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Fundraising Strategy
Online fundraising is growing faster than all types of fundraising. In 2017, online fundraising in the last few days of the year increased by a whopping 38% over the year before.
Donor Engagement Support
There is one sure-fire way to raise more money from your campaigns. It doesn’t cost a lot and technically speaking it’s easy.
Fundraising Support and Training
We offer consulting services to help you increase your capacity for all types of fundraising.
Better Results From Your Fundraising Campaigns
Podcast
Tips and tales of non-profit success in fundraising, board development, and doing good. Each episode features an interview with a non-profit about the tactics used to raise funds and impact.
Responding to Emerging Needs
Season 3, Episode 3 of the How We Run podcast shows how one organization is moving quickly to respond to the emerging needs of their community. In this episode, we’re talking to Porter Gilberg,...
How To Keep Services Going During a Pandemic
Season 3, Episode 2 of the How We Run podcast examines how one organization is continuing to deliver essential services in this time of crisis. We're joined by Angela LoBue, the COO of the Coalition...
What To Do When You Cancel A Fundraising Event
Season 3, Episode 1 of the How We Run podcast covers something that is on everyone's minds these days: canceling your fundraising event. Many fundraising events will not be able to go on, leaving...
How to Make Your Case to Funders
Season 2, Episode 6 of the How We Run podcast we follow up on Trent's advice that organizations need to be using their 990s as marketing documents. So we followed up with an organization that caught...
Latest Articles
A Thank You Page That Keeps Donors Coming Back
The unsung hero of the donation process is the thank you page - that page your donors get to after they make a donation. Too often these pages look clinical and boring. We once saw one that just said “Thank you for your donation” on a plain white page. So while this...
Creating Donor Personas for Your Non-Profit
Raise more money by understanding your donor types One of the hardest things to do is write a fundraising message to someone you don’t know. That’s where developing donor personas can help you. Donor personas are just an imaginary profile of how a typical donor...
Seven types of non-profit emails
One great way to bore your audience is to repeatedly send the same email over and over again. (“Too many asks” is probably the number one reason your donors unsubscribe). But this is an easy problem to fix by developing different types of emails for different...
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