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AFP eWire February 9, 2004 Linda Lysakowski |
Tips From Members: The Planning Study Process, Part Two When considering a capital or endowment campaign, organizations need to consider conducting an external assessment of the willingness and ability of the organization's constituency to support the campaign. |
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 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 July 28, 2009 |
Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign? Let's explore the characteristics of a nonprofit that is most likely to find success in a campaign. |
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 July 10, 2006 |
Successful Capital Campaign Teams: Balancing Technical and Interpersonal Skills New research finds that many capital campaign teams, while meeting their goals, often contend with a lack of cohesion, overemphasizing interpersonal skills at the expense of optimal fundraising success. |
AFP eWire February 2, 2004 |
Tips From Members: The Planning Study Process When considering a capital or endowment campaign, a major undertaking for most organizations, an internal assessment of the organization's readiness is imperative. |
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 August 5, 2014 |
Crowdfunding Part 2 -- How to Crowd Surf These tips, how to's, what not to's and step-by-step articles will lead you in your planning, launch, implementation and ultimately successful crowdfunding campaign. |
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 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 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 July 28, 2009 |
Capital Campaigns: Getting the Word Out A capital campaign is the perfect time to tell your organization's story and tell it well. |
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 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 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 June 16, 2008 |
Music to Their Ears--How a Symphony's Campaign Reached Crescendo The Nashville Symphony's fundraising campaign "A Time for Greatness" attracted 3,860 gifts, including 34 individual and corporate gifts of $1 million or more. |
InternetNews April 19, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
On The SaaS Trail of CampaignForce Salesforce.com's CRM application is for the political candidate who has everything except access to campaign donor information. |
Bank Technology News August 2004 John Adams |
Political Contribution Management: Arnold Webifies His War Chest A subtle nugget of the California Governor's political prowess is his campaign's use of contribution-management technology -- which could lead to an advanced way of managing election finance. |
Search Engine Watch January 21, 2011 Joseph Kerschbaum |
Automate Your AdWords Management with Automated Rules, Part 1 This new, extremely powerful AdWords feature can automate your campaign optimization, saving you time and improving your campaign's results. Here's how to get the most out of Automated Rules. |
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 October 30, 2012 |
Mark Climie-Elliott: Born to Be a Fundraiser Climie-Elliott's involvement in AFP encompasses all aspects of the association, including the international board. But he's been especially active in Canada. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch May 21, 2009 Sage Lewis |
Cabela's, Performics, and Performance Marketing Here's an interesting promotion that drives online shoppers to offline retail locations using coupons. There are some important things to learn from this successful online/offline promotion. |
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 December 6, 2004 |
Making a Motivated Board a Reality Having a motivated board excited about the fundraising process isn't a matter of luck -- charities must be systematic and opportunistic in their recruitment and enlistment processes. |
AFP eWire April 7, 2014 Andrea McManus |
Collaborative Campaigning -- Can We Be Friends Through Collective Impact? Calgary is a city with a ten-year plan to end homelessness and, it is one of the few such plans in North America that is actually working. |
CRM October 2013 Marshall Lager |
What's Your Marketing Plan? Good marketing campaigns have a set goal. There's a reason why. |
Information Today October 10, 2011 |
OCLC's Geek the Library Campaign Receives Additional Funding OCLC's Geek the Library community awareness campaign, piloted in 2009 and 2010 and now available to all U.S. public libraries, received an additional grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. |
AFP eWire June 12, 2013 |
Alumni and Friends Do It Again on May 10 at Saint Peter's University Angeline Boyer, Media Relations Officer, Saint Peter's University, walks us through the successful campaign. |
AFP eWire January 4, 2011 |
Why Matching Gifts Work New research shows that matching gifts increase not only the revenue per solicitation, but also the response rate. |
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 December 1, 2009 |
Top 10 Ways to Boost Online Giving at Year-End Use these tactics to zoom past your year-end goals. |
AFP eWire July 2, 2007 |
EMC Advantage Calling Program Begins Sixth Year The Every Member Campaign is surging forward, thanks in part to the EMC Advantage Calling Program. |
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... |
CRM November 25, 2011 |
Emailvision Launches SaaS Campaign Management Solution With Customer Intelligence New product Campaign Commander Enterprise Edition lets marketers deliver more relevant and successful online relationship marketing campaigns. |
AFP eWire February 15, 2011 |
Putting the Fun into Your Annual Fund Here's how to have a fresh, fun and creative annual giving program. |
AFP eWire August 13, 2013 |
We Crossed the "Bridge" and Found a Ton of Nonprofit Takeaways on The Other Side The 2013 Annual Bridge to Integrated Marketing & Fundraising Conference -- hosted by the AFP Washington D.C. Metro Area Chapter and the Direct Marketing Association of Washington sold out with a record number of attendees at 1594. |
CFO December 1, 2008 Kate Plourd |
Campaign Relief To a financial consultant, a Presidential campaign looks a lot like a start-up company. |
The Motley Fool April 11, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Getting Flak for Doing Good A look at the (RED) campaign. Companies have long been associating themselves with good causes, and while the motives may often be financial, the results can be rather effective. |
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 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. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 22, 2004 Martha Lagace |
How Nonprofits Use the Internet to Get Ahead You'll need more than a nice-looking Web site and a "Donate Now" button. Experts swapped tips at the 2004 Social Enterprise Conference. |
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... |
CRM September 3, 2015 Jessica Hawthorne-Castro |
With Campaign Metrics, You Need to Go Beyond the Basics Here are four metrics to make your decision making more data-driven -- and enhance profits. |
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 November 18, 2015 Elizabeth Chung |
Five Trends to Jazz Up Your Holiday Fundraising As donors get bombarded with year-end asks, you need to stand out from the crowd. |
AFP eWire January 9, 2006 |
Weinstein Named CCS Outstanding Fundraising Professional The president of Stanley Weinstein & Co. is the recipient of this year's Community Counselling Service (CCS) Award for Outstanding Fundraising Professional. Weinstein has helped change the face of philanthropy in New Mexico. |
AFP eWire June 23, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of June 23, 2014): Successful Fundraisers Will Have These Traits 12 Reasons Why You Should Gracefully Resign from a Nonprofit Board... Take Our Major Gift Fundraising Aptitude Quiz... Blackbaud Ranks Most Generous Online U.S. Cities for 2013... |
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. |