Make no mistake about it, 2024 is going to be a tough year for nonprofits. Inflation continues to soar, and the stock market is going to remain flat at best. Donors with capacity will give, but it is going to be very intentional.
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Get Fundraising Fit! How to Use Direct Response to generate Big Gifts and Lots of Them!
The Nightbirde Foundation tells how they launched a nonprofit that has more than one million followers and raised millions of dollars in just 18 months to provide hope and healing to women going through the cancer journey. You will find out how to use email and direct mail to generate support and specifically identify funders with capacity to make 5-figure and 6-figure gifts.
Get Fundraising Fit! How to Start Your Own Nonprofit
The Nightbirde Foundation tells how they launched a nonprofit that has more than one million followers and raised millions of dollars in just 18 months to provide hope and healing to women going through the cancer journey. You will find out what to do to start your foundation and obstacles you should avoid.
Get Fundraising Fit! Kick Starting Your Capital Campaign
Roy Jones talks with Dr. Candace Gregory about how to get a capital campaign started. You’ll learn quick start tips for setting goals, building your gift table and developing a winning script for landing capital campaign leadership gifts.
5 Rules for Hiring The Right Fundraiser
Every day your organization goes without an unfilled fulltime fund development position you are losing money.
Six Fundraising Steps for Planning Your New Year
Remember, donors do not give to case statements… they give to people. More specifically, they give to people who are listening to them and are able to identify needs that touch the donor’s heart
Do You Have A Heart For DONORS?
I sat with another precious family today. I’ve met with more than 100 supporters over the last 12 months. I asked them if they knew how many consecutive years they'd been giving. They shook their heads no. I told them "27 years... thank you. You are so special to us!"...
Can a Capital Campaign Hurt Your Non-profit?
Most nonprofits, like Sweet Briar, do not consider the fact that capital campaigns can hurt your annual fund and general operating budget, especially if annual fund donors are being targeted for a large percentage of the capital gifts. With nearly $200 million raised in Sweet Briar’s case, they learned the hard way that capital campaign donors will rarely give “twice” or release “restrictions” to pay for overhead and operations.
The 5 Biggest Tips for Boosting Donations
Every January I encourage charities to spend more time on practical, actionable events rather than writing beautiful superfluous words about their organization and cause.
Double Down on SEM to Boost Year End Revenue (plus 8 other great ideas)
… half of all donations happen in 4th quarter, and half of those occur during the month of December, and half of those occur during the last week of December (the golden week), and half of those contributions will happen the last day of December.
