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Financial Sustainability: How To Keep Your Funds Growing
For any business or individual that gets into investments, one piece of advice is to diversify your funds.
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Why You Should Accept Noncash Donations
If you haven’t dipped your organization’s toes into the noncash waters, or if you’re already promoting noncash donations but you’re bone dry when it...
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Year-End Fundraising is Done — Now What?
The preparation and execution of year-end fundraising efforts can be exhausting. Direct mail, email, social media campaigns, events, etc. — each...
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Do Finance Right
Beyond your mission statement and the events you hold in your community, finance is the hidden part of every nonprofit. It’s the component that not...
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The Power of a Story
Sometimes all it takes is a simple message. Hearing stories of a nonprofit’s success is a key step in the process of moving a potential donor to an...
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Start With the Donor, Not the Database
The future of giving starts with connecting your fundraising strategies where it matters most—within the systems that are donor-facing.
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Clear & Proactive
Connected Giving orgs are transparent about the good they’re doing and proactively answer questions before they are asked, engendering donor trust.
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The Secrets of Digital Leaders
Phil Meyers has more than 40 years of experience in the tech sector creating, launching, and leading tech companies that introduced breakthrough...
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Campaign Ideas for Noncash Donations
Just as with traditional cash campaigns, the number of ways to encourage noncash donations is limited only by the imagination. Organizations that...
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Giving Tuesday Rewind: What Is Ahead for 2022?
The calendar has turned over another year, and that means new opportunities for giving and building relationships with your donors.
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Understanding Year-end Giving to Start the New Year Strong
As 2021 comes to a close, taking stock of what you have accomplished all year is important.
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Why You Should Accept Cryptocurrency
When you hear the term “cryptocurrency,” there’s a good chance confusion sets in. You may be skeptical about its viability, or may just have a lack...
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How to Get Started in Stock Donation
In general business terms, cash is thought of as king.
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Connecting to the Leading Donor Management Systems: We Make It Easy
Donor management systems are important. They’re designed to keep your list of donors and your organization’s financial records all in one place. The...
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Alignment & Accessibility
When a nonprofit starts with a donor-centric mindset, the alignment of its operational teams transforms into a Connected Giving Org.
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Optimize Your Giving Form For Year-End Appeals
We know your end-of-year giving campaign can be one of the most important fundraising efforts you take on all year.
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Make it Calendar Year-End Every Day
When I transitioned my career into partnering with nonprofits to accelerate their fundraising through digital marketing strategies and technology I...
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Taking Stock and Looking Forward
‘Tis the giving season! While this is often the busiest time of year for many nonprofit marketers and fundraisers, it is also a favorite time of year...
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Build Long-Term Donor Relationships with Active Retention
The future of giving treats fundraising events as part of a continous communication process that cultivates a relationship—not a limited window of...
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Reach and Rescue: Working to End Human Trafficking
How do you get people to care about a cause they can’t see?
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Have You Seen Your Website Lately?
When was the last time you looked at your website? What were you looking for? Of course, it should be pleasing to the eye. We are all drawn to...
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Fix Your Leaky Pipes
I remember when I first started in the donor advised fund world. One of our earliest funds was opened by a sharp, shrewd man. He asked me a simple...