4 Ways to Motivate Your Bored Board Members Through Year-End
It’s the time of year when you have to give your board members “the talk.” You know—the one where you tell them that it would be great if every...
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6 Quick Lessons on Teaching Your Board Members to Solicit Gifts
Some of your board agreed to help solicit gifts from your donors? Great! Now how do you move forward with teaching your board members to solicit...
Get Ready for Giving Tuesday with These Six Steps
In less than two weeks the 2nd annual Giving Tuesday, a national day of giving driven through social media channels by nonprofits, for-profits, and...
These 12 Ways to Thank Donors Will Keep Them from Saying Goodbye
I never understood the point of thank-you letters. My mom would insist. “You’ve got to send a thank-you letter!” Three weeks after my birthday:...
How to Use Inbound Marketing to Show Donor Impact
To be a nonprofit organization practicing inbound marketing, you must be using content to spread awareness of your cause, attract new constituents,...
Donor Retention Salvation: What You Need in a Donor Management Tool
In one of my last posts, I listed eight reasons why donors attrition, based on some research we’ve done in the area of donor retention. This is such...
The Anatomy of an Ask [INFOGRAPHIC]
One wrong move and the alarms ... will … sound. Sound epic? That’s because it is. When you were a kid, shaky and uncertain hands would make the...
Donor Retention Salvation: 8 Reasons Why Donors Leave
This is fascinating: The 2012 Fundraising Effectiveness Survey that was done by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) reported that 59%...
10 Grant Writing Mistakes That’ll Cost You the Mother Lode
There are millions, even billions of dollars on the line. Do you want your slice of the pie? The truth is, that money could all be yours…..IF the...
From ‘Us’ to ‘You’: How to Keep Your NPO’s Ask Out of the Trash | Nonprofit Blog
It’s natural to start off a fundraising appeal with all of the great things your organization has accomplished. But sometimes we can become...
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