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5 Ways to Avoid Donor Abandonment

Your nonprofit spends a huge chunk of resources trying to get donors to your donation forms, and it’s good to see a lot of donors landing on your giving page. But don’t start celebrating just yet. Just because donors reach your donation form doesn’t mean ...

5 Effective Year-End Fundraising Strategies

With the year almost over, your nonprofit is probably looking for ways to optimize your fundraising. Luckily, your supporters are in a giving mood: Up to 50 percent of total annual income for nonprofits comes from the year-end ask alone! Let’s take a look at ...

Finding Volunteers: 16 Strategies You Need to Know Now

If you still need volunteers for your holiday and end-of-year events, or you simply need some fresh ideas for your ongoing volunteer search and recruitment, read on for 16 ways to find and recruit volunteers now! 1. Make Volunteers Part of Your Strategic Plan According ...

8 Tips to Improve Your Fundraising Report to Your Nonprofit Board

It’s that time of year again, when your board chair is asking, “how did fundraising go this year?” Whether you met your goals or fell short, it can be difficult to explain all of the work you did to cultivate your donors, throw events, find ...

Sample Fundraising Letter: Year-End Donation Request Letter

The holidays are just around the corner, and end-of-year has snuck upon us once again. Read on for one of our sample donation request letters we hope will provide some inspiration and help for your appeal! For more sample fundraising letters, browse here. For more ...

25 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Save Money Like Benjamin Franklin

What nonprofit wouldn’t like to save money? Benjamin Franklin wisely counseled, “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Like all great entrepreneurs, Franklin knew the value of a buck. For most nonprofits, a shoestring budget is part of the day-to-day reality. By cutting excessive costs, ...

Best Year-End Appeal Ideas and Samples for Your Group

Nonprofits raise more than half their funding at “year-end”, or the final two or three months of the year. Up to a third of online donations are made in December alone. From emails to formal letters to “tweet” or text campaigns, here are some concrete ...

Revive Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Accounts and Boost Donations

Are your organization’s social media pages collecting dust and cobwebs? For most groups, there are never enough hours in the day to finish the to-do list, let alone to keep up their social media accounts. Yet social networking is an excellent, cost-effective marketing tool for ...

6 Steps to Create Meaningful Benchmarks For Your Nonprofit

In just 6 steps, you can create meaningful benchmarks to help your nonprofit in strategic planning, proposal writing, and evaluation of your staff and programs. You can apply benchmarks to nearly anything that is goal oriented, so you can use them liberally to improve your ...

How Nonprofits Can Piggyback Off Elections for Fundraising and Branding

Nonprofits cannot get involved in politics and elections, but they can piggyback off of them! Here’s a simple road-map to identify how your nonprofit can benefit from elections this fall, and some ideas for how to go about it. At minimum, you can boost attendance ...

Simplify Your Program Tracking with Web-Based Nonprofit Software

This is the first in our new series “Spotlight: Nonprofits.” More info below. How can a nonprofit serving dozens of community partners through hundreds of volunteers keep track of who it is helping and how? The answer: Adapting from paper-based, onerous administrative systems to one ...

Pledge Campaigns: 6 Tips for Increasing Donations

A successful pledge campaign requires a good amount of detail work but is worth your while to increase donations. A pledge campaign, simply put, is asking people to commit to giving to your organization or cause at some point in the future or on a ...

8 Ways a Nonprofit Can Deal With Negative Online Reviews

Negative online reviews are especially harmful for a nonprofit where the road to success is based on the public perception of trust and competency. Because of the real-time nature of the web, quick action is needed to diffuse a bad review on Yelp or complaints ...

11 Free Graphics Tools all Nonprofits Should Know About

Every nonprofit should know about these free and simple tools to create professional graphics for presentations, websites, social media, proposals, posters, and programs. You can instantaneously save on your bottom line. You can create your own invitations and marketing materials. And you can make your proposals, ...

Nonprofit Statistics and Data: 10 Essential Resources

We love statistics for a reason. They break down our complex ideas to simple numbers and make our work measurable. You don’t need a statistic to know how much statistics help your nonprofit – to backing up the need for your work with real community ...

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