Joe Garecht Fundraising

JANUARY 25, 2025

Building a strong donor pipeline at your organization means engaging in constant donor outreach. This means reaching out through mail, email, and social media for your low-dollar donors. For larger donors, this means reaching out through phone calls, meetings, and text messages, in addition to mail and email. The rules of successful fundraising arent always intuitive.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

JANUARY 19, 2025

When it comes to major donor fundraising, nothing is more important than talking directly with your donors and prospects. To successfully solicit major gifts, you must cultivate your donors and build relationships with them , which requires one-on-one conversations. Generally speaking, major donors tend to be busy people. They are usually engaged in business or philanthropy at a high level, meaning there are many demands on their time and many people trying to get in touch with them.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

JANUARY 22, 2024

If you're working for a small non-profit… one that is raising less than $1 million per year… then I have some bad news and some good news for you. First, let me give you the bad news: much of the information that is available online on how to raise more money does NOT apply for your organization. If you've taken webinars and classes and read e-books and thought to yourself, “We could never do that – we would have to hire 3 more fundraisers or spend $100,000 more on devel

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Most fundraisers I know are frustrated with their donor communications… their fundraising letters aren't raising enough money their e-mail newsletters aren't being opened , and their websites aren't getting enough traffic This is a big problem, because if your donor communications aren't working, your non-profit WILL NOT have the money it needs to thrive.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Are you a non-profit leader? Are you an executive director, development director, program manager, board member, consultant, or other type of leader in your organization? If not, do you want to be a leader at your non-profit? Whether you're currently a non-profit executive or want to be in the future, here's your invitation to join me for the single best training opportunity available for non-profit leaders: The Non-Profit Leadership Academy As part of this program, you'll learn everything yo

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Do you want to learn how to make successful fundraising asks at your non-profit? Do you want simple, step-by-step guidelines for asking your donors for money in-person, over the phone, and through Zoom or video-conferences? Would you like sample scripts that you can use to ask your donors for money and get them to say “yes”? If so, then I invite you to join me for my brand new webinar: How to Make Successful Fundraising Asks!

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Today, I want to talk about the single best way I know to raise more money for your non-profit. Your non-profit does great work, and you need (and deserve!) to raise the money you need to thrive. But, if you're like most non-profit fundraisers, your organization is stuck on “the fundraising treadmill,” constantly trying new events, begging your board for names, and writing long-shot grant proposals that never seem to get funded.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

OCTOBER 3, 2021

If you want to find new donors for your non-profit, you need to get out of the office. Your job, as a frontline fundraiser, is to put yourself in a position to meet as many new donors as possible… preferably with a warm introduction or in a situation where you are meeting the donor alongside others who already know, trust, and support your organization.

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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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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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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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Joe Garecht Fundraising

JANUARY 10, 2022

One of the most common questions I get asked by organizations is how to find and win more grants. For most fundraisers, nonprofit grant writing is incredibly frustrating: in many cases, it seems like a roll of the dice. You spend hundreds of hours sending out grant proposals, praying that a few foundations will be interested in your work. Yet there are ways you can stack the deck in your favor and have more success with winning grant funding for your organization.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

JANUARY 10, 2022

The past two years have seen some significant changes in fundraising (most notably, the realization that many donors are willing to make gifts via phone and video meetings, rather than always needing in-person visits), but they have mostly proven that the fundamentals still apply, no matter the circumstances: relationships matter, cultivation matters, and donors won't give unless you ask.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Most non-profits know the power of e-mail for fundraising. While e-mail fundraising isn’t as effective as asking for gifts in-person or on the phone, e-mail remains the most effective digital fundraising strategy. (To learn more about why that is, read The Most Important Thing to Understand for Online Fundraising ). In previous articles, we talked about how to write great fundraising e-mails and how to pick effective subject lines … in this article, I want to show you another strategy that can

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

One of the most common questions I get asked by non-profit fundraisers is this: how often should you be asking your donors for money? In this article, I’m going to give you some simple guidelines to help you answer that question. The reason I’m going to give you guidelines, instead of just giving you an answer, is because there is no hard and fast rule.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

MARCH 6, 2022

Most non-profit fundraisers are both passive and reactive in their fundraising. This means that they wait for things to happen and spend most of their time following up on opportunities rather than creating new ones. That’s why so many fundraisers mention the need for new donors at a board meeting, then wait for referrals that never come. They prefer to e-mail donors and wait for a response, rather than picking up the phone and making things happen.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

MARCH 7, 2022

It’s not enough to know that your fundraising strategies are successful. You also need to know what’s causing your success, how results have evolved over time, and what aspects can be improved even more. These insights can only be gained by calculating fundraising Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This article will unpack 10 essential KPIs for measuring fundraising success.

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