Greetings from Charleston, SC! Here at Blackbaud’s Conference on Nonprofits. I got to spend 3 1/2 hours with the amazing fundraising mind of Mal Warwick. I wish I’d had this before I sent my year-end appeal text to the printer. 🙂 I’ve been at this...
Welcome back to the Extreme Fundraising Ezine! And welcome to our new subscribers! It was wonderful getting to meet so many of you at APC’s East Coast Fall Conference at Friends Select School in Philadelphia! What an incredible time! I always find that to be one of...
Your nonprofit’s donors interact with your organization in a variety of ways, whether they’re giving online, volunteering, following you on social media, or attending your events. All of this involvement is referred to as donor engagement. The more that your donors...
Learning grant writing is a rite of passage for many nonprofit professionals. Many of us first dive into grant writing with minimal (or even no) prior experience. Writing a grant proposal might seem like a big, scary task. After all, you’re presenting your...
It’s well-known in the nonprofit world that the second gift, sometimes even referred to as “the golden gift,” is when donor retention rates start to rise. So why do donors continue to give to your nonprofit after their first gift? Or conversely, why do so many...