The Fundraiser Coach

JANUARY 20, 2025

In the world of major gift fundraising, relationships ought to be at the heart of the work we do. With the pressure of ever rising revenue goals, lack of full staffing, or a focus on "getting the gift," some fundraisers fall into the trap of treating donors like transactions. ” Why does transactional fundraising happen?

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Clairification

APRIL 24, 2025

Okay, lets get to modern nonprofit fundraising. Fundraising Best Practices Background Lots of ideas, plenty of faith, much trial and error and very little data or science. Ive been in the fundraising field over four decades and, trust me, when I began and for too many years thereafter — we were a bit in the middle ages.

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Clairification

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Let’s look at how some of the words nonprofits commonly use get their meaning, how this meaning may be interpreted by your constituents, and how you may wish to express yourself differently in order to choose the words most appropriate for your group and for the purpose of your communication. Are they donors ? Are they donors ?

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Tony Martignetti

DECEMBER 8, 2024

James Misner:The Art & Science Of Fundraising James Misner explains what he sees as the right and left brain activities of your nonprofits fundraising. James is CEO Continue reading Nonprofit Radio for December 9, 2024: The Art & Science Of Fundraising Your objective is to balance the art and the science.

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Hands-On Fundraising

MAY 13, 2025

Measure your fundraising to succeed. Nonprofits often follow rules regarding fundraising appeals to maximize their success. However, the most reliable source of information about what works for your […] The post 10 Metrics to Track Your Fundraising Campaign Success appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Grants are an integral lifeline for many nonprofits, providing the necessary funding to launch new initiatives, sustain critical programs, and ensure operational stability. What if that major grant your nonprofit counts on suddenly disappears: How would you continue your mission?

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 10, 2025

Online fundraising is a cornerstone of nonprofit success. Your digital marketing strategy determines whether donors will actually donate to your fundraiser. Your digital marketing strategy determines whether donors will actually donate to your fundraiser. Promote Your Fundraiser with Google Ads. For example, U.S.

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Candid

MARCH 10, 2025

Nonprofit organizations often collaborate with one another to share resources, seek grants, and scale public service delivery. At the same time, nonprofits also compete directly against one anotherfor attention, for funding, for clientsalthough this competition rarely gets acknowledged.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Quick Definition Online fundraising is the process of raising donations for a cause, project, or organization through digital platforms such as websites, social media apps, and email campaigns. In this article, we will cover online fundraising methods, tools, and some quick tips to get your nonprofit started!

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Diverse revenue streams provide a sustainable financial foundation for nonprofits. Explore revenue streams your nonprofit should pursue in this guide. This is a great way for nonprofits of all sizes to bring in a steady stream of revenue. Evaluate your mobile fundraising logistics. The good news?

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Clairification

MAY 22, 2025

Today I share a proven 1-2-3 formula for nonprofit fundraising success — even when the ground underneath feels shaky. The third step is essential for success in reaching any fundraising goal. Id like to suggest you heed this 3-Step Formula to nonprofit fundraising success. The post Balancing Trick: You.

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Tony Martignetti

APRIL 14, 2025

Lynn Bohart: Your Improved Fundraising Messaging Do your fundraising messages engage and connect with your donors and prospects? Or do they merely inform? Do you know how to craft an engaging story? And what makes stories so valuable anyway? Or do they merely inform? Do you know how to craft an engaging story?

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Clairification

JUNE 5, 2025

These decision-making triggers can be incredibly useful to fundraisers. Ever hear fundraising is both art and science? People won’t generally give just because you’re a nonprofit and “do good work.” ” There are a lot of nonprofits out there — some 1.9 million in the U.S. With intention.

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Clairification

JANUARY 16, 2025

Nonprofits pay a lot of attention to donor acquisition. Nonprofits pay a lot of attention to major donor relationship building. What if you were to begin to look at your mid-level donors as the transformational fundraising opportunity they are?

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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.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 10, 2025

Here’s a sobering statistic: Only 23% of first-time donors give a second gift according to the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ latest research. The Real Reason Donors Stop Giving Most nonprofits assume donors stop giving because they’re overwhelmed with asks or they’ve lost interest in the cause.

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Clairification

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The biggest fundraising time of the year for most nonprofits inexorably approaches. Let’s get started… The post 12 Quick Strategies to Boost Year-End Fundraising appeared first on Clairification. Percolate on these ideas; choose 1 – 2 to wake up your year-end campaign! It can be stressful.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 29, 2024

These fundraising gems have been a hit with our readers, and Ive gathered them all in one place just for you. Our goal is to equip you with practical fundraising tools and ideas you can implement right away. Get ready to dive into the wealth of knowledge from these 2024 fundraising articles. And thats a good thing.It

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Clairification

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Year-end fundraising is not chopped chicken liver! While you absolutely should be using multiple fundraising channels to get best results, right now whatever you’ve got planned for offline is pretty much cooked. To boost your year-end fundraising success, you need to craft an email offer your donor can’t refuse.

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Hands-On Fundraising

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

If youre looking for a compelling fundraising campaign idea to supplement your nonprofits annual fundraising efforts, look no further than peer-to-peer fundraising. What makes peer-to-peer fundraising such a great strategy to support annual fundraising campaigns?

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Clairification

APRIL 8, 2024

Donors are Love-Starved The post Two Ways Nonprofits Get Donor-Centered Fundraising Wrong appeared first on Clairification. Let’s delve into both of these misconceptions more deeply, putting them into a donor-centered context. In other words, what are your would-be donors feeling?

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Despite the importance of raising money well, the majority of small to midsize nonprofits use suboptimal strategies—methods that are expensive, time-consuming, and yield only minimal returns on a lot of hard work. These are the kinds of revenue strategies that keep nonprofits just surviving instead of scaling. Fundraising mistake #2.

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Clairification

DECEMBER 9, 2024

What does this mean for you as a fundraiser? The post Psychology of Securing Lasting Nonprofit Donor Commitments appeared first on Clairification. Because we are wired to want to be consistent. That to which we commit, especially publicly, becomes congruent with our self image.

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Pamela Grow

APRIL 11, 2025

Local nonprofit after nonprofit, small and heavily reliant on grants, shutting their doors for good. In transitioning to fundraising, I always had three words running through my brain. Because when you go silent, when you pull back your fundraising out of fear thats when you guarantee a downturn in giving. Meaningful.

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Candid

JANUARY 23, 2025

Nonprofits thrive or fail based largely on the success of their fundraising efforts, but fundraising alone cannot ensure sustainability. Research shows the impact of prioritizing grassroots engagement and localized impact on nonprofit sustainability. Share stories of impact from donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Does your nonprofit want to increase engagement with your marketing and fundraising efforts? You may have heard of lead generation in a business setting, but nonprofits can also effectively use this concept to drive engagement online and boost support for their missions. If so, you need a lead generation strategy.

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CharityHowTo

JANUARY 21, 2025

Staying ahead in digital fundraising is essential for nonprofits to thrive in an increasingly competitive space.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 21, 2025

How does your nonprofit organization compete with all this? Some of the PACs send emails that are so obnoxious they give fundraising a bad name. This is very common for fundraising campaigns and inviting people to events, as well as including a link to your email newsletter on your social media platforms. or THANK YOU!

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Just Write Grants

JANUARY 27, 2025

Over the past few years, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have taken center stage in nonprofit work, influencing how organizations operate, advocate, and secure funding. However, recent political and cultural shifts have brought new challenges and opportunities to the DEI landscape, creating uncertainty for nonprofits.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2025

Whether youre setting up your website or improving an existing one, explore best practices for promoting your nonprofit online effectively in this guide. As a small nonprofit, you may have created a website but not had the bandwidth to flesh it out and optimize it fully. Create all the important pages you need.

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Tony Martignetti

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

He defines the terms in plain language and explains why crypto giving belongs … Continue reading Nonprofit Radio for November 11, 2024: Accepting Cryptocurrency Gifts → Pat Duffy: Accepting Cryptocurrency Gifts Code. Blockchain.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In theory, that sounds nice, but in reality, it’s a day when nonprofit organizations unleash an onslaught of transactional fundraising appeals by email, text, and social media. Given what’s likely in the next administration, nonprofits will need to work harder to combat any government funding cuts and policy changes.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Heres a tip: give two (or more) of your friends $10 and ask them to donate to your nonprofit online, via your website. Tailor our Donor Thank You Call Script to your nonprofits need and your style. You know that yes, online giving isgrowing because of how accessible and easy it is (or how easy and accessible itssupposedto be).So

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The Fundraiser Coach

JANUARY 5, 2025

Elevate Stewardship: Thanking and stewardship is foundational to a thriving fundraising program and our low retention rates are a symptom. Find Joy in Your Work: This nonprofit work is not always easy! 2025 Evolutions - Consider doing less of Less Transactional Fundraising: Shift away from impersonal, one-size-fits-all approaches.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For the last 20 years, I have held the title of “fundraiser”—to be more exact, a Black and Indigenous woman fundraiser. Thriving, not just surviving, as Black fundraisers For Black fundraisers, the work is often more than just a job; it’s deeply personal. Wellness, for Black fundraisers, is a revolutionary act.

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Candid

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Community-Centric Fundraising (CCF) movement was founded by and centers BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) communities worldwide. What is Community-Centric Fundraising? Historically, fundraising has been grounded in a competitive environment that creates a mindset of scarcity and cutthroat nonprofit survival.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Ive only just started reading Great Fundraising Organizations: Why and How the Worlds Best Charities Excel at Raising Money , and Im already widely recommending it to colleagues, students, and clients. Particularly fundraising professionals. Know Your Donors: Fundraising isnt about data points or demographic segments.

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