Hey Nonprofit Board Members: Your job is to set policy, help advance the mission of the organization through personal advocacy, volunteerism, supporting fundraising by giving and/or using your influence, and...
Nonprofit success requires a focus on high value donor audiences
https://youtu.be/MivuqzzLd_AThe data is clear. Lower dollar charitable donors are giving less, and giving less frequently today than anytime in the last decade. However, charitable revenues have remained flat or slightly...
Why Soliciting Asset-based Gifts is Essential to your Nonprofit’s Success
I originally published this episode as an article over at DickersonBakker. Hope you enjoy the audio version as well! - AndrewAccording to Pew Charitable Trust, the aggregate wealth of middle-income Americans...
Proven, effective, repeatable ways to improve donor retention
Fundraising pro tip: If you're searching for "innovative/outside-the-box" ways to increase donor retention and engagement, STOP. In our constant search for new and different (our brains are wired to want...
Creating the Perfect Donor Communication
We nonprofit marketers have sweated and tested to create the perfect donor communication. But it doesn't exist.Humans are so different in so many different ways that there is no perfect...
Nonprofit Digital Strategies for Growth
There are few in our sector who have the kind of deep experience, fresh perspective, and drive for growth and excellence like David Schwab. David is Director of Growth Marketing at...
A Better Way to Fundraise
"I'm tired of chasing our donors for donations and feeling like all we ever do is ask, ask, ask.""Our donor retention rates are SO low. I hate that we spend...
YES! There IS a better way to fundraise
Hey friends!I’ve been talking a TON lately about creating a better way to fundraise. My team and I are on a mission to increase generosity and impact by creating more effective...
2023 Fundraising Trends & Predictions
Dani Lockard is Sales Manager at Funraise, one of the leading technology platforms designed (by people working inside a nonprofit) to help nonprofits raise more money online. Just before the end...
The Nonprofit Generosity Crisis
Left unchecked, philanthropy as we know it today will cease to exist within the next 50 years.That's the bold claim and cautionary tale that my good friends Brian Crimmins, CEO...