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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
January 26, 2010 |
A Peek at the Philanthropist's Playbook More and more, high net worth donors are not looking for a cause to support (they have that already), they are looking for an organization that does great work. |
AFP eWire
November 13, 2011 |
Study Shows Online Giving Has Become Popular Among Donors 60 or Older Online giving has become a viable option for donors who are 60 years of age or older, according to a recent online study. |
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
December 14, 2010 |
Online Fundraising: More Than a Point and Click Looking at the ways people give online, they found that online giving was most successful when people were brought into a genuine relationship to the nonprofit and its mission. |
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
August 30, 2011 |
Nonprofits Retained More Donors in 2010, Report Shows Nonprofit organizations in the U.S. were better at retaining donors and shored up their net losses in donations in 2010, according to the latest report of the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. |
AFP eWire
January 24, 2012 |
Making Online Giving Easier and More Fun While many organizations understand that it is important to have a prominent "donate" button on their website, it's just as important to pay attention to what happens after they click that button. |
AFP eWire
January 12, 2009 |
Written Appeals: Imaginative Ways to Ask Donors to Give More Caught in a rut with how you make the "ask" in your appeal letters? Want to encourage annual fund donors to give more? Here are some effective strategies. |
AFP eWire
January 26, 2009
Derrick Feldmann |
Weathering the Storm Together: How to Build Stronger Ties With Donors in Tough Economic Times During tough economic times, organizations often take two approaches. Some hunker down and wait for the storm to pass. Others step up efforts and bring donors in. |
AFP eWire
March 16, 2010 |
The Untapped Potential of Matching Gifts Are you actively spreading awareness of matching gift opportunities among your donors? |
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 14, 2008 |
In Weak Economy Loyalty is Stable Currency Fundraising revenues and donor counts are both down for the first quarter of 2008 compared to the same time last year, according to a new report. |
Energize
July 2010
Susan J. Ellis |
The Correlation between Time Donors and Money Donors All research shows that people who volunteer tend to give more money to charity than people who do not. This often-quoted finding only tells part of the philanthropy story. |
AFP eWire
December 8, 2014
Paul Nazareth |
Three Free Tools to Help You Increase Donations This Holiday Season Here are three simple and free tools from the team at CanadaHelps that will help your charity amplify its voice, attract new donors, and raise more this Holiday season. |
AFP eWire
July 3, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (July 10, 2013) Creative Ways to Give to Charity... Making Monthly Gifts the Norm... 21 Stupid Things You Can Stop Doing... |
AFP eWire
October 26, 2010 |
Essential Elements of a Fundraising Letter Five tips for crafting a successful fundraising letter. |
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? |
AFP eWire
June 29, 2010 |
Wise Giving? Most Donors Spend Little Time Researching Charities Only about one third of donors surveyed recently said that they did any research before donating to a charity, and those that did looked at overhead ratios above all else. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Do Charitable Fundraising Right Finding donors is essential for the success of your charity. Once you've done the hard work of finding them, make sure you treat them well by giving them everything they need to obtain the tax benefits they deserve. |
AFP eWire
August 22, 2005 |
Fundraising Strong in First Quarter 2005 Despite substantial gifts for the Southeast Asia tsunami, most nonrelief charities also experienced strong increases in both revenue and numbers of donors in the first quarter of 2005. Environmental organizations also performed well. |
AFP eWire
July 17, 2012
Kelly C. Albanese |
Does Your Organization Have "Relationship Capital?" Relationship capital represents the quality of your interactions and the bonds that you have developed with your donors, and it can indicate your position in their philanthropic priorities. |
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
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
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
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
October 5, 2010 |
Fundraising 101: Growing Donor Passion Harnessing a donor's passion is key to ensuring a lasting and fruitful relationship. Here are some good tips on cultivating major donors for your annual campaign from fundraising veteran Erik J. Daubert |
AFP eWire
December 18, 2012
Laura Kalick |
Wrapping Up 2012: Important Tax Reminders for U.S. Nonprofit Professionals With the country inching ever-closer to the edge of the metaphoric fiscal cliff, policymakers are discussing a number of proposals that are bound to impact nonprofit organizations' ability to raise funds now and in the coming year. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2007
Elizabeth O'Brien |
5 Questions How America's under-performance in higher education can be linked to a lack of accountability in educational philanthropy, and how the financial services industry can do to help. |
AFP eWire
May 7, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of May 7, 2014): The Quickest Way to Lose a Donor Content and Curation for Nonprofits.. What If You Have No Major Gift Officer?... The Quickest Way To Lose A Donor... |
AFP eWire
May 11, 2010 |
Face Time: How to Reach Young Donors Although we often associate people ages 20 to 40 with texting, Facebook and other high-tech communications, donors in that age group say that when it comes to requests for their time or money, they put high value on face-to-face communication. |
AFP eWire
September 14, 2010 |
In Canada, Online Giving Reigns Online giving has surpassed traditional modes of transacting gifts among all Canadian donors under the age of 65, reports fundraising consultant Penelope Burk from her recent survey |
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
January 28, 2015 |
Technology: Fundraisers and Donors Not Yet on the Same Page Give Central, a web-based donation platform, reports on the disconnect between the increasing ability and eagerness of nonprofits to take advantage of rapidly evolving technology -- and the reluctance of donors to take advantage of the same |
AFP eWire
August 26, 2014 |
Want An Endowment? Plan For it -- Ask For It Helen Monroe is the head of Endowment Development Institute and has converted her 35 years of experience building endowments into on-line lessons for all organizations. |
AFP eWire
April 28, 2008 |
Building Trust With Print And Online Appeals Print or online appeals must do more than outline the needs for your organization; they must also make the case for organizational effectiveness. |
AFP eWire
February 5, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of February 5, 2014): 10 Must-Have Elements for Nonprofit Websites Volunteer Management: 5 Ways To Get Leadership Engaged In Your Employee Volunteer And Giving Program... Donors: Monthly Donors: Small is beautiful!... Technology: 6 Strategies To Sending Mobile Friendly Emails... |
| AFP eWire |
Charities Raising More Money, But Still Losing Donors For the first time in five years, charity respondents to the annual Fundraising Effectiveness Project survey saw positive gains in giving, but still continued to lose donors faster than they gained them. |
AFP eWire
October 20, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of October 20, 2014): Influencing Donors' Gut Reactions to Solicitations Is Your Annual Report Brilliant, or Boring?... New Fundraising Study Provides Data on Impact of Technology... Helping Board Members Become More Effective at Fundraising... |
AFP eWire
August 15, 2005 |
What's Working: Tips From AFP Members Practical tips, advice and guidance from fellow practitioners often can spell the difference between success and failure. |
AFP eWire
September 24, 2007 |
New Organization to Help Higher Ed Donors Attach Strings to Gifts Citing concerns over accountability and donor intent, three foundations have created a nonprofit group that will assist donors in attaching legally enforceable conditions to their gifts to colleges and universities. |
AFP eWire
October 16, 2012 |
Charities' Fundraising Improves Slightly, But Still Not Retaining Donors While fundraising levels are improving slightly, charities continue to lose more donors than they gain and have a long way to go to recover from the impact of the 2007-9 recession. |
AFP eWire
September 15, 2008 |
Wealthy Donors Share Motives and Misgivings Wealthy donors want to give, but they don't want to gamble, according to a new report. |
AFP eWire
May 17, 2011 |
Why the Donor's Story Matters Here are some ways to take a step back and really understand a prospective major gift donor -- their philosophy of giving, their giving priorities and even their views on money itself. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
May/Jun 2014
Chase V. Magnuson |
Donation Equation Here's how to solve planned real estate gift conundrums. |
AFP eWire
July 23, 2007 |
New Ideas about Donor Motivation New research has both confirmed and shaken up some long-standing tenets of fundraising and why people give. |
AFP eWire
September 1, 2015 |
Chatting about Donor Retention with John Greenhoe, CFRE We got to chat with John recently about donor retention, discovery calls and how he plans on topping his webinar from last year. |
AFP eWire
August 4, 2008 |
Donors Happy but Hard to Dazzle A survey finds that a large majority of donors say the nonprofit they donated to has met their expectations. |
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
August 28, 2006 |
New Study Examines How Donors Give Online During Disasters A new study examines how donors give online to help support disaster relief efforts and provides guidance for charities seeking to raise funds online. |
