6 Ways Nonprofits Can Prepare For Year-End Giving Season
The year end giving season is fast approaching for nonprofits. There is still time to fine tune your campaigns. Here …
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As a nonprofit, can you reject gifts and return them?
Michael Rosen raises some good points here. Integrity is important and showing it with whom you take money from does …
2015 Fund Raising Effectiveness Report
Recently our friends at AFP released the 2015 Fundraising Effectiveness Report. There is some really great stuff in the report. Retention still seems to be …
Janna Finch on fundraising and donor management software
Recently I caught up with nonprofit researcher Janna Finch of Software Advice, a company that provides online research and reviews for …
How great Nonprofit leaders inspire action for donor engagement
Why is important. It is in fact the starting point. Without it, our nonprofit, is just another commodity. Plenty of nonprofits …
As a transformative nonprofit leader, what should you stop doing today?
I am a big fan of list of things “to stop” doing. We all have “to do” lists but we …
Donor Experience transformational leadership is needed and it is needed now
Leadership in the donor experience transformation world is purposeful in its approach to creating a long term sustainable change. Change …
Guest blog: Trent Ricker — How to Optimize Donor Engagement in Today’s Digital World
Today’s article comes from Trent Ricker. Trent (@TrentRicker) currently leads Pursuant as chief executive officer, where he brings more than 20 …
What should you do to start the journey of constituent experience?
The effect of everyone jumping on the constituent experience bandwagon is a slowdown in the maturation of this new business …
Do we have the courage to create stunning donor experiences?
Compassion is a huge thing as a nonprofit leader. That it is lacking in so many cases in the corporate world …
Want to Boost New Donor Acquisition Online?
We all need new donors. Many of the traditional ways, direct mail or peer to peer fund raising are showing …
7 things we know about a journey to change and transformation of the donor experience
We are on a hero’s journey for your nonprofit. We have a passionate desire to learn how to harness disruption and innovate …
8 questions to ask around nonprofit donation thank you’s and the donor experience
Thanking donors, personally, seems like a no-brainer. In many circles, for “lots of good reasons”, it isn’t actually done well. …
5 implications of the 2015 Millennial Impact Report for nonprofits
The 2015 Millennial Impact Report is out. It is well worth the time to read it. There are some important …
Focus our changes on donor engagement and not technology
We all know it. We all hear it. Leadership loves to talk about change. Employees love to ignore it. Talk …
How game theory and Russell Crowe inspired an unusual fundraising startup – Guest blog by Simona Weinglass
Guest blog article by Simona Weinglass I’m an old-school journalist who recently decided to pivot into high-tech. I work in high-tech …
The only thing worse for a marketer than giving fundraisers no leads, is giving them bad ones
In our wonderful world of fund raising, we need plenty of high quality leads. What do we know about the …
What is at stake in transforming the donor experience?
Stake, tr. Verb. To risk; at stake. In jeopardy. What is at stake? I have been thinking about this as …
What is the return on the investment in the stunning for the donor experience?
There comes a time where we have to make a decision. What will we invest in to make the donor …
Donor Experience Transformation won’t be easy. In fact, it will be hard!
So many times, transformation into a donor focused world is framed as a no brainer. We feel like idiots that …
Donor experience transformation requires being focused
In addition to being obsessed about the donor experience, the other essential ingredient to nonprofit success in transformation are efforts …
Are you leveraging the power of your influential nonprofit followers on social media?
Every nonprofit is on Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is posting compelling content. That is the baseline in our digital world …
Why Donor Experiences should be intentional
As a digital nonprofit executive, design is important. What is being asked for is important but the experience the donor …
Do you have a talented donor experience team?
There is a revolution going on with donors. The relationship they may have had with your mission and brand in …
Obsession with Donors and Their Experience
This isn’t about being normal. Sorry, normal just won’t work. We need to be obsessed with the donor experience. We …
Goals, Strategies, Planning and Execution for an amazing donor experience
Knowing where you are going with the donor experience, how you’re going to get there and being focused on execution …
Our donors are empowered and we can’t control that
Donors are absolutely empowered through technology now. That means our donors are as well. It has happened and it is …
Why being donor experience obsessed and focused improves transformation
Being donor obsessed and focused is not an either/or kind of thing. It is “yes/and” at its core. We need …
Donor Experience transformational leadership is needed and it is needed now
Leadership in the donor experience transformation world is purposeful in its approach to creating a long term sustainable change. Change …
Digital Nonprofit Report: May 29, 2015
The challenge is that donors don’t always give year after year – OK, so donor retention isn’t part of your job …
This year’s Nonprofit Benchmarks are big
This year’s Nonprofit Benchmarks are big! So big, that M+R has a great video to bring them right to you. M+R …
Build a digital Nonprofit Ecosystem Focused on the Donor
Building a digital nonprofit is about building an ecosystem, not just a few isolated initiatives that have no impact on …
Is it about checking the box called training or is it about learning about how to improve the donor experience?
Is it about checking the box called training or is about learning? It is actually about both but many times …
Transforming the donor experience at our nonprofits
Donor experience transformation is about making fundamental changes in how business is conducted at our nonprofit in order to help cope …
New ways to think about engaging nonprofit donors
Donor engagement is a very dynamic and ever-evolving journey. Drawing on several fields of study, donor engagement primarily centers on …
Guest Blog: Chris Clarke — Creating a message as clear as our mission
Chris Clarke is Habitat for Humanity International’s senior vice president of marketing and communications. Clarke’s responsibilities include promoting and safeguarding …
Is your nonprofit CRM fund raising system broke or are you lacking a strategy that can be executed?
This is definitely worth the read. Tough questions need to asked. Is technology the failure or is it a failure …
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