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Motivate Your Donors To Give More Without Pressure

Bloomerang

Thats a question every fundraiser has encountered. Most importantly, it creates a dynamic asking environment where the donor can ask questions and the fundraiser can nurture a relationship. This is especially true for capital campaigns, program expansions, and during gala fundraisers.

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The Psychology Behind Giving: Motivating Members to Become Donors

Bloomerang

Understanding what flips the switch for your members to transform them from participants to passionate donors is the key to boosting your fundraising efforts. Leveraging community Influence: Social proof in fundraising Never underestimate the power of the crowd. Social proof is a formidable force in philanthropy.

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Safe At Work: How To Lead During Election Season With Fairness and Civility

Fundraising Leadership

“Americans are feeling increasingly stressed about politics amid an assassination attempt, a late-breaking candidate change, debate drama, and legal battles,” the American Psychological Association reports. “In That’s citizenship,” writes Feldt, on the importance of individual participation. “ That’s #citizenship.

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Science, technology, and design: A new framework in fundraising

Candid

Is there anyone who doesn’t believe that our times—and the fundraising climate—haven’t shifted dramatically in the past year? The bad news: your results will not reach the potential to transform your organization, solve a problem in your community, or get you recognition as a change master in the field of fundraising and development.

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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. It [proposes] a new mechanism of decision making in charitable giving through an important psychological construct: similarity.”[23] Adding this phrase, “Did you know that other participants gave £5 and they said that participants such as yourself should give £5?”[27] Her approach?

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6 Reasons Why People Won’t Give to Your Fundraising Appeal Letter (and what to do about it!)

Get Fully Funded

We’ve all received a fundraising appeal letter in the mail asking us to donate. Maybe YOU have sent out a fundraising appeal letter for your nonprofit, hoping to see donations pouring in. There’s a lot of strategy and psychology involved in motivating someone to give through the mail. Lots of people do. An annual report?

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Your mission is the gift. Really.

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

Many people wrote to say they agreed, and that the advice offered reflected their own experiences as fundraisers. This is good advice and recommended reading for all fundraisers! I should be upfront about my areas of expertise, as well as my gaps: I lead the country’s largest event fundraising firm.