Thanking your donors should be the first step on your to-do list after your fundraising campaign. But what about thanking your volunteers? Your fundraising campaigns need both donors and volunteers to be successful, and your volunteers deserve recognition for all they do to promote your cause, create positive experiences for donors, further your nonprofit impact measurement efforts, …
With nearly 7,000 rare illnesses in the world today, an illness that only affects 3,000 people per year can often be overlooked. It is estimated that 25 – 30 million Americans are living with a rare disease today. With these facts and figures in mind, raising funds for rare diseases may seem like a daunting …
It seems obvious why fundraising is important: to raise funds for needed items, services and programs. Yet, raising funds has so many other benefits besides the obvious. Often, budgets get cut, or less than ideal family situations mean that children have to go without things or activities that their classmates receive, and later life opportunities …
Nonprofits too often look at fundraising only as a means to making money to accomplish their agendas and pay their staff, so much so that they neglect to integrate fundraising into their plan as a whole. Nonprofits that do incorporate fundraising and development into their organizational strategy are the ones that end up being successful, …
The most successful nonprofits, no matter their size or mission, have strong fundraising boards. It is the job of the nonprofit development professional or executive director to craft board members into champions, and here is a checklist to inspire you to do so! Define the Board Member Role as a Fundraising Job First board members …
With 1.5 million nonprofits now registered in the United States, your fundraising letter needs to be perfect for your nonprofit to compete with the rest. Do not stress, however! While you do need to put a good amount of thought into writing a fundraising letter, you do not need to rigidly stick to a set …
With well over a million non-profit organizations registered in America, each competing for their share of the revenue pie, every donor becomes a valuable asset. Yet a surprising number of nonprofits are inadvertently chasing donors away. You would never knowingly risk the allegiance of your donors with an offensive or irritating appeal, or alienate supporters …
With more people using smartphones and tablets to access the web, you might be wondering if your non-profit should invest in a mobile app. The answer to that depends on what you think the mobile app should accomplish for you. – If you’d like make a specific function available to your visitors that might even …
The winter holiday season is permeated with feelings of peace on earth and the desire to help others. It is this time of year that people are more willing than ever to share their time and their money to help out a good cause. While the winter holidays is the time of giving, it is …
Valentine’s Day is one of the best times of year to hold a fundraiser! A Valentine’s Day fundraiser offers the advantages of • Decreased competition from other fundraisers – as opposed to the busy times of year for fundraising like Christmas and Fall, when many local and nationwide groups launch major campaigns • Demand for …
Following are some considerations and tips for raising funds for veterans: – You may feel like you want to jump right into helping out a veteran in your neighborhood, but what you think this person needs or wants may be quite different from what they actually need most desperately. Try to speak to the family …
Raising cash by recycling electronics doesn’t just help your group, it also helps prevent e-waste by keeping millions of TVs, computers etc. out of landfills. But more electronics recycling programs have become available recently, not just for cell phones, but for many different types of electronics, including, mp3 players, digital cameras, calculators, gaming systems, Blu-Ray …
When you’re working or volunteering for a charitable group, you’re used to asking for cash. But there will be times when cash simply doesn’t flow freely, be it because of a national recession, or local factors like high unemployment, or simply because people are overwhelmed by all the solicitations for money they receive. In any …
When you’re immersed in online and traditional marketing activities for your fundraiser, it’s easy to get caught up in the details. The challenge is to step back and understand the bigger picture when it comes to combining your online and traditional marketing activities in to one strategy that you can be in control of. The …
Social networking sites are popular with individuals, businesses and causes and an attractive option to market your fundraiser. If you’ve decided you’re ready to take the plunge, here are the steps to creating a Facebook Page for your non-profit. Set up a Page (Not a Group) on Facebook The easiest way to do a Page …
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