Category: Raising Money

Peer-to-peer fundraising is a powerful way to raise money for your nonprofit organization. It adds names to your donor base while allowing individual fundraisers to share your important mission with and connect you to their communities. In the current era of virtual events, peer-to-peer fundraising has taken on a new level of importance. Here are … Continue reading Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Done Right

We may be unsure of the end of COVID-19, but cancelled events don’t have to put your fundraising in peril. Temporarily gone are the days of galas, walks, and in-person group fundraisers across the U.S. Transforming your initial event program to a virtual platform may be the easiest route but it isn’t always the most … Continue reading A New Spin on Virtual Events

There are good ships and wood ships, and ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, may they always be! Irish proverbs may seem an unlikely place to look for fundraising advice, but alas! An integral part of fundraising is developing relationships and perhaps even friendships with donors. As the Fundraising Authority … Continue reading Join the club: how friendships raise $

We are here to chime in on everyone’s favorite topic over this past month: POLITICS. The talk of the town has been Pence’s war on Planned Parenthood (and the subsequent retaliation by donors giving in his name) but what does an administration change mean for other nonprofit organizations? Every administration change in the United States … Continue reading Grow your own individual donors!

Up until recently, my interaction with Amanda Palmer was limited to listening to one of her songs on Youtube, being asked by a friend to see her as part of the Dresden Dolls, and watching her Ted Talk. It was after sharing her talk with several of my colleagues that I decided it was due … Continue reading The Art of Asking in Fundraising

A few years ago I went to an event of an organization with a $10 million budget. While tying my tie I had that giddy feeling only fellow fundraisers can understand; I was ready to nab some best practices from an organization that has a fundraising staff of 15+ to use at my future events! … Continue reading How to throw a fundraising event that's not boring

Want to learn how to be better at your fundraising job? Listen to this podcast. I can hear Malcolm Gladwell lamenting, “what’s a podcast about free throws have to do with fundraising for my nonprofit?” Well glad you asked Gladwell; the underlying message about resisting change  is easily transferable to the nonprofit sector. The episode … Continue reading Best practices: get your nonprofit back in the game

If you Google “donor fatigue,” many of the results will tell you it is a myth. Donor fatigue is dismissed as a concept created by lazy fundraisers to justify bad fundraising strategy. This Nonprofit Hub article is just one example that stands behind the claim that donor fatigue is a fallacy. To some extent, this … Continue reading Responding to Donor Fatigue

Holiday bells are ringing, the smell of grandma’s homemade fruitcake is in the air, eggnog is flowing, and the purse strings are being loosened. You know what that means- it’s annual appeal time. Annual appeals only come once a year, at a time when over a quarter of all giving occurs.  So how do you … Continue reading Annual Appeal: Embracing the Individual Donor

Once upon a time, I worked for an organization that exemplified why best practices are a necessity when timing an annual appeal. They were a great organization that helped many needy kids in Boston… Let’s call them the Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good … Continue reading Timing is everything: Making the most of your Annual Appeal