It’s a fact: Other industries have received far worse hits than fundraising ever will and yet they’ve learned how to grow, change and adapt. In the face of rising challenges in fundraising, what steps can the smart fundraiser take to rise above it all and succeed despite the odds?
Pia Payne, associate publisher and brand manager of NonProfit PRO, and Donna Wilkins, founder and CEO of Charity Dynamics, have been tapped to submit a panel for the 2017 SXSW Conference’s social impact track in Austin, Texas. But they need your help to get there...
During a recent orientation session with two new major gift officers, one individual asked me to define the term “case for support.” He was very eager to learn what I thought about the concept. It is an essential part of the fundraising process, and I'm not the only one in the profession that feels this way...
Year-end annual fundraising is when the rubber meets the road. This is the time for creative fundraising campaigns! There’s tons of money at stake this fall. It’s the generous time of year, when donors think about giving. Donors give more, especially in December and the last days of the year...
In a mailbox that’s a little less crowded than just a few years ago, there’s still a daunting task at hand for fundraisers: how to stand out to the prospective member or donor. Even with a full box of exciting tools at your disposal, the good ol’ envelope is still just an envelope, right?...
As Garth Stein's "The Art of Racing in the Rain" opens, Enzo, the canine narrator, tells a story that will make you laugh, make you cry and make you laugh again. And we’re left with no doubt that Enzo would be as remarkable a human as he was a dog. And that he’d be one heck of a good fundraiser...
When it comes to marketing decisions, it’s not just about the immediate change. The long-term impact must be assessed as well…
Fundraising is an art and a science. It’s hard work and easy to screw up. Right this minute, you may be planning to make an ask and you may already have set yourself up to fail. For every 10 asks you make, you’ll get, on average, seven noes. And that’s if you are really good…
Alone, needing money to do a new project, without a development director or fundraising systems. No gift history. No fundraising experience. Just a big idea for a music project that promised to do what art does so well: get people thinking differently about an important topic—in this case, war. That describes musician and composer Theresa Wong...
Did you know that for small nonprofits, one out of every $5 is raised online? And about half of individual donor revenue comes from donors giving less than $1,000? In addition, small nonprofits retain about 60 percent of their donors from year to year—that’s astounding! For nonprofits with budgets that are less than $2 million,…
