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How a Targeted Second Ask Surpassed Its Goal With a Nearly 50% Response Rate

NonProfit PRO

The American Battlefield Trust was $27,000 short of projected revenue for its effort to save 128 acres of Civil War Battlefield in Perryville, Kentucky, in the fall of 2019. As this particular track of land would essentially complete the preservation of the Perryville site – the last piece of the puzzle – they had to figure out a way.

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Mentor New York’s Virtual Fundraising Event Raises 12x Their Fundraising Goal With CauseVox

CauseVox

Imagine this: you set what you think is an ambitious fundraising goal for your virtual event and then watch as you double, triple, quadruple that goal in the days leading up to the event. Then, you cross the finish line – and end up raising 12 times your fundraising goal ! Ah, the powers of technology.

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Can a Grant-Making Competition Stop Rich Donors From Getting Cold Feet?

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

In 2019, Lever for Change spun off from the MacArthur Foundation as a separate organization with an eye-popping goal: to drive $1 billion in philanthropic funding over four years to promising nonprofits.

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CSR Execs on Trends to Pay Attention to in 2019 [SPONSORED]

Selfish Giving

To that end, instead of just giving you our opinion on what is evolving and trending in CSR for 2019 and beyond, we went to the professionals living that work every day. It features many insights and takeaways around eight 2019 trends. At Catalist we like to say that strategy is just opinion until it is grounded in data.

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

Big philanthropy’s support of HBCUs declined from 2002 to 2019 An examination of trends in philanthropic giving to HBCUs underscores a history of underfunding. billion in philanthropic dollars from 2015 to 2019, compared with HBCUs’ $303 million. By comparison, funding to HBCUs averaged $61 million from 2015 through 2019.

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8 transformative things I’ve learned from 35 years in fundraising

Future Fundraising Now

Trying to make your fundraising look “nice” is not a great goal! This post first appeared on January 24, 2019.) I don’t quite want to come out in favor of “ugly” fundraising, because that’s not really the point. But plain, out-of-date, messy, or strange fundraising does well consistently.

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Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize for Public Libraries

Library Grants

Kline Family Foundation and Library Journal , was created in 2019 to recognize the public library as a vital community asset. Deadline: July 31, 2024 The Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize, developed in partnership between the Gerald M.