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Best Practice in Action: Getting creative with your fundraising ideas

Best Practice in Action: Getting creative with your fundraising ideas

Our “Best Practices in Action” series highlights fundraising tips nonprofit organizations can share with their own supporters. We’ve highlighted a story about the Down Syndrome Associate of Greater St. Louis to help illustrate an important idea. It started with a bet Sometimes the best fundraising strategy is creativity. We learned this first hand back in [...]

Best Practice in Action: Reminding your supporters to promote their fundraising pages

Best Practice in Action: Reminding your supporters to promote their fundraising pages

  Our “Best Practices in Action” series highlights fundraising tips nonprofit organizations can share with their own supporters. Sometimes all your supporters need is a little reminder. See how this concept has helped the Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies in the past. Remind your fundraisers to send out an email about their fundraising pages A [...]

Best Practices in Action: Suggest a fundraising goal or minimum to your supporters

Best Practices in Action: Suggest a fundraising goal or minimum to your supporters

Our “Best Practices in Action” series highlights fundraising tips nonprofit organizations can share with their own supporters. Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a fundraiser. You’ve just registered online for your favorite nonprofit’s fundraising event and have set up a FirstGiving fundraising page for the first time. At this point, you might find yourself wondering, [...]

Best Practice in Action: Communicate easy set up of personal fundraising pages

Best Practice in Action: Communicate easy set up of personal fundraising pages

  Our “Best Practices in Action” series highlights fundraising tips nonprofit organizations can share with their own supporters. Today’s post illustrates the importance of showing your supporters how easy it can be to set up their own personal fundraising page. Show your fundraisers how easy it is to create a fundraising page The Front Row Foundation gives athlete fundraisers across the United States the opportunity to raise money online [...]

Best Practice in Action: Recognize your top fundraisers

Best Practice in Action: Recognize your top fundraisers

  Our “Best Practices in Action” series highlights fundraising tips nonprofit organizations can share with their own supporters. Today’s post focuses on recognizing your most effective fundraisers. Doing so boosts moral, inspires a little friendly competition, and provides examples for others to emulate as well. Recognize your top fundraisers The Front Row Foundation has built a strong community of athlete-fundraisers. [...]

Best Practice in Action: Sharing your fundraising tips with your supporters

Best Practice in Action: Sharing your fundraising tips with your supporters

  Our “Best Practices in Action” series highlights fundraising tips nonprofit organizations can share with their own supporters. Today’s post highlights the importance of sharing your own fundraising tips with your nonprofit supporters. Encourage your supporters to fundraise As an example, here’s a tip the Autism Center of Tulsa use when they begin contacting their supporters about joining [...]

Best Practice in Action: How your fundraisers can effectively ask for donations

Best Practice in Action: How your fundraisers can effectively ask for donations

  Our “Best Practices in Action” series highlights fundraising tips your organization can share with your supporters. Today’s post focuses on ten easy donation suggestions that any supporter can use. How to inspire your supporters to actively fundraise AIDS Walk Kansas City wants to make it as easy as possible for their walk participants to reach their fundraising goals. [...]

Fundraising Best Practice in Action: Raise your fundraising goal – FirstGiving’s CEO

Fundraising Best Practice in Action: Raise your fundraising goal – FirstGiving’s CEO

As an individual fundraiser, you want to do everything you can to maximize your impact. Raising your fundraising goal is a proven fundraising best practice that is sure to maximize your total donations. This ensures that you and your network are always “pushing” for that near sited goal. CEO Karsten Robbins’ Movember fundraising success Our [...]

Nonprofit fundraising best practices: December 18–Help your supporters communicate their fundraising efforts

POLAR PLUNGE

Today we bring you another installment in our series of fundraising Best Practices in Action.  This week’s Best Practice is. . . Give your supporters resources to help them communicate about their fundraising. It’s Polar Plunge season, and our friends at Special Olympics Florida are getting ready to take the plunge. Matthew Levy, VP of [...]

This week's fundraising Best Practice in Action

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Today we bring you another nonprofit fundraising Best Practice in Action from our weekly  series. Each week, we’ll highlight an organization that has done an incredible job of promoting its online fundraising efforts with FirstGiving and show you how to do the same. This week’s Best Practice is. . . Set a fundraising minimum and [...]