, ensuring they’re building genuine relationships with their supporters.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

It can expedite research, gift processing and acknowledgments, preparation of proposals, contact reports, and monitoring and reporting on the impact of precious donor gift dollars. As is repeated over and over again, we are in the privileged business of nurturing relationships. Ours isn’t a complicated business.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

After a year of significant growth, online fundraising grew by a more modest 3% in 2021 , and the number of gifts increased by 5%. In this guide, we’ll cover the ins and outs of online fundraising, explaining how you can leverage various platforms and fundraising ideas to engage your supporters virtually. Share the gifts they’ve made.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

In fact, setting your sights on major gifts this year may be more important than ever. Understanding the role of major donors, in tandem with an informed development plan, are the foundations of a securing a major gift in 2023. raise $100,000 via major gifts; volume-based—e.g., establish relationships with 100 new prospects.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

to submit tax-deductible gifts. In this guide, we’ll review the importance of year-end giving and the best strategies to use to plan a successful campaign. Describe how donors’ gifts will enable your nonprofit to help solve the proposed issue. Show donors how their gift will impact your cause (i.e.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

That’s where this guide comes in—we’ll discuss the must-have members of your nonprofit’s fundraising team. Major Gifts Officer A major gifts officer manages all activities related to major gifts, generally focusing on major gift solicitation and stewarding major donor relationships.

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CauseVox

MARCH 17, 2025

Download the Free Complete Guide to Nonprofit Fundraising Events : 1. Defining your objectives will guide every decision you make moving forward. Sponsor Pages Sponsor pages showcase business partners with logos and messages, giving them visibility and strengthening relationships. Ask yourself: What is our fundraising target?

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2021

Not segmenting your communications can damage and destroy donor relationships. Like… …a cheery, upbeat thank you message could be sent to a bereaved donor making a gift in memory of a loved one who died. … The different kinds of canned drinks (Energy drink, Coke, Sprite, Diet/non diet) are your segments. .

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Think back on what made the day successful—was it the heartfelt story shared on social media, the surge of donations from a matching gift, or the high open rate on a well-crafted email appeal ? Perhaps it was a message about the tangible impact of their gifts or the urgency of a specific need. But data only tells part of the story.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We understand how marketing and technology go hand-in-hand, and throughout this guide, we will focus on how to apply nonprofit marketing best practices using your organizations technology. Increased involvement in other areas of operation: Giving a monetary gift isn’t the only way your supporters can make a difference for your mission.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

In working with dozens of non-profit organizations on year-end giving programs, I have found that there are five basic rules that must guide your strategy if you want to steadily increase year-end fundraising each and every year at your charity: Rule #1: Make Sure Your Message is Consistent. The 5 Rules for Supercharged Year-End Fundraising.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Whether you’re crafting an emergency plan to react to unexpected external circumstances or creating your strategy for the next two to five years, this guide will help your nonprofit get the most out of its strategic plan. Let’s get started. Nonprofit strategic planning FAQs What is strategic planning for nonprofits?

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