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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
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 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
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
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
September 22, 2008 |
Fundraising Tips: Do's and Don'ts in a Troubled Economy In what will likely be an uphill battle, fundraisers in the final months of 2008 say they are not making drastic changes, but rather going back to basics and focusing on need. |
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 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, 2012 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (November 20, 2012) What Do Donors, Foundations Want to Know about Nonprofits?... Direct Mail -- The Exquisite Corpse... How High-Profile Causes Like `Movember' Push Less `Sexy' Ones Aside... |
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
August 10, 2010 |
The New Proactive Donor The days when donors would give unconditionally to every charity that knocked on their door are gone for good, says fundraising veteran Penelope Burk. |
AFP eWire
October 1, 2015 |
New Report: Less Than Half of Donors Give Again to Organizations That They Supported in the Previous Year Just 43 percent of donors who gave to participating survey organizations in 2013 gave to those same organizations in 2014. |
AFP eWire
January 28, 2008 |
New AFP-Funded Research Compares U.S., Japanese Fundraising A new study examines the extraordinary growth in the Japanese charitable sector, what fundraising methods are most popular in Japan, differing views on giving and how North American fundraisers can approach Japanese donors. |
AFP eWire
August 18, 2008 |
Donor Retention Trumps Acquisition, Study Notes The Fundraising Effectiveness Project finds a steady trend in the amount of donors and donations lost for every new donor and donation gained. |
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
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
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
July 14, 2008 |
AFP Responds to L.A. Times Report on Fundraising Inefficiencies A response to a recent article stating that only a small percentage of money reaches California nonprofits when they use a for-profit fundraising company to raise funds. |
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
April 23, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (April 23, 2013) What Do Nonprofits Need More Than Funding?... 36 Fundraising Tips to Provoke Your Point of View, Sharpen Your Focus and Make You Laugh... Re-Imagining How To Decrease Donor Retention... |
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 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 24, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: 7-Step Non-Profit Plan to Attract and Keep Corporate Partners (Sept. 24, 2013) Case Studies: Rocking the Case Study... Fundraising Strategy/Approach: 10 Letters to Live By... Fundraising Research: Take the rest of the day off... |
AFP eWire
August 28, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: September Is Boom Time for Donors, Google Says (August 28, 2013) Year-end Fundraising: Tips to Maximize Your End-of-Year Fundraising... Fundraising Strategy/Approach: Crowdfunding is the New Donation... Donors: How to keep new donors... |
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
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 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
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
December 17, 2014 |
Charitable Giving, Donor Retention Levels Increasing, Reaching Near Pre-Recession Levels For the fourth consecutive year, charitable organizations across the U.S. saw growth in both the level of funds they raised, as well as how well they retained donors from year to year. |
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
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 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
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
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
November 13, 2012 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (November 13, 2012) Donor Stewardship: 8 Ways You're Probably Not Thanking Your Donors... Fundraising/Sector Data: Nonprofits and the Economy, Infographic Style... Social Media: #Sandy & Social: A Case Study... |
AFP eWire
April 9, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of April 9, 2014): David Letterman Retiring, Jimmy Fallon on the Rise and Social Media Private Charity Can't Replace Government Social Programs... What Rights Do Your Donors Have?... If You Can't Support the Cause, Don't Take the Job... |
AFP eWire
March 25, 2015 |
AFP, Relationship Science Announce Strategic Partnership Relationship Science, is a company that enables organizations to strategically leverage the collective connections of employees, executives, and board members in order to identify high-impact 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. |
AFP eWire
February 25, 2015
Michael J. Rosen |
Building Donor Loyalty at the AFP International Fundraising Conference Over the past few months, the issue of high nonprofit Donor Attrition rates has received increasing attention. |
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
July 16, 2013 |
Fundraising Peers Weigh-In on What To Do With Lapsed Donors...And More! Your peers are some of the best drivers of your determination and can encourage you to take an even deeper look into the challenges your nonprofit may be facing. |
AFP eWire
February 17, 2009 |
Maehara, Brown Named Among Fundraising's Best The NonProfit Times has named 14 people who it feels are the most effective and influential fundraisers in the industry. |
AFP eWire
April 23, 2007 |
Focus on Donor Retention, Not Acquisition A new study shows that while charities are effective in attracting new donors, improvements in donor retention could affect their fundraising revenue dramatically. |
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
January 22, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of January 20, 2014): Philanthropy Trends to Take Advantage of in 2014 Advocacy/Public Policy: Charitable Deduction Probably Safe for 2014, Say Experts... Volunteer Management: What do you talk about at your board meetings?... Donors: 29 ways to start a healthy 2014... |
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
August 17, 2010 |
Plugging the Leaks: Losses Now Outpacing Gains in Latest FEP Study Are you missing out on increased income growth year to year because of donors who are falling through the cracks? |
AFP eWire
December 13, 2004 |
Many Charities Misreporting Fundraising, Administrative Costs Public and donor pressure to keep administrative and fundraising expenses low may be leading nonprofit organizations to underreport such costs, according to a new study. |
