Self-Care Strategies & Tips for Nonprofit Fundraisers
Inspiration, Nonprofit Leadership, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsOur team is sharing their best self-care strategies & tips to help you shine this year-end fundraising season. Wouldn’t it be nice to enter 2024 energized?
How to Approach Your Major Donors for Year-End Gifts
Major Gifts, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsIf you don’t do anything else in your year-end campaign, you must do this; visit your major donors & invite them to invest in your cause.
5 Things Smart Fundraisers Do in December
Major Gifts, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsWith the holidays approaching & year-end fundraising closing out, we are all stampeding towards our goals. Here are 5 things smart fundraisers always do in December.
Let Go of the Money to Hold Onto Your Donors
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsThe best way to develop a donor relationship is to back off from the money. Engage your donor's heart instead, and open the door to a BIG Ask.
Want Donors To Throw Money At You? Take This Approach
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsTransform your major gift visits and learn how to convince donors to give without making an ask.
How Important is Technology to Your High Net Worth Donors? Part 2
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsHow best to communicate with your high-net-worth donors? How important is your website and related technology to them?
What’s Motivating High Net Worth Donors Today? Part 1
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsDiscover the motivations of high-net-worth donors and get effective strategies for successful donor outreach.
Capital Campaign Roadblocks to Fundraising Success
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsGail Perry and Kathryn Gamble discuss challenging capital campaign roadblocks including poor feasibility study results, and 3 other issues.
#1 Year-End Fundraising Tip: Warm Up Your Donors Before The Ask
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising Campaigns
If you are starting to prepare for your annual fall fundraising campaign, it's time to get busy!
Here's a first step to a successful year-end fundraising campaign:
Warm up your donors first, before you do anything else. Simply start reconnecting…
How to Write a Solicitation Letter for Donations
Annual Giving, Asking for Donations, Fundraising Strategy, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsAppeal letters are the backbone of your annual fundraising campaigns that your nonprofit absolutely relies on.
Investments & Stocks as Gifts: Your Biggest Opportunity for Year-End Giving
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsYour biggest opportunity for mega year-end gifts is to seek gifts of stock.
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas & Strategies
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsThere are three key steps you can take as early as possible that will help you engage the right leadership donors.
5 Tips for a Profitable Year-End Appeal Campaign
Donor-Centered Fundraising, Marketing & Communications, Year-End Fundraising Campaigns
The busy fall fundraising season is upon us, and we want to be sure you nail your year-end campaign.
All of our clients, whether they're running a capital campaign, or ramping up their major gift program, all ask for - and need - our guidance…
Gifts of Stock: Your Biggest Opportunity for the Year-End Giving Season
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsYour biggest opportunity for mega year-end gifts is to seek gifts of stock.
10 Steps to Write a End of Year Appeal Letter That Works
Asking for Donations, Marketing & Communications, Year-End Fundraising Campaigns
Can you write a compelling fundraising appeal letter? It's one of the most basic skills for every fundraising professional.
A fundraising appeal letter is both art and science.
It seems that everyone struggles with appeal letters. Everyone…
Donor Renewals: The Easiest Gifts to Close for Your Year-End Campaign
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsDonor renewals offer the quickest, easiest gifts for your year-end campaign. Here's how to keep your current donors from slipping away.