The Top Ten Tips to Ensuring Your Non-Profit Fundraising Appeal Inspires Donor Giving
What is the one thing that can have a tremendous impact on the success of your Calendar Year-End Campaign?A solid message.And, this year, that message needs to be on-point. Giving has entered a slump, PPP grants have ended, there is…
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…
How to Plan Your Calendar Year-End Fundraising In the Middle of a Pandemic and an Election
Each year, I urge my clients to begin planning their Calendar Year-End Campaigns around this time of year.This year is no different. But, wait, yes it is.In any ordinary “fourth” year, we face election fundraising, but this “fourth”…
Top Seven Tips to Collect Email Addresses of Your Nonprofit Donors
One of the questions that I am asked most often, "How do I collect email addresses for those that I do not have them for?"Quite frankly, it's not easy, and it takes hard work.Below, I will provide you with my top seven tips for collecting…
How to use donor surveys to qualify your first-time donors for future fundraising
Long the hallmark of major gift work, qualification through engaging in dialogue with our top-level donor prospects has allowed us to identify those prospects who will entertain developing a relationship with our organization or not. This qualification…
The top 10 ways to strengthen your donor “Call to Action” and raise more money
The number one reason donors do not give aside from not being asked is that they are not provided a problem to solve. Or at least a problem that they understand why they need to solve it.It is in their donor "Calls to Action" that a slight…
The top twelve tips on successfully taking an in-person fundraising event virtual
One of the top questions asked these days are, “How do we take our gala event and make it virtual?”Since COVID-19 has happened, there has been a deep desire to take events and make them all virtual.I assert that it can be done. But,…
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…
Acquiring New Donors Through Digital Lead Acquisitions in the Age of the Coronavirus
One thing about pandemics, or just crises and downturns in general, is that they tend to expose organizational weaknesses, poor practices, and complete neglect. We can see evidence of this daily around the world today. Systems, structures, and…
Non Donor Conversions During Covid 19: Are You Planning Your Follow-Up Stewardship?
The Coronavirus has presented us all with some very life-threatening challenges. For once, the entire globe is under siege by a crisis impacting us all.It is simply, one word, unprecedented.However, that does not mean that we cannot…
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…
How a capital campaign is nothing more than an Annual Fund on steroids
During coaching sessions, I often get asked from professionals in their fundraising positions, "How do I run a capital campaign?" My easy answer, "It's just like a big fundraising campaign on steroids." What do you mean?I learned a valuable…
