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The holiday season is a busy and significant time for nonprofit organizations. This guide explores five essential strategies for year-end fundraising success.

How fundraisers find donors in ALL the right places. When an organization begins a fundraising effort, it tends to be special events. We dream up creative new ways to hold auctions, cook-offs, bake sales and golf outings. While these events bring people in our door – regardless of whether they are interested in our cause or not – we quickly learn the return on investment (ROI) for these events is low…

Did you know that peer-to-peer fundraising can actually be one of the best ways to raise money during your capital campaign’s public phase? In this article, we are going to focus on pairing peer-to-peer fundraising with the public phase of your capital campaign.

If you’re preparing for a capital campaign, then you’re probably becoming more and more aware of how much work goes into planning and running a fundraiser of this magnitude. Well, we’re here to tell you that there are ways you can keep your campaign on the right track. We have nine best practices to help you with your capital campaign.

Millennials, Millennials, Millennials!

What’s the big deal with Millennials? Has everyone forgotten about Generation X?

For a brief spell in the 90s, Generation X – my generation – dominated public interest and headlines as the hopeless “slacker” generation, originators of grunge rock and 70’s nostalgia. (Did you catch the “Brady Bunch” reference above?)

And what you can do about them now…

By Jen Pendleton, vice president, Aly Sterling Philanthropy.

If you’re like me, your inbox over-runneth with good intentions and unopened blog posts. I love this stuff but can’t get through all of it. Sometimes I just want someone to tell me what I need to know! If you agree, this is your lucky day! I’ve put together my own little forecast on nonprofit trends for 2017 – a summary of what you NEED to know as we march on forward to another exciting year.

Make 2016 your best year yet! Register for The Fundraising Series, the best fundraising training around! This three-part workshop is designed to provide nonprofit leaders with a deeper understanding of why donors give and how your nonprofit can raise more money.

We spend a lot of time in the office talking about where philanthropy is headed. Changing donor demographics and new technology are turning the current fundraising model upside down, and there are significant changes on the horizon. It’s a fascinating topic that impacts the nonprofit community in real, tangible ways. Are you staying informed on trends in giving?

Are you using this information to evaluate your current processes and make adjustments? Are you seizing opportunities to use technology and create new partnerships?