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3 Tips for Preparing Your Website for End-of-Year Giving

Are you ready for year-end fundraising? To succeed, your nonprofit needs to develop its digital presence. Your nonprofit’s website must build connections with existing supporters, draw in support from new donors, and make the donation process as simple as possible.  Make the most of your website If you don’t have web development or coding experience, […]

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Your donors don’t care about your fundraising goals

Your donors really don’t care about your fundraising goals. But they care – a lot – about your mission. Fundraising goals are important – inside. But donors care about your mission. If you’re fundraising, you already know that. But is that reflected in how you ask for gifts? Time and again, I see it: internal […]

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What does giving mean?

How do we define giving? In our own lives? With our friends and families? As fundraisers? Do our definitions differ? Tony Martignetti shared a fascinating, yet troubling, piece recently in Vox the other day. “What happened to giving money to charity?” looks at how the ultrawealthy are donating more, but it seems the rest of […]

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The why and how of fundraising

If you’re writing that year-end appeal or anything that goes to your donors, you’ll be more successful if you understand the “why” and “how” of fundraising. At first, you’d say it’s pretty easy, right? How is the way to do something, why is the reason you do something. “Why” and “how” matter to your fundraising […]

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Eff the ineffable

Or, how to make your ask concrete, if you work for an arts organization. Arts lovers know that art can’t always be constrained by words. I spent a good part of my career as a staff person in an arts organization. Theater was my route into the nonprofit world. But my love for all kinds […]

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