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? [...]
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.
Engaged Young Alumni = Future Dollars!
Your young alumni are your future major gift and planned giving donors, but only if you engage with them early [...]
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. [...]
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.
Acquisition Trends and New Donor Stewardship
Nonprofits need resources to accomplish their mission and can’t just watch their donor file shrink. Well, there are a number of steps that fundraisers should take.
Top 3 Fundraising New Year’s Resolutions
There are actually only three ways to raise more money.
Engage Lapsed Donors as Volunteers
As we wind down the year 2011, we reflect on a year of challenges, both with the economy and its [...]
Scary Supporter Horror Stories
People share their nightmares with me. Well, ok – maybe that’s overstating it. They vent. And it freaks me out. [...]
Breaking out of the Volunteer Data Silo
Breaking out of the Volunteer Data Silo [...]
