The good way to avoid leaving charitable contributions on the table is simply to ask for a gift. The better way is to ask for a specific gift for a specific project. The best way, during a pandemic, is to relate that specific ask to the current zeitgeist. In other [...]
Sometime in your career youâll likely be approached by a donor who wants to give you a gift you probably shouldnât accept. It may be due to the fact it comes with strings. Or liabilities. Or expenses. Or youâre just not staffed up to do the work required to comply [...]
What you donât do right now will come back to bite you in the butt. Because you exist within a fast-moving, competitive environment. If youâre not actively cooking things up youâll have little nourishment to offer. So, whatever is on your back burner, move it to the forefront and get [...]
In Parts 1, 2 and 3 of this four-part series I introduced a â4-Step Strategy to Cure Your Current Fundraising Headache.â Because the times weâre in are trying. Donors, however, are still giving. You can succumb to the crisis, take two aspirin every four hours for the rest of the [...]
In Parts 1 and 2 of this four-part series I introduced a â4-Step Strategy to Cure Your Current Fundraising Headache.â Because the times weâre in are trying. Donors, however, are still giving. You can succumb to the crisis, take two aspirin every four hours for the rest of the pandemic, [...]
In Part 1 of this four-part series I introduced a â4-Step Strategy to Cure Your Current Fundraising Headache.â FORWARD FACE Equilibrium: Balance your fundraising strategies FUEL the Machine: Charge your annual contributions income engine FUMES Provide Accelerant: Prepare for âretirementâ FUTURE Proof the Mission: Leave a legacy for generations to [...]
Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach, also known as Charity Clairity. Today's question comes from a fundraiser who isn't sure how hard to press a donor after they say "no" to an ask. Dear Charity Clairity, Is [...]
Time to get your bearings so you donât lose your way amidst the chaos with your current fundraising strategies. Things are getting tougher. Partly because this doesnât feel new anymore. The early urge to jump in with both feet to do something â a virtual event, a crisis appeal, a [...]
In a recent article I discussed three strategies to successfully fundraise mid-pandemic. Here Iâd like to look at some of the principle underlying nonprofit leadership strategies that serve as pre-conditions to successful fundraising, crisis or no crisis. As true as these tenets ever were, they hold particularly true during a [...]
All the best strategies youâre innovating now, and having success with, should be continued as you fundraise mid-pandemic. This is your pandemic silver lining! Itâs taken this quarantine crisis for some nonprofits to do what they should have done before. Stop looking for bad news and reasons to not fundraise [...]
If you look for bad news, youâll find it. Thereâs plenty of handwringing going on. A recent report, âFundraising Impact of COVID-19,â from CCS Fundraising finds 63% of 1,183 responding nonprofits between April 20 and May 1 report a decline in fundraising since the start of the pandemic, while 25% [...]
Whither goest now? When coronavirus response fundraising began several months ago, you probably didnât envision youâd still be working from a home office. Or that your âbusiness as usualâ still wouldnât be. Or that you still wouldnât have the ability to plan for a date certain when everything would go [...]