Fundraising

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

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    Financial Reporting

    How Development and Finance Can Get Along (Really!)

    Most people understand that their development and finance departments are both critical to the success of their nonprofit organization. Many [...]

    April 17, 2013 | 3 min Read
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    Digital Marketing

    #13NTC Session: Does Social Media Make Cents? An Expert Panel in Social Media Fundraising

    #13NTCcents That’s the hashtag we’ll be using when I start talking about the impact of social media on fundraising with John [...]

    April 13, 2013 | < 1 min Read

    Manager Skills

    Live from NTC! A Sneak Peak at the 2013 Online Benchmark Report

    Dennis McCarthy and I had the pleasure of presenting Online Benchmarking: What Worked in 2012 at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis, MN. Though the full report is not out, we shared the key findings to those who attended in person and online.

    April 12, 2013 | 2 min Read
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    Event Planning

    Lesson 1: Removing Yourself from the Fundraising Equation

    Most of us in the peer-to-peer fundraising world would consider our walks, 5ks and rides a fundraiser. But do your participants think your event is a fundraiser?

    April 9, 2013 | 3 min Read

    Data Insights

    Rules of Engagement: The Chicken or the Egg?

    Does engagement at your organization begin with the “chicken”, or in development parlance, the donor; or the “egg”-- the prospect? What does it matter? For optimal results, find ways to "touch" as many major gift prospects as you can, whether they have self identified through giving or whether you have identified them through other strategies. [...]

    April 2, 2013 | 2 min Read

    Donor Cultivation

    Get in Touch With Your Event Donors

    Bringing event donors into your fundraising mix can be a bit tricky. But does that mean you give up on them? Absolutely not.

    April 1, 2013 | 2 min Read

    Digital Marketing

    Two Surprising Ways to Broaden Your Reach Online

    Online marketing can take many forms.  Email, web design, user-generated content and paid search are all ways to improve your [...]

    March 25, 2013 | 3 min Read

    Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

    Do you want to be extraordinary or average?

    The First Noble Truths of Fundraising of is Open.  You need to be open to ideas, to new ways of looking at your fundraising program, to data, to measuring your results, to managing your staff… okay; you basically need to open to everything. 

    March 21, 2013 | 3 min Read

    Advocacy

    Join the ‘Advocacy Action Then Donation Ask’ Bandwagon

    I love the smell of a well formatted advocacy thank you page in the morning.

    March 20, 2013 | 2 min Read
    Year-End Giving

    Data Insights

    Take Your Major Donor Prospecting to Warp Speed with Analytics

    There is a wealth of information available to help organizations make informed decisions around who they target for major gifts. This article presents a few.

    March 12, 2013 | 4 min Read

    Digital Marketing

    One Email Tactic Nonprofits Need to Steal From Brand Marketers

    Sending the right email message to the right constituent at the right time can be almost impossible to organize manually. But, what if it didn’t have to be that way?

    March 6, 2013 | 2 min Read

    Data Insights

    Be effective and efficient

    We all want to work smarter, not harder—to be effective and efficient. Here ar five steps to keep you focused on the stuff that matters.

    February 26, 2013 | 2 min Read
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    Donor Management

    5 Keys to Prospecting on a Budget

    If you have observed any industry data over the last six years or so, you also know that acquisition is getting continuously more difficult and more expensive. As brilliant fundraisers, we must get smarter about how we can overcome the acquisition quagmire and reverse these trends.

    February 25, 2013 | 5 min Read

    Digital Marketing

    Raising Money Using Social Media: Five Ways to Support Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers

    In 1860, the Pony Express was the fastest means to communicate from coast to coast in the United States. A [...]

    February 22, 2013 | 3 min Read
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