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Raise More Money for Your Organization: Two Tactics

It costs much less to keep the donors you have than it does to acquire new ones, plain and simple. Of course, knowing that and implementing a fundraising program built on it are two different things. Between our 2013 Nonprofit Communications Trends report and the recent email newsletter survey I conducted, nonprofit communicators still think [...]
  
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Identifying planned-giving donor prospects

By analyzing donor characteristics and gift patterns and scoring prospect data, you can create prospect segments that will be a dynamic, useful and highly effective tool for marketing planned gifts.

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The role of planned giving in a campaign

What the fundraiser wants is cash, but what the donor wants is control of their asset. So a key element to campaign fundraising – or any type of fundraising – is planned giving.

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Planned giving: Lessons from the dead

Planned giving can appear out of reach to many nonprofits, but it's more manageable than you think: Get over your fears, create the right context for the donor, be worthy of the gift and ask.

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Building relationships with professional advisors

With wealthy individuals increasingly turning to professional advisors to help integrate their philanthropy in their overall wealth management, it makes sense for nonprofits to cultivate relationships with donors’ trusted advisers.

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The Three Sentence Rule – Yeah, I Stole It

I have some really smart friends. I get the most amazing stuff in my email box from them. Take this email I got this morning from Claire Meyerhoff, who many of you know as our media relations expert at Nonprofit Marketing Guide. She spent many years in the broadcast news business, including writing news copy [...] More...

New Year’s resolutions for philanthropic gifting

Whether you are new to charitable gifting or a long-time donor, contributions should be made in a manner that not only benefits the charity, but also accomplishes your income and estate tax-planning goals.

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Planned giving in the face of uncertainty

Nadia Yassa, director of estate and gift planning at the Boston Foundation, discusses strategies for planned giving professionals in this new environment of uncertainty.

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Talking with donors about bequests

Given that bequests make up the vast majority of planned gifts, it’s important to understand when and how to launch an effort to solicit these gifts.

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