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AFP eWire August 19, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of August 19, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Successful Fundraising is a Team Sport: Physicians' Role in Fundraising... Getting the Donor Meeting... The Good News About Donor Fatigue... |
AFP eWire September 23, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of September 23, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Getting the best from your volunteers through the SAVE approach... Three Fundraising Innovations You Need to Know About... Improving Your Donor Retention and Response Rates... |
AFP eWire July 15, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of July 15, 2015): Seven Things You Can Ask a First-Time Donor to Do Before Asking for More Money Harvesters Food Bank's Fundraising Strategy... How to Promote and Close Monthly Giving in Your Fundraising Appeal Letters... Beating the Summertime Fundraising Blues... |
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 June 3, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of June 3, 2015): Does Your Nonprofit's Signature Event Have To Be a Gala? Facing the Fear of Fundraising... Create a menu of choices for board members... Matching Gifts: Bonanza Or Sham?... |
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 8, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of September 8, 2014): Strategic Strategeries on Strategy! Donor Retention Strategies from Nonprofit Experts... Silent Auction Strategies that Increase Revenue... Find Out if Your Fundraising Writing is too "Latin."... |
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 August 26, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of August 26, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Converting activists to donors... Twenty-one-time-saving tips for busy nonprofit professionals... The Rise of the DIY Fundraising Superstar... |
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 November 25, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of November 25, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Can You Create a Culture of Increased Giving?... The Seven Biggest Mistakes in Handling Donor Data... It's Shameful to Shame a Major Donor... |
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 18, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of February 18, 2015): When Your Nonprofit Can and Cannot Send Email When your nonprofit can and cannot send email... Social media is on the rise in every demographic... A thank you letter template... etc. |
AFP eWire October 28, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of October 28, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Opportunities Missed From Too Many Fundraising Channels... The Dos and Don'ts of Donor `Thank You' Calls... Do You Know if Your #Fundraising is Failing?... |
AFP eWire October 27, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of October 27, 2014): The Two-Part Major Gift Conversation The Two-Part Major Gift Conversation... 3 Unusual but Effective Ways to Market Your Non-Profit... 10 Innovations in Global Fundraising... |
AFP eWire October 26, 2010 |
Essential Elements of a Fundraising Letter Five tips for crafting a successful fundraising letter. |
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 January 8, 2014 |
Top Ten: Philanthropy Grew in 2013, But So Did Need Fundraising Research: Philanthropy grew in 2013, but so did need... Major Gifts: 2013's Biggest Gifts Signal Rebound... Fundraising Strategy/Approach: The Surprising Power of Promotional Products... |
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 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 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 November 10, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of November 10, 2014): The Two-Part Major Gift Conversation Why Your Brain Wants to Help 1 Child in Need But Not Millions... Why All Nonprofits Should Embrace #GivingTuesday... Key Facts on U.S. Foundations 2014... |
AFP eWire November 17, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of November 17, 2014): What to Leave Behind During a Major Gift Ask The Only 6 Things You Need to Take/Leave When Making the Ask... The Great Mysteries of Donor Retention... 10 Steps to Create an Appeal Letter That Brings in the Money... |
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 August 18, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of August 18, 2014): 7 Favorite Topics of Boring Fundraisers Year-End Fundraising Decisions to Make Now... 7 Favorite Topics of Boring Fundraisers... 8 Nonprofits Lessons Learned from the 2014 FUSE Conference... |
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 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 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?... |
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 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 April 22, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of April 22, 2015): Don't Panic! Avoid The Content Creation Crunch Are You Taking Your Donors on a Journey?... Volunteer Value Hits $23.07 An Hour... Top Five Strategies to Raise More Money From Foundations... |
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 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 October 10, 2008 |
A Survival Kit for Fundraising in a Bad Economy A tumultuous economy can present unique challenges for nonprofit fundraising. Here are some resources that offer advice for fundraisers in tough economic times. |
AFP eWire November 27, 2007 |
The Key to Fundraising: Retaining Donors through Communication As research shows that charities lose significant amounts of funding by not retaining donors, a new book by Tom Ahern and Simone Joyaux, discusses keeping donors through communications and stewardship. |
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 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 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 June 10, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of June 10, 2015): Five Questions to Help You Collect Stories from Staff Members Five Questions to Help You Collect Stories From Staff Members... Why I support 12 different charities... Five Tiers of a Corporate Relationship... |
AFP eWire June 17, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of June 17, 2015): Culture Of Philanthropy-Why You Need It; 6 Ways to Get It Brainstorming is an important element to improving... Raising the bar for fundraising in Austin... Culture Of Philanthropy: Why You Need It; 6 Ways To Get It... |
AFP eWire July 3, 2013 |
Impact vs. Overhead Talk to almost any donor about what's important when they give, and the answer will be impact, change and positive outcomes. |
AFP eWire January 5, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of January 5, 2015): Beth Kanter's New Year's Ritual Top ideas for fundraising: Email tips... How different generations give... A donor's advice to nonprofits... etc. |
AFP eWire October 21, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of October 21, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Top Five Indicators of a Great Fundraising Prospect... The S.U.R.E. Way of Fundraising... Apples and Pears: The Curse of the ROI Fundraising Ratio... |
AFP eWire May 7, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (May 7, 2013) Three Tips to Create a Successful Monthly Giving Program... Think outside the box for successful grant seeking... Good lessons from a giant in philanthropy... |
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 March 16, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of March 16, 2015): How Effective Is Your Charity? A checklist to help you review how your nonprofit operates and make sure it's prepared for the future... Co-opting a current event or pop culture story for the benefit of your own nonprofit brand... etc. |
AFP eWire July 1, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of July 1, 2015): 13-Step Process to Building and Strengthening Your Mid-Level Giving Program The 2015 World Wealth Report: 5 Essential Takeaways... The Power of Non-Cash Gifts... Five Strategies for Getting More Corporate Sponsorships... |
AFP eWire March 31, 2009 |
Charitable Fundraising Hit New Low in 2008 Less than half of charities raised more money in 2008 than in 2007, and fundraising gains dropped significantly across the board. |
AFP eWire January 26, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of January 26, 2015): Helping Volunteers Fall in Love with the Mission Recruiting a board member who has not served on a nonprofit board before... Peer-to-peer fundraising... Global NFP benchmarking survey results... etc. |