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Nonprofit Crisis Response Tip-a-Day-DO-Dah!

Clairification

During the 2008-09 worldwide recession, many charities cut back on fundraising and marketing. Research collected from donors in response to the coronavirus pandemic showed: Giving, and fundraising, was increasingly seen as good. We know from past experience this won’t end well. Some of them still haven’t recovered.

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What History Teaches Us | How to fundraise NOW

Pamela Grow

I launched my consulting career smack-dab in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis. In transitioning to fundraising, I always had three words running through my brain. Because when you go silent, when you pull back your fundraising out of fear thats when you guarantee a downturn in giving. Fundraising isnt a cost center.

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Community foundations’ grantmaking exceeded fundraising in FY 2023 

Candid

Community foundations grantmaking exceeded fundraising in fiscal year 2023 For the second straight year, survey results show year-over-year increases in grantmaking by community foundations across all size cohorts, even as fundraising totals continued to decline. billion in total fundraising.

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Does Your Nonprofit Think Too Small?

Clairification

In 2008 during the big recession, and 2020 during the pandemic, all I heard was cut, cut, cut. 9 Things about Nonprofit Fundraising That Puzzle Me Why do we persist in thinking money is the root of all evil? No one wanted to talk about how to grow, grow, grow so that more (not less) needs could be met.

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Avoid the 3 Biggest Mistakes of Fundraising in a Recession

The Fundraising Coach

Last month, I shared some ideas on fundraising in an age of the Covid-19 coronavirus. What is a nonprofit fundraiser to do? In my time as a nonprofit fundraiser, we've seen recessions related to the dot-com bust, the 9/11 attacks, and the housing market implosion around 2008 and 2009. So seek fundraising experts.

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Experts Offer Advice on Creating Livestream Fundraising Event

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The gaming fundraising event Extra Life, for example, has raised more than $100 million for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals since 2008. By Emily Haynes Getty Images Livestreams can bring in big sums. Plus: Read how livestreamers are upping their game to raise money for charity.

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Is the Diminishing Number of Donors an Issue for Fundraisers?

Penelope Burk

Should fundraisers and not-for-profit decision-makers be concerned? It’s Money that Matters The job of fundraisers is to make more money and they have consistently accomplished that for the last forty years. Fundraisers can bring in more money OR more donors, but not both. No, because they have bigger fish to fry. million [4].