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Tips for your year-end campaign [INFOGRAPHIC]

Here are some year-end campaign tips just for you. It’s true, 25-35% of giving takes place between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Have you checked your lists not once but twice? Is your fundraising appeal ready to go? How will you handle a multi-channel campaign? Planning is key to your fundraising success, of course. And the […]

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How to create a great PayPal donate link

Thinking about using PayPal? Whether you depend on PayPal or simply want to offer your donors an alternative, understanding the best ways to make PayPal work for you is smart. If you want to know how to create a great PayPal donate link, you’re in luck. This week, Eric Bryant of Gnosis Media Group brings […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fundraising Tagged With: gift processing, online giving, PayPal 45 Comments

Peer-to-Peer Fundraising: 5 Tips to Supercharge Your Campaign

Peer-to-peer fundraising: 5 tips to supercharge your campaign In an ideal situation, donors would allocate support for your nonprofit by giving time and funds without provocation. However, have you considered that more donors may step forward if they were approached by friends and family instead of a faceless organization? Peer-to-peer fundraising (P2P) puts this exact […]

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4 ways you might be making it all about you

And why making it about you is a mistake We all do it from time to time. We fall a little in love with our own organization. Or we get a little tired of the hard work. Then we forget that good fundraising focuses on the donor and the mission. Are you making these mistakes? […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fundraising Tagged With: donor care, donor focus, thank you 9 Comments

What you need to know about generosity

What you need to know about generosity How does generosity work and can we encourage it? For a long time, there has been a notion that humans are innately selfish. That our generous impulses are either foolish or part of a calculated plan to help ourselves. It makes some sort of sense. Our lizard brains, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fundraising Tagged With: generosity, giving, why we give 1 Comment

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