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If you rely on fundraising to serve your constituents, or if like an increasing number of nonprofit organizations you are turning to fundraising in addition to grant awards, are you prepared in the areas that experts believe are key?
Rich Dietz (senior product manager for Abila) shared his five key strategies for fundraising organizations in 2015:
“The nonprofit sector must continue to evolve and keep pace with behavioral changes we see in society,” said Dietz. Organizations that embrace new ways of thinking, streamline their databases, create visual stories, and adjust their engagement approaches will be successful.”
More of Rich’s thoughts can be found in the full Nonprofit Times article.
In serving nonprofits in Washington State and throughout the Western United States, we’ve observed the same factors for success. We’d add a sixth element: invest in a true fund accounting software solution to track your fund whether grants or donations or both. The better your fund accounting system, the better you can respond to reporting requests – from grantors, donors, internal constituents or your board. Welter Consulting helps you with the purchase and implementation of your Abila MIP Fund Accounting software so that you can report quickly, easily and directly from the system itself (no need for creating yet another spreadsheet).
We’ve helped many organizations in Washington, Oregon, California, Montana and beyond who believed that they were too small to be able to afford a solution like Abila MIP Fund Accounting. We found a configuration and technology platform that met their needs. So whether you are a large nonprofit in Seattle or Portland, or a small nonprofit in Helena or Coeur d’Alene – Welter Consulting can help.
As part of our commitment to nonprofits regardless of size or location, we offer the Nonprofit Enrichment Series. These online webcasts are held monthly and free of charge to nonprofit organizations – click here for a complete listing.
Any nonprofit organization has to be adept at fundraising if they are to stay successful. With so many organizations competing for donors, how do you set yourself apart from the crowd? Here are some easy ways to maximize your fundraising efforts in order to ensure the success of your nonprofit.
1. Make personal contact
While sending potential donors an email is easy to do, you can never guarantee that they will actually open it, much less read it. Not only that, but computer-generated emails lack a personal touch, and can be off-putting to some. In order to make people feel special, reach out to them with a personal note, phone call or visit so they won’t wind up feeling like just another number to you.
2. Share the Passion
There’s got to be something special about your group; otherwise, people will be unwilling to donate to it in the first place. Think about the reasons why your nonprofit exists, and then attempt to relay your group’s goals and visions to potential donors. If possible, provide people with some evidence of your good works so that they can feel personally connected to the work you do, and this will make them more likely to want to donate.
3. Follow up
You may encounter people who claim that donating right now is not appropriate for one reason or another. Be sure to make a list of these people so that you can follow up with them later. By doing so, you will pick up donations that might otherwise have slipped through the cracks, not to mention the fact that you will also continue getting the word out about your organization to others.
If you keep these ideas in mind, your fundraising efforts will be more successful than ever. To find out more about how to maximize your fundraising endeavors, contact us.
Your nonprofit is always considering their bottom-line, and how your organization can benefit from fundraising. However, when the holidays are around the corner does your nonprofit stop and consider community members who may not be able to afford a turkey and all the trimmings for Thanksgiving? Or that nearby families they are grasping at straws in trying to figure out how they can provide for their family a wonderful Christmas. They don’t know how they can pay all of their bills let alone purchase presents for their family members.
Fundraising is not always about furthering your mission and your incoming revenue. Around the holidays consider fundraising for members of your community. To begin your fundraising project organize a meeting with all of your upper management. Discuss how your organization can come together and raise funds for the community. Ask them to discuss the fundraising project with their departments. Then plan a meeting in the next 7 days to begin your project.
While your organization is gathering ideas, consider doing the following projects:
Once your organization discusses the community service project and decides on a fundraising project, the next step is getting the employees involved. Send an email to all employees describing your community service project. List the dates that your organization will be collecting funds. Put the project in your company newsletter to ensure that all employees are notified of the fundraising project and have time to donate to the project.
During any other time of year, it is logical for your organization to focus solely on collecting revenue and your mission, but during the holidays a fundraising campaign to benefit the community is a fresh change of pace, and rejuvenates your employees.
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