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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 July 3, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (July 3, 2013) Five Fundraising Approaches That Won't Frighten Your Board... How to Make Giving Feel Good... Is Your Nonprofit Ready to be Super Relevant?...  |
AFP eWire December 11, 2012 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (December 11, 2012) Fundraising Trends/Data: Are We Approaching the Fundraising Cliff?... Corporate Philanthropy: How to turn corporate social responsibility into a corporate social opportunity... Year-End Fundraising: 6 Principles of Persuasion...  |
AFP eWire April 23, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of April 23, 2014): Americans Want To Give Back With Their Purchases--Not With Charity Checklist: Is Your Online Giving Site Donor-Friendly?... Show Your Donors How You Are Making a Difference... What's A Fundraiser Worth?...  |
AFP eWire February 11, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of February 11, 2015): Building a Professional Network That Works for You Fundraising auctions... Two different approaches to professional networking... 21 ways to let your donors know you care... etc.  |
AFP eWire February 11, 2015 |
Blackbaud Report on Online Giving While not all online fundraising was quite as engaging as the Ice Bucket Challenge, buoyed by improving fundraising platforms, online fundraising as a whole saw significant growth in 2014.  |
AFP eWire August 28, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: September Is Boom Time for Donors, Google Says (August 28, 2013) Year-end Fundraising: Tips to Maximize Your End-of-Year Fundraising... Fundraising Strategy/Approach: Crowdfunding is the New Donation... Donors: How to keep new donors...  |
AFP eWire August 28, 2012 |
Why Social Media Matters: Networking and Engagement Networking is the new professional currency in our increasingly connected world, says Beth Kanter, and successful charities are changing their mindset to emphasize social media, openness, engagement and authenticity.  |
AFP eWire April 16, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of April 16, 2014): 5 Unusual Direct Mail Techniques to Try A Little Networking Can Go a Long Way... If You Can't Support the Cause, Don't Take the Job... Three Ways to Deepen Donor Engagement...  |
AFP eWire September 30, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of September 30, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Creating a Visual Case for Support... How to Turn First-Time Visitors into Long-Term Donors... Seven Drivers of Donor Loyalty...  |
AFP eWire March 2, 2010 |
Social Media Has Growing Impact on Peer-to-Peer Event Fundraising New research shows that social media tools lead to more successful fundraising for participants in charity events.  |
AFP eWire July 9, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of July 9, 2014): Young People Should be at The Forefront of Charity Campaigns Foundations Reveal What They Look for in Grant Proposals... Three Questions to Help You to Engage Donors with Your Stories... What Makes People Generous: Charity, Empathy, And Storytelling...  |
AFP eWire April 28, 2009 |
Facebook Yields Scant Returns with Donation Program Aside from a few standouts, the Causes application on the social networking website Facebook has shown little success for charities as a fundraising tool.  |
AFP eWire March 5, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed What makes for an effective online donation page?... Infographics produce fundraising results... Why America's charities are so uncharitable...  |
AFP eWire September 10, 2007 |
Fundraising No Longer Confined to Development Positions More and more nonprofits are asking non-development staffers to get involved in the fundraising process.  |
AFP eWire December 17, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of December 17, 2014): You Need Data Nerds! Here are some of the top items, articles and ideas you need to know so you can keep up-to-date and help your charity succeed.  |
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 March 9, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of March 9, 2015): How Your Donor and Your Goldfish Are Alike 4 tips you can us to attract attention from prospective donors... What is "stickiness" in fundraising and how can you measure it?... Thanking donors... etc.  |
AFP eWire September 22, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of September 22, 2014): Can a New Governance Model Help Your Organization? 9 Best Practices for Distributing Nonprofit Content on Social Networks... Super Short Storytelling that Hooks Digital Donors... 3 Steps to Year-End Fundraising Success...  |
AFP eWire October 14, 2015 |
AFP Top Ten (Week of October 14, 2015): Fundraising Ideas, Stories & Perspectives You May Have Missed! Have You Mastered Nonprofit Video Yet?... Rekindling Organizational Passion Through Your Case for Support... Fundraising For Your Future...  |
AFP eWire August 11, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of August 11, 2014): #GivingTuesday Campaign Planner 3 Tips to Increase Solicitation Success... Internships Done Right: A Winning Approach for Both Nonprofits and Students... Know the Oddball Reasons Donors Donate...  |
AFP eWire November 13, 2012 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (November 13, 2012) Donor Stewardship: 8 Ways You're Probably Not Thanking Your Donors... Fundraising/Sector Data: Nonprofits and the Economy, Infographic Style... Social Media: #Sandy & Social: A Case Study...  |
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 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 1, 2013 Claire Kerr |
How Does Your Organization Define "Success" in Social Media Fundraising? Fortunately for those of us who love social channels, it's now much simpler to prove that platforms like Facebook or Twitter (or even Pinterest!) have a measurable impact on your fundraising projects.  |
AFP eWire October 1, 2015 |
New Report: Less Than Half of Donors Give Again to Organizations That They Supported in the Previous Year Just 43 percent of donors who gave to participating survey organizations in 2013 gave to those same organizations in 2014.  |
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 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 20, 2012 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (November 20, 2012) What Do Donors, Foundations Want to Know about Nonprofits?... Direct Mail -- The Exquisite Corpse... How High-Profile Causes Like `Movember' Push Less `Sexy' Ones Aside...  |
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 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 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 3, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (July 10, 2013) Creative Ways to Give to Charity... Making Monthly Gifts the Norm... 21 Stupid Things You Can Stop Doing...  |
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 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 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 January 2, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (January 2, 2013) Don't Look Just at the Short-Term Battle Over Charity Tax Breaks... 85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits... Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable...  |
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 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 December 4, 2012 |
Fundraising Results Overall Stall Mid-Year In its semi-annual survey, the Nonprofit Research Collaborative finds that funds raised at organizations studied were largely unchanged from a year ago.  |
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 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 January 22, 2013 Marc A. Pitman |
Why Your Nonprofit Needs to Be On Google+ Today! Google+ has become the fastest-growing social media platform in history. More importantly for those of us in nonprofits, Google is using Google+ posts and interactions to influence normal Google web searches. The implications for this are huge!  |
AFP eWire June 29, 2010 |
Wise Giving? Most Donors Spend Little Time Researching Charities Only about one third of donors surveyed recently said that they did any research before donating to a charity, and those that did looked at overhead ratios above all else.  |
AFP eWire January 22, 2014 |
Top Ten (Week of January 20, 2014): Philanthropy Trends to Take Advantage of in 2014 Advocacy/Public Policy: Charitable Deduction Probably Safe for 2014, Say Experts... Volunteer Management: What do you talk about at your board meetings?... Donors: 29 ways to start a healthy 2014...  |
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 September 2, 2008 |
Presidential Campaigns Have Little Impact on Direct Mail Fundraising While charities are facing numerous challenges in the current fundraising environment, the presidential election isn't one of them, according to a new research report.  |
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 22, 2013 |
Ten Things You Might Have Missed (January 22, 2013) 5 Smartphone Apps for Nonprofits... Ensure Sustained Giving by Planned Gift Donors... After the Yes: 12 Questions You Can Ask Donors Once They Say Yes...  |
AFP eWire February 4, 2015 |
Top Ten (Week of February 4, 2015): How Nonprofits Can Avoid the Spam Folder How nonprofits can avoid the spam folder... 14 things happy individuals make a habit of doing... Three ways to evaluate nonprofit technology... etc.  |