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From Volunteer to Visionary: Ashley Baker, CNP’s Journey

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

As an adoptee and a participant in her high school’s Early Learning Academy, she witnessed the struggles faced by pregnant high schoolers. Motivated by this, Ashley was determined to graduate from UCF and then create a supportive home for pregnant high schoolers and their children. .”

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Top Fundraising Strategies to Appeal to a Millennial Audience

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

Understanding the giving habits and motivations of your millennial audience will give you a leg up in the fundraising space. This group has begun to dominate across donor demographics, which your organization has probably seen if you’ve done a fundraising assessment recently.

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Reimagining grantmaking with data collaboration at scale 

Candid

Imagine a world in which philanthropy professionals are focused on improving their practices to transform philanthropy through centering communities, lightening the burden on nonprofit organizations, and holding themselves accountable to their values.

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The complete year-end guide to maximizing matching gifts

EveryAction

from our friends at Double the Donation The final few months of the year hold great significance for nonprofit organizations as a critical time for fundraising. Needless to say, if you’re a fundraiser, meeting your organization’s fundraising goal is top of mind in the fall and winter.

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Why you must deliver value in fundraising, not just take the money and run

iMarketSmart

Back to fundraising So, why hasn’t that small nonprofit received its million-dollar gift? Now you are a major gifts fundraiser! Otherwise, your organization will get left out. Delivering value with heroism The “one big thing” in fundraising is always the same: Advance the donor’s hero story. Actually, no.

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Dr. James explains why the feeling “People like me make gifts like this” is so powerful in major gifts fundraising

iMarketSmart

It’s a powerful fundraising message. Adding this phrase, “Did you know that other participants gave £5 and they said that participants such as yourself should give £5?”[27] For fundraising, the ideal example is a stretch gift. As president of Connecticut College, Claire Gaudiani massively expanded fundraising success.

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How to Reduce the ‘Cost’ of Philanthropy So Major Donors Give More

iMarketSmart

1] This may be particularly true in fundraising. Giving is motivated by social emotion. Because giving doesn’t come just from motivation. It comes from the intersection of motivation and cost. Motivation must overcome the cost barrier. Giving results from the intersection of motivation and cost.