Grant Professionals Association

MAY 14, 2025

I asked during my first week as a professional fundraiser. Though I had years of experience with my organization and its acronyms, fundraiser-speak was brand new to me. As a new fundraiser, I was fortunate to be a member of fundraising organizations that helped me find my feet. Hey, can you tell me what AGN means?

GPC

CauseVox

JANUARY 30, 2025

By connecting with donors in ways that dont involve a fundraising pitch, you can build lasting partnerships, foster a sense of community, and create advocates for your cause. Whether its planting trees, sorting donations, or mentoring youth, these opportunities make a lasting impact both on supporters and your organization.

Media

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 21, 2025

Work with a mentor or mentee and learn from other's firsthand experiences. Volunteer with a professional development organization or committee and help plan continuing education opportunities for others. Keep the ideas and tips coming! What are your favorite timesaver tips for keeping up with your grant education?

Grantschool

Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

industry average) Executive Director’s Reflection: “The transformation went beyond fundraising. ” It increases engagement by 28%. 21 Add Signature Line Pitches and Site Linkage ESSENTIAL Transform email signatures into marketing tools. These conversations deepened our understanding of why donors connect with our mission.

Policies

Center for Major Gifts

MAY 13, 2025

Thats why lumpy mail can be a game-changer for nonprofits trying to reach brand-new supporters through direct mail fundraising. A lumpy envelope suggests that the sender invested extra time and money a rare thing in todays world of mass emails and fundraising outreach tactics that often feel impersonal.

Mentor

Greater Giving

MARCH 27, 2025

For inspiration, check out this example Google Ad that promotes a nonprofits mentorship opportunities: The ad targets the keyword youth mentoring opportunities and promotes a relevant landing page. Providing a way to donate online is essential for modern fundraising. Use strong, action-oriented language to inspire clicks.

Nonprofit

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Its hard to fundraise without clean, easy-to-access donor data. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. What is a Nonprofit CRM?

CRM

GrantNews

APRIL 23, 2025

Press Releases = Free Publicity Got an event, fundraiser, or major milestone? Whether its hosting a food drive, mentoring youth, or joining a community clean-up, being seen in action builds trust. Joint events, fundraisers, or campaigns can introduce your nonprofit to new audiences. ways to grow local brand recognition.

Retail

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Fundraising & Grants Is it a pleasure to support your nonprofit or a hassle? Finding money and resources for your nonprofit is an art and successful fundraising takes good communication, strong relationships, and understanding who (and how) to ask. Nonprofit leaders share their most successful nonprofit fundraising strategies.

Budget

Gail Perry Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

To make matters worse, were all under pressure to increase fundraising revenues right now, especially in this chaotic time of fluctuating funding. We are hearing: The fundraisers are new to major gifts. The major gift fundraisers had little experience when we hired them. Major gift fundraising is not intuitive!

Metrics

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Being a multi-unit franchisee, managing a regional marketing co-op, mentoring 100 business owners, and volunteering with over 50 charity events enlightened her to the synergy and challenges faced by both donor companies and nonprofit event leaders regarding in-kind donations.

Instrumentl

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

​Teresa Huff is a nonprofit grant strategist and a grant writer mentor/coach. Instrumentl is the institutional fundraising platform. Teresa is a nonprofit grant strategist, grant writer, mentor, and coach. Try 14-days free Create your Instrumentl account using the link above. She has helped nonprofits triple their funding.

Instrumentl

The Fundraising Coach

MAY 30, 2025

While establishing relationships that can lead to planned gifts can take time, there are ways nonprofits can effectively raise more funds through this type of fundraising. Incorporate planned giving into fundraising appeals. This can be a building, a bench, a garden, or even something intangible like a fellowship or mentoring program.

CRM

Clairification

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Berkeley, and often apply their research to nonprofit fundraising and marketing. Or, as my mentor (and who some call the “father of fundraising)” Hank Rosso said: your role in “t he gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.” Philanthropy is about reciprocal awe, gratitude, altruism and purpose.

Mentor

Blue Avocado

APRIL 8, 2025

A structured onboarding process and the use of assigned mentors to guide, support, and encourage new members can be a very successful approach. JohnLamirande from Parentis Foundation Clear expectations build trust and ensure board commitments. Heres what works: 1. Prioritize one-on-one relationships.

Management

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

​Teresa Huff is a nonprofit grant strategist and a grant writer mentor/coach. Instrumentl is the institutional fundraising platform. Teresa is a nonprofit grant strategist and a grant writer, mentor, and coach. Try 14-days free Create your Instrumentl account using the link above. We don't focus on individual donors.

Instrumentl

Center for Major Gifts

MARCH 7, 2025

So, let’s take a fun guided tour through this peculiar ecosystem and decode the mystery of nonprofit job titlesbefore you accidentally address a Vice President of Philanthropic Synergy as a mere fundraiser, offend their delicate professional ego, trigger an existential crisis, and find yourself updating your LinkedIn profile by lunchtime.

Nonprofit

Wild Apricot

JULY 24, 2025

Great content answers questions, solves problems, and shows real-world experience. Local SEO: Show Up for the Right People Many nonprofits serve specific communities.

AI

Candid

MARCH 26, 2025

For most people working in nonprofit development, fundraiser is a role theyve evolved intoas a part of their job as a nonprofit leader, or because they discovered they were good at raising money. No matter how much financial planning or nonprofit management training you receive, some things about fundraising have to be learned the hard way.

Fundraising

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Imagine this: you set what you think is an ambitious fundraising goal for your virtual event and then watch as you double, triple, quadruple that goal in the days leading up to the event. Then, you cross the finish line – and end up raising 12 times your fundraising goal ! Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Drove Fundraising Success. “We

Mentor

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

By Rasheeda Childress Capehart It isn't always easy to find a mentor, but the benefits are worth the effort, say early-career and veteran fundraisers.

Mentor

Clairification

APRIL 1, 2024

Ever have a well-meaning, yet perhaps overly controlling or risk-aversive, boss say to you: Our fundraising letter must be no longer than one page. Alas, these are common fundraising appeal fallacies that will cost you money. Money donors might have given to you, if you’d only understood some fundamental fundraising truths.

Fundraising

Clairification

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Recently, fundraising copywriting and thanking guru, Lisa Sargent , posted a list of “small stuff” it’s absolutely important to sweat. — to learn this on my own in the trenches, and I’d have given anything to have had a mentor like Lisa to clue me in from the get-go. The best story for fundraising is an incomplete one.

Fundraising

Fundraising HayDay

OCTOBER 3, 2024

She shares her insights on being mentored, working with faith-based organizations, her recent experience with the Milestone Circles program at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, and so much more. Janelle Harvey’s passion is nonprofits and ensuring they have the resources needed to thrive.

Mentor

Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

You have what it takes to be a mentor—even from the middle. So, what is middle mentoring, you ask? Let me share my mentoring experience as an example. I could not imagine what I would have to offer as a mentor. As anyone who has mentored knows, I was also learning from them. What is holding you back?

Mentor

Future Fundraising Now

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Knowledge Almost everything you read on this blog is information about fundraising. There are many great blogs about fundraising. As you take it all in, you amass knowledge about fundraising. A mentor helps you understand your knowledge. To get good at fundraising (or anything else, really), you need all three.

Mentor

CauseVox

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We’re taking a look at top events from this year, so you can learn how to run a ticketed event fundraiser this year-end. Specific fundraising tactics and strategies to make the most of 2021. Live Q&A to help you get your most pressing fundraising questions answered + more.

Fundraising

Clairification

MAY 6, 2024

Were you to bring your event proposal to a wise shaman or mentor, this is the question they would ask you first – well before asking what theme or format you have in mind or what color scheme you want to use! Events are an inevitable part of the diversified fundraising mix. Events are the primary way to generate awareness and funds.

Mentor

CauseVox

AUGUST 4, 2021

Volunteer peer-to-peer fundraising. Peer-to-peer fundraising is any fundraising effort that relies on peers reaching out to each other on behalf of a cause. . You’re probably familiar with some classic examples of peer-to-peer fundraising: things like walkathons and races , or birthday campaigns.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email is a powerful marketing tool, but to get results you need to learn how to write fundraising emails that connect emotionally and inspire people to give. Nothing about your fundraising email should be left to chance. So, let’s look at the key pieces in detail so you know how to write fundraising emails that get results.

Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2021

Think about your fundraising career. Did you take classes, learn from mentors, read books or attempt to gain experience on a trial-and-error basis? Specifically, when thinking about the solicitation process, you probably focused a great deal of energy on what to say and do before, during and after the actual ask process.

Mentor

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

If you’re trying to raise money but all you’re hearing is crickets, you may need to work on your message for fundraising. It can be hard, especially if you’re new to fundraising or don’t like to write. Why Your Message for Fundraising Is Important. Years ago, when I first started fundraising, messaging was simpler.

Donation

NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 27, 2021

Be both a mentee and mentor over time. Mentorship is a two-way street. It should be a give-and-take process. Receive advice and guidance from those who have already been where you plan to go. Over time, be prepared to give your knowledge and experience to others by paying it forward.

Mentor

The Fundraiser Coach

AUGUST 17, 2023

My first fundraising job was at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. And three of us – Cliff, Rebecca Fong and I – were building the fundraising office from the ground up. I was so excited to dive into becoming a fundraiser. Gift #7 – he was a willing mentor.

Mentor

Critical Fundraising

MARCH 30, 2023

Praxis’ means turning theory into action, and Rogare praxis papers showcase research recently completed by a fundraising practitioner for their PhD or Master’s degree, with recommendations about how fundraisers can apply this research in practice. The paper can be downloaded from the praxis paper section of the Rogare website.

Mentor

Qgiv

JULY 21, 2021

What is peer-to-peer fundraising? Put simply, it’s a strategy that lets people raise money on your behalf using personalized fundraising pages. Let’s dive into peer-to-peer fundraising! Let’s dive into peer-to-peer fundraising! Getting Started with Peer-to-Peer Fundraising.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It’s one of the most overlooked places to seal the deal with your donor: the fundraising landing page. . Your fundraising landing page is a perfect opportunity to make a strong connection with your donor. But as important as fundraising landing pages are, they are often dull and transactional. Blah, blah, blah.”.

Fundraising