Nonprofit Competition Is Real and You Need to Fight As If Life Depends On It 4 Nonprofit Marketing Secrets for Attracting and Keeping Donors, Volunteers, and Supporters The enemies of nonprofit growth are not government, or political beliefs, or greed, or anything like that. Your enemies are complacency, presumption, and in some cases, a denial […]
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Nonprofit Testimonials: The 2 Mountain-Moving Kinds You Want Most and How to Get Them
Nonprofit Testimonials: The 2 Mountain-Moving Kinds You Want Most and How to Get Them Testimonials have been used in marketing for over a hundred years. Their value in bringing prospects from considering something to deciding to do it is unquestioned. Nonprofit testimonials have the same power, but far too many nonprofits are under-utilizing this game-changing […]
8-Step Guide for Starting Nonprofit & Business Partnerships
8-Step Guide for Starting Nonprofit & Business Partnerships How to Find Businesses Who Will Collect Donations at Checkout, Sponsor Your Events, Send Volunteers, and More Businesses care about your nonprofit’s mission. That’s because businesses are run by people, and people care. Part of your job as a fundraiser is therefore to find businesses your nonprofit […]
Small Nonprofit Series: Our Nonprofit Is Too Small for a CRM
Small Nonprofit Series: Is Our Nonprofit Too Small for a CRM? No. Here’s Why Every Nonprofit Should Invest In a Donor Management Platform Let’s get one thing straight right away. I am not a technology buff. I don’t get excited about gadgets and goofy services like cameras in my house or on my front porch […]
Fundraising Event Volunteer Guide
Fundraising Event Volunteer Guide 10 Ways to Empower Your Event Volunteers and Turn an Average Event into an Unforgettable (and More Profitable) Experience It’s pretty tough to run a nonprofit fundraising event without volunteers. There are simply too many tasks to be done for a paid stuff to handle them all. And everyone knows this. […]
Complete Guide to Donor Survey Best Practices and Question Ideas
Complete Guide to Donor Survey Best Practices and Question Ideas How to Acquire Survey Data that Strengthens Your Fundraising and Communications At the 2019 AFP Forum for Strategic Fundraising in Bellevue, Washington, Ariel Glassman from The Ostara Group led an outstanding presentation about donor survey best practices. She, along with the executive director from Kirkland Performance […]
Volunteer Survey Reveals: How to Increase Volunteer Motivation at Your Nonprofit
Volunteer Survey Reveals: How to Increase Volunteer Motivation at Your Nonprofit Why This Matters: Because 83% of Volunteers Are Also More Willing to Donate Where They Volunteer Do you understand your volunteers? Do you know what motivates them to give freely of their time to help your nonprofit? Volunteer motivation is critical to understand if […]
Donors Who Don’t Get It & That You Can Afford to Lose
Donors Who Don’t Get It & That You Can Afford to Lose Don’t Let the Fear of Losing a Few Donors Cause You to Lose Many There’s a lot of fear in fundraising. If we send out too many emails, people will unsubscribe. If we ask for money too often, people will get angry. If […]
Do Donor Trips Actually Work?
Do Donor Trips Actually Work? For organizations with international projects, Donor Trips can be an effective way of raising money, but only if done right. When I started Philanthropy without Borders, I knew there were many organizations taking their donors to the field to experience the mission first hand, and that often the initiative was […]
Case Study: Why Nonprofits Fail
Case Study: Why Nonprofits Fail – Part 1 3 Sobering Lessons from a Nonprofit that Disappeared Read Part 2 – Get Five Foundations for a Fail-Proof Nonprofit If you’ve read any number of my blogs, you may have picked up that one injustice I care a lot about is human trafficking and all its twisted […]
The Worst Mistake Nonprofits Make on Their Thank You Pages
The Worst Mistake Nonprofits Make on Their Thank You Pages 5 Thank You Page Essentials to Unite Donors with Your Charity Thank you. There, that wasn’t so hard, was it? Thanking people who do things they didn’t have to do that benefit you and your cause is really important. Possibly the single most important thing […]
Customer Service Power Plays with Direct Mail, Email, and Phone, for Nonprofits AND Businesses
Customer Service Power Plays with Direct Mail, Email, and Phone for Nonprofits AND Businesses How to Get Attention, Produce Loyalty, and Generate Effortless Referrals (with real examples from my real estate lender) Do businesses need to stand out with eye-popping customer service that blasts far beyond the expectations of their customers? Yes, but only if they […]
Classified: Advanced Volunteer Appreciation Toolkit
Advanced Volunteer Appreciation Toolkit – For the Serious Fundraiser’s Eyes Only 3 Relational Strategies that Will Bond Volunteers to Your Cause for Life I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. ~William Shakespeare Volunteers make your mission succeed. So investing in them IS your mission. ~Dan Magill I’ve done a fair amount of […]
The Secret Super Power to Motivating Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers
The Secret Super Power to Motivating Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers How to Give Your Ambassadors a Plan and the Confidence to Surpass Their Fundraising Goals Peer-to-peer fundraising (also known as P2P fundraising) is one of the best strategies your nonprofit can use to advance the success of your mission. There are three main benefits it can […]
How Your Nonprofit Can Keep Your Volunteers Even If They Move Across the Country
9 Nearly Free Volunteer Retention Tactics Hardly Any Nonprofits Are Using For nonprofits, your volunteers are like the loyal customers a business comes to rely on. And volunteers can leave in much the same manner as customers – without a word. Your best volunteer ever can pull a Keyzer Soze with no warning. Like that, […]
