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A Small Guide to Large Gifts: How to Attract Major Donors
Minor office drama can illustrate fundamental truths about fundraising. You’ve lost your stapler. Again. If you email folks in the surrounding cubes, odds are good that several of them will offer a...
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The Stacked Fundraising Deck: What Are the Warning Signs?
David sat back with a satisfied sigh. In another week he and his organization were going to celebrate real victory! Because of his work and management of a capital campaign, the goal of nearly $10...
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New Roth IRAs Rules and Charitable Giving – Opportunities?
The fundraising world has to take notice when new laws impact trillions (yes, trillions) of dollars of the savings of potential donors. This is exactly the situation with the new 2010 Roth IRA...
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Fundraising with The Raiser’s Edge: A Non-Technical Guide
This book is just what it says, a helpful tool with supportive guides for the average fundraiser who is not necessarily the IT person on the team. Author Bill Connors, not surprisingly, has several...
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Effective Telephone Fundraising: the Ultimate Guide to Raising More Money
I’m no more fond than most people of being solicited by phone at home, but I must confess that certain callers do keep me on the line longer and a really effective one will succeed in getting me to...
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Avoiding The ‘Quick Fix’ Syndrome in Development
Patrick often conducted workshops or training sessions for various types of practitioners. He did this as part of his affiliation with an educational institution and also as a consultant. This was an...
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New Blackbaud Charity Index Shows Growth in Giving
Will an index replace an estimate? That may be the question with the release of Blackbaud’s new Index of Charitable Giving, hot on the heels of this year’s Giving USA estimate of charitable giving in...
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Turning Fundraising Nightmares Into Dreams
Susan wasn’t new to the role of development director. Unfortunately while in this role for the past four years she saw her job expectations increase, the resources did not. When she joined the staff of...
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Winning the Hearts and Minds of Donors
Image by cmpalmer via Flickr With nonprofits looking at the crucial giving season in the last quarter of a very difficult year, fundraisers are keenly appraising what motivates donors, especially that...
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Financing Human Services: Philanthropy Finds a New Role
Following the worst economic downturn in recent history, the human services funding landscape is shifting. For those organizations largely dependent on government support, the situation can be...
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