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Sara Salako

Sara Salako
Sara Salako is the Marketing Coordinator at Bloomerang. Her passions include reading, traveling, and making people laugh. She supports organizations focused on animal welfare, social justice, and mental health. Outside of the office, Sara enjoys cooking with her husband and spending time with friends in cute coffee shops.

Posts from Sara Salako

01
Working with Constituents: Relationships and Households
02
Working with Constituents: Individual and Organizational Basics
03
Bloomerang Automations: Zapier 101
04
Growing and Engaging Your Audience Through Clear Messaging
05
How to Win at Stewardship Using Your Bloomerang Tools
06
Constituent Forms
07
Dashboard Discovery
08
Managing Tasks
09
Bloomerang Volunteer in Action!
10
Bloomerang +Gratavid: A Relationship-Centric Approach to Portfolio Management and Handoffs
11
Modern Tips to Boost Donor Acquisition
12
Grant Funding With a Lean Team
13
Track Donor Engagement and Boost Your Fundraising Efforts
14
Consultant Product Briefing
15
Maximize Your Impact on the Go: Fundraise with Bloomerang Mobile
16
Communication Styles Matter: Drive Results With Donor-Centric Relationships
17
Diversifying Revenue With Grants
18
Leading With Trust: How To Build Thriving and Succeeding Nonprofit Development Teams
19
Adventures in Artificial Intelligence for Beginners
20
Beyond Management: Coaching and Leading Your Team
21
Celebrating Contributions: Rewarding and Appreciating Nonprofit Volunteers
22
Bloomerang + Qgiv: Put Relationships at the Heart of Fundraising
23
Bloomerang + Donorsearch: Making Your Data Work For You
24
The Heart of Giving: Authentic Donor Engagement
25
Ask the Experts: A Panel Discussion All About Gifts
26
Scaling New Heights: Tailored Strategies for Securing Your Next-Level Major Gifts
27
Diamonds in the Rough: Get More Major Gifts From Donors Already Around You
28
How To Make Every Donor Feel Like a Major Donor (Without Spending Major Time on Them)
29
Conversation, Not Presentation: Get Your Donors Talking and Raise More Money!
30
Mirror, Mirror: Applying Lessons From the For-Profit World To Create Better Donor Experience
31
Building a Personalized Approach to Individual Giving for Emerging Nonprofits
32
3 Proven Steps That Will Get New Corporate Partners
33
Using Groups in Bloomerang
34
Reports and Filters Basics
35
Creating Emails Part 2
36
Creating Emails Part 1
37
How to Raise More Online
38
Amplify Your Nonprofit Consulting: Growing Revenue & Rapport Through Webinars
39
Google & Yahoo's Email Update: Your Must-Do Checklist
40
Leading With Impact: Looking Ahead at 2024 Trends in Leadership
41
From Inbox to Income: Monetizing Your Email List
42
Database Management
43
Creating an Actionable Fundraising Plan
44
Annual Reports That Rock!
45
Bloomerang+Zapier: Exploring Automations
46
Finding, Engaging and Recognizing Your Volunteers
47
Email Options in Bloomerang: Constant Contact
48
Get off the Fundraising Treadmill With Simple Development Systems
49
Consultant Product Briefing
50
Nonprofit Communications: Trends for Fundraising Success in 2024
51
Strategic Planning The Beginning: Creating a Process that Produces Results
52
Letters Part 2
53
Letters Part 1
54
Import Basics
55
Donations and Pledges Part 2
56
Donations and Pledges Part 1
57
Database Set Up Basics
58
How To Leverage Your Strategic Plan As A Powerful Fundraising Tool
59
Intermediate Reports and Filters Part 1
60
The State of Capital Campaigns 2023-2024
61
Building a Fundraising Board
62
How To Optimize Your Legacy Giving Stewardship Program
63
Nonprofit Email Marketing in 2024: Accelerate Success on the Most Effective Channel
64
Connecting Better: AI’s Role in Personalizing Donor Experiences
65
Fundraising for Introverts: Harnessing Our Power
66
Modern Tips to Boost Donor Acquisition
67
Database on the Go with Bloomerang Mobile
68
Transactions Start to Finish
69
Bloomerang Gift Entry and Reporting Foundations
70
Year-End Tax Summaries
71
Build Donor Loyalty Through Gratitude
72
The How, What, When, Where and Why of Donor Thank You’s
73
Creating a Fundraising Plan That You’ll Actually Use
74
Simplified Fundraising Planning for Small Nonprofits
75
Ask the Experts: A Panel Discussion All About Boards
76
Boards Are About Heavy Lifting
77
Your Organization’s Most Important Relationship: Board Chair and CEO
78
Board Agreement Power Tool
79
Managing Tasks
80
Creating Your 2024 Strategic Calendar
81
Find New Donors in 2024
82
8 Ways To Improve Email Performance During End-of-Year
83
Volunteer Tracking in Bloomerang Donor Management
84
Bloomerang + Zapier: Exploring Bloomerang Automation
85
Reports and Filters Basics
86
Forecast Your Fundraising Revenue for 2024
87
3 Winning Tactics To Raise $500K From Individuals by December 31
88
Imports, Next Level
89
Funding at a Glance
90
Bloomerang + Gratavid: Appeals and Solicitations
91
Increase Donor Retention for Giving Tuesday Donors
92
Bloomerang + Gratavid: Automate Your Giving Tuesday Thank You Process
93
Data-Driven Storytelling: How To Inspire More Giving for Your Nonprofit
94
Presenting Your Virtual Ask
95
Creating Emails Part 2
96
Creating Emails Part 1
97
Year-End Appeals: Tips and Tricks
98
Don’t Panic! Prepare For Giving Tuesday!
99
Bloomerang + Qgiv: Giving Tuesday
100
Is Your Give/Get Policy Helping or Hurting Your Organization?
101
Roadmap To Create a Successful Nonprofit Strategic Plan
102
Tackling Burnout: Could Supporting Working Parents Be the Secret?
103
Consultant Product Briefing
104
Leveraging Your Events for Increased Fundraising Year-Round
105
Get To Know Bloomerang Volunteer
106
Evolving Connections: Leadership, Competency, and Modern Fundraising
107
Bloomerang + Gratavid: Using Video for a Successful Year-End
108
Ask the Experts: A Panel Discussion All About Events
109
How To Convert Event Attendees Into Donors
110
Start Raising more for Your Animal Welfare Nonprofit
111
Unforgettable Fundraising Events: Creating a Unique Donor Experience
112
Are Events Helping or Hurting Your Major Gifts Program?
113
New User Orientation
114
Bloomerang + Handbid: 3 Tips to Raising More Money At Your Next Auction
115
Reports: Best Practices
116
Break Through the Noise: Nonprofit Messaging That Moves Hearts, Creates Community, and Inspires Action
117
Mobile Fundraising Made Easy
118
Bloomerang + Qgiv: Text Fundraising
119
The Keys to Record-Breaking Year-End Fundraising Success
120
Ask With Confidence: How to Approach Wealthy Individuals for Big Gifts
121
Letters Part 2
122
Letters Part 1
123
The State of the 2023 Fundraiser
124
Start Raising More Online for Your Food Bank
125
Bloomerang Gift Entry and Reporting Foundations
126
Feel at Home: How to Foster a More Welcoming Environment for More Successful Fundraising Events
127
Organizational Settings and New User Permissions
128
The Future of Fundraising Events: Raise More and Stress Less
129
Turning Your Volunteers Into Donors
130
How To Double Your Year-End Donations
131
Donations & Pledges Part 2
132
Custom Fields
133
Donations and Pledges, Part 1
134
Bloomerang + Gratavid: Creating Better Donor Experiences with Milestone Automation
135
Retention Readiness: Embedding Stewardship Strategy Into Year-End Campaign Priming
136
Social Fundraising: Mining the New Peer-to-Peer Landscape
137
Acknowledgment Best Practices for Any Size Shop
138
Import Basics
139
Email Marketing: Your Fundraising Campaign Starting Point
140
Protecting Your Organizational Data in Bloomerang
141
Bloomerang + Zapier: FAQs for Zapier Integrations
142
Turning Your Volunteers Into Donors: Insights for Animal Welfare Organizations
143
The Value of Your Volunteers
144
How Storytelling in Summer Will Move Your Fall Fundraising Needle
145
Fundraising Events That Raise More Money
146
Using Events as a Springboard for Engagement
147
Do These 3 Things NOW To Blow Past Your Holiday Fundraising Goals This Year
148
Fund Your Impact With Sponsors
149
Bloomerang + Qgiv: Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
150
Groups Part 2
151
Strengthening & Scaling Your Recurring Giving Community
152
Cracking the Grant Code: How Focusing on Relationships Wins More Grants
153
Spring "Data" Cleaning for Your Organization
154
Understanding Why People Give
155
Turning Your Habitat for Humanity Volunteers Into Donors
156
Quarterly Consultant Update
157
Don’t Follow Donations With Silence: Create an Email Welcome Journey…Right Now!
158
Bloomerang + Qgiv: Year-Round Fundraising
159
Bloomerang + Zapier: Automating an eCommerce Store With Bloomerang
160
Database Management
161
Unlocking Donor Delight: The Key to Consistently Growing Your Donor Base
162
Ask the Experts: A Panel Discussion All About Donors
163
The Force of Attraction: How To Attract (Not Chase!) the Right New Donors
164
From One-Time to Lifetime: Turning First-Time Donors Into Lifelong Supporters
165
Ride the Wave: Secure Funding During Times of Transition
166
No Nonsense Must-Haves for Major Giving Success NOW!
167
Tracking Grants
168
Reports and Filters Basics
169
Bloomerang + Gratavid: Automate Your Thank You Process
170
Donor Engagement Surveys
171
Ignite Success From Within: Raise Big Gifts With the Team You Have!
172
Sample Nonprofit Development Plan Template + 3 Helpful Tips
173
Turning Your Food Bank Volunteers into Donors
174
Get Your Database Ready for the Giving Season Now!
175
The Surprising Secret to Fundraising Success
176
Transactions Start to Finish
177
Constituent Forms in Bloomerang
178
How To Turn Your Board Into a Lead-Generating Machine
179
7 Strategies for Building Relationships With the Board of Directors
180
Online Giving & Bloomerang Forms
181
Managing Tasks
182
Bloomerang + Zapier: Zapier 101
183
Quarterly Consultant Update
184
Online Fundraising Tools Basics
185
Groups in Bloomerang
186
How to Win at Stewardship Using Your Bloomerang Tools
187
How Your Board Can Care for Donors
188
How Nonprofit Leaders Can Help More People by Doing Less
189
DEI Donor Best Practices
190
The Power of Persuasion: Turn Your Prospects Into Donors
191
Creating Emails, Part 2
192
Bloomerang + Zapier: Exploring Automations
193
Reports and Filters Basics
194
Creating Emails, Part 1
195
Import Basics
196
Working with Constituents Part 1
197
Six Markers of Philanthropy
198
The Value of Embracing Integrations for Nonprofits
199
Bloomerang + Qgiv: Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
200
Bloomerang + Zapier: RunSignup
201
Ask the Experts: A Roundtable Discussion on Data-Driven Goals
202
A Data-Driven Approach to Future-Proofing Your Fundraising
203
Donations and Pledges, Part 2
204
Bloomerang + DonorSearch: Making Your Data Work for You
205
Database Management, Part 2
206
Creating Accurate Fundraising Projections for Your Annual Budget
207
Donations and Pledges, Part 1
208
Working with Constituents Part 2
209
Quickbooks and Bloomerang: A Match Made In Heaven (Seriously!)
210
Fuel Your Program Funding with Data-Driven Evaluation Reporting
211
How To Use Online Marketing Strategies To Increase Donations in 2023
212
Six Questions for Equitable Board Recruitment
213
Quarterly Partner Update
214
Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members as Fundraising Ambassadors
215
Succession Planning: Strategies That Work
216
ROI Fundraising: Save Time, Improve Performance, and Raise More Money!
217
Custom Fields
218
Reimagining Success in Nonprofit Work: How Systems Change Can Drive Vision Forward
219
Does Your Organization Want a Million-Dollar Grant?
220
5 Ways to Build Relationships and Increase Donor Retention
221
Organizational Settings
222
Bloomerang + Zapier: Automating Updates to Bloomerang Transactions
223
Raise More in 2023 and Beyond WITHOUT All the Cringey Fundraising Strategies
224
Dashboard Discovery
225
Be Impossible to Ignore: Advance Your Nonprofit Career with Thought Leadership
226
Planned Giving Best Practices
227
Maximize Growth With a 2023 Nonprofit Marketing Plan
228
How To Get More of the Right Things Done: A Time Blocking and Energy Management Workshop
229
Bloomerang + Zapier: Data Collection Forms
230
Stop Throwing Money Away! Your Lovely Donors Are Worth More Than You Think!
231
Increase Donor Retention for Your Giving Tuesday Donors
232
Increase Donor Retention for Your Giving Tuesday Donors
233
Bloomerang + Zapier: Automating Membership Management in Bloomerang
234
Don't Panic: Prepare for Giving Tuesday!
235
The Philanthropic Heart: How To Stop Trying To Get People To Care and Start Connecting to Your True Long-Term, Loyal Donors
236
Mindfulness for Nonprofit Professionals: Apps, Tools, and Strategies for Conquering Year-End Stress and Starting the New Year Strong
237
First Tee Bloomerang Demo
238
Free Clinics Bloomerang Demo
239
Habitat for Humanity Bloomerang Demo
240
Level Up your Fundraising with Bloomerang Mobile
241
Giving Tuesday: Matching Gifts
242
Giving Tuesday Strategies
243
End of Year Giving Strategy
244
Bloomerang + Gratavid--Appeals and Solicitations
245
Ramp Up Your Stewardship Program BEFORE Those Year End Gifts Arrive
246
Plan Now to Delight and Retain Year-End Givers
247
How To Plan Three Months of Nonprofit Content in One Day
248
How to Get CEOs and Boards to Embrace Year End Fundraising
249
Bloomerang + Zapier: Automating Classy Fundraising to Bloomerang
250
Giving Tuesday: Bloomerang Online Giving Forms
251
Bloomerang + Gratavid: Automate your Giving Tuesday Thank You Process
252
Bloomerang + Qgiv: Year-end Fundraising with a Focus on Giving Tuesday
253
QuickBooks and Bloomerang: A Match Made in Heaven (Seriously!)
254
A Better Feasibility Study: How to Prepare for a Successful Campaign
255
Succession Planning: Strategies That Work
256
Recession-Proof Your Nonprofit...with Grants!
257
Giving Tuesday Matching Gifts
258
Giving Tuesday Strategies
259
Bloomerang and DonorSearch: Uncover the Secret Giving Power of your Constituents
260
Tools & Strategies for Hybrid Fundraising Events
261
Build a Board of Fundraising Pros
262
Bloomerang + Zapier: Ask Me Anything
263
End of Year Appeal Writing Made Easy
264
Measuring Your Marketing Effectiveness: How Mature is Your Marketing?
265
Leverage Your Grants
266
Leadership Today: Key Skills and Career/Job Tips
267
Amp Up Your Appeal's Persuasive Power with Research from Psychology and Neuroscience
268
Charting Your First 100 Days for the New Development Director
269
Remote Fundraising Using the 3 Ts’ of Communication
270
Do These 3 Things NOW to Guarantee Your Holiday Fundraising Success
271
Making Online Strategic Planning Fun
272
End of Year Giving Strategy
273
5 Ways to Build Relationships and Increase Donor Retention
274
Giving Tuesday: Designing Engaging Emails
275
Reports and Filters Basics
276
Peer 2 Peer Fundraising