Shoe drive fundraising events are a fast, easy and innovative way to raise money for your organization and make a greater impact than you thought possible.
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Nonprofit Leadership: Succession Planning Is a Must
If you ask most senior-level nonprofit professionals they would admit succession planning doesn’t exist or the plan sits and gathers dust.
Read MoreEthical Responsibility of the Not-For-Profit Sector
It is up to the thousands of honest and ethical fundraising professionals to look out for potential fraud and abuse in our profession.
Read MoreRaise More Money: Don’t Try to Avoid Looking Foolish
In communicating with your donors, whether it be a website or mailing — electronic or physical — focus on the relationships. Risk a little. Risk looking foolish. Make your investors smile. They’ll love you for it. When you ask them to step up their support, they’ll sense the human connection and respond.
Read MoreHow Do You Recognize Your Donors?
Saying thank you more than please, celebrating the joy of giving and helping donors fulfill their needs are all vital efforts and strategies. Just be sure that, at the end of the day, you are truly advancing relationships and being appropriate stewards of the culture and resources of your organization.
Read MoreHow to Find and Cultivate Strong Nonprofit Leadership
Wounded Warrior Project’s Steve Nardizzi, the Tandon Institute’s Atul Tandon and Miami Children’s Health Foundation’s Lucy Morillo are successful nonprofit executives who know what to look for in leadership. Here are their insights on finding strong nonprofit leaders.
Read MoreFundraising With LEGOs
Instead of fitting donors to your programs, focus upon creating a seamless path for donors to grow in your organization. Identify and reinforce those donor values that support your efforts. Help your investors to give as it is appropriate for them. Encourage them to invest as it fits their particular situations in life — whether that’s general cash giving, higher cash giving, gifts of assets (“major gifts”), planned gifts (simply “major gifts” that have an additional external donor motive along with a deferred payment schedule) or even through a capital campaign.
Read MoreNonprofit Marketers: Do You Bring Full Value to the Table?
“Marketers” have unique roles within nonprofit organizations, but what about you and your direct marketing team?
Read MoreFundraisers: Let’s Get Hungry Again
Often, the hungrier a fundraiser is, in terms of needing to acquire and retain donors, the more he or she is willing to do to when it comes to donor service. And that’s not a function of being a small organization; rather, as I read the emails, I saw passion for the mission as the driving force — an insistence on always improving because it really does matter.
Read MoreLooking for Donors? It’s Inside Out
Nonprofit boards should conduct peer solicitations of themselves annually. Doing so both raises the commitment levels of individual board members and raises board giving to a higher level. What’s more, there’s the real possibility that at least some members of the board will move from being merely donors to become investors — those supporters who are emotionally committed to the ongoing success of the organization.
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