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Preparing for a Feasibility Study? Do These 6 Steps First

2024-10-01T17:32:35-04:00

Feasibility studies (sometimes referred to as planning studies) empower nonprofits to make the best possible strategic decisions for their major fundraising campaigns. This early part of the campaign planning process sets up organizations to succeed in both the short and long terms, ensuring campaign success and driving future impact and growth. However, you won’t conduct these studies in a vacuum. To maximize their benefits, your organization must prepare and be able to clearly articulate your preliminary campaign plans and the broader context of your operations and needs. If you’ve conducted a capital campaign before, you’re likely familiar with feasibility studies. If [...]

Preparing for a Feasibility Study? Do These 6 Steps First2024-10-01T17:32:35-04:00

How to Handle Moves Management With Nonprofit Cloud

2024-10-01T08:23:59-04:00

Moves management is the process of identifying and qualifying donors, building relationships with them, and attempting to upgrade them to the next level of giving or engagement. This process requires coordination across multiple staff members and teams, and it can be challenging for nonprofits to manage donor life cycles and major giving. With patience and long-term planning, moves management pushes each supporter closer to donating or upgrading. This is why having technology that facilitates meticulous documentation, teamwide collaboration, and centralized data is so important. In this guide, we’ll explore the top ways your nonprofit can use Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud to oversee [...]

How to Handle Moves Management With Nonprofit Cloud2024-10-01T08:23:59-04:00

5 Nonprofit Auction Item Ideas That Appeal to Younger Donors

2024-09-24T16:05:35-04:00

Millennials (born between 1981-1996) and Generation Z (born between 1997-2012) should be at the forefront of your nonprofit’s efforts to find new donors, volunteers, and advocates. These generations tend to be socially conscious, want to create positive change by supporting causes that align with their values, and can support your organization for years to come—if you effectively connect and build relationships with them. To make a strong impression on these supporter segments, consider how you can appeal specifically to younger generations through your nonprofit’s events. For example, if you’re planning a live or silent auction, engage these supporters by strategically procuring prizes that they’d be interested in bidding on. If you aren’t sure how to go about this, you’ve come to the right [...]

5 Nonprofit Auction Item Ideas That Appeal to Younger Donors2024-09-24T16:05:35-04:00

4 Quick Tips to Remember When Planning an Advocacy Campaign

2024-10-10T11:32:48-04:00

If your nonprofit is planning an advocacy campaign, congratulations. You’re on the right track to engaging donors, supporters, and other community members in new, inspiring ways as you work to make meaningful change. Now more than ever, audiences want the organizations they support to take a stand on relevant issues and take clear steps to address them. By planning your advocacy campaign thoroughly and strategically, you’ll be better prepared to enact change at a local level and engage these audiences in the process. In this article, we’ll explore a few tips to help you get started. 1. Identify the advocacy [...]

4 Quick Tips to Remember When Planning an Advocacy Campaign2024-10-10T11:32:48-04:00

4 Items to Sell Through Your Nonprofit’s Online Store

2024-09-10T12:56:58-04:00

In the nonprofit world, it’s common to have a fundraising strategy fueled by monetary donations. However, between product fundraisers, in-person or virtual auctions, clothing drives, and other initiatives, tangible items play a large role in raising support for your nonprofit. Online stores in particular offer an additional stream of revenue for your nonprofit to raise much-needed funds. Every purchase boosts not only revenue but also awareness of your cause, which is why it’s so important to offer the right items. After all, your supporters are more likely to purchase items that appeal to their interests. In this guide, we’ll explore the [...]

4 Items to Sell Through Your Nonprofit’s Online Store2024-09-10T12:56:58-04:00

3 Tools to Help Your Organization Make Data-Driven Decisions

2024-09-04T14:51:52-04:00

When a nonprofit organization reaches a high level of data maturity and uses data to drive its decision making, it opens the door for all kinds of improvements. From boosting efficiency to increasing positive client outcomes to finding the best corporate giving opportunities, your nonprofit’s data can guide your organization to new heights. But before you can become data mature and make these informed decisions, you need software that allows you to securely collect, analyze, and report on large amounts of sensitive data. We’ll explore three tools that can help you do just that. 1. Case management software For nonprofits and [...]

3 Tools to Help Your Organization Make Data-Driven Decisions2024-09-04T14:51:52-04:00

How to Recruit and Retain Volunteers in Children’s Ministry

2024-07-15T15:22:40-04:00

In any of your church’s programs, volunteers are essential to fulfilling the roles that make your ministry possible. Securing this support involves more than just attracting volunteers, though. As a children’s ministry leader, you must cultivate relationships with volunteers, offer a positive experience, and ultimately retain their support for the long haul. Before you choose a children’s Bible curriculum or plan your program’s themes, building a strong team of loyal volunteers is one of the first steps you should take toward all your ministry’s goals. Let’s look at the four R’s of recruiting and retaining volunteers for your children’s ministry. 1. [...]

How to Recruit and Retain Volunteers in Children’s Ministry2024-07-15T15:22:40-04:00

Why Clothing In-Kind Donations Are Valuable to Nonprofits

2024-07-15T11:12:36-04:00

Nonprofit fundraising professionals spend much time brainstorming ways to secure financial support from various sources, from soliciting major donors to establishing legacy donor programs to creating a recurring giving system. However, it’s well known that in-kind donations, defined as any non-monetary gift to nonprofits or other causes, can also be extremely helpful. While various useful goods and services can be given to nonprofits as in-kind gifts, this guide will discuss an often-overlooked donation: clothing! On the surface, these items may not seem helpful for your mission, but in actuality, they can make a huge impact on your programs and fundraising. Let’s look at why clothing [...]

Why Clothing In-Kind Donations Are Valuable to Nonprofits2024-07-15T11:12:36-04:00

5 SEO Tips to Boost Your Nonprofit’s Online Visibility

2026-10-14T23:54:29-04:00

In a 2022 study conducted by HubSpot, organic search was ranked the top source of website traffic for all of the 1,600-plus participating organizations. Organic search, or natural search, refers to the results on a search engine that are not influenced by paid ads. In other words, these results are the content that appears first on the page (or the “top-ranking” pages) that isn’t marked with a “Sponsored” flag. To attract more organic search traffic, your website should have high-quality, useful content that includes keywords relevant to your mission to encourage the search engine to rank the pages for those terms. Then, potential supporters search those keywords, [...]

5 SEO Tips to Boost Your Nonprofit’s Online Visibility2026-10-14T23:54:29-04:00

5 Nonprofit Cash Management Statistics & Trends for 2024

2024-07-18T08:51:07-04:00

Managing your nonprofit’s finances is about more than just raising money and recording what you earn and spend. It also involves financial stewardship—the practice of saving, storing, and investing your cash reserves wisely to boost your organization’s long-term financial health. This means it’s crucial not only to manage your organization’s reserve funds well but also to stay aware of the current financial best practices and trends in the nonprofit sector. We’ve compiled this list of up-to-date nonprofit cash management statistics and trends to help you get started. Whether you’re investing your nonprofit’s funds for the first time or looking for the right cash management [...]

5 Nonprofit Cash Management Statistics & Trends for 20242024-07-18T08:51:07-04:00

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