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2024 Year-End Recap: Evaluating Fundraising Events

Greater Giving

Evaluating Your 2024 Fundraising Events: What Worked and What Didnt? As 2024 wraps up, now is the perfect time for evaluating fundraising events. Whether your events included auctions, galas, or virtual campaigns, understanding key metrics and takeaways will set you up for even greater success next year.

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April is National Volunteer Month. Do you know where your volunteers are? 

Candid

So, what can organizations do to better engage and retain volunteers in 2025? Strategies for building a shared sense of belonging and commitment include encouraging volunteer participation through online or in-person events and celebrating their contributions. Proven strategies for engaging and retaining volunteers. in 2022-23.

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5 Revenue Streams to Strengthen Nonprofit Sustainability

Ann Green's Nonprofit

Fundraising Events While your nonprofit can host countless types of profitable fundraising events, focus on the ideas that are most likely to appeal to your target audience. Create an event calendar to plan the timing of each fundraiser, including time before and after for event planning and follow-up. The best part?

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Giving Tuesday: Don’t Take the Money and Run

Clairification

Your goal with any fundraising strategy is to retain and, ultimately, upgrade these transactional donors. Treat Giving Tuesday as a Special Event. Like it or not, Giving Tuesday is a ‘special event.’ Like it or not, Giving Tuesday is a ‘special event.’ With all the pre-planning and post event strategies events embrace.

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6 Tips to Retain Volunteers

Blackbaud

It’s imperative that you recruit a strong volunteer base and, more important, retain volunteers by valuing their time, effort, and skills. If you’re ready to make a plan to retain your volunteers, start with these six tips. million people volunteered for a nonprofit organization in 2021, contributing $122.9 billion in economic value.

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4 Top Donor Retention Strategies to Keep Your Year-End Donors

CauseVox

From these stats, you would have retained 40% of your donors, and lost 60%. The Art Of The Thank You The first piece in any donor retention strategy (especially one for retaining year-end donors) is the thank you. Consider asking them to sign up for a newsletter, follow you on social media, or volunteer at one of your events.

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5 Ideas For Volunteers As Fundraising Resources

The NonProfit Times

According to Lynn Margherio, founder and CEO of Cradles to Crayons, volunteerism is the backbone of many successful nonprofits, even though attracting and retaining volunteers can be challenging. Think about how to get kids involved in your organization, even if you sponsor one kids day event a year. Elevate top volunteers.