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AFP eWire
February 14, 2012
Tom Ahern |
Following in the Footsteps of Your Promise Core values run deep and seldom change. Adrian Sargeant discovered that donor loyalty depended on just seven things. One of that handful: "Your donors share your beliefs."   |
AFP eWire
June 16, 2009 |
Writing Effective Newsletters, Online and Off Here, some of the most common questions about how nonprofit newsletters are sent and what makes people want to read them in the first place are answered. |
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
July 13, 2010 |
Tackling the Problem of Asking Too Often Don't ask your donors to give more when they're not yet sure their previous donations have done any good. |
AFP eWire
May 20, 2014 |
Donor Retention -- The Talk of The Town Some of you may be thinking, "Retention? Enough Already!" The truth is - it's important, it's a hot topic and it's not going anywhere. |
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
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
December 11, 2015 |
Submit Your Comments NOW to the IRS on New Regulations Requiring Disclosure of Social Security Numbers The Internal Revenue Service is proposing regulations that would create a new donor disclosure form for donations over $250 that would require charities to collect their donors' social security numbers. |
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
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
June 16, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of June 16, 2014): How Often Should You Thank Recurring Donors? Marijuana Event Brings Money and Attention to Colo. Symphony ... 4 Ways to Improve Your Fundraising Ask... How Often Should You Thank Recurring Donors?... |
AFP eWire
February 9, 2009 |
Where Donor Recognition Meets Brand Recognition What can we get that our donors will be proud to show other people? |
| 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
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
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
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
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
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
September 2, 2008 |
Why You're Fundraising: The Case for Support With thousands of charities to choose from in any community, why should a donor give to your cause? It all comes down to the case for support. |
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
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
October 26, 2010 |
Essential Elements of a Fundraising Letter Five tips for crafting a successful fundraising letter. |
AFP eWire
October 12, 2004 |
New Giving Strategy Allows Donors to Control Fund Management The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has approved a new way for donors to give to charity but manage the contributed funds for up to a decade, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. |
AFP eWire
July 20, 2010 |
Selling Cars and Selling Your Cause Many nonprofits today are still asking for donations as if they were selling a Model T, even as donors have grown far more discerning in the face of a barrage of appeals. |
AFP eWire
January 12, 2009
Chip Grizzard |
Industry Outlooks: The New Fundraising Paradigm If you want to survive and thrive, budget for innovation to find what motivates this new generation of donor to support your organization. |
AFP eWire
March 23, 2009
David Hughes |
eWire Reader Response: One Way Obama's Tech Strategist Missed the Mark President Barack Obama's chief technology strategist, Thomas Gensemer, dropped a bomb on nonprofit marketers and fundraisers in February with this: "Charity email newsletters are a waste of time" |
AFP eWire
November 27, 2012 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (November 27, 2012) Donor Stewardship:10 More Ways to Show Donors Your Gratitude... Young Supporters: 5 Things Charities Do That Turn Off Young Donors Like Me... Donor Cultivation: Isn't it Better to Give and Receive?... |
Investment Advisor
December 2009
Tere D'Amato |
Expert's Corner: Look Before You Give Weighing the pros and cons of charitable gift annuities. |
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
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
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. |
AFP eWire
June 11, 2007 |
What Do You Know About Your Donors? (And What Do They Know About Your Organization?) Here are a few suggestion on how to collect data from donor satisfaction and donor interest evaluations. |
AFP eWire
September 10, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: CNN's Anderson Cooper Pops Off about the Nonprofit Sector: He Has a Point Fundraising Strategies/Approach: Wise Words About Charities And Branding... Technology: Top Nonprofit Software... Younger Donors/Gen Y/Millennials: `Next Gen' Has No Monopoly On Wise, Caring Givers... |
AFP eWire
January 17, 2006
Geoff Peters |
Best Practices in Direct Mail Fundraising, Part II Direct response is both art and science, and as such, trends and hot ideas tend to flood the marketplace suddenly, and then recede just as quickly. |
AFP eWire
October 25, 2011 |
New Web Portals Turn Birthdays, Anniversaries or Holidays into Fundraising Events In the era of social networking, there are many new online tools that supporters can use to spread the word about your organization and creatively turn well wishes and gifts into donations for worthy charitable causes. |
AFP eWire
July 7, 2009 |
Donor Numbers and Revenue Per Donor Shrink in First Quarter '09 Not only is the United States seeing a drop in donor numbers since their peak in 2005, the economy has left those donors giving less. |
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
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
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. |
AFP eWire
October 9, 2012 |
How Well Do You Know Your Planned Giving Prospects? One in five planned giving donors had never made any gift at all to the recipient charity before making a planned gift, according to a new study by The Stelter Company. |
AFP eWire
February 5, 2007 |
Philanthropy Journal Offers Special Report on Engaging Diverse Donors The special report includes three articles and two informative columns about how charities and fundraisers can reach out to diverse groups of donors to better broaden their funding base and prepare for the future. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
May/Jun 2014
Mary Stark Hood |
Charitable Donations of Life Insurance Life insurance is often overlooked as a gifting option when individuals are considering gifts to charities, but it can be an effective way to provide a charity with funds for future work. |
AFP eWire
February 19, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (February 19, 2013) 5 ways to validate giving decisions and drive retention... 6 enewsletter ideas help retain donors... 10 ways to build donor loyalty... |
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
December 4, 2012 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (December 4, 2012) Planning/Strategy: The Eight-Word Mission Statement... Donor Psychology: Give Smart -- Conversations with Remarkable Donors ... Young Donors: Why You Should Engage Generation Y... |
AFP eWire
January 27, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of January 27, 2014): The 3 Principles to Acquire, Retain, and Upgrade Your Donors Fundraising Strategy/Approach: The 4 S's of the Modern Nonprofit... Donors: The 3 Principles to Acquire, Retain, and Upgrade Your Donors... Donors: Donor Engagement: Do Your Homework!... |
Financial Advisor
September 2006
Beck & Leibell |
Life Insurance For Charitable Gifting The use of life insurance to make charitable gifts can be an effective and cost-efficient means of fulfilling charitable intentions without making a sizable donation while alive. |
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
September 23, 2015 |
Creative and Compelling Fundraising Messages for Digital Solicitations AFP got a chance recently to chat with Derrick Feldmann about digital solicitations, where online fundraising is heading and his upcoming trip to Paris |
AFP eWire
October 16, 2012 |
The Planned Giving Toolbox: Learning to Talk about Planned Giving Fundraisers don't need to be experts on planned giving, but they do need to be able to talk knowledgeably about planned giving options and spot opportunities for donors, according to Greg Hammond, President of Planned Giving Strategies. |
