By Cindy Albert Link and Michelle Hurley When planning a capital campaign, a key approach to ensure its success is creating a thoughtful and compelling donor recognition strategy. In this blog, we explore how to establish the strategy, structure opportunities, discuss campaign-specific milestones, and guide your own recognition levels with a sample chart to offer
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Which gift would accomplish more good for your charity’s mission: $100,000 in cash or the gift of a single-family home valued at the median sales price in your state? In all 50 states your answer should be the gift of real estate. And if commercial property is involved, the decision is not even close. The
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"Making the ask" is at the heart of good fundraising techniques. Simply put, the most common reason why people give is because they were asked.
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As summer approaches and volunteers start to enter “vacation mode,” it’s easy for your organization’s board expectations to fall by the wayside. Beyond their fiscal and governance responsibility, the crux of nonprofit board members’ responsibilities rest in the ability to move the philanthropic needle. Sure, not every board member fancies himself or herself a fundraiser.
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President Joe Biden’s proposed tax changes could impact high-net-worth individuals and their charitable giving choices. While the proposals include increasing the top rate on taxpayers making more than $400,000 and increasing capital gains and dividend tax rates for taxpayers earning more than $1 million annually, these changes have the potential to spur charitable giving by
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Donor Advised Funds (DAF) attracted an unprecedented surge of 2019 philanthropy. More and more individuals—at all giving levels–used this efficient vehicle to advance their philanthropy last year. When DAFs first gained traction, many nonprofits and prognosticators feared their advent would result in fewer and smaller distributions. However, since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of
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With the first month of 2019 behind us, how are your resolutions holding up? For many, the New Year marks time to set intentional goals for personal and professional aspirations.
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As major and mega-gifts continue to rise as a percentage of total giving, there is a growing need to depend on metrics-driven major gift programs.
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