Ann Green

APRIL 13, 2020

Thanking donors is often treated as a last-minute to-do item instead of an equally important component of fundraising. Just as you shouldn’t stop fundraising , you shouldn’t stop thanking your donors. Just like your fundraising material, your thank you communication needs to address the current COVID-19 outbreak. Quality counts.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A good fundraising email subject line can make or break your request for funds. Your fundraising email subject line has ONE job: to entice the recipient to open the email. Your fundraising email subject line has ONE job: to entice the recipient to open the email. Breaking: Record number of homeless people need help in Atlanta .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 18, 2021

For many of us, summer fundraising can be frustrating because often our donor communications during this season yield less-than-ideal results. . Determine if a summer fundraising campaign would help your communications. Determine if a summer fundraising campaign would help your communications. Plan a community event.

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Ann Green

JUNE 11, 2024

Instead, you see appeal letters, thank you letters, newsletter articles, and impact reports laced with cringe-worthy terms such as food insecurity, at-risk youth, and underserved communities. Food insecurity The USDA defines it as “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.”

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Selfish Giving

AUGUST 15, 2018

But a polite, knowledgeable employee to answer questions about the fundraiser makes all the difference. 140 businesses partnered with Pearl Jam to raise millions for Seattle's homeless. ??Why Brain food ???? ????? A few quick lessons about point-of-sale programs that include a paper icon. Humans still matter. Incentives work.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Writing and mailing a fundraising letter to your donors is a popular fundraising strategy for nonprofit organizations. Take a look: So, what does it take to get your fundraising letter right so you can raise thousands through the mail, even if this is your first mailing or if your last letter was a total flop?

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Ann Green

JUNE 5, 2023

Instead, you see appeal letters, thank you letters, newsletter articles, and impact reports laced with cringe-worthy terms such as food insecurity, at-risk youth, and underserved communities. Food insecurity The USDA defines it as “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.”

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Ann Green

APRIL 29, 2021

Instead, you see appeal letters, thank you letters, newsletter articles, and annual reports laced with cringe-worthy terms such as food insecurity, at-risk youth, underserved communities, and impactful. Food insecurity The USDA defines it as “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.”

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Ann Green

MARCH 25, 2020

Here are some examples of how to make a fundraising request, thank your donors, and share an update, in separate messages of course. Your fundraising request needs to be specific and straightforward. An organization that provides support for homeless families had to close their centers. Stay in touch with frequent updates.

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Ann Green

MAY 26, 2022

Instead, you see appeal letters, thank you letters, newsletter articles, and annual reports laced with cringe-worthy terms such as food insecurity, at-risk youth, underserved communities, and impactful. Food insecurity The USDA defines it as “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.”

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Ann Green

MARCH 19, 2019

Instead, you see appeal letters, thank you letters, and newsletter articles laced with cringe-inducing terms such as food insecurity, at-risk youth, underserved communities, and impactful. Nonprofit Jargon: Do Your Supporters Understand Your Fundraising? Are You Speaking The Same Language As Your Donors? How to do better.

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A gas station that is creating viral TikTok videos to collect donations for the homeless. ?? Vice President, Engagement, Food Bank of NYC , New York City 2. Brain Food 1. In last week's newsletter, I talked about my approach to fundraising with audience-centric fundraising. Marketing Your Cause 1. PODCAST] 3.

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Ann Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

4 SIMPLE DONOR SEGMENTS THAT WILL MAXIMIZE YOUR FUNDRAISING EFFORTS. This way we can help more homeless families find housing. They don’t use terms like food insecurity, at-risk populations, and underserved communities and neither should you. You can also personalize letters to lapsed donors, event attendees, volunteers, etc.

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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.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Does a nonprofit’s mission statement influence its fundraising efforts? New research conducted using data from Candid suggests that understanding this relationship can boost your nonprofit’s fundraising success. that serve the homeless population. It gets them excited about helping to achieve that mission.

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Ann Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Explained: Donor-Centric and Community Centric Fundraising. Fundraising Appeals. Your fundraising appeal shouldn’t be focused too much on your organization – rambling on about how great you are. For example – Thanks to your generous donation of $50, a family can get a box of groceries at the Westside Community Food Bank.

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Ann Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It’s harder to fundraise now, but you need to still do it. Fundraising Appeals. Your fundraising appeal shouldn’t be focused too much on your organization – rambling on about how great you are. For example – Thanks to your generous donation of $50, a family can get a box of groceries at the Eastside Community Food Bank.

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Communication Homelessness Retention Food 147

Ann Green

APRIL 21, 2020

You can still do fundraising in separate messages. In fact, you should still be fundraising. If your homeless shelter has to take on extra measures to keep it clean, emphasize the importance of the health and safety of your clients, many of whom are at greater risk of getting COVID-19. Otherwise, it’s beyond clueless.

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 28, 2013

I''ve always said my best Halloween costume was to dress as a fundraiser! Witches, Goblins or Fundraising? What’s scarier than fundraising , headless horsemen and spooky ghosts combined? Here’s what I mean: If it were you facing a night sleeping on the streets, would you rather ask for money to get a bed or stay homeless?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2021

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising and social media awareness campaigns. 10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. 16: World Food Day — #WorldFoodDay. 10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. 16: World Food Day — #WorldFoodDay.

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Ann Green

JULY 7, 2020

If you’re working on issues such as affordable housing, homelessness, education, health care, etc, these have ties to racism. Maybe you had to change the way you run your food pantry, but what’s most important is that people in the community continue to have access to healthy food. . I want to briefly address racism right now.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2022

Cause awareness and giving days are powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising and social media awareness campaigns. Those who register and attend all three webinars in the series will earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising from Nonprofit Tech for Good. 10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2023

Cause awareness and giving days are powerful themes upon which to launch digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. Those who register and attend all three webinars in the series will earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising from Nonprofit Tech for Good. 10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In-Kind Gift Donation Receipts Whether you run a food bank, thrift store , homeless shelter, or disaster relief organization, any nonprofit that collects physical items (or accepts in-kind services) must know the differences between cash and in-kind donation receipts.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 5, 2024

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. This highlights an important maxim of donor-centered fundraising: You are not your donors. As counter-intuitive as it may seem to you, most donors don’t want to know how the sausage gets made (or food gets delivered). You think this is an important milestone.

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Food Homelessness Poverty Education 121

Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

When you think about an inkind gift, you may think of stuff, such as bottled water and packaged snacks for events or hotel-sized shampoo and conditioner for a shelter serving homeless families. The company that donates surplus tote bags with their logo on them for families at your food pantry to use when shopping is an inkind donor.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 5, 2020

As well they should… a very high percentage of all charitable gifts are made during the year-end fundraising cycle. If you want to know how to run an amazing year-end fundraising campaign (both online and offline) for your organization, check out our three part series How to Do Year-End Fundraising the Right Way.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fundraising season is upon us and it’s time to set some big year-end fundraising goals and go after them! We call it Fundraising Season and the key to maximizing your revenue potential during this special time of year is to have and execute a plan. So, what does an integrated year-end fundraising campaign look like?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. Or your food bank receiving dozens of 55-gallon barrels of peanut butter (that happened to me once!).

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This additional fundraiser - CHOOSE-GIVE-GET - runs through tomorrow. Santander’s Someone Else's Shoes shows the misunderstood realities of homelessness [VIDEO]. For every download, the bank is donating $1 to organizations like Boston-based Heading Home that aid the homeless. Brain Food 1. Partnership Notes.

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Ann Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

11 Ways To Segment Your Donors To Improve Your Fundraising. This way we can serve even more people at the community food bank. Let your donors know their donation is helping families who were left homeless due to a fire or provided heating assistance during a recent cold spell. They may not remember what they’ve given before.

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Ann Green

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This will help us serve more families at the Parkside Community Food Bank. Your gift will help us purchase winter coats for homeless children. With fundraising revenue and retention rates down, you can’t afford to not do a good job of thanking your donors. Think about how much your donors will appreciate this nice gesture.

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The Agitator

JUNE 25, 2018

So I headed over to Google Scholar and searched for “use pictures fundraising appeals.”. Here are some of the titles of journal articles that faced me: Pictures of me: user views on their representation in homelessness fundraising appeals. The ethical dimension of fundraising in the homelessness sector.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Unfortunately, many founders or leaders skip creating one — which generally leads to fundraising frustrations and stalled services, among other problems. For example, if you run a homeless shelter, you should mention the number of people who are homeless on any given night in your area. Marketing Plan. More trucks?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

We work to end the cycle of homelessness for families in our community. For example, a food pantry might come up with sticky-note drafts such as: We provide emergency food boxes to people in need. We help seniors have access to fresh food. Food for thought! We provide food … how about we nourish ?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It’s time to plan for the most productive time of the year – Year End Fundraising Season! Those of us in the world of nonprofit fundraising are starting to think about how to best leverage the next four months. Get Ready Now For Year End Fundraising So, what does it take to make this your best year end fundraising season ever?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 15, 2019

Spring is in full bloom, which means a whole new season of fundraising opportunities are headed your way! By taking advantage of the sunshine, gorgeous weather and plentiful holidays spring has to offer, you can make spring fundraisers the best of the year. Check out our fundraiser ideas for the summer , fall and holiday season !

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