Center for Major Gifts

JANUARY 25, 2025

A defined moves management framework makes your fundraising efforts more efficient and fosters genuine, long-term connections with donors. Getting Ready to Implement a Moves Management System at Your Nonprofit Before implementing a moves management process, your organization must have well-defined short-term and long-term revenue targets.

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Gail Perry Group

JULY 31, 2024

Development Office: Your fundraising team serves as your campaign's engine. A well-oiled development machine is absolutely crucial for reaching your fundraising goals. Ready to turn your campaign goals into reality? The post #1 Capital Campaign Readiness: Is Your Nonprofit Ready to Launch a Capital Campaign?

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

As your nonprofit organization continues to grow, it’s time to consider investing in an effective fundraising platform that truly accommodates your nonprofit’s size, financial needs, and developing fundraising strategies. Why is fundraising important for nonprofits? Leverage Nonprofit Fundraising Best Practices.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 22, 2025

Fundraising has been showing troubling trends for a while now. Nonprofit organizations will need to get serious about fundraising particularly donor retention in 2025. Donor communications provide the engine behind your fundraising program. And for too many years, our money mindset has affected our fundraising.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

Hosting fundraising events, whether online or in person, can yield great rewards for nonprofit organizations. The livelihood of any nonprofit usually rests on receiving donations from individual and corporate giving, legacy planning, and fundraising events. Types of Online Fundraising Events. What is Digital Marketing?

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Blue Avocado

AUGUST 13, 2024

Melissa Jensen from Centennial Area Health Education Center Lack of focus, fundraising, and professionalism Too many “do-gooders” do not realize that nonprofit organizations are legal entities that deserve the same attention and effort as any profit business. Fundraising without strategy.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 16, 2024

Fundraising is all about understanding human psychology. Fundraising is much more than asking for donations. Since CauseMatch began in 2016, we’ve isolated four four key principles to harness the power of human nature to achieve remarkable fundraising success. It positively contributes to your fundraising efforts.

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Fundly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

10+ Top Fundraising Consulting Firms: Find the Best Partner! But one of the most common types of consulting nonprofits seek is fundraising consulting. Not every fundraising consulting firm is the sameeach has a particular focus area, expertise, and approach to helping their nonprofit partners reach their goals.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Picture this: you’ve read our post on running a capital campaign , you’re wildly psyched, and you’re ready to get started! From choosing your project to the day before launch, we’ll walk you through every step so you jump into your campaign confident and ready to raise some funds. Planning Fundraising Tiers. Don’t despair.

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The Fundraising Coach

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

However, using it to its fullest potential requires a strong website ready to back it up. Search engine optimization (SEO) is your way of making that happen, and there are some tricks you can use to rise to the top of the rankings. The Google Ad Grant is a digital marketing powerhouse that can amplify your nonprofit’s online strategy.

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Double the Donation

JUNE 1, 2021

Double the Donation and Fundraise Up have enhanced their matching gift integration to include a matching gift upsell, which is an exciting new feature that drives matching gift requests and increases initial base donations. Nonprofits everywhere are already leveraging 360MatchPro with their Fundraise Up platform.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Set nightly/weekly fundraising goals. Integrate your fundraising and matching gift tools. Fundraising advice from phonathon experts. Are you ready to find out how to optimize your organization’s upcoming phonathon to raise more? Set nightly/weekly fundraising goals. Create a standardized script. Let’s dive in.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

From planning peer-to-peer fundraisers to properly marketing your online campaigns, there’s an endless number of items on your to-do lists. That’s why it’s essential to carefully choose the right software solutions to support your operations–the right tool can drive a high ROI for your fundraising efforts. Personalize donor engagement.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 11, 2024

Throughout the lifecycle, I typically work with software architects, engineers, UX designers, business analysts, application security experts, and other stakeholders. It’s feasible that someone at the organization can have an idea for an application and have it created and ready to use within the same day.

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Selfish Giving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A web page will also be indexed on all the major search engines, which means it will be discoverable in search - an added bonus! This is a team that is already prepared for next year and ready to recruit new partners! Sponsorship Manager, Fundraising Events, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NYC) 4. Brain Food 1.

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

However, sometimes you need to ask for donations in person at fundraising events or other functions. Donors help your organization’s engine run, and having meaningful connections with them will ensure that they continue to support your cause in the future. Check out this guide to planning your fundraising campaign.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Now, if you’re not quite ready to go after grants, that’s ok! Spend time building your donor base by doing things like online fundraisers, fundraising appeals, starting a monthly giving program, and asking folks within your network for donations. If you feel you are ready for grants, by all means, get going!!

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Do Market Research The goal for your lead magnet is to create a resource that people may find when they are using a search engine. These formats offer valuable information in a condensed manner compared to online courses, and they can be assembled within a few weeks, ready for repeated use. At CauseVox, this is our specialty.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Learn more about video messages for fundraising from our latest webinar: Virtual Gala 2.0-Going Going to the Next Level in 2021 with Stellar Fundraising Auctions. When it is ready to post share it on your website and across all your social media platforms and video channels. The Brand Story.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2015

Meeting of the Minds: An Engineer with a Desire to Help. Two years ago, Cisco Systems engineering manager Roland Holloway nearly reached the point of needing hospice care due to complications from cancer. In late 2014, Holloway was ready to help another local nonprofit.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Meaningful numbers will show the donor you’re doing your job and that builds trust which is the backbone of donor-based fundraising. Don’t ask people to support your Amazon Smile, grocery store affinity program, search engine donation scam, or anything else that doesn’t generate at least a couple of thousand dollars. Thanks to you.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

of donors prefer going online to make a donation People receive 121 emails per day on average 76% of people trust ads they receive in the mail 56% of donors regularly attend fundraising events Text fundraising has grown 205% over the last year. Looking to grow your nonprofit fundraising program? There’s Power in Numbers.

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DoJiggy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Try Our Free Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Websites Learn More Sign Up for Free 2. Use DoJiggy to manage ticket sales, coordinate school fundraising activities, and promote the event across social media and other platforms. Conclusion Ready to increase private school enrollment like never before?

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Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Overhead costs , those necessary expenses that keep your organization’s lights on and engines running, often feel like a burden. Your objective is to strike a balance that ensures your organization is resourceful, resilient, and ready to deliver on its promises.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Search engine data is also a useful source for seeing what keywords your users are interested in. It also improves a blog’s SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, to link to other websites. If you already have social media, see which posts were most popular with your followers and engagers.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The salutation you use depends on your brand and your fundraising philosophy. Your thank you letter needs to be warm and sincere, and you may need to sharpen your fundraising writing skills to get it right. I plan to study engineering at Georgia Tech, and this class will help me get ahead in high school and reach my goal.”

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Or, you could fine-tune your search engine optimization (SEO) strategy to make your site more visible on search engine results pages. Are you ready to attract more people to your nonprofit website and pull in more support for your cause? Another invaluable engagement tactic is to leverage the Google Ad Grant. Let’s begin!

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As you know, your organization’s website is the heart of your online fundraising strategy. Your CRM, donation page, and other fundraising software all need to work with your website. Otherwise, you might team up with someone who doesn’t put your mission or fundraising at the center of your site, exactly where they need to be.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

Every nonprofit sector has seen double-digit online fundraising growth since 2009. It's important that you take the appropriate steps to ensure your making the most of your online fundraising efforts. To that end, here are five tactics that every nonprofit should be using to improve their online fundraising effectiveness.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2011

Working at nonprofits, we all want to be better fundraisers, web innovators, and social media gurus in order to meet our mission. Industry leaders and nonprofit experts will gather in cities across the country for tracks covering Internet marketing, social media, emarketing, fundraising, and analytics.

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CauseVox

MAY 23, 2021

They also received another boost by ensuring that their website was search engine optimized. The ease of the CauseVox site and the power of peer-to-peer fundraising meant that a smaller team could raise more. CauseVox Supports Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers. It went a long way. It was just that easy to use.”.

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Just Write Grants

APRIL 23, 2024

Fundraising, volunteer management , keeping the lights on – it's a lot to handle. Treat your Hub like a search engine for your grant writing needs. Get ready to put them to work! Ready to transform grant writing from a time-consuming chore into a streamlined success story? Sound familiar?

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amplifi

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Fundraisers raise more money on GivingTuesday every year. So, there’s just over a month separating the two biggest fundraising days of the year! But if you get creative, you can use GivingTuesday to get your current donors excited, engaged, and ready to help further your mission with a year-end gift. A different kind of ask.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to email and your website, social media has become one of the more effective tools for nonprofit fundraising, especially for a crowdfunding campaign. Crowdfunding is a fundraising strategy in which a nonprofit raises many small donations from a variety of people. How do you know which story is the right one to tell?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2017

No longer are the days when going door to door or holding bake sales are the most effective ways to fundraise. Work slowly, and launch when you're ready. It's 2017 — it's time to revolutionize the way nonprofits raise money, by taking advantage of e-commerce.

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Qgiv

MAY 11, 2021

However, Google has a separate Google for Education program you can check out if you’re fundraising for a school. Instead of bidding on sweet auction items, you’ll be bidding on keywords, which are the search queries your potential supporters put into search engines (in this case, Google). The Basics. The Bidding Process.

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Community Boost

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

TikTok SEO (Search Engine Optimization) refers to the practice of optimizing your nonprofit’s TikTok content to increase your nonprofits organic reach. Incorporating popular hashtags like #nonprofits, #socialgood, #charity, and #fundraising is a great place to start. Are you ready to start looking into TikTok Advertising?

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