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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....
Where is all the paper?
It is true. We are all feeling the pinch…at home and at the office. And the paper crisis feels like the toilet paper...
#WednesdayWisdom
"The next time you write a new thing, delight in the rolls and wrinkles of your infant words. Celebrate those...
Wiser Words: To “Empower” Is Dangerous
“The notion of empowerment presumes that the organization has the power and benevolently ladles some of it into the...
Don’t Follow Donations with Silence
During the 2022 Nonprofit Technology Conference, Patty Breech, Founder and CEO of The Purpose Collective led an...
Building Cross-Channel Relationships
Data continues to show that multi-channel donors are the most valuable. They give larger amounts and more frequently...
Promoting CGAs doesn’t cost a lot
The lingering economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have left many people feeling less secure about the future. If...
Continued Challenges Ahead for Direct Mail Fundraising
What is H.R. 9495? If passed, this bill would give the Treasury Department the power to revoke a non-profits’...
#WednesdayWisdom
"Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives." - Michelle Obama
#WednesdayWidsom
"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." -Ruth Bader...