Our End-of-Year Fundraising Planning Template gives you a practical August–December roadmap to help you set your goals, build your campaign calendar, prepare your messaging, engage your donors, and stay on track through the last days of the year.
It’s the same story every year: when summer’s in full swing, fundraisers start focusing on year-end. But before you dust off last year’s segmentation spreadsheet, I want to focus on those that keep getting quietly deprioritized — your mid-level and lower-dollar donors.
If summer’s just begun, it’s time for Giving USA and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University to share its data on U.S. philanthropy.
May is a pivotal month for board engagement—setting the tone for whether your board enters summer aligned and proactive or loses momentum heading into year-end fundraising.
New newsletter; New Client Spotlight; In Focus: Thank You; Fundraising Workshop; What´s On
How to create a campaign planning study to identify top prospects, leadership volunteers, define your goals, and ultimately help you plan how to proceed.
The Takeaway on Giving Tuesday; Fundraising Training Workshop; and Resources in Focus.
Prospect research is often treated as a box to check or simply a list to generate. In practice, it is something far more consequential. It is the first moment of a donor relationship.
New Blog Post: Stewardship January; New Client Spotlight; Giving Tuesday; Resource Roundup
Fundraising at its core is about relationships. But in the Age of AI, when many fundraisers are seeking to boost productivity and meet ever-increasing expectations, donor acknowledgements are one area that’s evolving.
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