Fundraising Checklist: Set Goals for Your Next Fundraising Season

Quickly gain an insightful overview of your upcoming fundraising season with our one-page “Set Goals for Your Next Fundraising Season Checklist.” No email required! Download it below. It will help you define your goals for your upcoming fundraising season. This checklist helps you to understand ...

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What Did We Learn about Fundraising in 2020? 5 Top Takeaways

2020 was a tough year, but it forced us as a nonprofit fundraising community to innovate and renovate in amazing ways that will resonate long into the future. So what exactly did we learn about fundraising in 2020? These are some of the top takeaways. ...

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3 Ways to Engage Your Donors During Your Next Fundraiser

Whether you’re entering your first campaign or are a seasoned fundraising professional, you likely understand that the key to successful fundraising lies in donor engagement. When a supporter is fully engaged in your campaign, they’re much more likely to donate and contribute in other ways ...

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Prepping for GivingTuesday 2020: Is Your Website Ready?

As you surely know, fundraising in 2020 has been a wild ride for nonprofits of all shapes and sizes. Now, as GivingTuesday approaches, fundraising professionals such as yourself are working overtime to ensure their campaigns are ready to bring in as much revenue as possible ...

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6 Tips to Reach Your Year-End Fundraising Goals​

Think back to this time last year. Most nonprofits were full of excitement for year-end fundraising and hopeful for the prospects that 2020 was bound to bring before too long. Now, things have changed dramatically. 2020 turned out to be a more stressful and bizarre ...

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6 Grant Writing Tips During a Pandemic (With Examples!)

Grant Writing is always difficult and competitive. In a pandemic or other emergency situation, it can seem outright impossible! During emergencies, grant writers are tasked to make their proposals stand out and shine within a context of great global urgency and scant resources. That does ...

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4 Lessons to Learn Now from Successful Face-to-Face (F2F) Fundraising Programs

We’re now over halfway through the year, and the COVID-19 pandemic (and its effects on fundraising) is sticking around for the foreseeable future. Rather than putting an indefinite pause on F2F fundraising and other acquisition efforts, it’s time to adapt your efforts for our socially ...

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Going Virtual: A Quick Guide for Hosting Online Auctions

Earlier this year, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a massive shift in day-to-day operations for nonprofits. Organizations across the globe were forced to make the decision to indefinitely postpone their events or cancel them altogether, leaving them without sufficient funding. Luckily, there’s another option: switch to ...

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FAQs If You Are Thinking About Starting a Not-For-Profit

Are you thinking about starting a not-for-profit? The following list of questions will help you get an overview of what it takes to get started. Starting a not-for-profit, nonprofit, or NGO includes many of the same considerations as starting a C Corp. The biggest difference ...

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9 Fun Virtual School Fundraisers!

Do you need to get parents or kids involved in a fundraiser? Make it fun for them and they’ll love helping!  Most of us can’t meet up in groups and have grown accustomed to virtual events and classes alike. Even if you can meet in ...

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5 Nonprofit Productivity Tips While Working from Home

In the past several months, COVID-19 has significantly impacted almost every aspect of day-to-day life, from social distancing guidelines to a looming economic recession. Similarly, businesses and organizations everywhere have seen radical shifts in management strategies as entire workforces transition to work-from-home. While there are ...

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Choosing the Right Fundraising Campaign: 5 Tips for 2020

As a fundraiser, you likely entered 2020 with big plans to advance your organization with fundraising. Maybe you planned to kick off your first major campaign or even dive into planned giving. However, we’re now six months into the year, and maybe some of your ...

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8 Free Resources for Adapting Your Fundraising to Social Distancing

New and amazing tech tools for digital fundraising are popping up from the sudden need to adapt to social distancing as the new norm. Here are 8 great resources and guides that might give you some new ideas of how to change up your events, ...

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Adjusting Event Sponsorship Fundraising for Unusual Times

For many nonprofit organizations, event sponsorships are necessary to acquire the funds to host a successful event. However, pandemics, disasters, economic declines, protests, or any number of unplanned forevents can throw your event sponsorship fundraising in for a loop! While you may not be able ...

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Free Sample Appeal Letter for Crisis Relief Funding

Following is a sample donation request letter that could be sent from a charitable organization or other group in crisis to their community or the broader public. Feel free to copy it and modify it for your fundraising needs. For any other use, please contact ...

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