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Don’t Blow Your Post-Holiday Opportunity to Thank Your Nonprofit Supporters

Clairification

For good things once a year is not enough. Why do so many of us only eat turkey once a year? Or pumpkin pie? I’ve no idea! It’s surely not rational. These are special foods we value and take great delight in. Yet we get into a bad habit of thinking on auto pilot. If it’s not Thanksgiving, the idea of roasting a turkey or making cranberry sauce doesn’t even enter most or our heads.

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Why Your Organization Needs an Online Member Directory

Wild Apricot

Does trying to connect your organization’s members feel a little bit like herding cats? Then an online member directory is just what you need! One of the number one members’ benefits you can offer is the opportunity to network and connect.

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How to Engage Employees at Your Nonprofit

Not Your Father's Charity

Have you ever had a bad day at the office with your team? The answer is almost certainly yes if you spent a day in an office. It happens to the best of us. But what if you’re hitting roadblock after roadblock with your team? How can you get your team back on track? After all, learning how to engage employees is key to a successful nonprofit organization.

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How Affinity-Based Fundraising Is Changing Everything

NonProfit PRO

Everyone knows the two main things to consider when fundraising are numbers and intent. But there’s a crucial third leg to fundraising, and that’s affinity. Instead of looking at broad-strokes behaviors, like recent purchases, affinity considers the underlying profile and motivations of donors.

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AI for Grant Writing: 20+ ChatGPT Prompts You Can Use

This prompt guide for ChatGPT contains 20+ tested ChatGPT prompts, along with tips on how to use this tool the best way. Nonprofits can engage with ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas, refine project plans, and craft compelling narratives for grant proposals.

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Happy Days of Thanks(for)Giving

Clairification

This Thursday folks in the United States will celebrate what I consider to be the social benefit sector holiday of the year. So it’s time for my annual Thanks(for)Giving post! Just think about what ‘Thanksgiving’ means. Literally, it’s a day for giving thanks for blessings. Who , and what, do you count among yours? I know when we go around the table at my family Thanksgivings, saying what we’re grateful for this year, most folks respond with a people-based answer.

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Nonprofit Planned Giving: 4 Commonly Asked Questions

Greater Giving

For most nonprofits, donations from individuals make up the largest portion of the funding you bring in every year. Within that category, only a small amount of income comes from a large number of small and mid-sized donors, and the rest comes from a few major donors. While major donors could give to your organization in a number of ways, one of the most useful but most overlooked is planned giving.

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4 Fallacies of Year-End Giving

NonProfit PRO

As the end of the year approaches and we enter the holiday season, nonprofits ramp up their efforts to encourage people to give back. Yet, there’s no reason why donations should be higher at the end of the year. Here are several reasons why it's a bad idea to use year-end giving as a significant fundraising strategy.

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3 Meaningful Ways to Say Thanks

Veritus Group

The best way to say thank you is to do so authentically. Here are a few ways you can show gratitude to your donors and your team. The post 3 Meaningful Ways to Say Thanks appeared first on Veritus Group.

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Double the Donation and Fundmetric Answer the Call for Advanced Matching Gifts Integration

Double the Donation

Double the Donation is proud to unveil a new partnership with the fundraising AI ecosystem Fundmetric to provide integrated matching gifts functionality to schools, universities, and nonprofits. Fundmetric and Double the Donation’s integration combines the power of 360MatchPro, the world’s leading matching gift automation platform, with the modern flow Fundmetric’s fundraising environment.

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Across the Generations: 5 Tips for Fundraising to All Ages

The Fundraising Coach

Nonprofits are currently in a unique position, interacting with as many as five different generations at any given point (from the Silent Generation to Gen Z). Each generation is as different as the next, meaning your organization requires a strategic fundraising approach to effectively engage with supporters from all demographics. It’s not enough to create a one-size-fits-all fundraising and marketing strategy to use for all supporters.

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Survey: Nearly 1 in 4 American Donors Increased Giving Due to Rising Inflation

NonProfit PRO

Donors with charitable giving budgets gave almost four times more money, on average, in the past 12 months and are two times more likely to give more money over the next 12 months due to rising inflation.

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Question of the Month: 3 Things You Cannot Sacrifice as an MGO

Veritus Group

In this Question of the Month video, Karen and Jeff outline the 3 essential tasks that major gift officers absolutely must do. The post Question of the Month: 3 Things You Cannot Sacrifice as an MGO appeared first on Veritus Group.

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7 Nonprofit Holiday Bloopers

NonProfit PRO

Well, as a special Thanksgiving message, I wanted to share some holiday bloopers I’ve seen recently. I typically go through my stack of mail once a week to scan in new ideas or things I particularly like because I learn from what you as fundraisers do at your nonprofits.

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Strategic Planning Themes: A Look Back at the Past Few Years

NonProfit PRO

What are strategic planning themes? How could I identify them? How might they evolve year-to-year? Understanding themes and trends offers numerous benefits to you as a leader since they can help inform decisions and strategies.

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Charity Begins at Home

NonProfit PRO

I tried years ago to instruct my children the importance of giving and charity for others. My parents taught me that it was better to give than receive. I love to give and see the look on someone’s face when they receive a gift, especially those who deeply appreciate the act of giving.

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Everyday Philanthropy: The Power and Joy of Giving Back

NonProfit PRO

As nonprofit leaders and their teams know all too well, every gift matters and makes a difference to the communities nonprofits serve. But philanthropy isn’t limited to giving money. There are many ways to be a philanthropist and advance the causes that are important to you.

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More Than 2000 Museums Across the Globe to Participate in Museum Store Sunday

NonProfit PRO

On Sunday, November 27, 2022, Museum Store Sunday will commence with the current count at 2,033 museum stores and cultural institutions across the globe participating in this annual event.

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Walmart Teams Up with Customers to Give Away $5M in Local Communities

NonProfit PRO

Walmart announced the launch of a new giving campaign as part of its Spark Good initiative, supporting local organizations across the country with up to $5 million going to nonprofits this holiday season.