Motivate Participants via eMail

When it comes to activating your participants to raise more for your organization, email is still the best motivator. A focused, well-planned email campaign is not just a powerful tool for communicating event data, it’s also the most successful way of inspiring your fundraisers. While creating an email campaign is a large time investment, you can […]

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Nonprofit Partner Blog

What to Do (and NOT do) in a Donor Meeting

Before a meeting, any good fundraiser will do all of the necessary research, develop any collateral material and confirm or recalibrate the prospect strategy developed for this individual. But, when you get to the meeting, what strategies and soft interpersonal skills work best?

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Nonprofit Partner Blog

Five Tips for Hiring a Director of Development

Directors of development are responsible for executing the strategy to raise the money that keeps your organization’s doors open-so making the right hire is crucial to your nonprofit’s sustainability. Make sure you read these 5 tips-

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Nonprofit Tip

Tips on winning a corporate sponsor for your nonprofit

Here’s the inspiring story of just one nonprofit that wouldn’t be able to manage without a corporate parter. Are you seeking funding from a for-profit? While you may be tempted to reach out to every corporation you can think of, here are some useful guidelines.

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Voices from the Third Sector

Leadership: Multi-tasking while staying focused

Introducing our featured Executive Director for this month: Karen Gager, Executive Director at HeadsUp in Rhode Island. Here Karen shares some advice relative to common struggles cited by many of our readers: limited financial and human resources. We think you’ll relate to Karen’s challenges and hope you’ll be able to benefit from her tips on how to think […]

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