We have a problem with money in our nonprofits. When we have it, we spend it. When we don’t have it, we flail. Why? We have a problem with our beliefs about money. Sometimes it comes from childhood. Like, how our caretakers just seemed to have money and it came [...]
The end of the calendar year is make or break time for most nonprofits. Nearly 30% of nonprofits raise 26-50% of their annual fundraising in November and December – when folks are feeling their most grateful and generous. 30% of annual giving occurs in December. 30% of all online giving [...]
As a nonprofit, you are always looking for new ways to improve your development efforts. In order to do this, it is important to periodically take a fresh look at your operations with regard to development. But, where should you begin? To start, there are common, industry measurement tools and [...]
Bloomerang was proud to join Pursuant and The Institute for Conversational Fundraising to support The Philanthropy Centre in its landmark study on just how massively important saying thank you really is. The report is chock-full of interesting experiments, each with tangible takeaways for all fundraisers, including a simple method that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
You can’t get board members to effectively ask for philanthropic gifts until they’ve made their own passionate gift. Once your board member has acted on the passion they feel towards your cause, it’s time to talk with them about how to leverage their giving by asking others to join them. [...]
Get 100% of board members to give at a passionate level. This should be your pre-eminent goal as you enter into year-end fundraising season –the time of year when most folks feel peak generosity. However, just feeling in a giving mood won’t necessarily translate to philanthropy. Most significantly, it won’t [...]
What makes a fundraising appeal, well, appealing? The last six weeks of the calendar year are make-or-break time for nonprofits. In fact, nearly 30% of nonprofits raise 26% to 50% of their annual fundraising in November and December – when people are feeling their most grateful and generous. As the [...]
At a recent board meeting for a national association focused on collecting immense data for the charity sector, the discussion drifted to DAFs (donor advised funds). The consensus prediction was that within the next five years the top five charities in the United States, and possibly the world, based upon [...]
Custom merchandise is a no-brainer for most nonprofits for one primary reason. Merchandise provides a significant revenue boost for organizations that understand their audience and how to provide the products that will excite them. With the growth of online merchandising platforms over the past several years, it’s easier than ever [...]