Blog Profile / FundraisingCoach.com
| URL : | http://fundraisingcoach.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | NGOs & Nonprofits / Fundraising | |
| Posts on Regator: | 192 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.8 | |
| Archived Since: | May 26, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Flipboard features the new magazine “The Fundraising Life”
I love using Flipboard. It’s a handy app got me back into regular blog reading. This spring, they created a way for users to build their own magazines. It is a simple way for users to curate content. Content curation is a huge life skill, at least for online work. So last month when my [...]Show More Summary
The secret for nonprofits recovering from a recession
Yesterday I wrote about Giving USA’s 2013 Report and the highlights about giving last year. At the end of the npVOICES interview with Gregg Carlson of the Giving USA Foundation, Steve MacLaughlin asked for Gregg’s impressions for fundraisers. With 50 years of tracking giving, Gregg shared his take away: nonprofits that kept asking for money [...]Show More Summary
Charitable Giving Recovering Faster Than Anticipated – Giving USA
In the latest edition of npVoices, host Steve MacLaughlin interviews Gregg Carlson of the Giving USA Foundation about the 2013 Giving USA report. Giving USA 2013 The latest Giving USA report is fairly encouraging. In 2012, $316 billion was given to charity. This means charitable giving showed a 3.5% increase over 2011. Here’s why Carlson [...]Show More Summary
Developing Your Personal Giving Strategy: A Donor’s Guide to Safe Giving
The tough economy in the wake of the “Great Recession” has made giving tough for many. Add to this the seemingly constant news reports of scam charities ripping off donors, and the joy of giving is practically stolen. I’m creating a guide currently called “Developing Your Personal Giving Strategy” to help you and your donors [...]Show More Summary
What an effective email fundraising subject line!
As a fundraising coach, I take a critical look at fundraising letters and emails. It’s always thrilling to be pleasantly surprised! Last week, I was pleasantly surprised to look in my inbox and see this email subject line: Email subject line: “You made this happen.” Isn’t that a great email subject line?! I couldn’t wait [...]Show More Summary
Content calendar templates for social media
Earlier this week, I wrote on how to jumpstart your year end giving. In it, I mentioned scheduling your social media updates to complement your fundraising letters. Keeping up with your own blog as well as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn can be daunting. Never mind trying to add Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, and others that [...]Show More Summary
3 ways to jumpstart year end giving by planning your fall fundraising now
Nonprofits are making a big mistake when reading studies that show that over 50% of charitable giving happens in December. They are putting off their year end appeals until December! Did you notice that last December? My inbox was flooded with nonprofit emails begging me to give. This is foolish because it’s confusing when donors [...]Show More Summary
An anonymous letter to a nonprofit board member on how to fundraise
This month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival involves writing an anonymous letter to your board. Anything was fair game. Here is my letter. An anonymous letter to a nonprofit board member Dear Jane, Thank you. Thank you so much for giving your time and money to make our world a better place by your work here. You [...]Show More Summary
[Guest Post] Helping board members maximize fundraising effort
Peter Genuardi & I are fellow bloggers for npENGAGE. I finally met him at NTEN’s annual conference a couple months ago. He’s the Founder & CEO of Strenth in Members. He helps organizations build better relationships with their supporters by finding social influencers on their email file and driving them engagement and conversion offers through [...]Show More Summary
Free fundraising tips and ideas in 3 podcasts!
In the past week, I was privileged to be the guest on three terrific podcasts! In each I was asked various aspects of fundraising. Ted Hart’s Nonprofit Radio On Ted’s show, about 15-20 minutes in, we talked about Ask Without Fear! and the ins and outs of major gift fundraising. You can listen in at: [...]Show More Summary
Self talk, body chemistry, and being successful at fundraising
What we say to ourselves can sink our fundraising program. He’s probably not interested. I’m probably bugging her. They get “hit” by everyone so they won’t want to talk to me. When we say things like that, we think we’re being “honest” or “realistic.” But we’re actually creating a self-fulfilling prophesy. These thoughts often physically [...]Show More Summary
Fundraising for ministry support
A couple weeks ago, I gave a series of lectures at the Funding Your Ministry Symposium to over 100 coaches from around the world. These people represented 48 different missionary associations including large organizations like The Navigators, InterVarsity, Cru, YWAM, and Wycliffe. The people they coach are raising their own ministry support. They don’t have [...]Show More Summary
[Guest Post] Using Gallup’s StrengthsFinder to help your board fundraise more effectively
Today it’s my honor to introduce you to John Fulwider. I’m a guy who loves helping people find their strengths and talents. John is the first person I’ve met who teaches nonprofit boards how to use the Gallup StrengthsFinder to find their strengths. He’s a sought-after speaker, especially on nonprofit board and staff development and [...]Show More Summary
Throw statistics out of your fundraising letters!
A couple weeks ago, I was grounded in Newark, NJ so I got to listen to some NJ radio. One ad for a nonprofit caught my attention and then quickly failed. I blogged about it at Does the phrase “tax deductible” kill donations? And I gave some suggestions on how the ad could’ve gotten me [...]Show More Summary
21 Social Media Tips for Nonprofits from Top Experts
I love nonprofits. And I love social media. But nonprofits don’t always “get” social media. While there are few truly firm rules about using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, or any of the other myriad of platforms out there, there are some things that bug donors. So I emailed some of the top authors and social [...]Show More Summary
[Secret Page] Ask Without Fear! DVD & Free Coaching Offer
Now through the end of May 5, we’re offering a free, private coaching session with Marc to with every purchase of the popular Ask Without Fear! DVD! To qualify, you simply need to buy the DVD from this secret page: http://fundraisingcoach.com/dvd/ Hurry, this offer ends at midnight, May 5! (c) The Fundraising Coach, LLC Get [...]Show More Summary
Shame on UNICEF for attacking “slacktivism”
The Chronicle of Philanthropy just posted a note about an article in The Atlantic called “UNICEF Tells Slacktivists: Give Money, Not Facebook Likes.” This really bothers me. How dare we as NGOs or nonprofits command people in how to support us. How dare we berate them for “only” helping their friends know we exist by [...]Show More Summary
Overhead isn’t the issue – and it’s not a fundraising tool
Last week, in my weekly email to Fundraising Kick subscribers, I told them to stop talking about what percent of their budget goes to “overhead.” I won’t go into the entire message I sent, but here’s a summary. You need to know the percentage People are talking about the percentage of a nonprofit’s budget that [...]Show More Summary
Does the phrase “tax deductible” kill donations?
Last night my flight home to Maine was cancelled, presumably due to the manhunt in Boston. So I got to spend more time in NJ. While there, I turned on WDHA, a rock station in New Jersey. In the midst of a commercial break, I heard an add about an organization that helped people get [...]Show More Summary
[Guest Post] Why Donors Stop Giving
I’ve been a fan of Jay Love for years. I even interviewed him for my radio show back in 2008! He gets both databases and effective fundraising. So I asked him if he’d write a post on donor retention. Jay is a serial entrepreneur, the creator of eTapestry and now the creator of Bloomerang a [...]Show More Summary