This article offers four tips on how to engage your community through charity races.

Whether you want to enhance your corporate team building or expand your community connections, charity races are exceptional opportunities to engage your community. They provide a chance to get active and connect participants under one meaningful cause. To make the most of your charity run experience, follow these four tips: Choose a Compelling Cause to Support Recruit

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Learn more about keeping your donor's data secure while using fundraising platforms.

Donors trust nonprofits to use their donations wisely. However, in donating, supporters give a lot more than just money–they release their personal and financial information. As nonprofits rely on digital tools to collect donations, plan events, and manage volunteers, sensitive data like credit card numbers and home addresses are stored within fundraising platforms. Failure to keep

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Learn more about the three ways to use donor data analytics to customize your thank-you messages.

As a nonprofit organization, you should be sending messages of appreciation to your donors any time they make a gift. These messages could be in the form of thank-you letters, emails, phone calls, or even free merchandise. The goal is to show donors that your organization appreciates their contributions and demonstrate the positive impact of donations.

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Corporate gift matching software can be a game changer for your CRM

It is no secret that nonprofits thrive off of the relationships they build with their donor base. Nonprofit organizations are fueled by the support, time, and dollars given by their donors. The maintenance of these donor relationships is crucial, but the best way to grow these relationships is constantly evolving. As you think about this

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How to Navigate Workplace Giving: Top Ways to Help Your Donors

Workplace giving programs are incredibly impactful forms of corporate philanthropy offered by thousands of businesses across the globe. These initiatives enable a company’s employees to have a direct say in their employers’ charitability—including the amount contributed overall and the specific organizations that receive funding⁠—through their own giving efforts. As a result, donors love partaking in

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engage your donors - engagement meter

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 too, like sharing your cause with their loved ones. Donor

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donor stewardship during crisis

When the COVID-19 pandemic first made headlines, there were many unknown factors for nonprofits. From how it would affect charitable donations to how long working from home would last, nonprofit professionals everywhere were unsure of where the crisis would lead them. In response, many organizations paused their efforts. They halted fundraising campaigns and instead raised

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handshake showing donor relationship

If you help run a nonprofit or another charitable organization, you know how important your donors are. Donors are not only essential to drive specific campaigns to success, but for general support as well. Having active, positive relationships with your donors ensures you have a better chance of bringing awareness to your nonprofit’s mission and

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man looking for donor prospects

Finding the right donor prospects is probably harder than actually asking for donations! You have a wonderful, unique project. Everyone else in your field is getting grants and donations (it seems). But you have searched and searched, and you just cannot find the right donors or grants. The time has come to breathe, reset, and

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how to attract wealthy donors

Every charity’s fundraising dream is to have one wealthy donor like Bill Gates fund their entire program. That is why the most common joke in any fundraising office is “who do we know that knows Bill Gates?” The Gates have given an amazing 36 billion dollars to charity. The Gates Foundation is the largest private

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nonprofit starvation cycle

The nonprofit starvation cycle is a grim truth, the not-so-hidden, murky underbelly of the social benefit sector. The sad reality is the majority of nonprofit organizations are trapped in a vicious progression of inadequacy and chronic under-funding. This toxic cycle has been the omnipresent, dark cloud on the nonprofit horizon. With funders, donors and grantees

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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 they’re going to stay and make a gift. Research done

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donor potential of baby boomers

Demographics have always played an important role in fundraising. The expendable income of the various groups can determine how fundraising campaigns are targeted, and what the messages ought to be. The Boomer Generation, those who were born between 1946 and 1964, holds a tremendous opportunity for serious fundraising campaigns. Baby Boomers in the US According

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nonprofit versus for profit fundraising

Just because the for-profit world has customers and clients and the nonprofit world has donors and volunteers doesn’t mean that they both can’t stand to learn from one another. Nonprofits have major gift donors, and for-profits have big spenders. Nonprofits have recurring donors, and for-profits have loyal customers. And the parallels continue. Running an organization

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