GiveBIG 2020 – Everything You Need to Know for this Washington-Only Spring Fundraising Campaign See Below for 7 GiveBIG Fundraising Campaign Ideas If you are a Washington-based nonprofit, you are probably eligible to participate in the 10th annual one-day GiveBIG fundraiser on May 6th, 2020. If you haven’t heard of it, GiveBIG began ten years […]
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Attention Nonprofits in the Pacific Northwest
Attention Nonprofits in the Pacific Northwest: Are You Coming to the 2020 AFP Annual Conference in Seattle? See Below for a Special Conference-Exclusive Way to Improve Your Fundraising Copy ProActive Content will be back at the 2020 Association for Fundraising Professionals Annual Conference this year, and this year’s event is looking like yet another great […]
9 Steps to Rediscover Your Passion for Your Nonprofit Work
9 Steps to Rediscover Your Passion for Your Nonprofit Work Remember Your ‘Why’, and You’ll Overcome Discouragement and Weariness Nonprofit work is hard. For most nonprofits, the difficulty doesn’t just relate to fundraising. Most of you are doing work that touches some part of this world that has great needs, experiences traumatic suffering, or endures […]
5 Foundations for Building a Nonprofit That Changes the World
5 Foundations for Building a Nonprofit That Changes the World Why Nonprofits Fail, Part 2: Your Charity is a Business, not a Passion Project Read Part 1 here Your nonprofit is a business. If you started your nonprofit, then you are an entrepreneur. This is true whether you want to admit it or not. It’s […]
What Every Nonprofit Wishes They Could Say When People Complain about ‘Overhead Expenses’
What Every Nonprofit Wishes They Could Say When People Complain about ‘Overhead Expenses’ I am not a nonprofit. But I work with a lot of them. And in that time, I’ve come to identify with them on a particular frustration. Today, I’m going to bat on their behalf with a (mostly) playful rant about nonprofit […]
You’ll be Shocked to See How Much Money Is Leaking from Your Fundraising Auction
You’ll be Shocked to See How Much Money Is Leaking from Your Fundraising Auction 8 Auction Revenue Sources and 3 Advanced Marketing Secrets To extract the maximum revenue from your fundraising auction demands your creative attention on two different tiers. Tier One includes auction activities common to many events. If your nonprofit does annual fundraising […]
15 Reasons Why People Give to Charity that Will Spark Wildly Successful New Fundraising Ideas
Top 15 Reasons Why People Give to Charity that Will Spark Wildly Successful New Fundraising Ideas Is Your Nonprofit Appealing to All Your Donors’ Motivations for Giving? Lots of people give to charity. And many of those people love it. It’s important to keep that in mind, because fundraising is hard. But contrary to what […]
How to Build Trust With Donors
How to Build Trust With Donors Much is made in some circles about vetting charities before donating to them.Sites like Charity Navigator are often put forth as places to go so you can verify a nonprofit is for real. Articles like this one (as is typical, not written by fundraising professionals) cite statistics like “35% of people don’t trust […]
5 Fundraising Auction Failures – Real Case Study
Fundraising Auction Failures: How One Nonprofit Bungled Their Auction to the Tune of Losing $100,000 Fundraising auctions that are worth the effort need to do more than just make some money. They need to collect all the money people showed up expecting to give. Don’t miss that point. People come to fundraising auctions expecting […]
The Ultimate Fundraising Case Study – Idea-Packed Fundraising Book
The Ultimate Fundraising Case Study Is Here! New Book Asks: Is Your Nonprofit Ready to Stop Figuring All This Out On Your Own? Read 5-Star Review Here! #TheUltimateFundraisingCaseStudy Good case studies have immense value. They tell a story of what someone else has done to solve a problem or achieve a goal. If you’re trying […]
Copywrite Or Copyright?
What Is Copywriting? It’s becoming comical, but many times when I tell people I’m a copywriter, they start conjuring images of angry consumers and artists battling it out for content ownership. They remember the Napster-Metallica fight in the 90s, and the more recent conflict in which movie studios put the illegal downloading and file sharing […]
3 Simple Fundraising Tips: Don’t leave your donors hanging
3 Simple Fundraising Tips: Don’t Leave Your Donors Hanging Sometimes it’s hard to figure out why a fundraising attempt falls short of the goal. It seems like you promoted it well enough. You thought the loyal supporters would come through. But for some reason, it didn’t happen. Even for experienced nonprofit professionals, sometimes the best […]
Our Non-Profit Just Held a Fundraising Event. Now What?
Do Not Neglect: 3 Steps You Must Take After Every Fundraising Event A lot of work goes into planning and executing a successful fundraising event. Whether it’s a scavenger hunt, a rally, a walk, an auction, or something else specific to your area of influence, your staff does a lot of legwork to make it […]
