| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
AFP eWire
July 21, 2008 |
Clear as a Bell: Tips on Putting Your Cause to Words The trick to catching a donor's attention is having a strong grip on what a gift can accomplish, wielding words that nail down core concepts and avoiding those that cloud and confuse.   |
AFP eWire
January 29, 2013 |
Show a Little Donor - Love in Your Case for Support Tom Ahern is considered one of the world's top authorities on donor communications and is the author of four well-received books on the topic. Through all of his experiences he has come to one main conclusion: It's all about being donor-centric in your case for support! |
AFP eWire
April 8, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of April 8, 2015): Defining Your Case Through Four Vexingly Simple Questions Nonprofit Directors, Officers, and Insurance... Touching the Hearts of Possible Donors and Volunteers... Fundraising Connection: Beware the Survey... |
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
January 17, 2006 |
Covering the Basics: A Direct Mail Primer Here are tips that can help you maximize your return when fundraising and marketing. |
AFP eWire
February 18, 2014 |
Major Gifts for Small Shops: The Major Gifts Challenge Amy Eisenstein has helped small and large nonprofits alike raise millions of dollars through major gift and capital campaigns, board development, annual fund campaigns, direct mail, and planned gift solicitation. |
AFP eWire
June 3, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of June 3, 2015): Does Your Nonprofit's Signature Event Have To Be a Gala? Facing the Fear of Fundraising... Create a menu of choices for board members... Matching Gifts: Bonanza Or Sham?... |
AFP eWire
October 26, 2010 |
Essential Elements of a Fundraising Letter Five tips for crafting a successful fundraising letter. |
AFP eWire
November 17, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of November 17, 2014): What to Leave Behind During a Major Gift Ask The Only 6 Things You Need to Take/Leave When Making the Ask... The Great Mysteries of Donor Retention... 10 Steps to Create an Appeal Letter That Brings in the Money... |
AFP eWire
August 21, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: 25 Situations Only Nonprofit People Can Understand (August 21, 2013) Fundraising Research: Raising Money in a Changing World... Fundraising Strategy/Approach: You Have 6 Nonprofit Story Types to Tell... Donor Psychology: The Static State of Philanthropy... |
AFP eWire
March 11, 2015
Michael J. Rosen |
Tom Ahern: 3 Questions Your Case for Support Must Answer "Fabulous Case! Building One," will reveal the secrets for creating a powerful document that can actually help you raise more money. |
AFP eWire
February 25, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of February 25, 2015): The Magic of Human Connectors in Fundraising Things to Know Before You Tackle Your Next (Fundraising) Writing Project... Trends Over Time in Virtual Volunteering... The Surprising Benefits of Volunteering... |
AFP eWire
November 27, 2007 |
The Key to Fundraising: Retaining Donors through Communication As research shows that charities lose significant amounts of funding by not retaining donors, a new book by Tom Ahern and Simone Joyaux, discusses keeping donors through communications and stewardship. |
AFP eWire
July 31, 2012 |
The Power of Every Word Laura Fredricks has five "winning" words or phrases that help to improve the quality of the conversations she has with donors. |
AFP eWire
July 23, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of July 23, 2014): How Storytelling Defines Your Brand and Helps You Reach New Audiences Direct Mail Yields Major Gift Donors... Three Ways to Engage Millennial Donors... How Do You Thank Your `Everday' Hero?... |
AFP eWire
February 8, 2011 |
The Think-Big Board Being a small nonprofit does not mean that you have to think small in terms of your fundraising. |
AFP eWire
August 4, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of August 4, 2014): And the Best Subject Line Is... How to Turn Audience Emotion into Action... What to Look for When Hiring a New Fundraising Staff Replacement... One Hand Washes the Other: Making Connections for a Fee... |
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
May 3, 2011 |
Fundraisers Reveal Most Anxious Moments Fundraisers say trying to get nonprofit board members involved in fundraising and making a call to a prospective new donor are two of the most challenging and anxious moments in their jobs, according to an informal online poll by the Association of Fundraising Professionals |
AFP eWire
February 18, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of February 18, 2015): When Your Nonprofit Can and Cannot Send Email When your nonprofit can and cannot send email... Social media is on the rise in every demographic... A thank you letter template... etc. |
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
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
September 9, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of September 9, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! What to Do When Fear Leads to Fundraising Failure... A Hobbit's Guide to Building Community... How to Inspire Audiences to Give More... |
AFP eWire
September 17, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: Top Ten: 5 Quick Ways to Humanize your Email Marketing (Sept. 17, 2013) Fundraising Strategy/Approach: Make fundraising a team sport... Donors: Creating More Donor-Centered Thank You Letters... Fundraising Research: Rocking the case study... |
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
January 12, 2009 |
Direct Response: Ways to Cut Costs, Not Returns Looking to tune up your direct mail campaign and trim some excess costs? Before you start loosening screws and removing parts, read this advice from a veteran direct response expert. |
AFP eWire
September 23, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of September 23, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Getting the best from your volunteers through the SAVE approach... Three Fundraising Innovations You Need to Know About... Improving Your Donor Retention and Response Rates... |
AFP eWire
October 2, 2012
Britt Brouse |
The Obama Effect: 20 Takeaways for Multichannel Fundraisers As much as fortuitous circumstances abetted its efforts, the Obama for America campaign put to use every best practice of online marketing and brought the power of online fundraising to the forefront of everyone's mind. |
AFP eWire
October 22, 2014
Erik J. Daubert |
Get FIT and Improve Your Fundraising: The FEP's Fundraising Fitness Test Both the Fundraising Effectiveness Project and the Growth in Giving Initiative contain great secrets and insights into the issue of donor retention. |
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
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
November 26, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of November 26, 2014): What to Leave Behind During a Major Gift Ask Will This Bad Fundraising Idea Ever Die?... Non-Religious Younger Single Women Defy Conventional Giving Patterns... 10 General Guidelines for Greater Foundation Transparency... |
AFP eWire
June 19, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (June 19, 2013) Crown Point students get an education in charitable giving... 5 Causes of Sloppy Fundraising... Tips for Getting More Appointments with Potential Donors... |
AFP eWire
March 5, 2013 |
What Did You Just Say?! Learn How to Communicate So Your Board Understands You! Peter Drury, director of development at Splash, an AFPeep and returning speaker at the AFP International Conference on Fundraising will help you create a dashboard to guide you in communicating with your board. |
AFP eWire
December 18, 2012 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (December 18, 2012) Cultivating the Donors, Volunteers of Tomorrow with a Card Game... How Host Committees Can Boost Your Fundraising Event Revenue... Corporate Philanthropy: The Latest Snapshot of Giving Trends... |
AFP eWire
September 15, 2008 |
Fundraising Costs: Keeping Your Board...On Board Showing your board how to see past over-simplified cost ratios is a critical way to ensure strategic growth and arm your biggest advocates with the information to engage in these conversations with donors and potential supporters. |
AFP eWire
October 27, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of October 27, 2014): The Two-Part Major Gift Conversation The Two-Part Major Gift Conversation... 3 Unusual but Effective Ways to Market Your Non-Profit... 10 Innovations in Global Fundraising... |
AFP eWire
July 6, 2010 |
Three Ways to Define Your Target Audience When nonprofit marketing and fundraising programs fail, organizations too frequently blame the tactics. |
AFP eWire
May 10, 2011 |
More People Donating Online, Say Fundraising Costs a Key Concern A new study shows that more donors from every age group are going online to make a donation, and they are increasingly sensitive to over-solicitation and fundraising costs. |
AFP eWire
October 19, 2010 |
Study Shows Direct Mail is a More Important Driver to Online Giving than Online Communications More than twice as many online donors say they were prompted to give an online gift in response to a direct mail appeal compared to when they received an e-appeal. |
AFP eWire
September 2, 2008 |
Why You're Fundraising: The Case for Support With thousands of charities to choose from in any community, why should a donor give to your cause? It all comes down to the case for support. |
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
September 8, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of September 8, 2014): Strategic Strategeries on Strategy! Donor Retention Strategies from Nonprofit Experts... Silent Auction Strategies that Increase Revenue... Find Out if Your Fundraising Writing is too "Latin."... |
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
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
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
July 13, 2010 |
Tackling the Problem of Asking Too Often Don't ask your donors to give more when they're not yet sure their previous donations have done any good. |
AFP eWire
October 23, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: Want to Acquire New Donors? (Oct. 23, 2013) Younger Donors/Gen Y/Millennials: Editorial: Nonprofits cultivate young givers... Fundraising Strategy/Approach: Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling... Volunteer Management: 4 Decision-Making Errors That Cripple Nonprofit Boards... |
AFP eWire
June 25, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (June 25, 2013) Major gift bootcamp: paying your dues... 15 Things You Absolutely Must Know About Major Gifts... 3 ways to stand out to your donors... |
AFP eWire
July 16, 2013
Amy Eisenstein |
Your New Year's Resolution for July: Two Hours Per Week and Five Simple Steps for Small Development Shops to Achieve Major Gift Success Have you ever wished you could raise major gifts but felt you don't have the courage, confidence, know-how, or, most important, the time? |
