Planned Giving

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Viken Mikaelian is the CEO of PlannedGiving.com and Publisher of Giving Tomorrow Magazine. Interviewed by Karen Martin and Patrick O'Donnell, Editors, Giving Tomorrow Magazine. The firm has expanded to offer just about any marketing product a fundraiser could dream up. He may have been ahead of the curve. Look at Pepsi.

Indirect

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

As a nonprofit working to increase online fundraising , you've likely started making resolutions to improve, diversify, or broaden your fundraising efforts. As you plan or refine your fundraising strategy, I challenge you to consider these three simple changes to improve the results of your online giving! It's 2013.

Fundraising

Big Fundraising Ideas

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Analyzing the ROI of School Fundraising Products Blog Summary: This comprehensive guide explores the importance of analyzing ROI in school fundraising to help schools choose the most profitable products. It also offers a detailed ROI analysis of common fundraising products like candy sales, custom apparel, and online fundraisers.

Fundraising

Big Fundraising Ideas

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

3 Top Fundraising Ideas for Environmentally-Focused Schools Drive home the importance of demonstrating sustainability through your school fundraisers. While you can teach environmental conservation through lessons, drive home the importance of these lessons by demonstrating sustainability through your school fundraisers.

Fundraising

Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

While virtual fundraising was already gaining traction pre-pandemic, it certainly became a dominating force during the pandemic. So if you’re looking for virtual fundraising ideas for schools, you’re in the right place! Here are ten tips to help you succeed with virtual fundraising for education: 1.

Education

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Jeff Brooks has a great article in Fundraising Success magazine called “When Goofus and Gallant Raise Funds&#. My friend Kimberley Mackenzie has a great post on supporting Board members to participate in fundraising. Tags: General Fundraising nonprofit fundraising. We’d love to hear them.

Fundraising

Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Use these tips to show appreciation for all of your donors, whether they contributed online donations , in-kind gifts, matching gift funds, major donations, or any other forms of support. Recruit staff members and volunteers to serve on a fundraising event committee. A free publication, such as your quarterly magazine.

Retainer

Tech Soup

AUGUST 15, 2017

Whether they're to serve up content, answer questions, or bolster fundraising efforts, chatbots hold great promise for nonprofits and charities. The HelloVote chatbot app from Fight for the Future and the Fight for the Future Education Fund provides everything you need to vote wherever you live. What Is a Chatbot, Anyway?

Nonprofit

DoJiggy

APRIL 12, 2024

Are you looking for the Best DECA Fundraising Ideas for 2024? When fundraising for school initiatives like DECA, innovation and community engagement are key. When fundraising for school initiatives like DECA, innovation and community engagement are key. If so, DoJiggy’s got you covered! Plus, they can be great fun!

Fundraising

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 18, 2024

Who determines which projects will receive grant-funded support? As grant writers, we’re sometimes in a position of responding to requests from well-intentioned leadership or program staff to “look at this grant opportunity” or asking, “can you help us find funding for this project?” No company name or what they meant by fundraiser.

Grant

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Local literacy program supporting students in Haiti raises record-breaking funds, moves 24 students off waiting list. Think newspapers and magazines, even the free, weekly publications. And it should be part of your annual fundraising plan. Bicycle program readies for holidays, will repair and give away 150 bikes.

Media

Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

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! When you fundraise for a nonprofit, there are so many tasks to keep up with every day.

Metrics

Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2016

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. "Collectively, we waste hundreds of millions of dollars in a fundraising process that is full of duplication and confusion," we argue.

Nonprofit

Network for Good

MAY 3, 2021

For your recurring giving strategy, just like your other fundraising and marketing efforts, you should define a specific goal that will help you align your tactics and measure your progress. Say you want to create a monthly sustainer program to fund more kennel space for elderly rescue dogs. Let’s try it. What do I ask for?

Goals

Network for Good

MAY 3, 2021

For your recurring giving strategy, just like your other fundraising and marketing efforts, you should define a specific goal that will help you align your tactics and measure your progress. Say you want to create a monthly sustainer program to fund more kennel space for elderly rescue dogs. Let’s try it. What do I ask for?

Goals

Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

Whether they're to serve up content, answer questions, or bolster fundraising efforts, chatbots hold great promise for nonprofits and charities. The HelloVote chatbot app from Fight for the Future and the Fight for the Future Education Fund provides everything you need to vote wherever you live. What Is a Chatbot, Anyway?

Nonprofit

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Reporting in Forbes magazine and the Wall Street Journal estimates the value of this historic wealth transfer between $30-68 trillion—that’s “trillion” with a “t.”. From accounting procedures to levels of approval to a cohesive strategic plan, grant pros and fundraisers can help a nonprofit plan wisely and well.

Grant Writing

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She was named by Fast Company Magazine as one of the most influential women in technology. 2014 will be the year that nonprofits stop thinking about mobile in isolation, but will instead integrate mobile into their overall fundraising plans, social-media strategies, and in some cases even program work.

Nonprofit

Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

This involves things like how to manage investment funds that include purification processes for dealing with interest payments on loans in places that find common banking practices against Sharia law. Association of Fundraising Professionals: Philanthropy as a tenet of Islam. TechSoup Resources for Foundations.

Digital Media