Regardless of everything you're hearing or reading these days, major gift fundraising is where transformational philanthropy happens. Not Twitter and Facebook. If you want to accomplish big goals in your...
Fundraising Best Practice Series: Volume 7, Upgrading Donors
Upgrading donors is an essential part of your nonprofit's fundraising program. Or at least it should be. But the upgrade process isn't just about asking all your donors for more...
Fundraising Best Practice Series: Volume 6, Special Events
Nonprofit special events are not my favorite thing, by far. But the certainly have their place in the tool kit. Successful events rely on a number of moving parts, a...
Fundraising Best Practice Series: Volume 5, Social Media
I need to start this post off by confessing something first. The title of this post is Fundraising Best Practice Series: Volume 5, Social Media. But you need to know...
Fundraising Best Practice Series: Volume 4, Thank You Receipting
What better time of year is there than Thanksgiving week to talk about thanking your donors? This week's best practice area covers the thank you process, and what you can...
Give to the Max Day 2011: A Success?
By all indications, Give to the Max Day 2011 was a success in Minnesota. Nonprofits in Minnesota raised $13.4 million (34% more than was raised during the same event in...
Fundraising Best Practice Series: Volume 3, Online Donation Pages
This third installment in the Fundraising Best Practice Series will highlight online donation pages. In most cases your donation page is the only online vehicle for a donor or potential...
The Dirty Little Secret About Peer-to-Peer Event Donors
The dirty little secret about peer-to-peer event donors is... Looks like they might not be all that great of donors after all. Before I get skewered by my friends who...
Fundraising Best Practice Series: Volume 2, E-mail Fundraising
Integrated fundraising isn't an option these days. If your organization isn't integrating online and offline, you're missing a huge opportunity. And chances are you're losing donors to organizations that are...
Combating Charity Navigator’s Predictions for Flat Year-End Giving
Charity Navigator just released the results of a year-end giving survey of donors to 101 charities. The survey found that the majority of donors expect to give at the same...