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Pitching Your Charity to a Major Donor—The Do’s and Don’ts
Securing major donors for your nonprofit requires a different strategy from pitching for general donation drives. These tips will help you craft successful major donor pitches.
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Share The Love: Grateful Patients Can Help Your Institution
With a little planning, some due diligence, and helping hands, you can create your own Grateful Patient Program and link your patients with your institution.
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Red Light, Green Light for Peer to Peer Fundraising in 2015
New year, new ideas and new habits. What should you start doing and what fundraising habits should stop doing this year?
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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. [...]
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Google Analytics for Nonprofits – Part 1
This post is the first in a monthly series about Google Analytics. As we proceed, I’ll share tips on how [...]
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Art of the Ask: 10 Steps to a Yes!
A how to guide for fundraisers to solicit major gifts [...]
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Standardizing Entry Points for Data Collection
Take a moment to think about the entry points for data collection within your organization. Is the data that you [...]