Pamela Grow

MARCH 10, 2021

In the Simple Development Systems’ donor communications model, we’ve always recommended both a print and an e-newsletter. And there’s a reason for that. Your print newsletter serves as a stewardship device, one where you share your donor’s impact and simply make them feel good about their support. When done well, your print newsletter can be an additional source of revenue that can generate as much — if not more — than a fundraising appeal.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 22, 2021

I was talking to an administrative coordinator recently who had just started at a small nonprofit in Toronto. Although she loved her new role, she was having some trouble figuring out who to reach out to about some industry questions she had. Since.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As crowdfunding continues to become an increasingly popular form of fundraising for a wide range of causes, the need for a profitable and easy-to-use platform grows as well. GoFundMe is one of the leading crowdfunding platforms in both the nonprofit and individual fundraising spaces. With its low fees and high rates of success, it can be an excellent choice for all sorts of critical needs, from medical bills to church campaigns and more.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Inspiration4 returned from orbit Saturday, raising millions for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the process. Though the campaign goal was met, it will continue raising money through February 2022.

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Candid

MAY 12, 2021

People often ask us, “When will the [year just passed] 990s be available?” Because of the way Form 990 deadlines work, the answer is complicated. There’s no universal date for filing 990s; instead, the end of an organization’s fiscal year determines when its 990 is due at the IRS. Add in six-month filing extensions and IRS processing time, and it can be two years before we receive all the returns for a specific year.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 23, 2021

Nonprofits understand the importance of sending acknowledgement letters and making phone calls to thank their donors. These are simple and effective ways of thanking your donors, but creating Thank You videos can help you show rather than tell your supporters how much you appreciate them. By creating thank you videos for your supporters, you are able to give thanks in a more exciting and engaging way.

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ProposalPRO

DECEMBER 30, 2021

4 Ways that Grant-Writing Can Ruin Your Personality I’ve written nearly 1,000 government grants over the past 25 years, so if I have a bad personality, you know why. But if you also are writing grants, and especially if you’re writing government grants, you are at risk of suffering the same occupational hazard. Don’t say you weren’t warned! Warning Signs #1.

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Article by Robyn Zimmann I know, you’re thinking “Jeez Louise, I’m barely through with 2021’s giving season, can I please take a break?” No. No, you cannot take a break. Or, let’s just say your break depends on how you answer this little handful of questions I have for you. What’s going on with your organizations thank-you letters right now? The donations have been pouring in (hopefully!

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

DECEMBER 12, 2021

When it comes to fundraising, sometimes the small things make a big difference. This is certainly true of your non-profit’s donation receipt. When donors make a gift, the donation receipt is one of the first things they will see, and it will set the tone for how they feel about having made the gift. Donor stewardship is extremely important for your non-profit.

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Dr. Richard Huysmans

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Four tips for writing faster and better: Summarise using sentences. Write as if no one is reading. Write, just write. Join a writing group. Transcript: Good day, bakers, writers, and rock stars! Each week I host a writing program.

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Pamela Grow

APRIL 6, 2021

When JodiJoy O’Keefe decided to introduce a monthly giving program at her organization, Bethany Health Care , she did it by way of an invitation. Here’s what I love about this monthly giving ask: Specific ask amounts paint a clear picture of what the donor is funding. It’s easy for the donor to give, either by returning the reply device or going to an easily found URL.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 20, 2021

First launched in 2017 as a short-form video sharing app used mostly by teens, TikTok has exploded in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. As people look for entertainment and connection during long periods of lockdown, the hilarity, quirkiness.

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The Fundraising Coach

DECEMBER 15, 2021

I've been doing LOTS of trainings in the last few months. And getting a lot of the same types of questions. They generally sound like: "How do I know when a right time to ask so-and-so?". "How do I know if that asking amount is too much?". "This is what happened during the ask. I haven't heard back in weeks. Do you think I offended her?". Perhaps you have asked some of these yourself.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Over the years, I’ve worked with nonprofits of all sizes — small, midsize, large — when it comes to monthly donors. A few of those smaller organizations started out earlier this year with 15 monthly donors. Now, a few months later, they are at 65 by introducing just a few additional ways to generate new monthly donors.

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Candid

JULY 6, 2021

How often do you read about the wonders of automation for nonprofits? Chances are, you’ve seen a little bit about this everywhere. As technology continues advancing , we see more articles discussing how automation takes pressure off of staff members and how organizations need to increase their use of software to optimize their communications with supporters. .

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Penelope Burk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Welcoming Submissions for Penelope Burk’s Donor-Centered Communications Project Two critical points of contact determine whether donors stay loyal or quickly abandon your cause after giving only once or twice. First, a great thank you letter (timely and original) reassures your supporters that they just gave to the right cause. Second, a compelling post-gift communication (not an ask, but an update), makes donors want to give again.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 14, 2021

With Giving Tuesday in the rear view, it’s tempting to forgo a year-end giving campaign and coast to the end of the year, catching up on work and enjoying the holidays. But don’t! This is NOT the time to take your foot off the gas! A year-end giving campaign is your chance to win over donors when they are in a giving frame of mind. Almost one-third of total giving to nonprofits happens in December, and 12% happens in the LAST THREE DAYS of December , according to Network for Good.

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ProposalPRO

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Ever read through a federal Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and exclaim, “What are these people thinking?” You wouldn’t be the first. But you may be able to change future NOFOs by taking advantage of the U.S. government’s notice and comment process, also called the public comment process. What is Public Comment? Public comment is your opportunity to influence how laws and regulations are made and implemented, and to protest undue bureaucracy.

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

AUGUST 26, 2021

It wasn’t that long ago that headlines were announcing that email is “dead”, “dying”, “obsolete” and “so 90’s”. Well, there are over 4 billion email users with in-boxes containing an average of 200 emails, so let’s just for fun pretend that email isn’t dead, and that for many nonprofit organizations it’s still the easiest and most cost-effective way to reach our constituents.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Nearly every non-profit uses fundraising letters to raise money. They do that for one simple reason: fundraising letters work. Whether you’re using a snail mail letter sent with a stamp or an e-mail sent with a “donate now!” link, chances are your non-profit is sending fundraising letters to your donors on a regular basis. The truth is, though, that most fundraisers I know worry about writing those letters… they worry that there’s some secret sauce they’re not privy to, or that they need years

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Blue Avocado

JULY 12, 2021

“We nonprofits often put a great deal of time and effort into our annual reports, especially compared with how briefly most recipients will look at them,” begins the Blue Avocado article, The Secret to a High Impact Annual Report. “Rather than slave and anguish over the parts almost no one will read anyway,” the author […]. The post Still Publishing Donor Names?

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sarah writes: Our organization is overdue for creating a welcome email to send after someone joins our mailing list. Right now it’s just the standard message that comes with our email service provider (ConstantContact). What else should it include? I do so many things in this job (grants, donor comms, events, etc.) that I don’t have the time to change it up regularly.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Take a look at your website. Would it encourage you to donate? If the answer is no, your potential donors probably feel the same way. Think of your website as your personal assistant. Once set up properly to receive donations, it makes it easy for.

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Michael Rosen Says...

MAY 19, 2021

The American Council on Gift Annuities has announced suggested maximum rates for Charitable Gift Annuities. The ACGA Board approved the new rate tables at its meeting on April 26, 2021. The new rates remain unchanged from the existing rates.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 13, 2021

In the United States, about 1.5 million nonprofits exist. But, then a natural question is how many of them fail? As we know, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as many as one-third of nonprofits were at risk of closing their doors. So, what are the top reasons nonprofits fail—aside from a situation like the pandemic? And more importantly, if you're a nonprofit leader and founder, how do you avoid it happening?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

One of the most common questions Candid’s team of expert librarians get on our Ask Us page is “how do I get a grant?” To help answer this question, we’ve created a short (two-minute) video with some quick tips for nonprofits seeking grants. In it, you’ll hear three top tips about how to: demonstrate your nonprofit’s credibility, find a funder that’s likely to be interested in the work you do, and tailor your approach to speak to a funder’s interests.

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Penelope Burk

AUGUST 3, 2021

There’s some buzz around the decline in the number of American households who give to charity, or at least the number who gave in 2018, which is the year that was studied. Should fundraisers and not-for-profit decision-makers be concerned? No, because they have bigger fish to fry. 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.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A good fundraising email subject line can make or break your request for funds. You see, most people focus just on the email itself and the subject line is an afterthought. Big mistake. You see, if the email doesn’t get opened, you get no donations. Read that again. Your fundraising email subject line has ONE job: to entice the recipient to open the email.

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ProposalPRO

AUGUST 31, 2021

Asymmetric information can be a disadvantage, especially for nonprofit organizations that are new to the world of government grants. Or an advantage to experienced proposers. What is it? Asymmetric information refers to the information one organization may have that gives it an advantage over another. America’s free-market economy works when everyone has access to the same set of relevant information about market conditions , i.e., symmetrical information.

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

JULY 15, 2021

I am so excited to introduce to you the newest member of the CNPS team: Robyn Zimmann, Senior Consultant. Robyn is someone I've known and worked with for years and for whom I have immense respect. She actually used to be my boss and in a truly weird reversal of roles I now find myself hiring her. But I'm pretty jazzed about the prospect of getting to work with her again, especially since I still to this day use many of the processes and systems that she taught me years ago and I absolutely credi

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Your non-profit does great work, but you don't have unlimited resources (such as time, money, or people-power). That's why your organization needs to think strategically in everything you do. The world is counting on your non-profit in a systematic way, without burning out your team. Thinking strategically means that you don’t just “fall into” doing things at your non-profit.

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Dr. Richard Huysmans

MAY 16, 2021

If you’ve ever tried writing a grant, proposal, cover letter, social media or podcast you’ll have likely encountered difficulties being creative. One approach to overcoming this is to use oblique strategies. Transcript: One of the things about grant, and proposal or thesis writing is sometimes, we need to get more creative.

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Pamela Grow

APRIL 15, 2021

Whether you’re a new development director who has just been tasked with getting out next week’s fundraising appeal, or you’ve been procrastinating on writing that letter, you’re sure to appreciate this guide to writing your best fundraising appeal. In no time! In this 30-minute training, you’ll discover how to outline your letter, how to write your best lead, design secrets and more.

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