Fundraising consultant Pamela Grow, one of our Little Shop contributors, is launching a really neat-o holiday giveaway today. (Yeah, I said it … neat-o.)
During the session, "Who's Your BFF? Building Lasting Relationship With Grant Makers," at Blackbaud's bbcon earlier this month, Heather Stombaugh and Matthew Stombaugh from JustWrite Solutions provided a few resources fundraisers should utilize when seeking grants in order to find their "Best Fit Funder."
The third annual FundRaising Success Virtual Conference & Expo takes place today. Check out the agenda and join us for a fundraising-filled day.
The importance of donors cannot be overstated. And two recent events have driven that point home for me.
Since the year-end holiday giving season is so vital to the fundraising sector, it's never too early to start planning your end-of-year campaigns. So with that in mind, take a look at last year's Fundraising Success Gold Awards Multichannel Campaign of the Year winner, the MSPCA's Holiday Tree Campaign. And remember to get your entries in for the 2012 Gold Awards for Fundraising Excellence. The deadline for entries to be in our office is Friday, Sept. 7, with the winners announced in our October issue.
In her session at Fund Raising Day in New York last month, Ann LaForge, director of institutional advancement at The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine, shared her "5 C's" strategy for success in cultivating major donors for a small shop nonprofit organization.
The Stelter Co. shares its findings on generational shifts in the ways people think about estate giving through an infographic.
Poonam Prasad, founder and president of Prasad Consulting and Research, shared the "Top Ten Things Every Fundraiser Should Know About Major Donor Research" in her session at Fund Raising Day in New York earlier this month.
If you can't even get the person's name or last gift right, how on earth do you expect a donor to believe you will use his or her donations effectively?
If you're looking for a free, valuable chance to learn from some of the fundraising industry's best and brightest minds, join us in a couple weeks for the second annual FundRaising Success Virtual Conference & Expo: Engaging, Enlightening and Empowering Donors.
