Virtuous Nonprofit Blog
5 Responsive Nonprofit Values Your Organization Needs
While the term “responsive nonprofit” may be new to you and your team, the characteristics are hopefully very familiar. The goal of adopting a responsive framework for fundraising and donor connections is not to abandon everything about your current organization. It’s the opposite actually. We want to help you identify and highlight the characteristics that…
How A Clean Donor Database Improves Responsive Fundraising
Can you use all the donor data in your database? Is it accessible, relevant and clean? Why not? If you’re like a lot of development professionals, the state of your data isn’t your fault. You inherited a database from the people who came before you, who might have followed donor database best practices…or might not…
Nonprofit Marketing Isn’t A Bad Thing
Does the word “marketing” make you nervous? When you think about marketing your nonprofit organization, do you feel unqualified or unsure of what you’re supposed to be doing? Does the whole thing feel a little…icky? If so, you may be thinking about nonprofit marketing all it wrong. Marketing your nonprofit isn’t about “selling” your organization,…
Responsive Fundraising: The Nonprofit Growth Trend You Can’t Afford to Ignore
Change is constant. Trends, styles, technologies and cultural norms shift every day. Sometimes it happens suddenly, like the first time you were able to FaceTime your friend on the other side of the country. Remember that feeling? More often, though, it happens slowly. In ways that are harder to notice. One night, your phone updates…
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How to Grow a Nonprofit Organization in 3 Steps
Do you want to grow your nonprofit, but aren’t sure how? Are you finding that your traditional fundraising strategies aren’t delivering like they used to? It’s not just you! The world has changed, and donor expectations, habits and trends have changed with it. This doesn’t mean that nonprofits are doomed. It just means that you’ll…
[PODCAST] Nonprofit Resource and Website Strategies from Stephen Boudreau from Ascendio & Raise Donors
Stephen Bourdreau is the co-founder of Ascendio and RaiseDonors, but he is also an incredible leader and creative thinker. He’s spent years helping nonprofits leverage their websites and other technology to get out of survival mode and start to grow in meaningful ways. Listen to the whole episode here: Key Takeaways Here are the top takeaways from our conversation…
How Nonprofit Operations Teams Are Merging to Reach the Modern Donor
New expectations from modern donors changed more than fundraising strategies. In some cases, entire nonprofit operations teams and cultures evolved to meet the demands. These responsive nonprofits smartly identified that silos were hindering their growth, rather than serving it. Not all organizations have made the shift, however. Many continue to repeat the same tactics, hoping to eventually…
How Reactive & Proactive Donor Engagement Strategies Increase Retention
Responsive fundraising puts the donor at the center of your fundraising and grows giving by personalizing each donors’ journey. Before we can dive in and talk about how you can use proactive and reactive engagement strategies, we must start with what informs how your nonprofit should engage each donor: listening. Listen First Today, the demand for your…
Manage Your Donor Database Migration in 5 Steps
Here’s a fun thing you can do the next time you attend a fundraising conference. Force any nonprofit database admin break into a cold sweat with just three words. What three words, you ask? “Donor database migration.” Yes, a lot of people will tell you horror stories about their experiences with moving to a new…
How to Tell Nonprofit Impact Stories (and Where)
How do you inspire generosity, demonstrate the difference your donors make, and showcase your nonprofit’s work? Tell a story. Storytelling engages the mind and the heart. Research shows that storytelling can impact our brain chemistry, help us learn, and encourage us to care about strangers. Since motivating people to care about strangers is one of…
