Are you ready for year-end fundraising? You may have heard the stats: Nearly one third (31%) of annual giving occurs in December. 12% of all giving happens in the last three days of the year. 53.8% of nonprofits start planning their year-end appeal in October. And a whopping 60% of donors prefer to give online! Are you making it easy for your donors to give …
Marketing a Pledge Fundraiser: 3 Essential Steps to Follow
Guest Post by Brad Dowhaniuk of 99Pledges If you’re already familiar with pledge fundraising, you may know about some of the benefits of using this method. For example, let’s say your nonprofit organized a read-a-thon and asked donors to pledge $3 for every hour their participant spends reading. Not only are participants in control of how much they earn for …
Don’t Be A Big Box Nonprofit with Allison Fine
The data on donor retention is not good. On average, over three quarters of new donors do not make a second gift. Also, the number of individual donors has dropped nearly 20 percent since the beginning of this century. It is not difficult to believe that this large drop is connected to donors feeling unappreciated and even commoditized. This purely transactional approach …
A World Built On Radical Generosity
Listen to a clip above, and tune in to the entire episode at www.NonprofitNationPodcast.com! GivingTuesday 2021 is right around the corner. Is your nonprofit prepared to promote your organization’s mission to potential donors and volunteers? When executed effectively a strong GivingTuesday campaign can help your nonprofit ramp up fundraising and donor engagement going into the New Year. 34.8 million people participated in …
[Webinar] How to Build Community and Actually Drive Donations Using Social Media
Social Media for Social Good Academy is open! Will you be one of my students? Click here to find out more. 94% of NGOs worldwide agree that social media is effective for creating online brand awareness. 30% of nonprofit website traffic currently comes from social media. And the best part? 36% of social media users say that they have used …
[Webinar] 10 Ways to Use Social Media to Promote Your Giving Tuesday Campaign
Social Media for Social Good Academy is open! Will you be one of my students? Click here to find out more. I encourage all nonprofits, social change agents, activists, and anyone who wants to change the world through generosity and kindness to celebrate this year’s global day of unity on November 30 – Giving Tuesday! According to to Charity Navigator, …
#GivingTuesday 2020 Wrap Up – How to Follow Up With Donors After Your Campaign
The final numbers are still being calculated, but GivingTuesday 2020 is shaping up to be a huge success! GivingTuesday reports total giving increased from $1.97 billion to $2.47 billion in the United States alone, representing a 25% increase compared to GivingTuesday 2019. Read more here. And that’s on TOP of the surge of generosity represented by #GivingTuesdayNow launched by GivingTuesday earlier …
How to Plan for a Great #GivingTuesday Campaign
Do you want to raise more money and connect with more supporters this #GivingTuesday? You’re in luck! Today on Facebook Live I talked with special guest all about what goes into planning and executing a successful Giving Tuesday campaign at your nonprofit. Josh Hirsch is the Director of Mission and Communication for Susan G. Komen South Florida, and he is …
Nonprofit giving is about more than just money
As a busy nonprofit professional, I am sure you often get hung up on the million-dollar question – How can we quickly raise more money for our organization? Nonprofits are obsessed with online giving campaigns and social media fundraising, but how can we quantify all the other ways people support our cause? This infographic from everydayhero describes this type of …