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Anything that lasts requires time and attention. Your car won’t continue to run for years if you avoid oil changes. A house doesn’t stand for decades on end without proper attention and maintenance. Relationships, too, are more likely to stand…
As the development director of a small or medium-sized nonprofit, it’s likely that a lot of the fundraising goals and donor management tasks rest in your hands. As you’re aware, there are a variety of areas you can look for…
Creating and maintaining sustainability for your organization is something that takes time. Adding an effective major giving strategy to the bunch can help add fuel to the fire — however, this approach is also something that takes, you guessed it, time….
As the saying goes, every dollar counts. Even still, your nonprofit organization is not going to reach a comfortable level of sustainability and growth without large gifts from individual and corporate donors. Securing dollars like this is part of a…
You’ve heard the stories before: an inventor and entrepreneur starts a project, working diligently in the wee hours of night — long after logging a full 9 to 5 for the day — to build a new product and launch…
You’ve likely figured out by now that simply saying Thank You isn’t necessarily enough to keep a donor hooked on giving or a volunteer committed to coming back. While that expression of gratitude is very important, there are other crucial…
Losing Donors? Quick Tips to Start Creating Loyal Donor Retention October 3, 2015 By Lyssa Schmidt When new faces join the pool of people making donations to your charity, it’s certainly exciting. After all, you work hard to build awareness for your…
So, you’re the Executive Director of a nonprofit. Or, you’ve recently joined a nonprofit board and are hoping to make a difference. Maybe you’ve been helping out for a while, and your nonprofit fundraising goals continue unmet. Let me ask…
