7 Tips to Get Your Organization to Embrace Asking for Donations
We all know that asking doesn’t just happen out of nowhere. Your organization and staff have to embrace asking for donations clear across the board in order for you …
Category: Fundraising
How to Overcome Event Planning Burnout and LOVE Nonprofit Events
Blog post by A.J. Steinberg It’s hard to believe, but some nonprofit professionals don’t really love hosting special nonprofit events. In fact, lots of folks seem downright ambivalent, at …
Top 3 Hidden Gems to Uncover with a Monthly Donation Program
This post is by Erica Waasdorp Monthly Donors… Sustainers… Hidden Gems. Truly! If you don’t have a monthly donation program yet, I highly recommend you start as soon as …
How to Ask for Donations Face to Face for Your Nonprofit
This is a guest post by Brian Saber Most fundraising professionals would prefer to do just about anything than ask someone for money face-to-face. Even for those who find …
How a Monthly Donor Program Can Drastically Increase Your Nonprofit’s Revenue
This is a guest post by Erica Waasdorp I’m a total convert on the topic of monthly donors. I’ve seen its power and how it has kept an organization …
5 Best Practices to Promote Your Event on Facebook and Boost registrations
Originally Posted in Wild Apricot´s Blog Are fewer people attending your events these days? Are you hoping to dramatically increase attendance at your big conference this year? Rather than …
How To Write Headlines That Pull Readers In To Your Fundraising
By Jeff Brooks, originally posted here Let’s look at the ingredients of a good headline: 1) News. Headlines should reveal something of interest, not merely label a situation. It …
Why Training Your Board is So Important
This is a guest blog post by Brian Saber, Cofounder of Asking Matters. If we think we can send board members out to fundraise without giving them tools, …
5 Simple Steps to Build a Better Event
This a guest post By A.J. Steinberg Sometimes bad events happen to good organizations. Yes, it’s true. Even the best nonprofits sometimes miss the mark when it comes to creating …
How to set up your website for maximum online fundraising success
This is a guest blog post by Julia Campbell Your nonprofit website is the most important tool in your fundraising, marketing, outreach, and communications toolbox – BY FAR. …
How long does it typically take to set up a monthly donor program?
This is a guest blog post by Erica Waasdorp How long does it typically take to set up a monthly donor program? From soup to nuts. At a recent …
Marketing Your Fundraising Event – 5 Creative Strategies
This is a guest blog post by John Haydon, Originally Posted Here. Marketing your fundraising event is arguably one of the most important aspects of holding a fundraiser. If …
Major Gift Fundraising is Like Dating – 4 Steps to Success
This a guest blog post by Kathie Kramer Ryan, founder of Arroyo Fundraising Would you ask someone to marry you on your first date? Chances are, no way! It’s …
Corporate Social Responsibility: How to Secure Corporate Support
By: Heather Stombaugh, GPC Corporations invest in social responsibility programs and activities to support their triple bottom line: people, profits, and planet. Companies are smart to be concerned about …
The Nuts and Bolts of Direct Mail
By Erica Waasdorp Before I got ‘hooked’ on monthly giving, I was already a direct mail ‘aficionado’. Why? Because direct mail works. Because people respond to it. Because you …
You Can Do It! 5 Tips to Get Your Fundraising Print Publications #OnPoint
Strategies and tactics in fundraising may change, but print publications continue to be a critical resource in the nonprofit toolbox. According to Kivi Leroux Miller’s 2016 Nonprofit Communication Trends …
$10,000 per month of free Google advertising for nonprofits – a success story case study
Step 1 – Strategizing Our case study is called Save The Redwoods and their mission is to protect and restore Redwood forests. To help fulfill this mission, we wanted …
How To Banish Empty Seat Syndrome
By A.J. Steinberg Have you ever suffered the pain and embarrassment of empty-seat syndrome. You know…that horrible experience of staring at a half-full venue when your event hasn’t sold …
The # 1 Fundamental of Monthly Giving
By Erica Waasdorp I’m so excited… Because monthly giving is becoming more and more popular! Systems keep getting easier and easier. More organizations have seen the ‘monthly donor light!’ But …
3 Simple Ideas for Connecting With Your Donors
By Kathie Kramer Ryan – Arroyo Fundraising As a fundraiser, you may hear about “donor cultivation” or “building relationships with your donors,” so you can raise more money – but …
Make Your Case: 3 Fundamentals of Writing Your Case for Support
How do you sell your story? You know you need to make your case—it is something you do every day. However, do you have a Case for Support? In …
The 7 fundamentals of Monthly Giving
A few years ago, when I first started teaching webinars at Charity How To, Monthly giving was still in its infancy. It used to be something for the few …
What Do You Mean You Don’t Need an Annual Report? It’s Not About You!
I love teaching the Annual Reports webinars for CharityHowTo’s participants (How to Create an Awesome Annual Report and How to Transition Your Annual Report to an Infographic). Professionals who …
Show, Don’t Tell: Why Your Nonprofit Needs Data Visualization Tools
You’ve seen them all over the interwebs. You run into them as you’re scrolling through your feed on Facebook, as you’re checking your Twitter updates, as you’re looking for …
Common Grant Seeking Challenges
At the start of 2016 I asked colleagues and CharityHowTo webinar participants about what their biggest challenges were for a successful grant seeking strategy in 2016. There definitely was …
Raising More Money with an Event Sponsorship
We recently hosted the webinar “Raising More Money with Event Sponsorship – A New Approach That Works!” by Joe Waters, author of Cause Marketing for Dummies. Here are some great …
Five Trends that Will Affect Online Fundraising
from www.fundraising123.org Last year the Chronicle of Philanthropy shared their “Trends That Will Affect Fund Raising in 2009,” penned by Robert F. Sharpe, a planned-giving consultant in Memphis. These …