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Perfecting Your Fundraising Strategy in the New Year

With the new year comes a fresh start. You have a full 365 days to fill with fundraising activities, social activities, and positive impact activities fueled by gifts from donors.

You have another year of efforts under your belt, a year that was probably full of successes and less-so. To make the most of the fresh new year, you need to incorporate all that you’ve learned. If you’re ready to make the most of fundraising in 2020, to make every day a campaign day— begin with revisiting your fundraising strategy. Read the full story.

How to Effectively Cultivate Board Roles and Responsibilities

Taking the appropriate steps to ensure that board members are doing their part. You just elected a handful of new board members. What’s next? Giving them a big white binder? Conducting an orientation?

That’s all fine and good, but do those things really help volunteers understand their roles and responsibilities as board members? Read the full story.

Year-End Fundraising: 5 Strategies for Small Nonprofits

The year-end fundraising season is the single largest opportunity for nonprofits to raise the needed donations to fuel their next year of activity.

This is especially true for small nonprofits, often operating with smaller staffs, fewer fundraising resources, and a smaller donor base. These organizations need to make the most of the holiday giving season. Read the full story.

What Every Nonprofit Needs to Know

Gift range charts are a valuable resource for any nonprofit tackling a major, strategic fundraising initiative. When done correctly, the charts provide direction, decrease stress, and can even be a relationship-building tool in the grantwriting process.

We’re going to explore the essentials of gift range charts through the following points:

  • What are gift range charts?
  • When are gift range charts a helpful resource?
  • How do you create a gift range chart?
  • How do you use a gift range chart in your fundraising?

If you’ve never tackled a strategic fundraising project on this scale before, using professional-grade techniques like gift range charts, organized by fundraising tiers, is a smart move. Read the full story.

Major Fundraising Campaigns: A Complete Guide to Get Started

Planning a major fundraising campaign, whether a capital campaign or your year-end giving campaign, can be an overwhelming process.

From setting goals to thoroughly examining your current fundraising processes, planning for one of these campaigns takes time and careful consideration. And, that’s before considering what’s trending in fundraising, which could certainly affect your strategy.

If you break this preparation down into a few steps, it becomes significantly more manageable. Following these steps will give you a solid start to your next campaign: Read the full story.

Top Nonprofit Strategies With Fundraising Expert Aly Sterling

Having interacted with all types of organizations over the years as donor, employee and consultant, I can say that many nonprofits encounter similar challenges to strategic planning, fundraising and board leadership.

While it’s comforting to know that you’re not alone, you’re still left with the ultimate dilemma of how to address these issues. Read the full story.

Give Gab – 5 Steps to Conducting a Successful Nonprofit Feasibility Study

Feasibility studies are some of the cornerstone elements of planning fundraising campaigns for nonprofits. Before your organization invests time and money into your next big campaign, you need to know whether or not your team is ready to take on the challenge. Read the full story.

Click and Pledge – Fundraising Consultants: Why Hiring One Could Benefit Your Nonprofit

When your nonprofit is behind in your fundraising goals, it can be a little intimidating to ask for help. Nevertheless, hiring a fundraising consultant can not only lift your nonprofit out of a fundraising slump, but craft new strategies to ensure a steady flow of donations in the future. Read the full story.

Abila – 4 Things to Remember When Crafting Nonprofit Staffing Roles

Your nonprofit staff members are some of the most important individuals within your organization’s community. From your development director to your major gift officer, your team will need to be built with philanthropy-oriented and hardworking people. Read the full story.

Online Fundraising: 5 Tactics for Modern Nonprofits

Fundraising, like any other industry, has undergone a massive shift in strategy since the invention of the internet. Now that you’re able to connect with a wider population than ever before, your fundraising outreach can soar to new heights. Before you can take advantage of all of the benefits that online fundraising offers, however, you have to adapt some of your techniques to fit your new medium. Read the full story.

Double the Donation – 11 Nonprofit Consulting Firms for Your Philanthropy Needs

Aly Sterling Philanthropy is our top choice for nonprofit consulting firms because this firm offers a wide range of services to help your organization. From capital campaigns to leadership training to fundraising strategy, these consultants have the experience to implement sustainable solutions. Read the full story.

Nonprofit Tech Solutions: A Guide to Boost Donations

Your nonprofit relies on donations for everything you do. From the smallest operational cost to the largest capital campaign project, using donations to fund your organization’s mission is key to nonprofit success. So why wouldn’t you want to boost donations to your nonprofit as much as possible? To start boosting donations, start with a solid fundraising strategy. Read the full story.

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