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8 Ways to Optimize Your Fundraising With a CRM for Nonprofits

CauseVox

But heres the good news: a CRM for nonprofits (Customer Relationship Management system) isnt just a digital rolodex, its a dynamic tool designed to help you build, nurture, and grow relationships with your supporters. With the right CRM for nonprofits, you can go beyond donor management and actually level up your entire fundraising strategy.

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There’s a Crisis in Nonprofit Fundraising — And It’s Time We Faced It Head-On

Pamela Grow

Weve all seen it: mid-level roles that expect CDO-level strategy, major gifts portfolios, team management, event planning, marketing knowledge, and oh, can you also design a new CRM integration before Friday? The Real Cost of Burnout This isn’t just about poor retention. My biggest frustration?

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Adopting a New CRM? 4 Change Management Tips for Small Nonprofits

Blackbaud

How can my scrappy smaller organization, with all the tasks my team is already juggling, adopt a new fundraising CRM and learn to use it with the least amount of disruption?” If you don’t plan for time commitment and keep an eye on burnout, you run the risk of losing significant ground trying to implement new technology.

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10 Tips for Managing Crisis Volunteers in Natural Disasters

Blackbaud

Prevent burnout by scheduling volunteers in shifts of two or four hours. Add them, if they are willing, to your affiliated volunteer roster and to your constituent relationship management (CRM) platform so you can keep them apprised of opportunities to support your mission in the future.

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Leveraging AI in Major Gift Fundraising: A Game-Changer in Philanthropy

Blackbaud

The Benefits of AI to Major Gift Fundraisers Fundraising is an industry that faces high stress and burnout. AI tools help minimize those tasks by prioritizing and identifying donors, drafting email communications, and syncing data to your CRM. You don’t want to be copying and pasting information from another tool to your CRM.

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Capital campaigns and donor fatigue: combatting your fears

Candid

If you can’t answer these questions or don’t actively track this information, that’s a sign that your organization might be treating donors more like ATMs than philanthropic partners—a relationship that can legitimately lead to donor fatigue and burnout. Going beyond capital campaigns.

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5 Ways to Level Up Your Nonprofit’s Volunteer Program

The Fundraising Coach

From hurdles like volunteer recruitment and burnout to all too common mistakes like disorganized training, its not easy to run an effective program, even if you have the best intentions. When a volunteer finishes training for a specific role, note it in your CRM to improve volunteer scheduling later. Show your appreciation.