Face it. There are lots of worthy causes for donors to support. I’m sure yours is a good one too, but… you’ve got a big problem. Once you manage to acquire, or even renew, a donor, how are you going to win them back again? How are you going to [...]
Year-end brings the largest flurry of direct mail within the nonprofit sector. Most charities rely on the final two months of each year to achieve more than 50% of the funding of their mission. New research confirms a course of action that can increase the results of those year-end [...]
Are your development operations set up for success? Is the program team at war with development? Does communications get treated like a service fulfillment department by everyone else? Are major gifts and direct mail fighting over donors or who gets credit? Are donors treated like ATMs? Do you have a [...]
Everyone involved with you deserves your gratitude. After all, without them you’d have no purpose. The key to showing meaningful gratitude is to think specifically about what you’re grateful for. And this will be different, both for different segments of donors and even for specific individuals within those segments. You [...]
It happens pretty regularly. A donor makes a payment towards their pledge, and is gracious enough to give a little something extra. You’ve just launched a capital campaign to build ten new classrooms for your school, and a check is received with a note to split the gift between your [...]
Hi Bloomerang readers! Guest blogger Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising here. I’m a nonprofit consultant in leadership and fundraising. For the last four years I’ve run two online conferences that Bloomerang has sponsored, The Fundraising Career Conference and the Nonprofit Leadership Summit. This means I’m a nonprofit worker advocate [...]
Recently over lunch with a major donor of a local charity, whose board I serve upon, someone posed the question in the title of this post when the subject of donor retention arose. The discussion become so vigorous I immediately knew others would be curious. My hope in creating this [...]
We wanted to share with you some nonprofit articles, opinions and resources that caught our eye in the month of October. Top Facebook Blunders That Hurt Year-End Fundraising – “Now is the time to put all your resources into attracting and retaining as many donors as possible! Avoid these top [...]
In this webinar, Chris Hammond and Brittany LaGanke from Corporate Giving Connection will cover the necessary marketing components of a successful year-end fundraising campaign and the importance of thinking outside of the box in order to cut through the noise of the giving season. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. Chris [...]
Bloomerang and I have made a survey! Let us know what makes you like a job, and what makes you NOT like a job! We want to figure out what's most important to you, to then share the results as far and wide as possible! Why? So you can have [...]
There’s no busier time for fundraisers than the last quarter of the calendar year. So much needs to get done this time of year it should be easy to find more than one way to involve each board member. And there are numerous ways board members can help without making [...]
In Part 2 of this three-part series on board giving and getting we reviewed four strategies to leverage board giving and getting. What we didn’t cover is how to deal with situations where pre-conditions to successful board fundraising are not in place. In other words, board members have not been [...]