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The Story of Your Non-Profit

How well are you telling your non-profit’s story? No… I’m not talking about that boilerplate “History of our Organization” that you have on your website. And I’m certainly not referring to the mission statement that committee of your board members hammered out 15 years ago. I’m talking about story, in its truest sense… Good. Evil. [...]

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Fundraising Authority Podcast #3: How to Build and Use Fundraising Networks

My favorite fundraising strategy for long-term financial stability is the use of fundraising networks. Every non-profit, no matter how small or large, should be using fundraising networks to grow its prospect pool and raise more money from individual and corporate donors. In today’s episode of The Fundraising Authority Podcast, we talk about fundraising networks… what [...]

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How to Launch Planned Giving at Your Non-Profit

Planned giving… for many non-profits, particularly small and mid-sized organizations, it’s something we say we want to get around to, but never do. Sure, if someone leaves us a gift in their will, we’ll take it, but for many of us, we never quite get around to launching a planned giving campaign at our charity, [...]

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Making the Most of Year End Fundraising Appeals

The end of the calendar year can (and should) be a bonanza for non-profit organizations looking to raised small and medium-sized gifts to round out their fundraising numbers. Whether your non-profit works on a fiscal or a calendar year, most “regular folks” in the work-a-day world work on a calendar year, and make a significant [...]

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How to Fundraise Like the Big Boys: Tips for Small Development Shops

Sometimes it just doesn’t seem fair: you’re working hard, giving your organization’s development program all of your effort and skill, and yet it doesn’t feel like you’re making enough progress. Then you see a major non-profit across town raise $500,000 in a single two week campaign, using their twelve person strong development office and army [...]

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Using Online Tools to Streamline Fundraising Event Planning

Guest post by Kari Kiel There are many factors you’ll want to analyze following any fundraising event in order to increase efficiency for future fundraisers and improve your success rate. Obviously one indicator of success is based on the total amount of funds raised at the close of your fundraiser. Another may be on overall [...]

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Great Free Fundraising Resources

As you know, from time to time we like to publish lists of the best fundraising information we’ve found on the web… tools and reports that will help you become a better fundraiser and a stronger organization. Today, we’ve created a list of three extensive, but free, resources on fundraising that will help your non-profit [...]

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