NonProfit PRO

MARCH 7, 2022

A CEO listed 60 to 100 people she knew who either had given some financial support already or could give if asked. The very funds this good CEO needs are right in front of her. But she cannot, no matter how hard she tries, reach out and access them because she actually thinks that it will offend the donor.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If I take the time to make a monetary gift, offer community feedback, or even send along a useful article from an expert like you, I expect someone to react and interact with me. Just something to make me feel there are real people who see me and care about the support Im offering. Show me you noticed! Nor do they learn it in school.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 15, 2025

Sending memorial donation notification letters helps build positive relationships with families and strengthen your memorial giving program. Your organization might receive these gifts because the deceased person had a special connection to your cause or if their cause of death relates to your nonprofits mission.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

You have to get comfortable asking people for money – even if you think asking for money is the last thing you would ever feel comfortable doing. Plus, I had a burning passion to help people. I knew that if I didnt learn how to ask people for money, my efforts to help people would be limited by my fear of fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Major Gifts. These types of donations, once set up, are easily executed with nonprofit software such as Giveffect – an all-in-one nonprofit management software that includes donation management, relationship management (CRM), volunteer management, email marketing, and more in one easy-to-use suite. Peer-to-Peer and Team Fundraising.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A time when many nonprofits ramp up their email volume to try to get more gifts. While we know that people are more likely to give between Giving Tuesday and December 31st, sending even more emails than were sent in prior years doesn’t mean they will give. Just because we ask, doesn’t mean we’ll get a gift.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2022

The concept of a “mega gift” was coined by the late Jerold Panas , a fundraising pioneer in our industry. In his iconic book Mega Gifts , he writes about the types of people who give mega gifts and what it takes to have relationships with these donors. Principal gifts vs. mega gifts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2024

Retaining your donors requires building relationships with them, and those relationships will rely heavily on effective communication. Donor retention is, at its heart, about building relationships. Your donor database is full of information about the people who support you. But they can make it easier to build them.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

It’s important to know why people make donations at the end of the year, so that you can effectively target your communications. If you understand your donor’s motivation for the gift, and the circumstances surrounding the donation, it will help you make a far better ask that fits in to your overall cultivation strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In the timeline below, we tell you exactly when to send emails designed to cultivate a relationship with your new Giving Tuesday supporters. Subject line: Sofia, keep tabs on the impact of your gift by following us on social media. Why do donors stop giving after their first gift? 1) Day One: Welcome Wednesday & Thank You.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on when it’s a good idea to give gifts to donors. . Dear Charity Clairity, I know public broadcasting offers donors gifts in exchange for their donations at various levels. Also, it’s a lot of work to get donated gifts, and expenses to buy them.

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Candid

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Over the past decade, it has become increasingly commonplace for those individuals to make mega gifts to other wealthy and at times famous people who have visibility, access, and power, as opposed to traditional nonprofit organizations that engage in social programming, capacity building, and direct services.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

GivingTuesday is the day of the year where you find people of all ages and all demographics opening their hearts and their wallets to donate to causes and organizations that are important to them or to find new initiatives to support. When people are able to give in several ways this creates a connection between the donor and your cause.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Social media: Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok have the unique power to reach people who might not have heard of an organization’s cause. Regular updates, personalized appeals, and segmented lists can help build lasting relationships with donors and drive consistent contributions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Monthly Gifts: A Perfect Way For Millennials To Pitch In . And don’t forget that as they move up in their careers, millennials will increase their gift amounts to you substantially. 3) Lead with the impact of a monthly gift. . Spell out how each monthly gift amount makes a difference. ONE LESS COLD BREW CAN CHANGE A LOT.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

According to a recent report from the Blackbaud Institute , 72% of spontaneous gifts went to organizations with whom the donors were already familiar. Read on to learn more about who these first-time spontaneous donors are, and how to turn their GivingTuesday gifts into lasting support.

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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

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. Direct people to your website. But make it a good one. Thank them unexpectedly. An occasional surprise can go a long way.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Donation request letters, whether sent via email or direct mail, are one of the most effective ways to reach donors and solicit gifts. By personalizing your donation letters, your nonprofit can increase fundraising revenue and develop long-lasting supporter relationships. Describe your current initiative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Make a “ stretch gift ” that is very generous and is outside your normal giving pattern. Pay for the admission or ticket fee for people who you think should attend your nonprofit’s events with the hope they’ll donate on-site or in the future. People who feel connected to the organization are more likely to stay involved.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software 24%. Pro Bono Australia is a proud B Corp which helps purpose-driven people and organisations to grow their impact. CanadaHelps.org connects people to charities and provides donation and fundraising tools that make giving to charities simple. Social Media — 65%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In this age of Google Ad Grants and inexpensive Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter targeted advertising, one can drive traffic from what is a primary relationship-building platform to an organization’s website or to a lead or landing page. Social media sites are for relationship building.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Nothing is more draining than constantly following major donor “hunches,” and spending time tracking people down, only to fail to even get a first meeting. For example, you may run a non-profit that appeals primarily to older folks, people in the Jewish Community, or young professionals. Don’t write people off too easily.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A solid donor relationship is the backbone of successful fundraising. Just like any other relationship in life, your relationships with your donors should be mutually beneficial and enjoyable. That means you should think about what your donor gets out of your relationship. A donor relationship is no different.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In response, people often step up and ask, “How can I help?” When planning the future of your CSR programs, incorporating a disaster relief response plan is essential, and with that comes building and maintaining relationships with partners who serve. People will recognize that their communities are being served.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

2) Only 14% of organizations prompt one-time donors to upgrade to a recurring gift during the donation process. Let me explain this one a bit, because I’m not just talking about having a checkbox on your donation page to make a gift recurring. You might say, “Nathan, wouldn’t that just make people mad? The result?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 30, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to credit and acknowledge donor advised fund gifts in their donor database: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m unsure how to enter donor advised fund gifts in our database so they’re credited and acknowledged appropriately. And do I thank the donor or the administrator?

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 23, 2021

We have a number of major donors in our database that, because of their age or illness have stopped giving, but over their lifetime have made significant gifts to our organization. I feel like we can’t just forget about these people, but what should I do?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The Skills and People Needed to Launch a Fundraising Program If you’re new to fundraising, don’t worry—many of the skills needed to succeed are likely already present within your organization. These tools help you track donor interactions, segment your audience, and tailor your communications to maximize engagement.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There is no simple answer to the question of whether to consider a new constituent relationship management system. Do you need to invest in your people as well as in software for a new tool to be successful? What would your daily data processes look like for all users (from gift officers to data entry to leadership)?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

I reflected on the people that I planned to see that day and chose one thing that Id like to thank them for. Most people would consider their mind more important than their teeth. In our conversation, he explains why our relationship to ourselves, each other, and the world are the product of the stories that we tell ourselves.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. 4) Know the Power of Email Fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 14, 2022

Are you acknowledging those differences in the way you build relationships with these supporters? When a major event happens, such as the pandemic, wars, or natural disasters, they make a decision for the donor that this is the wrong time to be asked for a gift. If you answered “no…well actually… maybe,” then you are not alone.

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Neon CRM

MARCH 27, 2025

The IRS requires nonprofits to send receipts for any charitable gift over $250, and we all know how critical it is to keep the IRS happy. But donors often expect receipts for gifts of any amount, and keeping them happy is a key part of inspiring them to give again. Then, include a note about the tax deductibility of their gift.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2025

In the radio DJ example, people ended up not caring the playlists became automated. The DJs were cool, but people didnt stop turning on the radio post automation. With the local pizza maker, people went there for Sal. People dont buy a drill because they need a drill. Sometimes the human connection is valuable (i.e.,

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