Big Fundraising Ideas

JANUARY 21, 2025

These include the need for digital literacy, the time required to manage online campaigns, and the competition for online attention. Using platforms eliminates the hassle of managing physical donations and paperwork for busy coaches and players, allowing them to focus on what they do best: playing basketball.

Fundraising

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This year, GivingTuesday, which is held the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving, will be on the latest possible calendar date — December 3. Individuals might be spurred to contribute, but managers at corporations, who tend to lean toward conservatism, could be having second thoughts. “I Bannon hopes urgency will spur donations.

Pass-Through

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We do really well at retaining donors. It is filled with busy days and sometimes annoying employee management things. As our office manager was leaving for the day, she stopped me as I was walking by her desk and told me that she was so excited. I managed to catch my breath and ask her for an example.

Donation

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Learning how to manage volunteers effectively will help bridge the gap between recruitment and retention, ensuring more supporters stick around long-term. Volunteer management is the process of working with volunteers throughout their engagement with your organization, from recruitment to ongoing engagement and retention.

Management

Qgiv

JANUARY 20, 2022

For retention-minded fundraisers with a strong donor cultivation plan in place, the early days of a new calendar year might even be busier than any day in November and December. Here are five tips for thanking your year-end donors that will increase the likelihood of them being retained in the following year: 1. About Bloomerang.

Retainer

Qgiv

MAY 3, 2023

Fundraising calendars help set your nonprofit up for success for the entire year. A fundraising calendar enables you to keep your goals, campaigns, strategies, and due dates all in one place that your whole team has access to. Another objective you need to define for your fundraising calendar is your awareness goal.

Calendar

Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

As you conduct daily operations at your nonprofit, you’ll find that getting your nonprofit’s development strategy right is one of the most important pieces of the nonprofit management process. Create a fundraising calendar for your nonprofit’s development plan. Create a fundraising calendar for your nonprofit’s development plan.

Calendar

GiveSmart

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Segment Your Donors Organizations are only retaining about four out of 10 donors annually. Having a fully featured fundraising management software provides your team with a low-risk way to try new things, alongside your traditional fundraisers to provide more opportunities to give. Don’t miss these tips for ending the year strong.

Retainer

Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The pandemic exacerbated these rumblings not only because these stressors increased but because people experienced a different kind of work life, with more flexibility to work from home and less hovering by management. As a result, nonprofit employees have quit their jobs at record levels since the start of the pandemic.

Burnout

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 22, 2025

of new donors are being retained year-to-date, and even repeat donor retention decreased by 4.6%. Recommendations Master Digital Fundraising Always, always, always focus on ease of giving from the donors perspective and how youre managing your follow-up. Fundraising has been showing troubling trends for a while now. Only 13.8%

AI

Just Write Grants

APRIL 16, 2024

But managing this passionate crew isn't always a walk in the park. Recruitment and Retention Attracting and retaining passionate volunteers is the cornerstone of any successful non-profit organization. Registration and guest management: Friendly and welcoming volunteers to greet attendees and handle check-in.

Management

GiveSmart

AUGUST 12, 2024

Both want to attract and retain donors to further their nonprofit's cause. The organizational benefits are endless when these teams work together: Save time and money: In terms of nonprofit financial management, coordination can lead to cost savings through greater efficiency.

Retainer

Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

When you start planning your fundraising events, you want to make registration and management as easy as possible for both you and your donors. With the right event management software for nonprofits, you can run your fundraising events more efficiently, helping you raise more money for your cause.

Software

Qgiv

APRIL 15, 2021

With proper event data management, you can harness that data to improve on fundraising events, retain more donors, and raise more money for your mission. What is event data and how is it managed? Through event data management. For the best results when managing your event data , start with a focus on broad data.

Management

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Managing a nonprofit takes patience, hard work, and a lot of organization. Plus, software solutions can help reduce your staff’s stress and streamline their workload by automating processes and providing a centralized place for managing different campaigns and communications. In fact, 67% of nonprofits use a CRM.

Software

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The donor cycle, also known as the donor life cycle, is a systematic approach you can use to manage and nurture your relationships with donors over time. This structured approach helps you effectively engage and retain supporters over time. 5 stages of the donor life cycle Donor cycle best practices What is a donor cycle?

Demographics

GiveSmart

APRIL 24, 2024

Both want to attract and retain donors to further their nonprofit’s cause. The organizational benefits are endless when these teams work together: Save time and money: In terms of nonprofit financial management, coordination can lead to cost savings through greater efficiency.

Retainer

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2011

It's a good tool for managing email, calendars, and tasks in the office setting. Creating calendars for each project you work on is a handy way to stay organized. If it does, Outlook deletes the earlier message and retains the only the later one. Send Calendars and Screenshots Within an Email.

Calendar

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 23, 2022

By focusing your fundraising mindset on retaining supporters rather than just acquiring them, you’ll raise more money than ever before. This is because the lifetime value of a retained donor is generally higher than a one-time donor. So, how can your nonprofit start building relationships and retaining more donors?

Nonprofit

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Let’s dive into some strategies for doing so!

Pass-Through

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The nonprofit industry stands to gain the most from this trend and the most proactive ones are already gearing up for the typical hiring binge that happens at the beginning of a calendar year when new budgets kick in. Employers Are Stepping Up Their Efforts To Attract And Retain Talent Post-Pandemic. the report noted.

Nonprofit

The Fundraising Coach

MARCH 13, 2023

Comprehensive membership management software allows your organization to facilitate this process, so you can nurture existing members and attract new ones with ease. Ease the load off of your regular data collection and management with a software that automates time-consuming administrative work for your organization. What is an AMS?

Software

GiveSmart

JANUARY 22, 2024

From managing staff to liaising with the board and vetting vendors to leading the fundraising, marketing, and mission delivery staff, Executive Directors play a significant role in the day-to-day operations and long-term success of their nonprofits. Executive Directors are responsible for A LOT at a nonprofit organization.

Nonprofit

Qgiv

MAY 14, 2021

Make sure your peer-to-peer fundraising software integrates with your customer relationship management (CRM) system or donor database so you’re using up-to-date and accurate data. Or, if you could create an entire communications calendar, and then pre-schedule all of the associated emails. Keep your data clean.

Fundraising

Peak Proposals

MAY 22, 2022

Managing each of these stages requires a system of some kind and one or more tools to save content and permit collaborative development of the proposal. tool that you can use to manage and write a grant proposal is Microsoft OneNote. While there are many tools to choose from, one readily accessible (and free!)

Onenote

Qgiv

JUNE 7, 2021

Make sure your peer-to-peer fundraising software integrates with your customer relationship management (CRM) system or donor database so you’re using up-to-date and accurate data. Or, if you could create an entire communications calendar, and then pre-schedule all of the associated emails. Keep your data clean.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

If you're holding monthly events that gather the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Los Angeles, California: Nonprofit Volunteer Management.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 3, 2023

One organization might achieve its fundraising goals through an annual gala, a planned giving program, and a robust annual appeal, while another nonprofit might focus its energies on managing a strong monthly giving program in addition to its year-end appeal. The Fundamentals of Gift Entry: Ask Who, What, When, Where, and Why?

Fundraising

Qgiv

JUNE 8, 2021

The Fundraising Effectiveness Project recently released their 2020 Fourth Quarter Report, which examined giving trends for the entire 2020 calendar year. Be sure to download Retaining Your P2Peeps – Qgiv Success Center to see much more insights, and to compare the results to your own organization’s metrics.

Fundraising

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 10, 2023

Grant management and reporting are crucial aspects of the overall funding lifecycle. If your organization is new to grant seeking, or you’ve only recently incorporated grant applications as part of your development operations, curating your grant calendar and sending out proposals can seem high-stakes enough.

Grants

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Paired with a CRM or a donor management platform, you can organize all of your donors’ and supporters’ data in one place. Keep supporters updated with email blasts about fundraisers they can participate and set up a social media calendar to easily post across social media platforms. Grant management. DonorPerfect. Design tools.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Vancouver, British Columbia: Agile Project Management for Nonprofits. Buffalo, New York: Essential Data Management. Asia and Pacific Rim.

Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

JULY 21, 2022

Your website: Your website is your digital information hub, offering members everything from your event calendar to your online blog. This includes a live streaming platform, an event management system, and marketing platforms such as social media and email. MemberClicks, Senior Content Marketing Manager. About the Author.

Fundraising

Qgiv

OCTOBER 9, 2024

There is a ton of data which shows that people not only view videos more often than any other content type on the internet, but they also retain the information they’ve seen in videos way better! Video appeals for social media fundraising Social Media sites like facebook, YouTube, and X have become places where short-form video content rules.

Media

CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

If you’d like to add a peer-to-peer initiative to your fundraising calendar, but don’t have the time or resources for a full, organization-run campaign, consider creating opportunities for DIY fundraisers. Be sure you find your platform intuitive, so you won’t need to call in your IT person to manage your campaign.

Fundraising

CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

If you’d like to add a peer-to-peer initiative to your fundraising calendar, but don’t have the time or resources for a full, organization-run campaign, consider creating opportunities for DIY fundraisers. Be sure you find your platform intuitive, so you won’t need to call in your IT person to manage your campaign.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

JANUARY 11, 2017

Paul Petrone, Marketing Manager at LinkedIn, posted a blog in late November called 5 Steps That'll Make Your Organization More Inclusive , which shares some great ways to create an inclusive culture within your organization. Mark your calendar now for January 31 and February 1! How Can Your Organization Be More Inclusive?

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