If you’re not already planning a fundraising campaign around #GivingTuesday, you should! It’s the perfect antidote to all the shopping happening on #BlackFriday and #CyberMonday. If you aren’t familiar with #GivingTuesday, it’s an online campaign started in 2012 that any nonprofit can participate in, allowing your cause to take … [Read more...]
Getting Real with Major Gifts: Interview with Tycely Williams
As you know, for the past few years, I have been blogging about how to raise major gifts. I thought it would be helpful to team up with some of my colleagues in the field to share their expertise on the subject. Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Tycely Williams, Director of Major Gifts at the YMCA of Metropolitan … [Read more...]
What Does Diversity Have To Do With Fundraising?
Why diversity? How often do you think about diversity at your organization? Do you have a diverse staff? Members of your board? Or the clients you serve? And, what does diversity mean to you, personally? What is Diversity? We're not only about race anymore, and it doesn’t just mean black and white. When we talk about diversity, … [Read more...]
How Are You Treating Your Donors? Time to Find Out!
How Are You Treating Your Donors? Do You Really Know? Over the summer, my good friends at Bloomerang conducted an experiment to see how nonprofit organizations treat their donors. The results were intriguing... How does your organization stack up? Discover How Well You Treat Your Donors It begs the question, how do you treat … [Read more...]
5 Practical Steps to Raising Major Gifts in Time for Year-End
The summer has flown by and the kids are back to school. It’s now time to think about your year-end fundraising. Statistics show that most organizations will raise up to 60% or more of their total fundraising in the last few months of the year, so the fall is always a very critical time of year. Although raising major gifts is a lengthy … [Read more...]
Lessons Learned from ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: Silly Stunt or Brilliant Fundraising?
It’s not often that I digress from writing about major gifts, but I had to make an exception for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you might be living under a rock -- or on an extremely extended vacation.) In fact, I can’t ever recall a fundraising campaign going viral in this manner, or of this … [Read more...]
Getting Real with Major Gifts: Interview with Jamie Roseman of Planned Parenthood
For more than a year, I have been blogging about how to raise major gifts. I thought it would be interesting to team up with some of my colleagues in the field to share some of their expertise on the subject. Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Jamie Roseman, at Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood … [Read more...]
Exactly How and Why to Use a Pre-Call Letter with a Donor
A pre-call letter is a letter (or email) you send to a donor to let them know you will be calling, so hopefully, they are more receptive to your call. Tim asked what I thought of pre-call letters, and how much detail they should have. He also wanted to know if you should really let prospective donors know why you’re calling, or if you … [Read more...]
Getting Real with Major Gifts: Interview with Keith Rhodes of BBBS
For more than a year, I have been blogging about how to raise major gifts. I thought it would be interesting to team up with some of my colleagues in the field to share some of their expertise on the subject. Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Keith Rhodes, the new Senior VP of Major Gifts for Big Brothers Big Sisters of … [Read more...]
Train my Board? Are You Crazy, I Don’t Have Time to Check my E-mail!
Not very often, but once in a while I invite a guest blogger to post on my site. My friend and colleague, Andrea Kihlstedt, along with her co-author, Andy Robinson, published a book this year, which is so amazing, I wanted to share it with you. The following post will give you some great ideas on how to engage your board in the fundraising … [Read more...]
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