NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Your donors probably each has at least five other organizations trying to capture their attention and another 10 to 15 organizations wanting to start relationships with them. So, what are you doing to stand out in your donors' minds, capture their heart and have them always take your call?

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Because acquisition sets the stage for the relationship you will have with your donors, it is important to keep these six guiding principles in mind to successfully build your donor acquisition strategy.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 29, 2023

Nonprofits have had a love-hate relationship with Charity Navigator for 20 years. As Charity Navigator makes a shift in how it reviews organizations, nonprofit leaders can help ensure a great rating based off of well-rounded metrics by keeping a handful of tips to keep in mind this year.

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Candid

APRIL 4, 2023

But there’s a catch: Relationship-building takes time. In this blog post, we’ll not only explore the importance of building strong networks and how to find the folks with whom to prioritize building relationships. Keep in mind that it’s not easy to build a lasting friendship in a day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2023

This free nonprofit marketing tool allows you to share your organization’s latest news and updates, promote your latest fundraising campaign, and strengthen relationships with your supporters. 3) It’s a great relationship builder. 2) You can tailor social media to your audience.

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Candid

JANUARY 15, 2025

Build relationships Visibility will make building relationships easier. Relationships are the foundation for job satisfaction. Without strong relationships, youre much more likely to be frustrated at work. Seek out feedback Genuine professional relationships make asking for feedback easier.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

As two positive psychology experts, weve identified six of the most common internal barriers that can interfere with your ability to listen well, and developed a framework of six “radical listening” skills that can help you have better conversations and build better relationships. Mind reading: I know what youre going to say.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

The curriculum emphasizes emotional self-awareness and intentional self-disclosure as a means to build trusting relationships, grow influence, and resolve conflict. As much as it can provide momentary relief, it might be costlyto relationships and morale, or burden a colleague. Maintain boundaries Be mindful of oversharing.

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The Fundraising Authority

AUGUST 6, 2021

As you plan your fundraising events large, small and in-between, there are eight fundamental concepts that you should keep in mind to ensure that you are raising as much as possible: #1: Fundraising events are still fundraising. You need to build relationships (with sponsors, auction donors, guests, etc.) Build new relationships.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 31, 2025

Its critical to effectively communicate and build relationships with stakeholders during challenging times. In this and any moment of change – youll rely on what makes you great at your job: proactive communication, tracking the data, and maintaining trust to build relationships and strengthen your cause.

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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. You can build relationships with families. Keeping families in the loop shows them youre dedicated to building relationships with them. Learn about top solutions with this buyers guide.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 29, 2023

We sought out experts from nonprofit organizations, agencies and technology providers to learn what’s on their minds and what might be 2023’s top nonprofit trends. NonProfit PRO has continued its annual tradition of asking prominent thought leaders in the sector to make nonprofit trend predictions.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This form of fundraising provides predictable (and often unrestricted) future funding, strengthens relationships with loyal supporters, and builds powerful social proof among your community. It’s easy to sort and filter by age, length of relationship, and wealth markers, but how do you add additional layers?

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Candid

OCTOBER 24, 2024

By developing long-term relationships with those editors, you can help keep your organization front-of-mind when future opportunities arise. It’s worth cultivating a relationship with the editor where you’re willing to provide an “exclusive”—so both your nonprofit and the media outlet benefit.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 26, 2022

We all know the power of focus, the magical results when we can remain single-minded in our effort. Sometimes you’ll hear someone brag about how great they are at multitasking. For most of us, that is a fallacy. Research shows that’s not how we’re wired.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 2, 2020

Here are four strategies your nonprofit should keep in mind when using Instagram for fundraising: 1. Smaller accounts — like micro-influencers, who have between 10,000 or 500,000 followers — tend to have a niche and often have a closer relationship to their audience. The platform, however, is different than Facebook or Twitter.

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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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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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Consultancy Mercers annual Inside Employees Minds study finds that two-thirds (66%) of frontline workers in 2024 said they were motivated to go above and beyond what is normally expected of me to make my company successful, down five points from 2023. Empowered and well-supported frontlines will lead to better business results.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Engaging younger donors through platforms they frequent, like social media, and providing ways for them to see their impact can turn first-time gifts into lasting relationships. The first donation is just the beginning of what can become a meaningful relationship. Ready to take the next step?

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 27, 2023

Keeping mission in mind, this can include re-establishing or reimagining traditional donor engagement events. Is this event still working for your audience, your organization, and your team? Post-pandemic fundraising is a good time to reset, strategize and start new traditions for stakeholders.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 4, 2023

Here are some important tips to keep in mind when crafting an impactful case statement. A poorly constructed case statement can negatively affect your organization's fundraising success and may compel donors to be wary of your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Frequent communication is vital in cultivating donor relationships, especially with new supporters. Whatever you want your donors to do, make sure you have this goal in mind when crafting your email series. The reporting is done for you so you can get to work in building a meaningful relationship with your donors.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This really was never designed with the thought of access in mind, says Helen Schneider, associate principal and project manager at Perkins & Will , the architecture firm that redesigned the camp. Electrical tape and cords were used to mark the paths that weave up and down the camp’s 900 feet of elevation change.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Trying to have a relationship with a high-maintenance CRM system is exhausting, not to mention it keeps you from your true love: advancing your mission. It’s a relationship and pricing you can count on, so you can focus on what truly matters. This is a relationship that’s going to last.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Starting with the End in Mind: The Perfect Ask Before we jump into AI’s capabilities, let’s cover the elements of the perfect ask. 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.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Bear in mind that just because someone lacks major donor capacity doesn’t mean you should write them off. Keep these three guidelines in mind as you develop your next major donor prospect list! They may be a great prospect for a “ minor donor program ,” an event, direct mail, etc. Don’t write people off too easily.

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 27, 2024

Alex and bots like her are billed as a conduit to help organizations build relationships with their donors. But these new and quickly developing technologies bring to the forefront many questions about the impact of AI on fundraising and the human relationships at the foundation of philanthropy. Is this technology exciting? Absolutely.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Then, keeping your target audience in mind, prioritize your list based on which prizes are must-haves, which ones would be nice to have, and which ones are backup ideas in case your higher-priority items fall through. At your committee’s first meeting, collaboratively brainstorm an item wishlist. Happy fundraising!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Rule 1: Make It a Habit to Review Information About New Prospects Every fundraising team should have a new constituent list or new donor list produced on a regular schedule for review by the relationship-building personnel in your office. See how Texas Southern University added 3,000 new prospects.

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Candid

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Organizational capacity and infrastructure Keep in mind that established nonprofits—those with a proven track record of handling multimillion-dollar contributions—are often better equipped than celebrities or newly created organizations to implement large-scale programs, maintain transparency, and provide thorough impact reporting.

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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. All that is true, but the fact remains that donor retention is a struggle. But they can make it easier to build them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. Build a relationship with the staff and board of your local community foundation. Prospecting. About the Author.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But when I think about what distinguishes an association from a for-profit organization, it’s still the idea of belonging to a group of like-minded people. We are challenged to continually improve and evolve those relationships; so associations can be a rising tide that floats all the boats, in the profession, or the industry.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Know when to walk away Staying in a toxic work environment or relationship with a funder, where there is pressure to meet relentless targets without adequate support, recognition, or resources—while facing high demands and a lack of empathy or inclusivity from leadership—can be harmful to your well-being.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

To maximize efforts and drive greater donations, below are some critical steps to keep in mind before jumping on this emerging trend in online fundraising. When finding new items, keep in mind that most businesses donate to auctions in order to convert new customers. 1) Get your auction list in check. .

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As such, I wanted to create relationships between the columns I was artificially populating — such as mapping employees and customers to a certain store. Through using PySpark UDFs and a bit of logic, we can generate related columns which follow a many-to-one relationship. All of my code can be accessed from the following GitHub Repo.

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