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Apr52016

10 Ways to Get More Donors for Your Nonprofit – Part 1

Today’s focus is on donor retention, as our year-long “Dive the Five” virtual course continues! In fact, you can use the principles you learn here for donor acquisition as well. In for-profit parlance, we’ll be discussing how to “convert customers.” In non-profit parlance it’s all about turning prospects into donors and donors into repeat donors.

I encourage you to make this the year you begin to study psychology and apply it more to your integrated development (marketing and fundraising) strategy.

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April 5, 2016 Leave a commentAnnual GivingBy Claire Axelrad

10 Secrets to Help any Nonprofit Rock Mobile Fundraising

“Human beings have always been social animals. The digital revolution has simply made electronic media (email, the internet and social media) our ‘go-to’ place to socialize and connect with our fellow humans.”

This sentiment that Claire crafted really spoke to me as I was reading her article the other day.

It’s a deep truth. We are social beings. We’re also incredibly mobile now, though.

Ironically, even though we’re constantly on the go, we are the most connected we’ve ever been.

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March 24, 2016 Leave a commentOnline FundraisingBy Claire Axelrad

Mar232016

How to Fundraise like it’s Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Two good posts recently at re: charity (Brady Josephson) and Future Fundraising Now (Jeff Brooks) about what charities should do today to prepare for tomorrow. Both embrace a quote from Jeff Bezos:

I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two — because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.