Self-Care Strategies & Tips for Nonprofit Fundraisers
Inspiration, Nonprofit Leadership, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsOur team is sharing their best self-care strategies & tips to help you shine this year-end fundraising season. Wouldn’t it be nice to enter 2024 energized?
How to Approach Your Major Donors for Year-End Gifts
Major Gifts, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsIf you don’t do anything else in your year-end campaign, you must do this; visit your major donors & invite them to invest in your cause.
5 Things Smart Fundraisers Do in December
Major Gifts, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsWith the holidays approaching & year-end fundraising closing out, we are all stampeding towards our goals. Here are 5 things smart fundraisers always do in December.
Let Go of the Money to Hold Onto Your Donors
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsThe best way to develop a donor relationship is to back off from the money. Engage your donor's heart instead, and open the door to a BIG Ask.
Want Donors To Throw Money At You? Take This Approach
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsTransform your major gift visits and learn how to convince donors to give without making an ask.
How Important is Technology to Your High Net Worth Donors?
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsHow best to communicate with your high-net-worth donors? How important is your website and related technology to them?
What’s Motivating High Net Worth Donors Today? Part 1
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsDiscover the motivations of high-net-worth donors and get effective strategies for successful donor outreach.
Capital Campaign Roadblocks to Fundraising Success
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsGail Perry and Kathryn Gamble discuss challenging capital campaign roadblocks including poor feasibility study results, and 3 other issues.
#1 Year-End Fundraising Tip: Warm Up Your Donors Before The Ask
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising Campaigns If you are starting to prepare for your annual fall fundraising campaign, it's time to get busy! Here's a first step to a successful year-end fundraising campaign: Warm up your donors first, before you do anything else. Simply start reconnecting…
How to Write a Solicitation Letter for Donations
Annual Giving, Asking for Donations, Fundraising Strategy, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsAppeal letters are the backbone of your annual fundraising campaigns that your nonprofit absolutely relies on.
Investments & Stocks as Gifts: Your Biggest Opportunity for Year-End Giving
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsYour biggest opportunity for mega year-end gifts is to seek gifts of stock.
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas & Strategies
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsThere are three key steps you can take as early as possible that will help you engage the right leadership donors.
5 Tips for a Profitable Year-End Appeal Campaign
Donor-Centered Fundraising, Marketing & Communications, Year-End Fundraising Campaigns The busy fall fundraising season is upon us, and we want to be sure you nail your year-end campaign. All of our clients, whether they're running a capital campaign, or ramping up their major gift program, all ask for - and need - our guidance…
Gifts of Stock: Your Biggest Opportunity for the Year-End Giving Season
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsYour biggest opportunity for mega year-end gifts is to seek gifts of stock.
10 Steps to Write a End of Year Appeal Letter That Works
Asking for Donations, Marketing & Communications, Year-End Fundraising Campaigns Can you write a compelling fundraising appeal letter? It's one of the most basic skills for every fundraising professional. A fundraising appeal letter is both art and science. It seems that everyone struggles with appeal letters. Everyone…
Donor Renewals: The Easiest Gifts to Close for Your Year-End Campaign
Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising CampaignsDonor renewals offer the quickest, easiest gifts for your year-end campaign. Here's how to keep your current donors from slipping away.