NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Nonprofits are staffed by incredibly competent and dedicated people — experts who understand their work backward and forward, whether it be housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, or supporting these programs through effective fundraising and building sustainable solutions to the world’s most challenging problems.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Sadly, this strategy requires the size of the fundraising needed to be matched by outrageousness of the miles and terrain. Now keep in mind, I am not a runner or a natural athlete, Despite our better judgment and lack of athletic prowess–Ken Craft (Founder and CEO) and I hatched a plan. The miles and fundraising goal had a ring to it.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JUNE 20, 2011

“Many people give to the hungry and homeless around the holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas,&# explains Melissa. Melissa Musliner, House of Charity’s Marketing & Development Director, is a Nonprofit Marketing Guide All-Access Pass holder. The result was our Groundhog Day campaign in February.&#.

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Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 28, 2013

OBS is leveraging the billion dollar custom tee shirt industry to create a brand new fundraising stream for charity and nonprofit organizations. They also sponsor the Halopreneur board on Pinterest, which is additional content for my next book “Fundraising for Businesses: 40 New (and Improved!) Strategies for Nonprofits.”

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Anedot

MARCH 11, 2025

During that time, we’ve refined and optimized our processes to offer a unique and highly impactful service to those living homeless while housed. Have deep experience in non-profit development, both grant seeking/writing and fundraising and have overseen successful grant applications that garner $10k and up.

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Ann Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Your donors want to hear from you and don’t just want to be blasted with fundraising appeals. You’ll often use several different channels when you send a fundraising appeal or promote an event. Perhaps it’s homelessness or mental health awareness month. Fundraising and recruitment. I hope that’s a priority for you, too.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

And that means you have to figure out how to fundraise for your new venture. Should you start a GoFundMe or turn to a Facebook fundraiser? To fully fund your mission, you have to become a fundraiser. First Steps: Learning and Planning As with all big projects, its important to learn all you can about how to fundraise.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Between the festive giving mood and donors rushing to make tax-deductible gifts before the end of the year, the holidays are the most important time of year for fundraising. While classic fundraising appeals can encourage contributions, year-end is also a great time to experiment with unique fundraisers that make your nonprofit stand out.

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Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

A lot of nonprofits, fundraisers and cause marketers can learn a lot from these mobile eateries that have a nose for where the business is and know how to keep fans coming back. I’m also heading out to Los Angeles today for the Blogworld Expo and am hoping to sample some of their great food trucks! Their product is distinctive.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Email messages of gratitude around Thanksgiving are a great way to kick off a series of fundraising emails in November and December. November 13-21: National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. Or dispel an absurd notion people believe about your organization. 11/25: Thanksgiving (U.S.). Thank supporters, clients, and volunteers.

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Selfish Giving

JULY 2, 2012

It’s definitely worth a deeper dive if you’re interested in pinups as a fundraiser for your business partners. Even then Shamrocks wer an classic fundraising practice. Maggie was always a top student, and gets an A+ for this pinup program that teamed the Chatham-Savannah Authority for the Homeless, Inc.

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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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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 31, 2025

However, with so much fundraising focusing on maximizing these opportunities, its easy to overlook strategies to boost daily donations. This allows them to focus on their programs or growth instead of constantly fundraising to make ends meet. Your nonprofit will decide on a proven and reputable shoe drive fundraising provider.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

When small and midsized non-profits are looking for new fundraising ideas, they are usually given ideas that require a lot of work for only a little return. Things like carwashes, rummage sales, and spare change collections can raise money, but often take a ton of work in return for just a few thousand dollars of fundraising profit.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Email messages of gratitude around Thanksgiving are a great way to kick off a series of fundraising emails in November and December. Or dispel an absurd notion people believe about your organization. 11/26: Thanksgiving (U.S.). Thank supporters, clients, and volunteers.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Stale in 1982, Bill will FLUNK YOU today if he finds them in your org’s newsletter, annual report or fundraising appeal. Lilly and 15,000 young people in our area are hungry, homeless and may never “be O.K.”. Back to the drawing board. Hit the ground running. Spearheading the campaign. Joining forces. What to use instead?

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Ann Green

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Use everyday language such as – With your help, we found affordable housing for over 100 homeless families. donor relations fundraising writing annual report' Most of your donors don’t use words like underserved or at-risk, and neither should you. Write in the second person and use a warm, friendly tone.

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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 24-in-24 campaign. .

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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 A few quick lessons about point-of-sale programs that include a paper icon. Humans still matter. The recorded message when I ordered was genius.

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Ann Green

DECEMBER 14, 2016

I hope your year-end fundraising campaign is going well. Fundraising is a year-round effort and after you’ve thanked your donors, you need to make a plan to communicate with them at least once or twice a month throughout the year. You’ll often use a number of different channels when you send a fundraising appeal or promote an event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

Fundraising Stats. of overall fundraising in 2018 came from online giving ( Charitable Giving Report ). of overall fundraising in 2018 came from online giving ( Charitable Giving Report ). The number of new retained donors dropped 14.9% ( Fundraising Effectiveness Project ). Email Fundraising. 9% via PayPal.

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Ann Green

JANUARY 18, 2017

In my last post, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Year-End Fundraising – Part One , I gave examples of how organizations thanked me, welcomed me as a new donor, and recognized my monthly gifts after I gave my year-end donations. For example, one organization cited a recent fire that left 32 families homeless.

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Ann Green

MAY 3, 2018

The Best Fundraising Appeal Opening Lines. 4 Unique Openings to Get Your Fundraising Appeals Read. If I already give to homelessness prevention organizations, you could say you know ending homelessness is important to me. It opened with a story about a homeless woman named Nettie. You don’t know me.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Storytelling has become a hot topic in non-profit fundraising. There’s a reason for this change: storytelling is extremely important to good fundraising. As fundraisers, we need to be carrying on a constant conversation with our donors. That’s why we need to incorporate stories into our fundraising work.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Last week, we started a three article series on year-end fundraising. In our next post , we’ll go over a step-by-step plan for maximizing your year-end fundraising. The 5 Rules for Supercharged Year-End Fundraising. Many non-profits make the mistake of trying to use gimmicks during year-end fundraising.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MAY 21, 2012

In my fundraising work with smaller nonprofit organizations, the number one thing I see hindering our grantwriting projects is staff members’ fear of calling potential foundation funders to introduce the organization and to inquire about the possible fit of project(s) with the funder’s interests.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Help us build 4 new homes for homeless veterans in need this winter by supporting our Shelter from the Strom Campaign ! Help us raise $1,000 this Giving Tuesday to purchase and provide warm blankets for 100 homeless teens as winter approaches. For example: .

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Ann Green

APRIL 23, 2019

GUIDE: Using Donor Personas to Maximize Your Nonprofit Fundraising. If your organization is working to prevent homelessness, you may find your donors are most interested in finding affordable housing for homeless families. Do this for every fundraising letter, thank you letter, newsletter, or any other type of communication.

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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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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

You may be wondering where to focus your fundraising as we emerge from the fog of 2020 and into, perhaps, a less cloudy future when it comes to nonprofit giving trends. Who laid off their fundraising and marketing staff, and cut back on donor communications. If you rely on contributed income, fundraising and marketing are essential.

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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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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Email messages of gratitude around Thanksgiving are a great way to kick off a series of fundraising emails in November and December. Or dispel an absurd notion people believe about your organization. 11/23: Thanksgiving (U.S.). Thank supporters, clients, and volunteers. 11/28: Giving Tuesday.

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Ann Green

DECEMBER 4, 2014

You’ll often use a number of different channels when you send out a fundraising appeal or promote an event. Perhaps it’s homelessness awareness month or your organization was founded in March 1985. Fundraising and recruitment. Be sure to add your fundraising appeals to your communications calendar. Time of year.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Angela fights homelessness and poverty by day through powerful storytelling and strategic fundraising. What we did not learn: Where to get cute burrowing owls. Maybe next time ? Angela Crist is the CEO Findlay Hope House. She chases her dogs and small children by night.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Email messages of gratitude around Thanksgiving are a great way to kick off a series of fundraising emails in November and December. Or dispel an absurd notion people believe about your organization. 11/28: Thanksgiving (U.S.). Thank supporters, clients, and volunteers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

By Wendy Mercurio , Content & Education Specialist at Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. December is an important month for nonprofit fundraisers. Fundraisers can receive helpful cues from these intelligent tools.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 27, 2012

Watch dog groups often rely on spending and growth data for their analysis, but as Anjali Deshmukh asks, “If an organization could prove to you that they could eradicate homelessness, would you care as much about what they spent on salaries and staplers?” A Simple Picture of How We Give.

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