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Understanding the Corporate Funder

Understanding the Corporate Funder Mentality What are corporate funders thinking as it relates to charitable giving in the 21st Century? In 2013, according to the Giving USA Foundation, corporations donated $16.76 billion to charity. Although as a total percentage of giving, this is significantly less than donations by individuals, it is still sizable and an important element of a comprehensive revenue strategy. In order to obtain charitable dollars from [...]

5 Successful Fundraising Strategies: A Year in Review

The past year was a productive one for fundraising. With technology always changing the way we accept donations and spread the word about our fundraising efforts, we didn't slow down all year. But right now, it’s time to take a breath. So finish your annual fund campaign thank-you letters, update your followers with your year-end fundraising statistics, and reflect on the past year. We can learn a lot from looking [...]

Be Ready for Disaster with an Emergency Relief Campaign

This post was originally published to DonorDrive's Blog and is being shared with their permission. Photo by NASA on Unsplash It’s said you can’t plan for a disaster. But really, you have to. It’s officially hurricane season and the nonprofits that have a plan in place are the ones most likely to get the donations when disaster strikes. In this article, we’ll focus on the basics that will make your [...]

Starting a Charitable Organization

Startups Nonprofit-Style Many of my friends have recently left the comfort of government and corporate jobs to take a chance with a startup company. In fact, last year, I did the same thing. It’s the type of risk that our parents shudder to think about and it’s something that a lot of people further in their career wouldn’t dream of doing. But startups can be incredibly exciting, liberating and lucrative [...]

7 Markers of a Major Gifts Prospect [& How To Leverage Them]

CP-Top Nonprofits-7 Markers of a Major Gifts Prospect-feature You want them, but you don’t know how to find them. We’re talking about major gift givers, the stars of your nonprofit once you know how to identify them. There’s no single characteristic that defines major donors. But with a combination of these 7 key markers, you’ll learn how to combine your resources to find the major givers in your prospect pool: [...]

How to make your next conference call better

When you’ve got a team of people who don’t work in close proximity to you, it’s almost impossible to avoid the conference call. A few years ago, when remote working was a new concept, conference calls were seen as the way to make sure your remote team remained engaged with office culture and collaboration. Now – just like most other means of communication that stem from the 90’s [...]

10 Tricks for Nonprofit Employees to Avoid Work Burnout

Sometimes there’s a story we tell collectively. When nonprofit colleagues were asked for their candid suggestions on how to avoid burnout, they got right to the core. Having worked in the trenches in some way with each of these pros reconfirmed for me that there’s nothing like the camaraderie and resourcefulness of those who work in this sector. We can’t do it alone, but we can certainly get through the [...]

What It Takes to Recruit and Retain Top Talent

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you made a job offer, the candidate accepted, and then quit, before the first day of employment rolled around? If so, you aren’t alone. The 2018 Nonprofit Salaries & Staffing Trends Report from PNP Staffing Group shares that a remarkable 36% of nonprofits surveyed found themselves in this predicament last year. As if it couldn’t get worse, 33% of the survey [...]

10 Benefits that ONLY Nonprofits Can Bring to Partnership

Bruce Burtch promises: “There is nothing in business today that provides as much economic and social benefit, on as many levels, to as many stakeholders, as a strategic partnership between any combination of the nonprofit, for-profit, education and government sectors when focused on the greater good. Nothing else comes even close.” Burtch describes a sea-change occurring in nonprofit and for-profit relationships and the “money boat” of philanthropy and event sponsorship [...]

5 Incredible Content Marketing Examples Used By Nonprofits

Originally posted on the Gurus NYC Blog. Reposted with permission. Nonprofits have an extremely tough time keeping up with technology. How do we know? Let’s take a look at some data. Last year Content Marketing Institute did a study where they surveyed over 400 nonprofit marketers: Only 26% of respondents think their organization effectively utilizes content marketing (to make things worse, a measly 1% thought their efforts were ‘very effective’). Less than [...]

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