Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Grant writing is a critical component of nonprofit fundraising, but it often comes with its own set of challenges. Solution To manage time constraints effectively: Develop a Grant Calendar : Create a detailed calendar with deadlines, submission requirements, and timelines for each grant application. Data and Evidence 4.1

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

Did they include stronger metrics or more compelling storytelling? Update Your Grant Calendar An organized, realistic calendar is the backbone of a successful nonprofit grant strategy, especially as you approach the high-stakes Q3 and Q4 deadlines. Tip: Link training back to your active grant calendar.

Grant

Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

How to Secure Sponsorships for Your School Fundraisers Blog Summary: School fundraisers are crucial for enhancing educational experiences. School fundraisers have always played a vital role in bringing communities together and supporting important educational initiatives.

Fundraising

GrantNews

JANUARY 2, 2025

Social fundraising is when a nonprofit showcases a social cause it is missioned to address. In truth, tracking metrics like donor retention, return per acquisition, and volunteer engagement helps teams increases productivity, optimize their marketing budget and more. For example, A/B testing collects valuable data.

AI

DoJiggy

JULY 15, 2025

A capital campaign website is a focused fundraising site designed to support a specific, big-picture goal, typically the construction of a new facility or major renovations to an existing one. Another advantage of a dedicated fundraising website for your campaign is that the back-end reporting is specific to the capital campaign.

Metrics

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

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Retail

Planned Giving

APRIL 17, 2025

From 26 years in business, Ive heard every excuse, myth, and magic-bullet theory fundraising has to offer. Why are you fundraising? But if your relationship hasnt led to a gift in five years, its a coffee habit, not a fundraising strategy. This is fundraising, not hide-and-seek. 32 Were too busy to fundraise.

SAM

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Instrumentl is the institutional fundraising platform. Calendar alerts. I live by my calendar alerts. For years, I have used a Google spreadsheet and a calendar, and that works fine as long as I don't have too many complicated projects coming and going. That saves a ton of time.

Instrumentl

NonProfit PRO

JULY 28, 2025

Native live streaming, external calendar syncing, and new integrations with Microsoft 365 and Teams further simplify board workflows across dispersed teams. Continue to your page in 15 seconds or skip this ad. window.dfp_npp_interstitial = googletag.defineSlot("/124057991/npp_interstitial", [[640,480]], "napco-ad-npp_interstitial").addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Government

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Need to create your 2021 fundraising plan? Register for the course, “How To Create A Fundraising Plan For 2021” for only $115. “If And as far as fundraising planning goes, your fundraising plans were thrown off. Creating a Fundraising Plan. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting.

Calendar

NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 10, 2022

DonorPerfect is here to help you manifest a stronger fundraising strategy. Get your 2022 Fundraising Calendar to improve on key metrics like donor retention, conversion rate, and more.

Calendar

Pamela Grow

JULY 24, 2024

When you combine the associated expenses with the costs of operating your organization day-to-day, you determine that you’ll need to add new fundraisers to your calendar to fund all of these initiatives. Fortunately, there is an answer—passive fundraising! What is passive fundraising? Let’s dive in! Thanking participants.

Fundraising

Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 2, 2024

The midpoint of the year is always a good time to see if you’re meeting your fundraising and communications goals. For this post, I’m assuming your fiscal year is the same as the calendar year. Your fundraising revenue may be down. We’re still in an uncertain economy, but that doesn’t mean you should stop fundraising.

Nonprofit

CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

We’ve all been there: staring at a blank screen, desperately trying to create captivating social media fundraising content that resonates with our audience, while keeping up with the latest algorithms and trends. So, are you ready to harness the power of social media for your fundraising efforts?

Media

Blackbaud

JANUARY 17, 2024

This allows you to tailor your content calendar to your audience’s or guest’s preferences. For example, established donors might like to hear about how your fundraising initiatives are going, whereas people who are encountering your nonprofit for the first time might be more interested in your backstory. Mission-driven.

Metrics

amplifi

AUGUST 8, 2024

The summer is almost behind us, and fundraisers like yourself are spinning their wheels and starting to think ahead about the 2024 year-end campaign season. Then, once you create messages that speak to these groups more directly, you should plan all the touches for your 2024 year-end campaign in a communications calendar. Don’t wait!

Metrics

amplifi

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So, are you feeling prepared for the year-end fundraising season? Do you think you have all the pieces in place for the year-end fundraising season? A calendar will keep you on track. Every organization should strive to build a year-long communications calendar. So why not start with your year-end fundraising plan?

Fundraising

CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Considering the twists that fundraising plans may have taken in 2023, it’s crucial to recalibrate for the upcoming year. As we embark on the fundraising journey in 2024, the significance of a well-structured nonprofit annual development plan cannot be overstated. What’s your plan for 2024?

Calendar

Just Write Grants

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Plus, with online fundraising tools, collecting donations is as straightforward as sharing a post that resonates. It's excellent for nonprofits because it reaches a wide range of people and offers specific tools for fundraising and community engagement. It also comes with handy fundraising and storytelling features.

Media

GiveSmart

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In contrast, the calendar year used for tax filing is from the first of January to the 31st of December. Nonprofit organizations often follow a fiscal year that doesn’t align with the calendar year, which they adopt for various reasons. Some nonprofits’ activities and donations increase exponentially during the winter holiday season.

Budget

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This allows you to identify key insights and share them with your fundraising team or stakeholders with much less effort than pulling reports manually. Power BI can help organizations translate complex data into an action plan for every team, from the finance office to fundraising. What did McCleary’s team build?

CRM

CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

For example, “write a 100-word fundraising appeal email for high-value corporate donors” is a much better prompt than “write a fundraising appeal.” Email Communication Calendar The frequency of your emails can be just as important as the content. The more specific you can be, the better.

ChatGPT

Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Projects like these can drain resources, take more time than necessary, and quickly become your least favorite meeting on your calendar. For example, you will be reviewing your expense management processes as part of this project, but any fundraising management topics will be reserved for a later initiative. out of scope).

Software

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

While goals are vital to success, SMART fundraising goals help make sure you’re setting goals that you just can’t miss. The reality is this: goals ARE vital to success —especially when fundraising for new nonprofits. Fundraising goals help a nonprofit fulfill its mission. So, what exactly is a SMART fundraising goal?

Goals

Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2022

Now, as platforms launch their own in-platform fundraising tools, social media is becoming more than just a marketing tool, but an active fundraising platform as well. Fundraising on Instagram helps your donors stay engaged with your organization and gives them more than one place to donate from. Create a content calendar.

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

AUGUST 4, 2022

Whether in times of stability or uncertainty , building and maintaining strong relationships with your donors is the key to hitting your fundraising goals. Gathering donor data and leveraging it to improve your interactions with supporters is the foundation of effective donor management and fundraising success. . Event attendance.

Management

Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

What can you do to improve the metrics that matter? Marketing goals: You must have marketing goals that are tied to your fundraising plan. Put all your goals on paper and include every metric you need to measure to meet the goals in your fundraising plan. It’s just fundraising math! What’s working? A vehicle?

Metrics

Qgiv

JUNE 8, 2021

He’s also a co-author of Fundraising Principles and Practice: Second Edition. The Fundraising Effectiveness Project recently released their 2020 Fourth Quarter Report, which examined giving trends for the entire 2020 calendar year. All three metrics dropped slightly from 2019 to 2020. to an average of 19.2%.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The M+R 2016 Benchmarks Study specifically studied the question of whether to include a fundraising appeal as part of a welcome series: "For nonprofits that send one or two messages, the welcome series generally consists of engagement messaging, with a fundraising message included just 11 percent of the time.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

If you want to attract more participants to your peer-to-peer fundraising event, consider how you’re marketing it! What other ways can you get more eyes on your fundraiser? Read on for Qgiv’s peer-to-peer fundraising best practices for event marketing. So to gauge effectiveness look at the following metrics.

Fundraising

Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Create a Grant Calendar Develop a detailed grant calendar for 2025 that includes application deadlines, reporting requirements, and renewal dates. A well-organized calendar helps ensure you never miss a deadline and can manage multiple applications efficiently. Develop a Comprehensive Grant Writing Strategy 2.1

Grant Writing

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This approach not only enhances donor satisfaction by providing a personalized experience but also significantly improves fundraising outcomes by maintaining continuous engagement and reducing donor attrition. Use your donor data Data-driven decision-making is essential for optimizing the donor cycle and improving your fundraising outcomes.

Demographics

Fundly

JUNE 20, 2024

Consider metrics such as the total funds you raised and the number of new donors you acquired. If you’re not sure how to best engage your donors this time around, explore our list of the top fundraising ideas for Giving Tuesday: 1. T-Shirt Fundraising 17. Fundraising eCards 11. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising 12.

Goals

Qgiv

MAY 23, 2022

Posting links to your donation forms and promoting your fundraisers on social media can help you run successful fundraising campaigns and reach a wide audience of supporters. Instead, decide on what metrics you can use to measure your success and base your goals around and use that to determine what goals you can work towards.

Media

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.

Software

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Check out this Fundraising Fundamentals eBook we made with our friends at Donorly to keep learning and honing your fundraising skills! If you’ve got events to highlight, reserve a section of your newsletter to promote your upcoming fundraisers and need-to-know events. Upcoming nonprofit events. Track email performance.

Fundraising

CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Second, year-end giving gives nonprofits an opportunity to use a big chunk of their resources to meet their annual fundraising goals, and it gives donors a last chance to get a tax-deductible gift out the door. We want to help nonprofits that implement year-end fundraising campaigns be successful. Goals don’t come out of thin air.

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