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5 reasons to ditch your annual appeal

5 reasons to ditch your annual appeal and ask more often Are you still depending on an annual appeal – a single annual solicitation – for your individual giving program? Many smaller organizations are. But if you’re one of them, you ought to reconsider. Here’s why. 1. You need money all year round To accomplish […]

Filed Under: Annual Giving, Blog, Planning Tagged With: annual appeal, donor communications, fundraising plans 5 Comments

How to start an annual giving program

What I learned about annual giving years ago, and how it might help you. Many of the organizations I’ve worked with have been small to medium-sized. And that’s no surprise since most nonprofits in the US are small. They’re eager to build a solid fundraising program, but most continue to depend on grants. I think […]

Filed Under: Annual Giving, Blog Tagged With: annual giving program, donor communications 2 Comments

Are you bothering people or inspiring them?

Are you bothering people or inspiring them? So here we are – for fundraisers, this is the home stretch. The last weeks of the year. The most generous time of the year. (Cue the canned holiday music). We’re thinking about giving and new starts and miracles. We want to picture ourselves as kind and generous […]

Filed Under: Annual Giving, Blog, Donor communications Tagged With: donor communications, donor relationships, writing for donors 8 Comments

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