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AFP eWire
March 30, 2010 |
Your Capital Campaign: Are You Ready to Succeed? A capital campaign is a marathon, not a sprint. Here are some tips to make sure you are ready to go the distance.   |
AFP eWire
August 12, 2015 |
Chatting About Campaigns With Matthew Cottle We talked recently with Matthew Cottle, who is presenting a webinar on "The Campaign Prequel: Success Begins Before the Campaign Plan." |
AFP eWire
March 20, 2011 |
Building Board Buy-In for Fundraising The first rule of board leadership in fundraising is to make sure that all board members understand and accept the concept that resource development is the responsibility of each and every member of the board. |
AFP eWire
September 28, 2010 |
The Top 10 Mistakes in Fundraising Campaigns Is your fundraising campaign fizzling? Whether you are stalled or just moving slower than you would like, there are some common mistakes that you can diagnose now before your campaign sputters to a stop. |
AFP eWire
May 3, 2011 |
Building a Great Fundraising Operations Team What are the characteristics to look for in a fundraising operations staff member -- someone who will quickly become a valued asset to your team, however they are involved in the fundraising process? |
AFP eWire
January 8, 2014 |
Creating Successful Nonprofit Boards, Staff and Programs--Take a Cue from Successful For-Profit Businesses Borrowing from for-profit best practices, Keith Jennings explains how you can revamp your nonprofit board, staff and programs in 2014 for your most successful fundraising year ever. |
AFP eWire
May 1, 2012 |
Creating Volunteer Opportunities -- The New Role of Fundraisers Think your organization's volunteers and its development office are two separate worlds? Think again, says Emily Davis, author of Fundraising and the Next Generation, new from the AFP Fund Development Series. |
AFP eWire
March 2, 2010 |
Social Media Has Growing Impact on Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising New research shows that social media tools lead to more successful fundraising for participants in charity events. |
AFP eWire
February 21, 2005 |
Paying for Your Own Keep Tony Poderis, a development professional and consultant with more than 30 years of experience, speaks out against the practice of fundraisers having to pay for their own salaries. |
AFP eWire
February 4, 2014 |
Your Crowd Funding Campaign as an Action Movie As one of the hottest and most innovative methods of fundraising on the scene today, Robert Osborne shows how creating your crowd-funding campaign like an action movie will steal the audience's attention, and inspire them to give. |
AFP eWire
October 1, 2014
Susan Rowell |
Boosting Fundraising Skills with Assessments and Training To survive and thrive in this new "marketplace," nonprofits must sharpen their fundraising methods by introducing more objective means of assessing and driving performance. |
AFP eWire
June 7, 2011
Simone P. Joyaux |
Building the Better Fundraiser: From Technician to Leader As a fundraiser, you need to have staff members who are more than technicians -- they need to be strategic, and they need to be leaders. |
AFP eWire
August 16, 2011 |
Orienting and Training Volunteers for Success All volunteers should go through orientation to the organization and at least some training for their roles as volunteers. |
AFP eWire
January 15, 2013 |
New Study Questions Level of Fundraising Skills, Organizational Support for Philanthropy A new study of American charities and fundraisers raises strong concerns about the number of skilled professionals available for jobs and the lack of infrastructure in most nonprofits to support effective fundraising and philanthropy. |
AFP eWire
May 9, 2005 |
Strong Trustee--CDO Relationship Can Have Huge Impact on Fundraising When key players in a nonprofit---the CEO, board chair and chief development officer (CDO)---all share a common vision, the organization can function and fundraise more effectively, according to a recent research study. |
AFP eWire
October 1, 2013
Claire Kerr |
How Does Your Organization Define "Success" in Social Media Fundraising? Fortunately for those of us who love social channels, it's now much simpler to prove that platforms like Facebook or Twitter (or even Pinterest!) have a measurable impact on your fundraising projects. |
| AFP eWire |
Essentials of Fundraising Increasing and diversifying income is an essential part of any successful organization. |
AFP eWire
March 26, 2007 |
Charities See Significant Fundraising Increases in 2006 Nearly seven in ten charities raised more money in 2006 compared to 2005, and almost a quarter of charities saw fundraising increases of 50% or higher, according to a survey. |
AFP eWire
November 8, 2011 |
Growing Philanthropy: Moving From Donors to Partners (Part 1 of 3) Here is a snapshot of an idyllic scenario, wherein philanthropy grows to be a larger part of people's finances, and their lives. |
AFP eWire
January 12, 2011 |
22 Ideas to Make 2011 Your Best Fundraising Year Yet! Here are some ideas to help you simplify your fundraising approach, focus on what's most important, and most of all, have more fun! |
AFP eWire
September 25, 2012 |
Looking Beyond the Board For Champions, Fundraisers Fundraising is about relationships, and yet many organizations overlook their volunteers as potential donors and advocates for the organization. |
AFP eWire
November 6, 2013 |
Top Ten: The Best of Year-end Fundraising! (November 6, 2013) Stand apart from the crowd with your year-end fundraising campaign... 3 Keys to Year-End Giving ... 3 ways to wake up your donors... |
AFP eWire
August 18, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of August 18, 2014): 7 Favorite Topics of Boring Fundraisers Year-End Fundraising Decisions to Make Now... 7 Favorite Topics of Boring Fundraisers... 8 Nonprofits Lessons Learned from the 2014 FUSE Conference... |
AFP eWire
February 11, 2015 |
Blackbaud Report on Online Giving While not all online fundraising was quite as engaging as the Ice Bucket Challenge, buoyed by improving fundraising platforms, online fundraising as a whole saw significant growth in 2014. |
AFP eWire
July 10, 2012
Kevin LaManna |
Using Pinterest as a Nonprofit Fundraising Engine While chatting with nonprofits, we've been asked how they can use Pinterest to help their organizations. Here are 7 tips on how nonprofits can start using Pinterest to raise awareness, impact and fundraising. |
AFP eWire
April 30, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of April 30, 2014): Has the Word 'Impact' Lost Its Impact? How to Predict the Success of a Nonprofit Program Before It Starts... How to Get People Excited About Your Nonprofit's Next Fundraising Campaign... Has the Word `Impact' Lost Its Impact?... |
AFP eWire
July 24, 2013
Goldman & Fishman |
Mitzvah Monday: A One-Day Fundraising Initiative UJA-Federation held its second annual Mitzvah Monday campaign, a one-day fundraising initiative. The campaign is part of UJA-Federation's continuing efforts to find innovative and meaningful ways to support our mission and engage new donors. |
AFP eWire
July 9, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of July 9, 2014): Young People Should be at The Forefront of Charity Campaigns Foundations Reveal What They Look for in Grant Proposals... Three Questions to Help You to Engage Donors with Your Stories... What Makes People Generous: Charity, Empathy, And Storytelling... |
AFP eWire
March 13, 2006
Daniel Yoffe |
How Latin American Fundraisers Can Overcome Current Challenges: A Discussion by Practitioners Despite the high expectations of staff hired to raise money, there is a limited understanding of fundraising and the barriers that fundraising professionals face in the Latin American philanthropic environment. |
AFP eWire
June 4, 2013 |
How To Hold Onto Your High Performers In her latest book, Donor-Centered Leadership, Penelope Burk reveals the results of five years of research which found that high staff turnover can be brought under control. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 27, 2010
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured Heidi K. Gardner explains why performance pressure makes team members do what seems irrational: defer to high-status "generalist" experts among them and ignore colleagues with special knowledge of client needs. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 17, 2012
Maggie Starvish |
Teaming in the Twenty-First Century In her book, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy, Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson makes the case for managers to shift from holding a static view of teamwork to a dynamic one. |
AFP eWire
October 16, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: Shutdown Brings Combined Federal Campaign to a Standstill (Oct. 16, 2013) Donors: Wealthy Donors Don't Get Giving Advice They Want... Government Relations: Shutdown brings Combined Federal Campaign to a standstill... Year-end Appeals: 6 Ways to Raise More Money with your Annual Fundraising Appeal... |
AFP eWire
November 20, 2013 |
Top Ten: A Playbook To Kickstart Your Nonprofit's #GivingTuesday Campaign (November 20, 2013) Fundraising Research: Why Women Thrive in Political Fundraising... Volunteer Management: Narrow the Focus... Donors: Why Asking and Thanking Donors is All Wrong... |
AFP eWire
October 6, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of October 6, 2014): Documentation--Do, Die or Just Do It! Documentation: Do or Die -- Just Do It!... Economist finds formula for the 'perfect ask' in online fundraising... Organizational Culture Lessons for Nonprofits from the NY Fed... |
AFP eWire
April 21, 2009
Dave Sternberg |
Engaging Your Board in Sustainable Fundraising "We've told them what they need to do!" you say. "We've even brought in outside speakers. So, why aren't they doing it?" |
AFP eWire
December 18, 2013 |
Top Ten: 7 Tips for Nonprofits to Avoid Social Media Burnout in 2014 Donors: What `No' Means for Fundraisers... Donors: 7 Things You Need to Know About 2013 Online Donors... Fundraising Strategy/Approach: Oxfam Canada's `Threads of Change' Campaign... |
AFP eWire
February 2, 2004 |
Donors Increasingly Give Online Donors are using the Internet to give online, and at the same time, many nonprofits are planning to increase online fundraising this year, according to two new surveys from Kintera Inc. |
AFP eWire
September 29, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of September 29, 2014): How to Handle List Removal Requests 6 Ideas for Dealing with "Take Me Off Your List" Requests... Millennial Givers and a Movement Approach to Giving... The No. 1 Fundraising Skill Your Board Members Need to Master... |
AFP eWire
September 16, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of September 16, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Fundraising Tools to Help You Prepare for End-of-the-Year Campaigns... How to raise less money than you did last year... Two Ways You Can Put Your Donors at the Center of Your Fundraising Program... |
AFP eWire
January 12, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of January 12, 2015): Making--and Keeping--Major Gifts and New Year's Resolutions Fundraising Research: Study: Corporate Giving Improves Employee Performance... NPQ's 11 Biggest Nonprofit Stories of 2014 and Their Implications for Our Future... Top 10 Major Donor Fundraising Trends... etc. |
AFP eWire
March 31, 2009 |
Charitable Fundraising Hit New Low in 2008 Less than half of charities raised more money in 2008 than in 2007, and fundraising gains dropped significantly across the board. |
AFP eWire
January 8, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (January 8, 2013) 6 Ways Brands Can Leverage Google Plus Communities... Show, Tell and Involve: Fundraising Fundamentals for a New Era of Philanthropy... 7 ways to increase your nonprofit's donations... |
AFP eWire
October 13, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of October 13, 2014): Moving a First-Time Donor to a Major Donor 7 Fundamental Principles of Major Capital Campaigns... Who Would You Rather Ask for a Gift: a Woman or a Man?... Move a First-Time Donor to a Major Donor... |
AFP eWire
May 19, 2009 |
Growth Slows for Online Fundraising in '08, Smaller Donations the Culprit Online fundraising grew in 2008 thanks to an increase in the number of gifts, but the average gift size among all organizations decreased $15 from 2007. |
AFP eWire
June 9, 2015
Deborah Legrove |
From Fundraiser to Manager: Stepping Up Successfully As a fundraising manager, success often means achieving your donation targets through the top performance of your team. |
AFP eWire
November 1, 2011 |
The Feasibility Study: It's All About the Interview A conversation with an important donor can uncover much more than just his or her interest in supporting a capital campaign. Here are some tips on making the most of an interview. |
AFP eWire
November 25, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of November 25, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Can You Create a Culture of Increased Giving?... The Seven Biggest Mistakes in Handling Donor Data... It's Shameful to Shame a Major Donor... |
AFP eWire
May 29, 2007 |
Become Complacent at Your Peril While the fundraising environment is great, fundraisers shouldn't get too impressed with their own accomplishments and press releases. |
AFP eWire
December 9, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of December 9, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Fundraising Inspiration Advent Calendar 2015... Preparing for a Successful Major Gift Request: Effective Cultivation... Using Community Feedback to Build Greater Engagement... |
