Donor advised funds represent one of the fastest growing vehicles for charitable giving. This blog outlines 5 tips when soliciting to help you maximize this type of funding for your organization.

Your special events can feed your donor pipeline as well, if you do them correctly and if you take steps to carefully and systematically follow up with attendees. Learn three things that you can do to better leverage your special events to raise money throughout the year.

Fund development work relies fundamentally on relationships, and relationships flourish under intentional cultivation rather than chance encounters. Investing time creating a written fund development plan pays dividends through increased revenue, stronger donor relationships, and reduced organizational risk over the coming years. Here are 5 tips to get started!

Is your donor pipeline work maximizing the number of donors who give to your organization to create the foundation needed for effective major gift work? Learn how you can leverage your mail, email, and social media work into an integrated campaign to strengthen that pipeline.

A growing share of nonprofit professionals reports real concerns about burnout. Contrary to popular belief, burnout does not stem solely from long hours or a difficult work environment. This blog post defines the causes of burnout and offers 6 habits to help you build what you need to combat it: fortitude.

What does it mean to develop a real relationship and with whom should you develop those relationships? In today's highly competitive fundraising environment, the relationships you build will help grow and sustain your work much faster than any other way you can spend your time.

While a very serious subject with very real consequences for the nonprofit sector, burnout deserves a laugh before it earns a resignation letter. These 8 tips mix real self-preservation with the kind of dark humor that gets a burned-out staff member through their Tuesday.

Donor stewardship is always important but letting your donors know that you appreciate them and how they make a difference for your mission has become more important than ever in today's highly competitive philanthropic landscape.

A strong grant report accomplishes more than compliance. It demonstrates impact, builds trust, and often opens the door to renewed or increased support. These 8 tips will help you write grant reports that inform, persuade, and strengthen your relationship with funders.

In today's competitive and challenging fundraising environment, what can you do to continue to raise the funds you need and to raise even more money? These three tips will help you meet and even exceed your goal.

The nonprofit community faces two unprecedented threats from the federal government that deserve your attention and your action. Make your voice heard. Every comment counts.

The number one way that you can raise more money? Get out of the office! Go where your donors are and meet them face to face to develop a real relationship.

How do you move your board from operational focus — or disengagement — toward active oversight? Start with these 4 steps.

AI is ubiquitous. So much so that you might feel overwhelmed by the pressure to use it - or not use it. My advice - try it and see how it might help make your work more efficient or effective. If it doesn't, then don't use it. If it does, then find the way that best integrates into your workflow. These 6 ways that we have found AI to help with our grant development work can get you started.

When a legislator visits your organization, having a specific policy can help clearly draw the line between advocating and lobbying by ensuring everyone knows what they can share, who approves it, and how to avoid accidentally misrepresenting the visit, supporting legislation, or endorsing a candidate. The following 12 questions will help you develop your own social media policy specifically for legislative visits or other potentially political content.

Grant reporting often becomes an afterthought to planning and writing the application and the celebration that comes when you receive an award. However, good grant reporting starts long before you start to write your application. Learn how to plan for and ultimately create good grant reports.

A well-planned site visit does more than educate a single legislator. It positions your organization as a credible, reliable resource, the kind of organization a member’s office calls when they need perspective on the issues you know best. That relationship, built one visit at a time, produces better policy for the people you serve. The process of scheduling that visit requires patience and persistence, but it follows a clear path. The following 10 tips will help you navigate it.

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One of the best ways I know to improve your chances of grant success is to contact the funder before you submit an application to develop a relationship with them. Learn four reasons why this is true in this week's Fundraising Friday.

In listening to advice shared at our recent OneTable QC workshop on Advocacy and talking to policymakers and their staff, mostly at the federal level, today's blog post highlights 10 tips for effectively engaging with them to help inspire better policy and improved access to the resources your organization and constituents need to succeed.