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Blog, Board, Campaigns, Direct mail, Donor Acquisition, Donor relations, Individual Giving, Major gifts, Online, Planning, Resources for the professional, Small shop fundraising

How to follow-up with your donors this calendar year-end

The clock is ticking ever so close to midnight on December 31.Are you ready?Have you taken all of the steps you possibly can to give your donors opportunities to contribute during this giving season?Here are a few simple last-minute…
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December 12, 2020
Helping Your Board Be Fundraising Ambassadors this Holiday Giving Season
Board, Board development, Campaigns, Direct mail, Donor Acquisition, Individual Giving, Online, Planning, Resources for the professional, Small shop fundraising, Uncategorized

Top Ten Tips to Help Your Board Be Fundraising Ambassadors this Holiday Giving Season

In talking with many groups, I often offer a specific role that their Board can play during this holiday giving season. That role is as an ambassador. Board members can easily share your giving season appeal with their social networks,…
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November 13, 2020
10 Engaging Online Courses Your Nonprofit Team Should Take
Blog, Board, Board development, Campaigns, Capital Campaigns, Direct mail, Donor Acquisition, Donor relations, Free Resources, Grant Writing, Individual Giving, Major gifts, Online, Planned Giving, Planning, Resources for the professional, Small shop fundraising, Special Events, Staffing, Stewardship, Webinars

10 Engaging Online Courses Your Nonprofit Team Should Take

A guest post by Matt Hugg founder of Nonprofit.CoursesFrom a major university hospital with thousands of personnel to a grassroots community hotline, with one (underpaid) staff member and a cadre of volunteers, working at a nonprofit is…
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August 7, 2020
The greatest opportunity: a summons to more in our not-for-profits.
Blog, Board, Campaigns, Capital Campaigns, Direct mail, Donor Acquisition, Donor relations, Grant Writing, Individual Giving, Major gifts, Online, Planned Giving, Planning, Resources for the professional, Small shop fundraising, Special Events, Staffing, Stewardship

The greatest opportunity: a summons for more in our not-for-profits

The Pandemic has been a great global summons. A call. In the middle of the night to awake. To something new.What are you talking about?Yes, it has. I know, I know.You are probably saying it has been a grand inconvenience, even a…
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May 14, 2020
Blog, Board, Board development, Campaigns, Capital Campaigns, Direct mail, Donor Acquisition, Donor relations, Grant Writing, Individual Giving, Major gifts, Online, Planned Giving, Planning, Resources for the professional, Small shop fundraising, Special Events, Staffing, Stewardship

Fundraising After COVID 19

Yes, there will be life after COVID 19.Of that, I can guarantee it. What I can't guarantee is what life will look like.But, what I can guarantee is that life will look and feel different than it does today. Change is almost a constant…
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April 3, 2020
Blog, Board, Campaigns, Direct mail, Donor relations, Individual Giving, Major gifts, Online, Planning, Resources for the professional, Stewardship

How to Communicate during a Nonprofit Leadership Transition

This article originally appeared in Dennis Fischman's blog, Communicate, on July 29, 2019I’m certain that many of you reading this have experienced a change in leadership at your nonprofit organization at one time or another. Someone reached…
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August 10, 2019
Blog, Board, Board development, Campaigns, Capital Campaigns, Direct mail, Donor Acquisition, Donor relations, Individual Giving, Major gifts, Online, Planned Giving, Planning, Resources for the professional, Small shop fundraising, Special Events, Stewardship

What one thing can make or break the success of YOUR organization?

The Board.It can make or break your organization. If assembled and organized correctly, it can chart a successful future that prospers and preserves inspiration and creativity of its members and benefactors alike.If not, well...insert…
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May 17, 2019
Blog, Board, Campaigns, Capital Campaigns, Donor Acquisition, Donor relations, Individual Giving, Major gifts, Planning, Resources for the professional, Small shop fundraising, Special Events

Hosting Your First Fundraising Cultivation Event

Donor cultivation events should be an important part of your fundraising program.  Whether you are a small or large non-profit, or if you are raising money for annual operations for capital campaigns, you need to incorporate them as a vital…
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March 8, 2019
Blog, Board, Board development, Campaigns, Capital Campaigns, Direct mail, Donor Acquisition, Donor relations, Grant Writing, Individual Giving, Major gifts, Online, Planned Giving, Planning, Resources for the professional, Small shop fundraising, Special Events, Stewardship

We’re growing our interim fundraising division to help YOU reach your possibility.

Let me share a story with you...A few years back when I first started consulting, I provided organizations like yourself with strategic fund development audits and assessments and then crafted finely honed plans.What I thought were roadmaps…
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January 27, 2019
Board, Board development, Campaigns, Capital Campaigns, Direct mail, Donor Acquisition, Donor relations, Grant Writing, Individual Giving, Major gifts, Online, Planned Giving, Planning, Resources for the professional, Small shop fundraising

How to get your fundraising “Mojo” back through finding your ideal development position

Not satisfied with where you are currently in your field?  Feeling like you have lost your "Mojo?"I know the feeling, I have "been there done that" as they say.What often happens next, is that we begin to apply for job after job with…
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January 18, 2019
Blog, Board, Board development, Campaigns, Capital Campaigns, Individual Giving, Major gifts, Resources for the professional, Small shop fundraising, Special Events

How to recruit the best fundraising volunteers possible

Fundraising volunteers are critical to our success as they are the "ambassadors" of our fundraising efforts.  I often get asked, what is the best way of recruiting them to join in fundraising efforts?And, while I believe that, in some cases,…
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December 2, 2018
Blog, Board, Campaigns, Capital Campaigns, Individual Giving, Major gifts, Planning, Resources for the professional, Small shop fundraising, Stewardship

How to facilitate a donor prospect rating session

While wealth screening is an essential tool for fundraisers of today, I still hold true to augmenting a screening with the old "tried and true" Prospect Rating and Ranking Session.What is a Rating and Ranking Session and how would you hold…
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