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May 29, 2021

[ASK AN EXPERT] How to be Appropriately Kind to In-Kind Donors?

…and development departments. FINANCE: If your nonprofit prepares its financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), then in-kind donations are considered “non-financial gifts” and should be entered…

September 18, 2021

Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

…includes representing the owner or the nonprofit at every step of the development process from, you know, land acquisition, going through due diligence, design, preconstruction, and the construction to move…

November 13, 2021

Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

…left. We’ll be in Wyoming, in Colorado, and Florida over the coming months to do strategic planning and development work with nonprofits of all shapes and sizes. So perhaps we’ll…

November 20, 2021

5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

…to make thank you calls. If I had, I would’ve instilled in them that these are great ways to participate in development and not have to ask for money. Here’s…

January 16, 2022

Joseph Maley Foundation

…And How Does It Fit Into Your Constituent Communications, Donor Retention, And Gift Development Processes? As a small organization with only one development staff person on board when Bloomerang was…

January 19, 2022

Hospice Services of Lake County

…their donor retention and gift development processes. “Using Bloomerang is essential to successful fundraising. We are able to cover the basics thanks to our ability to track, cultivate, and thank…

January 19, 2022

Walden School

…produced more accurate reports and provided us better donor cultivation and stewardship opportunities,” said Ely Heard, Assistant Director of Development at Walden School. Solution After being impressed with a Bloomerang…

January 19, 2022

Lutheran High Northeast

…with us on price” said Fred Aufdembrink, Director of Development at Lutheran High Northeast. With the timing and opportunity for better functionality, Fred was ready to make the switch. Solution…

November 27, 2023

Building Bridges Between Volunteers And Donors: Emily’s Story

…Development Chief and CEO, Emily chose to amplify her impact by becoming a major and legacy donor, directing her contributions to areas like medical equipment and outreach programs. These donations…

January 29, 2018

How To Inspire Your Board to Give and Get

…type in if you have any or none. Most organizations have a budget under a million dollars, the executive directors doing most of the fundraising, maybe there’s one development person….

April 7, 2022

Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

…the following areas: human and social service programs providing direct services to people in need, youth development programs, innovative developmental and educational programs for children, health and hospitals (funding for…

December 13, 2013

The Reality of SEO for Nonprofits

…organizations that go through this cycle, where the average nonprofit organization has to restart the development of their web presence every two to two and a half years because we’re…

February 11, 2014

The Ultimate Guide to Nonprofit Grant Research and Writing

…Nonprofit leaders can no longer rely on instinct or intuition to develop the sophisticated development operations necessary today.” As Bill Carruthers and Rita Lewis note in “Crafting the Compelling Story,”…

July 3, 2014

An Open Letter to Nonprofit Boards from Your Staff

Lori Jacobwith recently joined us to discuss her recent blog post “An Open Letter to Nonprofit Boards from Your Staff Leadership” with some tips on board development. You can watch…

October 10, 2014

Move a First-Time Donor to a Major Donor

…and even boards or CEOs can discourage the development director or major gift officer from approaching volunteers and asking volunteer gift, but volunteers are wonderful prospects for giving and I…

November 20, 2014

An Introduction to Grant Writing

…charities through her grant writing skills. And she has also served as a career counselor, a program manager, a volunteer manager, director of development and as executive director for several…

April 1, 2015

Fear, Shame, Dread and Other Fundraising Emotions

…accomplished development officers; you won’t see us on the cover of a magazine or a mom dreaming of her daughter growing up to be a development officer! When people tell…

April 25, 2015

Everything You Need To Know About Running a Sponsorship Campaign

…The Children’s Center for Hope and Healing, all kinds of places. She has been a development director. She has been an ED and she has coordinated a lot of sponsorship…

June 4, 2015

How Does Rebranding Impact Nonprofits?

…everybody is aligned, then that’s good, that’s means there’s cohesion. But if I hear ten different answers from ten different people, there’s an organizational development issue that has to get…