Resource type: article August 31, 2022 Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide …Communicate what challenges your character is facing or has faced that led them to your organization. Giving backstory and context can help your audience see how these conflicts may have…
Resource type: article June 16, 2021 The 10 Biggest In-Person Ask Blunders …a book and over 50 guest columns, publishing a monthly newsletter, and leading more than 100 workshops, webinars, or board training sessions. My focus has been on teaching principles, strategies,…
Resource type: article August 12, 2021 Solving The Donor Retention Rate Issue: The Case For Creating A Board-level Donor Thank You Committee …of increased overall giving, first-time donor retention fell by another 10% such that 80% of first-time donors did not make that key second gift. Why are first-time donors such a…
Resource type: article March 4, 2024 Love At First Sight: Getting To The Heart Of Fundraising With Effective Reporting …organization’s fundraising efficacy by analyzing key metrics like donation amounts, donor engagement, and campaign success. Gain donor insights: Deep dive into your donors’ behaviors, preferences, and giving patterns so you…
Resource type: article June 25, 2024 How To Make Summer Your Fundraising Super Season …you throughout this season – thanking them, reporting back on what their gifts are doing, and asking about their hopes and dreams for making a difference. With individual giving in…
Resource type: webinar April 3, 2017 Missionizing Your Special Fundraising Events …you launch your multiple, your giving society. That’s number nine. Ten percent of the guests join your giving society each year. That is our metric. If you have 200 people…
Resource type: webinar April 26, 2020 How Board Chairs Can Lead with Excellence During a Crisis …giving a 1,000 and giving a 100 if 1,000’s a minimum but you need the language and always to understand that some people are more blessed in life financially than…
Resource type: webinar November 6, 2019 The Fundraising Myth That Should Scare You the Most …change that. You can’t fight it, don’t bother. But fundraising, charitable giving, most of all, if you look at charitable giving at a completely rational way, you shouldn’t do it….
Resource type: article May 27, 2014 7 Things You Must Do to Salvage Your Annual Fundraising …learn. This person has been explicitly (if not exclusively) tasked with managing annual giving. Perhaps this person is an annual giving manager. The duties may fall on a development director…
Resource type: article May 12, 2016 Is “Perpetual Endowment” the Best Way to Treat Large Bequests? …counter-productive to fundraising – both to healthy annual giving, and especially toward receiving additional planned gifts or bequests. The organization has received a few additional bequests over the years, but…
Resource type: article August 11, 2016 Self-Hosted vs Third-Party Online Donation Page – Which Is Better? …vendor). So if your donor database has an online giving feature, please use it! Ditch that PayPal button. If your donor database doesn’t have an online giving feature, it might…
Resource type: article January 28, 2022 Everything You Need To Know About The 4 Major Charity Watchdogs …of donors said the presence of a charity watchdog seal would greatly or moderately increase their likelihood of giving; 84% said the absence of a seal would decrease their giving…
Resource type: article February 13, 2018 Top 7 Drivers of Donor Love and Loyalty …if they received what they needed from charities (Penelope Burk, Donor-Centered Fundraising). 75% of donors use information about a nonprofit’s impact in their giving decisions (Informed Giving: Information Donors Want…
Resource type: article November 21, 2018 Performance Indicator Tools that Measure the Health of Your Development Program …Donors with Decreased Giving (#) Donors giving remained the same (%) Board Participation (%) Volunteer Participation (%) Average Gift Size ($): (Revenue/# of Participants) Multiple Gifts Annually (#) Growth in…
Resource type: article September 30, 2020 Obstacles Ahead: Dealing with Objections to Planned Giving Gift planning, planned giving, legacy gifts … no matter what terms your organization uses to define gifts received as part of an estate settlement, there’s often objections to planned giving…
Resource type: article April 19, 2021 How Do You Hone Your Nonprofit’s Major Donor Portfolio? …portfolio across a range of people (e.g., the executive director, associate director, development director, and annual giving manager). Even working together, 150 prospects may be too many to handle. If…
Resource type: article June 29, 2021 Making A Great Story Into A Powerful Fundraising Story …connection that is critical for giving. So, as much as possible, try to keep your story about one person your organization has helped. You need a clear problem. Another aspect…
Resource type: article January 4, 2022 [ASK AN EXPERT] What’s The Best Way To Share Tax Information With Donors? …giving easy and painless for your donors. Include information about tax-beneficial giving in your appeals and other marketing materials. Make sure this information is on the giving pages of your…
Resource type: academy October 18, 2021 Giving Tuesday Online Giving with Kindful Fundraising Tools   Create a seamless giving experience for your donors with Bloomerang’s newest online giving tools add-on with Kindful Fundraising. Learn how to set up modern, customizable, and mobile-friendly hosted donation…
Resource type: article June 7, 2022 Send a Successful Annual Appeal: Tips and Strategies …You can buy another software solution that will function as an online giving solution, but some solutions also function as an online giving platform or offer online giving tools. For…