The Fundraiser Coach
JANUARY 13, 2025
When it comes to major gift fundraising, one mantra reigns supreme: Affinity eats capacity for breakfast. While financial capacity is undoubtedly an important factor, it’s the emotional connection—the belief in your mission and the relationship built over time—that drives transformational giving. Without affinity, capacity alone cannot translate into meaningful support.
Ann Green's Nonprofit
JANUARY 13, 2025
Happy New Year!Its hard to believe its already 2025. I hope 2024 was a successful year for your nonprofit organization. If it wasnt, you can work to make 2025 a better year. And if you were successful, you want that to continue. Many individuals make New Years resolutions and set goals. Your nonprofit should do the same. As with personal resolutions, you want your goals to be realistic and attainable.
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Clairification
JANUARY 13, 2025
Everyone’s been saying this, just about daily, for some time. These arent ordinary times. If the anthem for the Boomer generation was Bob Dylan’s “ The TImes They Are A’Changin’ ,” what’s the anthem for today? History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. Were living in the face of a firehose of breaking news, and much of it is difficult to digest.
GrantNews
JANUARY 14, 2025
California needs the nation to come together and support wildfire survivors. Wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles, leaving behind a trail of destruction. Homes have been reduced to ashes, over 150,000 residents displaced, and entire communities shaken to their core. These disasters remind us of the importance of unity and compassion in times of crisis.
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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.
Blackbaud
JANUARY 13, 2025
You see the writing on the wall. Your revenue is overly dependent on a handful of major donors or a single government grant. Sure, you have a CRM full of small and mid-level donors, and a few programs that bring in a little recurring revenue. But you need to diversify your revenue streams. The ideas come pouring in from around the organization. The development team wants to start an annual trivia night.
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Future Fundraising Now
JANUARY 14, 2025
A Direct Solution The Agitator Better Fundraising blog Bloomerang Blog Clairification The Clued-in Copywriter Fired Up Fundraising Get Fully Funded Blog Hands-on Fundraising Know Your Own Bone Moceanic Blog NextAfter queer ideas Smart Ideas Veritus Group blog There are many other good fundraising blogs. I follow more than 100 of them, most of them also good.
Double the Donation
JANUARY 14, 2025
Securing funding is a top priority for charitable organizations, and corporate grants for nonprofits can be a game-changer. From powering community programs to supporting innovative solutions for societal challenges, these funds provide critical resources to help nonprofits achieve their missions.
Blackbaud
JANUARY 14, 2025
No question that cash is crucial in a catastrophe. But if youre a fundraiser for a nonprofit organization or school in the midst of an unfolding disaster, you can do more than raise money. You can take immediate action by doing what you do best, just without the request for cashfor now. Since contributions tend to pour in when hardships hit close to home, appeals for the emergency fund will be immediate.
Think and Ink Grants
JANUARY 13, 2025
Every organization engages in the vital process of writing grants. However, a critical question remains: how many are truly succeeding in securing them? The reality is that writing a grant is only the first step in a highly competitive process. Winning grants, especially in 2025, requires organizations to operate at the highest level of excellence and strategy.
Capital Campaign Pro
JANUARY 13, 2025
When organizations embark on a capital campaign, they often think about big goals, major donors, and tangible outcomes, like new facilities or increased endowment funds. But at the heart of most successful campaigns is something less flashy but equally essential: a strong strategic plan. Lets explore how strategic planning serves as both the catalyst for […] The post Strategic Planning: The Cornerstone of a Successful Capital Campaign appeared first on Capital Campaign Pro.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 13, 2025
Some nonprofits are under the impression that sending multiple mail and email appeals constitutes an intrusion in donors lives. Nonsense.
Blackbaud
JANUARY 14, 2025
As a tech leader at a growing social impact organization, you know that migrating to an enterprise-scale constituent relationship management (CRM) system can be a daunting proposition. While you may be aware on a general level that your CRM platform is becoming a headwind to your organization achieving its fundraising goals, the prospect of migrating vast amounts of data, retraining staff, and committing the money and resources required for a successful upgrade can make it tempting to say, Lets
Fluxx
JANUARY 14, 2025
Funding can be a matter of life for organizations making a difference in the lives of people throughout Auckland and Northland. Foundation North is one of the primary sources of financial support for community-driven projects that fall within their mission of strengthening and empowering communities. With its focus on equitable, sustainable, and innovative programs, Foundation North has opened funding opportunities that make sure charitable organizations can continue with their critical work of
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 13, 2025
These days, workers rarely have a clearly defined path to the top of their organizations. Experts share advice on how to manage your career to advance. By Lisa Schohl iStockphoto These days, workers rarely have a clearly defined path to the top of their organizations. Experts share advice on how to manage your career to advance.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 14, 2025
As nonprofits prioritize donor acquisition, engagement and retention for 2025, here are four actionable strategies can they implement.
Blackbaud
JANUARY 14, 2025
Data visualization. Document signatures. Fund accounting. Gone are the days when each of those systems required a different login and manual data manipulation to get what you needed. Now your grant management system (GMS) is the hub of your grantmaking organization, and simple API integrations allow you to plug in the systems that work best for you.
Blue Avocado
JANUARY 14, 2025
Quality, dedicated nonprofit volunteers and skilled staff are the key to any successful mission. But how do you find them, and once you’ve got them, how do you keep them around? When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is your biggest challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled staff or volunteers?” , once again, nonprofit leaders came through!
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 14, 2025
By Jim Rendon Illustration by Alan Nguyen for the Chronicle Boards will be more important than ever as nonprofits navigate a tricky financial landscape and political uncertainty.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 14, 2025
Windfall Data unveiled an app to help nonprofits streamline their database analysis, constituent segmentation and outreach strategies.
Blackbaud
JANUARY 14, 2025
In times of crisis, families and students look to school leaders for stability, even when those schools are closed due to disaster or tragedy. The recent fires and flooding that have torn through communities across the country are a sad reminder that it may not be a question of if a crisis will occur at some point, but when it will happen. Schools regularly review safety practices and hold drills for fire, evacuation, shelter in place, and other vital actions that may be required when tragedy st
Candid
JANUARY 14, 2025
The 2024 Giving Season kicked into high gear with a robust start on December 3, with the GivingTuesday Data Commons reporting a record $3.6 billion raised in the United States. This heightened engagement translated into a big demand for information about charities on Candid nonprofit profiles. We saw significant spikes in overall traffic, nonprofit profile views, and searches.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 14, 2025
By Drew Lindsay Illustration by Alan Nguyen for the Chronicle How donor-advised fund providers aim to make their products as commonplace as college savings and retirement accounts.
Capital Campaign Pro
JANUARY 13, 2025
Season 4, Episode 23 In this episode, Amy Eisenstein sits down with Mallory Erickson, fundraising expert, coach, and host of What The Fundraising podcast. Together, they dive deep into the origins of the scarcity mindset in the nonprofit sector, exploring how this pervasive mentality impacts fundraising practices and organizational culture. Discover how historical factors shaped […] The post Podcast: Reframing Fundraising: Strategies to Combat Scarcity Mindset with Mallory Erickson appeare
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 13, 2025
A common reaction to a tight paid media budget is to wait until the giving season to use it.This is the wrong approach for lots of reasons.
Candid
JANUARY 13, 2025
Beyond providing data on grants, nonprofits, and foundations, Candid offers extensive subject matter expertise about the social sector as well as learning opportunities. These resources, which range from YouTube training videos to help articles , can get you the support you need regardless of skill or experience level. Now were pairing these knowledge sources with AI tools to answer your questions more holistically and guide you to the most essential information more effectively.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 14, 2025
By Rasheeda Childress Illustration by Alan Nguyen for the Chronicle Conflicts between donors and nonprofits become more noticeable in increasingly polarized times.
DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services
JANUARY 13, 2025
Question: Hello! I’m a grant writer/consultant who has been working with a client who lacks skills in funder cultivation and stewardship, and it’s really hindering them building a strong grants program. There are several large, local foundations that could give significant, multi-year funding, but it takes relationship-building. I’ve written many email drafts for my client to send for an inital reach out, but there’s rarely follow through.
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 13, 2025
AARP opened applications for its Community Challenge grant program, which aims to help nonprofits make communities more livable.
GrantNews
JANUARY 13, 2025
New 2025 government grants are here! And they bring with them the promise of opportunity in the new year. Government grants support initiatives that stimulate the economy, provide essential goods and goods and services to underserved communities, and fund projects that align with their missions. With so many grants available to support meaningful causes, now is the time to explore new opportunities.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 14, 2025
By Eden Stiffman Illustration by Alan Nguyen for the Chronicle Organizations that offer flexible work arrangements have a leg up in recruiting and retaining staff. The harder part is cultivating culture and in-person connection.
Hands-On Fundraising
JANUARY 14, 2025
Paper? I think you can. So, I was born in the Stone Age. I grew up without personal computers, mobile phones, or social media. A phone call to the next town was expensive. I kept in touch with my cousin in Ohio and friends I met at camp with letters on paper. Later, I traded […] The post Can you build a relationship on paper? appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.
Center for Effective Philanthropy
JANUARY 14, 2025
Nonprofits are facing significant, arguably unprecedented, challenges and its crucial that donors, whatever their ideologies or particular programmatic goals or priorities, pay attention. Three developments, in particular, worry me: a […] The post Calling All Donors (and Would-Be Donors): The Vital U.S. Nonprofit Sector is Under Threat and Must Be Protected appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy.
DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services
JANUARY 14, 2025
Grammar Kerfuffles: Third Installment ( View the other installments here ) As I edit drafts of our grant narratives, I enjoy seeing effective use of the not onlybut also construction from time to time. Not onlybut also connotes a dual outcome, emphasizing another level of benefits (or impact or needs, etc.) that surprise the reader beyond what they anticipated.
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