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Using Direct Marketing to Grow Your Planned Giving Pipeline
In 2022, bequests made up 9% of charitable giving, totaling $45.6 billion. By the year 2060, an estimated $84 trillion...
8 Ways to Ace 2025
There is a lot of sobering news in the social impact sector as we wind down 2024. Donor numbers are down, we’re seeing...
Eight Manageable Steps to Major Gift Officer Success
I was pleased to attend the session, Maximizing Major Gift Officer Success: Strategies for Relationship Management....
2022 Giving Tuesday
Impact Communications celebrates #GivingTuesday every year by making donations to social impact causes selected by our...
TNPA Rising Leaders Summit
This September, I had the chance to attend the inaugural Nonprofit Alliance Rising Leaders Summit in New York City....
Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering
We gather. Gatherings take many different forms in our lives from impromptu dinners to weddings to funerals in our...
Getting to Know All About You: Survey Success for People For the American Way
When we ask questions, we learn more information. As fundraisers, we work hard to understand our donors and what...
An Award-Winning Mid-Level Campaign
Donors who write checks for four and five figure gifts are some of your organization’s best and most dedicated donors....
Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter Some Things Are Better Together
Some things just go together well . . . like chocolate and peanut butter. And now, Congress is poised to bring...
#WednesdayWisdom
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
Interviewing With Empathy: How To Reduce Triggering Trauma
The past two and a half years have been exceptionally difficult for everyone. Think about your own experience – where...
Digital Integration for Success
We all know that integrating fundraising channels is becoming increasingly important – the best programs strategically...








