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Using Your Fundraising CRM Software to Its Full Potential

Blackbaud

Optimizing the use of our fundraising CRM gives us room to take on new projects and adopt new features without a daily struggle against our own databases. Over the long term, optimizing how you use your CRM will help you achieve more of your objectives. Digitally mature nonprofits are, in fact, 3.5

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Convert the Next Wave of Rage Donors into Lifelong Supporters

Blackbaud

Unless the donors send a note of outrage in the comments section of your donation form, you might not have definitive proof that theirs is a rage gift. But you do have evidence in your fundraising CRM. How can you pinpoint a rage donor among your many first-time spontaneous givers ?

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What is Online Fundraising? A Digital Way Nonprofits Can Increase Support

Blackbaud

Quick Definition Online fundraising is the process of raising donations for a cause, project, or organization through digital platforms such as websites, social media apps, and email campaigns.

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4 Tips for Effective Wealth & Philanthropic Screening

Blackbaud

Since major gifts are, by definition, the largest individual donations your nonprofit receives, they typically come from your wealthiest donors. Constituent relationship management (CRM) platform. Your nonprofit may have viable major donor prospects among its current supporters, so digging into your CRM data can help you find them.

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Leveling up your major gifts program

Candid

Depending on your organizational culture, you may need to expand your definition of who is a major donor. Start by selecting a gift level and definition for major donor that aligns with your organization’s data and values. Build your team. Major gifts fundraising is a team sport. Identify a point person to be your team captain.

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3 Donor Acknowledgement Ideas & Implementation Tips

Get Fully Funded

Use the information in your CRM to collect and leverage the most correct and accurate information. For more information on how to obtain the most effective information from supporters to store in your CRM, check out Snowball’s guide to asking the right questions on your donation page. A thank you for their time and money.

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How to Find and Work with a Nonprofit Virtual Assistant

Get Fully Funded

You can definitely find a VA to do those. Someone local will still have to pick up and deposit checks, but the VA can enter the data in your CRM or on your spreadsheet. Chances are that most of your tasks will fall into the first category. Track donations: This data entry task makes sense for a VA.

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