I’ve been working with a number of non-profits recently to help them raise more money through their fundraising letters and annual appeals. Here are four tips you can use to …
It happens to everyone, even the most seasoned fundraisers: you’re getting ready to go to a lunch meeting, to talk to a donor you have known for several years. The …
Every non-profit I have ever come across wants to find more major donors to support its work. How can an organization find, cultivate, and ask major donors for large gifts, …
I talk to non-profit fundraisers every day about how to raise more money. We talk about prospecting, cultivation and asking. We talk about donor stewardship. We talk about events, direct …
Sometimes, non-profit fundraisers treat opening the organization’s mail like playing the lottery. We know it’s highly unlikely that there’s a big check in one of those envelopes, yet we gleefully …
Fundraising through the mail is one of the most popular yet misunderstood strategies in all of non-profit development. Writing great appeal letters is part art and part science. If it …
Every non-profit, no matter how small or large, needs a written fundraising plan in order to meet its full development potential. Fundraising plans bring order to development offices, provide organization …