Scoring Big: Donor Stewardship and Football – A Team Approach to Success
When we discuss stewardship, acknowledgments and reporting are usually the first items that come to mind. Similarly, when people think...
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4 Steps To Improve Your Scholarship Fund Management
By Avery Howard In donor relations, specifically in higher education, fund utilization is always a topic that brings forth much...
Stewardship and Annual Giving: They Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly
By Melissa Carrera Why do peanut butter and jelly go together so well? The salt of the peanuts and the sweet jelly blend together...
Your Reporting Chore List: Top 3 Summer To-Dos
First, let’s all pat ourselves on our backs – we all survived the spring…events, commencements, maybe even budgeting season and...
5 Ideas for Better Online Donor Stewardship
By Jay Love, Co-Founder and current Chief Relationship Officer at Bloomerang Turning first-time donors into recurring supporters is...
Fund Audits and Spring Gardening: Time to Gather and Grow
By Jan McGuire Ah, Spring! How we anticipate its arrival each year after the dreary days of winter. We emerge from layers of sweatpants...
Tackling Scholarship Legality: 3 Things You Need to Know
By Sarah E. Sims Addressing the nuances around scholarship legality can be daunting to anyone, but especially when we are facing...
The Best Donor Impact Reports and Communications We've Seen Lately
By Angie Joens At the DRG Group, one of our goals each year is to learn something new. We do this in a variety of ways—reading or...
Do Not Pass Go: 3 Must Haves for a Successful Naming Program
By Sarah Sims The phrase “naming opportunity” can give even the most seasoned development professional heart palpitations and cold...
7 Steps to Transform First-Time Donors Into Loyal Supporters
By Holly Kizer You get one chance to convert a first-time donor into a lifetime supporter. Think of it like a first date, you want to put...
Impact Reporting: Using Data Visualization to Demonstrate Who Gets What
By Sarah Sims The term “impact report” is very nebulous in our profession and used in just about every context. There are many...
Gift Agreements: Is it Legal, Possible, Practical?
By Jan McGuire What do we mean when we raise the question, is it legal, possible, or practical? Cue the Law & Order theme music—we're...
8 Ways to Surprise & Delight the Donor Who Has Everything
By Holly Kizer Sailing the world, designer handbags, vacation homes—how can we show our major gift donors our appreciation when they...
The Future of the Nonprofit Annual Report is Digital
Guest post by Josh Kligman at Yearly Ten million nonprofits worldwide can't be wrong - producing an annual report to show your community...
How to Create a Digital Impact Report (with samples)
Special thanks to Gina Parente and Brandeis International Business School for sharing their team's brilliant work and the process behind...
The 7 Emails You Should Be Sending After a 1st Time Gift
Guest post by Jess Campbell Us nonprofits? We’ve got a major problem. I’m talking HUGE. Want to know what it is? While we are coming off...
5 Key Elements of Your Endowment Report
By Sarah Sims Many of us are gearing up for annual endowment reporting season, and now is the time to be making strategic decisions about...
Feeling Lucky: Tips to Finally Getting Those Narrative Reports
By Sarah Sims When it comes to endowment reporting, impact reporting, or general impact storytelling, we can often feel very “unlucky”...
The Keys to Powerful Endowment Reporting
Written by Jan McGuire Endowment Reporting. These two words alone can cause you to sit up a little straighter or cringe with angst....
Which is more important- Recognition or Impact?
By Lynne Wester Let’s face it, as this pandemic goes on, time seems endless and it's groundhog day for many of us. But in reality it is...
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