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Is It Time for Your Nonprofit or School to Make a CRM Change?

Blackbaud

After we made introductions, I asked about their donor CRM, jotting notes as they shared their hopes, frustrations, and data woes. As their list of frustrations grew and their unfulfilled hopes piled up, they asked me if I thought it was time to change to another donor CRM. It was a client kickoff call like so many others.

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4 Tips to Optimize Your Donor Database to Boost Engagement

Ann Green's Nonprofit

A robust donor database or constituent relationship management (CRM) system is one of the best tools you have at your disposal to boost engagement at your nonprofit. Create Thorough Donor Profiles Donor profiles are essential relationship-building tools that are built into nearly every nonprofit CRM. Lets dive in!

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4 Proven Direct Mail Fundraising Strategies For Nonprofits

Pamela Grow

Your donors arent just names in your nonprofits CRM. For example, segment your donors within your CRM. Use short sentences, simple language, and contractions. For example, share the story of Maria, a single mother who received resources to secure stable housing and training to land a new job. Evoke emotion with stories.

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Understanding the Grant Lifecycle: Info for Nonprofits

Blackbaud

Bonus Tip: Explore and incorporate available tools in your fundraising CRM to help track your applications, related actions, contacts, timeline, accounting considerations, and attachments. Accept Funding Accepting funding requires more than just signing a contract. Objective: Formally acknowledge and accept the grant award.

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Stop Begging, Start Planning: Why Foundations Are Done Funding Complacent Nonprofits

Planned Giving

Organizations lacking diversified funding streams become particularly vulnerable during economic downturns, when both individual giving and foundation support typically contract. This infrastructure includes dedicated staff training, marketing materials, and legal expertise for complex gift arrangements.

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Planned Gifts: A Quick Guide To Help Nonprofits Raise More

The Fundraising Coach

Charitable gift annuities (CGAs): CGAs are contracts between a donor and a nonprofit. Use your CRM to identify loyal, long-term donors, particularly those over the age of 55. Many CRMs will offer wealth screening tools that can help identify prospects. Train staff and board members. Is your board on board?

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Federal Policy and Private Schools: 5 Steps to Navigate Change

Blackbaud

Were you counting on ESEA funds to pay for learning specialist training? How to do it Assess your grant or contract language to identify which programs could be impacted. Now is the time to rekindle relationships, dust off your CRM, and prepare your school to think beyond the traditional tuition-based model.