As we said in Measuring Overall Fundraising Performance, net income is a better indicator of monies raised than gross income. Net income takes into account the costs associated with raising the funds while gross income doesn’t. You can increase net income by either increasing your revenues or dec...

In What Foundation Reviewers Want to Know, Asked or Not we discovered the eight questions grant reviewers want answered. Grant Writing: Answering the Question What Need Will You Meet? gave us insight into how to describe the needs our program meets. Grant Writing: Answering the Question How Will ...

It’s the last month of the year. There’s just one month to go to bring in that last bit of money and increase those 2020 fundraising results. What are the things that you can still do to improve your fundraising performance? What can you do now that will improve 2020 results and put you on the pa...

It’s December 23, 2019. It’s probably slow at your office, with many of your co-workers or employees off for the holidays. I always liked being in the office during this time. I liked the fact that I had more time than usual to concentrate on improving my year-end fundraising results and looking ...

It’s the last month of the year. There’s just one month to go to bring in that last bit of money and increase those 2019 fundraising results. What are the things that you can still do to improve your fundraising performance? What can you do now that will improve 2019 results and put you on the pa...

Every fundraiser knows to thank their donors after donations come in. But how many fundraisers actually do it? Sadly, not many. Try making seven $10 donations to seven organizations new to you and see how many thank you acknowledgements you get. Now count how many you get within two to three days...