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January 19, 2022

Major Donor Stewardship: Strategies That Build Lasting Relationships With Your Most Significant Givers

…finding the professional development resources and training that will prepare you to manage your program and donors appropriately and with confidence. I would periodically create professional development trainings for my…

January 16, 2022

Goodwill Easterseals of the Gulf Coast

…To Bloomerang? After Goodwill Easterseals of the Gulf Coast successfully implemented Benevon, a proven sustainable fundraising model, Bill Dillman, Vice President of Marketing and Development, realized the importance and appeal…

January 16, 2022

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School

…Bloomerang to other Catholic schools that could benefit from an intuitive system to empower their development decisions. “I do think Bloomerang is a good product for a small development office….

January 19, 2022

Flint Public Library

…them ramp up their development efforts. “Overall, moving to Bloomerang has given us more flexibility and capacity to grow our development program. Converting donor databases while launching a capital campaign,…

January 20, 2022

Grand 7 Detroit

…I didn’t have to worry about backing it up. At that time I had no idea how amazing their online support would be!” said Leigh Fehr, Development Director at Grand…

April 7, 2022

Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

…elements of community development and planning. Areas served: US Knight Foundation The Knight Foundation believes arts and culture are at the core of community, connecting people to place and to…

May 31, 2024

Why Our Definition Of Nonprofits Restricts Problem Solving

…fund development in order to build the capacity, the systems, and the culture to support fundraising success. Among the signs that an organization is up to the task: It invests…

August 2, 2017

Identifying, Applying for and Managing Grant Funds

…that capital campaign process. They’ve built a development. There are 12 other developments in the United States. All of them are for-profit entities. Our development here in Western North Carolina…

November 13, 2019

10 Ways to Improve Donor Retention with Social Media

…I have been a development director, a development/marketing/kitchen sink. I’ve worked at small shops, and all of the information I give you is based on research and data, experience. And…

June 28, 2017

Engaging Your Board as Champions, not Just Fundraisers

…even come, I let you know that you’re going to be getting a follow-up call afterwards from the wonderful development director at the organization, at the school, because the goal…

October 24, 2017

Finding New Donors Requires Creating a New Market

…to go after first-time donors, you need to look at market development and diversification. New Donor Market Development: Adopt a Revolutionary Mindset! Let’s review the definition of revolutionary: “radically new…

January 28, 2018

Supercharge Your Major Gift Program in 20 Minutes a Day

In this webinar, Amy Eisenstein, ACFRE will help busy executive directors and development professionals who want to raise significantly more money by making the leap into major gift fundraising, but…

July 5, 2018

5 Key Points of Prospect Research to Improve Donor Response

…look at your data is the best way to refine your communication, development, and solicitation strategies! Leverage these key points of effective prospect research to find new solicitation insights: Existing…

September 18, 2018

Building Trust to Skyrocket Fundraising Results

…development officer. So you can see why it’s so important that we somehow accelerate this trust building process so that we can get to those feelings where the donor is…

January 28, 2022

The Risk of Underinvesting in Fundraising

…the kind of growth or development of the fundraising strategy and individual tactics an organization is. You know, so you might, if you’re just building a major gifts program, you…

March 15, 2019

The Value of Nonprofit Succession Planning

…the Institute for Conservation Leadership, which I get to work with quite often, and I believe they adapted it from a man named Karl Mathiasen, who was an organizational development…

June 13, 2019

Essential Change Management Skills for Every Nonprofit CEO

…always fascinating. Fascinating organizational development learning experience. Let’s see, Cherie says, pardon me, Cherie, if I don’t see your name right. “How do we take in as the nice troublemaker?”…

August 13, 2019

How to Maximize Mid-Level Giving

…there’s a gentleman named Randy Shaw who’s a development officer at Mercy Ships now. He’s the head of development at Nashville Rescue Mission. He was a good friend of mine….

August 29, 2019

Conducting A Strategic Portfolio Review

…thing to do. Again, I’m not a fundraising person myself, I don’t do development, so others would be able to probably share more about that. But, you know, I think…