Fundraising

Nonprofits continue, with undiminished passion, to seek out ways to change the world for the better. The historic gains the markets have seen in recent years have encouraged nonprofits to take on greater challenges than ever before. These are exciting times to be a fundraiser, but aren’t they always?...

2017 was a milestone year in charitable giving in the U.S., surpassing the $400 billion mark for the first time. Over that year, we’d done much thinking about the state of philanthropy as it related to the divisive political times...

Welcome back to #NPPTrendingNow, a weekly video series where NonProfit PRO Editor-in-Chief Nhu Te breaks down the top three coveted stories of the week. Here's what we've got going on for you this week: PayPal and Facebook partner for #GivingTuesday, building a powerful nonprofit board and donor journey mapping.

One skill a powerful nonprofit board needs is fundraising. This blog will focus on why this is important and tactics to help build a fundraising board culture in your organization...

To the benefit of nonprofits, their donors and the causes they serve, increasing donation efficiency can be tackled in surprisingly straightforward fashion...

In this episode of the Nonprofit Chatter, Nhu Te, Editor-in-Chief of NonProfit PRO, and Taylor Shanklin, VP of Marketing at Pursuant, explore insightful ideas behind integrated fundraising. We will be joined by Clay Buck, chief development officer of The Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada, and Rebecca Segovia, EVP at Pursuant...

Since you think you’ve heard all of the objections to holding your annual gala and you believe you’ve answered all of them, I challenge you to work around this one! It’s the granddaddy of strategic fundraising truisms...

Welcome back to #NPPTrendingNow, a weekly video series where NonProfit PRO Editor-in-Chief Nhu Te breaks down the top three coveted stories of the week. Here's what we've got going on for you this week: monthly donor retention, breaking down silos and hiring a consultant for a fundraising campaign...

Fundraising seems pretty simple, doesn’t it? You ask for money, you get money. Unfortunately for us, that’s not the way it works.

When you have been presented with a fundraising goal, the best next step is to determine the feasibility of that goal. One of the most challenging tasks is setting out to accomplish a fundraising goal without knowing whether or not you have the capacity to meet it. Here is how I recommend testing that fundraising goal by using a gift chart process...