Do you know that Donor Engagement Is the KEY to your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Success? The key to fundraising success is donor engagement. Even if you’re not in fundraising, the fact that two out of three first-time donors to a nonprofit never make a second gift is all you need to know as to why donor …
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Is Your Nonprofit Software Easy to Use?Your nonprofit software is only as useful as it is easy to use. Definitely a ‘no-duh’ sentence, but we see way too many nonprofit leaders and staff struggling to just learn the basics of how to use their software. And even then, the software often doesn’t deliver the automation …
Are you really asking for advice? Antibiotics are not nearly as effective as they used to be due to overuse. So too is the fundraising strategy to ask for a meeting under the guise of asking for advice, when your real intention is to ask for financial support. A while back I contacted a major …
Using Software to Engage Board Members and Other Volunteers: Sadly, many organizations only engage their board members at board meetings. Is it really engagement of a board member’s time, talent, and treasure four times a year at board meetings? Luckily, there are many ways you can engage board members between meetings and throughout the year. …
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Nonprofit book recommendations are a new blog topic we’re providing at Affnetz. We love to learn – which involves quite a bit of reading – and it’s a joy to pass along some of our favorite books to you. Here is the first post in a series of posts on nonprofit book recommendations for leaders …
Do You Have Fear of Making Fundraising Calls?, When you’re calling a donor or a fundraising prospect to set up a meeting or talk to them about your nonprofit organization, are you wondering if the person on the other end of the phone equates you with a telemarketer? Do you feel like you’re interrupting the …
Why and how do you launch a major donor program? Well, let’s start with facts: Over the past four decades I’ve found that 5% of donors usually account for 90% of an organization’s fundraising results. So, it’s pretty obvious – you need to pay attention to the 5% of donors that provide 90% of the …
Nonprofit Fundraising Ideas, Stories are the Currency of Fundraising A generous donor recently told me the one thing he’s found most helpful in his peer-to-peer fundraising work is having a story to tell. Indeed, stories are the currency of fundraising – well, the non-financial currency anyway. Affnetz With stories, fundraising volunteers have a way …
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How Do You Develop Fundraising Goals and Strategies? How does your nonprofit develop fundraising goals and strategies for the year? For example, the board wants to set a goal of $1,000,000. This is a nice goal – all those beautiful zeroes – but how will it be achieved? In order to “back into” a fundraising …
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