Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

The other day I spoke with a major gift fundraiser who had quit her job with a large health care facility. I understood her perspective and immediately shared with her this similar take from another professional fundraising expert. The human tool to unlock philanthropy: empathy. They are about order, not emotion.

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iMarketSmart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It is also cited to justify any and all fundraising metrics. When we overmeasure or measure the wrong things, we render fundraising mechanical, awkward, unsatisfying, and unsuccessful. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” The author is the great Peter Drucker. It’s apt.

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The Agitator

APRIL 1, 2014

In the last few days I’ve seen two columns, one in the NY Times and one in the Chronicle of Philanthropy , that I consider ‘must read’ for nonprofit fundraisers and communicators (and their CEOs). branding charities communications Don''t Miss these Posts fundraising nonprofit management nonprofits premium'

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Candid

MAY 26, 2021

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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The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The potential within ultra-high net worth philanthropy is truly world-changing, and that’s no exaggeration. In this episode of the Modern Nonprofit podcast, host Tosha Anderson interviews Alex Johnston, founder of Building Impact Partners and author of “ Money with Meaning : How to Create Joy and Impact Through Philanthropy.”

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Clairification

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The job of the smart fundraiser is inspiring passionate philanthropy to make people’s lives better. But none of us is born with a fundraising gene. And no one ever really teaches us how to write a smart fundraising appeal. The truth is writing a compelling fundraising appeal can be tricky. 90% read the P.S. first.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 12, 2024

Langley Innovations provides a range of services to its clients to help them understand the cultural underpinnings of philanthropy and the psychology of donors and, with that knowledge, to develop the most effective strategies and tactics to build broader and more lasting communities of support. I wrote this more than 12 years ago.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Trends in philanthropy make this a question worth asking. Even those who remain insulated from the harsh climatological effects will not be immune from the psychological effects of watching this catastrophe unfold. At the same time, philanthropy can pursue the same end. Justice and human rights fare best in a temperate climate.

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Clairification

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Taking the time to look at your fundraising message with a critical eye can help you raise a lot more money. That’s why I’ve developed this checklist to help you get your full share of the philanthropy pie. But sometimes the best fundraising letters break the rules a bit to come across as conversational.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We return philanthropy to a people-helping-people paradigm and create the means of turning “gifts” into enduring partnerships – allowing kindred spirits to work together in pursuit of deeply held purposes. But if we want to build stronger philanthropic partnerships we should realize there are any number of backstories at play.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2023

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on the best words and phrases for successful fundraising appeals: Dear Charity Clairity, I’d like to spiff up my appeal writing. I’m tired of the same old, same old. We’d love to hear from you!

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The list below was an attempt by Forbes Magazine to capture the “faces of philanthropy” way back in 1994. The fact that donors are animated by different purposes does explain why theories of fundraising abound. Those fundraising for hospitals or beloved colleges are convinced that tapping into gratitude worked best.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

MARCH 27, 2015

Most of this we’ve covered before, but these principles are important for all fundraisers to keep in mind. “Philanthropy is a way for people to experience human love.” ” Don’t miss this great profile of Jen Shang , Professor of philanthropic psychology at University of Plymouth. via The Guardian.

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 15, 2024

Practitioners of transactional fundraising and the cultures who default to it will never know, see, foster, or benefit from the best in human nature and what only time can ripen and bring to fruition. SHARE IT AND/OR LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS BELOW The post The Tragedy of Transactional Fundraising appeared first on MarketSmart LLC.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Today’s question come from a fundraiser and donor who wants advice on how to handle poor donor engagement: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m a fundraiser, but also a donor. Both about your philanthropy, and about you. Did I offend the previous fundraiser?

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 19, 2024

My concern with so much of traditional fundraising is that it puts one or more parties in an uncomfortable position. Fundraisers feel as if they are being somewhat false in trying to make a case for a weak concept or being pushed into making a premature ask. SHARE IT AND/OR LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS BELOW!

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 16, 2024

The seeds of philanthropy were already within them. The more we deepen ourselves, the more we help others do the same and together give more meaning to philanthropy itself. That was beyond my ability. Everyone had made the decision to give at some point on their own. Jim Langley is the president of Langley Innovations.

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 9, 2024

Fundraising is not about “The Ask.” Langley Innovations provides a range of services to its clients to help them understand the cultural underpinnings of philanthropy and the psychology of donors, and with that knowledge, to develop the most effective strategies and tactics to build broader and more lasting communities of support.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2021

Your culture will make or break fundraising success, especially over the long term. For years now, there’s been a powerful evolving discussion in the social benefit sector around “ culture of philanthropy ” and why it’s so critically important to fundraising success. Many others, including me , have weighed in on the topic.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 26, 2024

The days of easy fundraising are over. Langley Innovations provides a range of services to its clients to help them understand the cultural underpinnings of philanthropy and the psychology of donors and, with that knowledge, to develop the most effective strategies and tactics to build broader and more lasting communities of support.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When it comes to fundraising, we often strive to use storytelling and tugging of heartstrings to appeal to potential donors. Research conducted on effective marketing tactics and donor psychology are extremely beneficial to crafting communications that engage donors. But there is a science behind doing this well.

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Clairification

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Are you a philanthropy facilitator or a fundraiser? Philanthropy Facilitators Make it Easy for People to Give You may think you’re doing a great job as a fundraiser. How Fundraisers Make Giving Hard When you treat donors like ATMs, you’re thinking about their wallet. This is where I ask you how you view your role.

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Candid

AUGUST 29, 2023

So, in this blog, I’m leveraging my PhD in Psychology to share a bit about what burnout is, why it seems to be everywhere in the nonprofit world, and what organizations, leaders, and individuals can do about it. Psychologists consider burnout to be a “psychological syndrome” that emerges as a response to chronic job stressors.

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 25, 2022

Fundraising is all about making sure your supporters feel good. Fundraisers need to first recognize and accept the fact that wealthy people are, in fact, very sensitive to cost. Therefore, to raise more money, fundraisers must include cost in the stories they help develop with their supporters. I’ve said it before.

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iMarketSmart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

If presidents, CEOs, and boards could grasp this one point, they would stop asking fundraisers, “Why aren’t you bringing in more dollars this year?” Jim has authored numerous books, including his most recent book, The Future of Fundraising: Adapting to New Philanthropic Realities , published by Academic Impressions in 2020.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 12, 2023

Now, it’s time to get back to the “one big thing” in fundraising: Advance the donor’s hero story. It’s an extreme form of philanthropy. Heroic philanthropy A hero displays sacrificial protection.[5] Heroic philanthropy in a crisis Heroism signals trustworthiness as a friendship insurance partner. But the game must change.

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The metrics that will actually lead to improved fundraising performance will not be about tasking fundraisers but about creating the conditions that allow fundraisers to be successful. The new metrics must be focused on creating the conditions that will increase the chances of fundraising success.

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The Agitator

AUGUST 22, 2012

In the Chronicle of Philanthropy Holly Hall just covered a new study finding that older women (Boomer and older) are more generous than older men, other key factors held constant (similar incomes, number of children, education level). women that puts your marketing on autopilot; Hot psychological triggers for each of the 4 Archetype.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A fundraiser’s first obligation is to philanthropy itself. All ethical fundraisers and fundraising organizations must commit themselves, at a bare minimum, to do no harm to philanthropy. At best, they must commit to engaging in practices that reinforce, renew, and reignite the philanthropic spirit.

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Clairification

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I firmly believe part of the role of a philanthropy facilitator is to foster both individual and community well-being. It certainly is not in service of philanthropy. them” attitudes, roughly lumped under the mantle of “community-centric fundraising,” are unfortunate. What to do? What purpose does judging in this way serve?

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iMarketSmart

MAY 10, 2024

There are lots of ways to fundraise. It’s just fundraising. Jim has authored numerous books including his most recent book, The Future of Fundraising: Adapting to New Philanthropic Realities , published by Academic Impressions in 2020.

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Clairification

MARCH 11, 2024

This is the finding from a report done by the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy at the University of Kent: “ How Donor Choose Charities.” Yet the methods used to encourage donations tend to assume that philanthropy depends on objective assessments of need rather than on donors’ enthusiasms. The heart, not the head.

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 1, 2024

Fundraising as we know it today is an outgrowth of growth itself. But somewhere along the way, in too many instances, fundraising began to shift from something we did with donors to something we did to them. When I read fundraising plans or campaign plans concocted by so-called experts, I see a high degree of overcomplication.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 28, 2023

Everyone Is entitled to their own fundraising opinions but not their own fundraising facts. That’s what the brilliant Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, without the reference to fundraising, of course. And imagine how much more we could achieve if we did a better job of aligning fundraising strategy with fundraising fact.

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 23, 2024

Smart, hardworking, principled, mission-driven fundraisers. They assume holding fundraisers to unrealistic goals will produce better results when the most common result is the turnover of the mismanaged. What so many organizational leaders don’t know about fundraising and philanthropy is astonishing.

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Bloomerang

MAY 4, 2023

Like philanthropy, customer service is uniquely American. Innovative fundraising researcher Adrian Sargeant, co-director of the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy, says, “Nonprofits are a means to an end for the donor. Isn’t that often true for fundraisers too? Donor Cultivation. Customer Service.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2024

Where are our cultures of philanthropy? Fund published a three-part series of reports exploring culture of philanthropy. Alas, a culture of philanthropy essential to long-term success in the sector is still largely absent from our institutions. To be loving, one must begin with a loving stance.

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