Fundraising

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The Status of Fundraising 2024: Global Research Highlights

Amid ongoing economic uncertainties and the global pandemic aftermath, nonprofits have had to navigate a lot of change in recent [...]

September 18, 2024| 6 min Read

Annual Giving

Unlock Millions in New Funding via Stock Donations

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Annual Giving

Creating an Incredible Annual Report for Your Organization

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How to Build a Culture Around Your CRM and Use it for Growth

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AI Can Be Your Most Powerful Tool for Growing Midlevel Giving

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    Fundraising Basics: [Part 1] How to Create and Provide Value to Your Donors

    Overall U.S. giving was up 4.9% during 2013 while online giving was up 13.5%. In order to see those types of increases [...]

    February 26, 2014 | 3 min Read

    Membership

    Embracing the Rush: Preparing for the Arts and Cultural Busy Seasons

    Last week Ginny Fitzgerald, the Director of Visitor Services and Membership at Chicago History Museum, joined us to host a webinar about how she prepares her team for peak attendance times. Ginny has over 17 years of experience in visitor services. A summary of her insights can be found below.

    February 25, 2014 | 4 min Read

    Fund Accounting

    3 Steps to Get More Grants

    In order for nonprofit accounting departments to elevate their role in the process, here are three keys to building grant funding that lasts

    February 24, 2014 | 3 min Read
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    Digital Marketing

    The Top 4 Challenges Facing Arts and Cultural Organizations

    Challenges Arts and Cultural organizations face when developing programs and events for patrons.

    February 12, 2014 | 3 min Read

    Digital Marketing

    How to Create Nonprofit VIPs with Social Media

    Guest post from Blackbaud intern, Ben Baker. Ben works on Blackbaud’s Corporate Communications Team, is a Graduate Student at University [...]

    February 10, 2014 | 4 min Read

    Digital Marketing

    10 Must-Have Elements for Nonprofit Websites

    You know you cannot undermine the power of a well built website. It’s your most powerful business card, a communication [...]

    January 30, 2014 | 4 min Read

    Donor Cultivation

    From Year 1 to Year 2: The Importance of Retaining First Gifts

    How can we develop stronger relationships with these new donors when resources are so limited? [...]

    January 16, 2014 | 2 min Read

    Donor Cultivation

    The 3 Principles to Acquire, Retain, and Upgrade Your Donors

    This is a guest blogpost by Jeff Haguewood on the basic principles of successful fundraising.

    January 13, 2014 | 4 min Read

    Online Giving

    Gift Type Parity: An Emerging Best Practice for 2014

    Bob Dylan said it best, The Times They Are a-Changin’. Nearly one week away from the 40th anniversary since the [...]

    January 3, 2014 | 3 min Read
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    300 More Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising

    The 2013 edition of my annual review of end of year nonprofit email messages [...]

    January 1, 2014 | 10 min Read

    Event Planning

    How are you going to handle your next fundraising set back? #TBT

    Forward: This is one of my favorite posts. I thought it was a good message to re-share as we close [...]

    December 26, 2013 | 3 min Read
    End of Year Fundraising

    End-of-Year Giving

    End-of-Year Giving: Fundraising Appeals Our Experts Love

    Guest post by Amy Bills, Blackbaud’s director of customer marketing. Get ready to hear some great insights from an experienced [...]

    December 20, 2013 | 4 min Read

    Digital Marketing

    How to Get the Most from December 31st

    Donors afford the causes they support a great deal of leniency on December 31st. After all, it is the biggest [...]

    December 12, 2013 | 3 min Read

    Data Insights

    Don’t Get Spooked By Your Data!

    Data health woes. Duplicates. Outdated constituent information. Just when you thought Halloween was the only time you got SPOOKED, you [...]

    October 31, 2013 | 2 min Read
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