Want to improve your fundraising results? Learn what sales can teach you. Our Leaky Bucket research reveals key lessons nonprofit management can learn from sales management. And you don’t have to sacrifice your principles.
Learn how to best utilize different social media features to foster deeper connections with your supporters during the holiday giving season with these tips.
Even the best fundraising teams have pockets of inefficiency, losing critical time, money, opportunity and impact. Why? They lack structure, accountability, and insights. Learn how
You and your development team worked hard, you brought in gifts, you tried your best. But senior leadership and the board still want you to
Nonprofit leaders and managers need to know how successful they’ve been so they can plan wisely. Yet our research shows they DON’T. Find out why.
If you’re running a small (or nonexistent) development shop, then you need great management, just like the big shops do, you just have to apply
Metrics Add Structure. And Structure Makes Fundraising EASIER. Want to raise MORE, but work LESS? Then it’s time to fall in love with metrics, like
Nonprofit leaders worry a lot about raising money – are they writing the best appeal letters? Courting the right donor prospects? Running the most successful
Average donor retention hovers around 40%, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. But most efforts to improve rates are tactical, like donor-recognition events. Try as
Another secret to fundraising productivity: do nothing! Overtired and overworked? Even if you can’t take two weeks off, try these ideas for mini-vacations.
Are you still ‘buying’ the overhead-ratio myth? Even worse, are your donors or grantmakers buying it? Keeping your overhead artifically low is a route to disaster. Here are a few secrets for overcoming the Overhead Myth in your nonprofit. Adopt them and see how much more impact you can achieve.
Donor retention rates getting you down? You’re not alone; rates have average 40% since 2005. But that also means we’re losing about half of our collective potential income if we don’t fix this problem. Here’s the secret to improving your donor retention rates.
