Year-End Giving Letter: What a Small Nonprofit Should Send
A good year-end giving letter fits on one page. It thanks the reader for last year, tells one story, names one goal, asks once, and says plainly how to give before December 31.
Year-End Giving Campaign Ideas for a One-Person Nonprofit
If it’s November and your year-end plan is still a sticky note that says “send the letter,” you are in good company.
Christmas Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofit Volunteer Teams
By the first week of November, most small nonprofits have two asks on the calendar already: a Giving Tuesday post and a year-end letter.
Donor Stewardship: A Plan a One-Person Nonprofit Can Run
You raised the money. What you do in the next few weeks decides whether that person ever gives to you again. That work is donor stewardship.
Church Fundraising Ideas That Outlast the Event
Your fall dinner cleared $4,200. The committee is pleased, the kitchen team is wrung out, and somebody has already said the quiet part out loud: we have to do this again next year. That is the honest problem with most church fundraising ideas. They work. They also expire the moment the tables are folded away, […]
Nonprofit Fundraising Ideas That Work Without Staff
Most of the nonprofit fundraising ideas you will find online were written by companies that sell fundraising software. That is not a conspiracy, it is just who has the budget to publish. But it shapes the advice. Those lists quietly assume you have a donor database, a staff member to run the campaign, and a […]
Nonprofit Financial Statements: What Donors and Advisors Should Look For
For many donors, the moment they open a nonprofit’s financials is also the moment things stop feeling particularly charitable. Nonprofit financial statements can suddenly mean net assets, functional expenses, restrictions, liquidity disclosures, and a Form 990 that seems determined to make one simple question—Where did the money go?—much harder than it needs to be. Here […]
What Is a Fundraising Efficiency Ratio? (And Why It Matters When You Give)
You give $100. How much actually helps the cause, and how much gets spent asking someone for the next $100? That is the basic question behind the fundraising efficiency ratio, a metric that looks at how much a nonprofit spends to generate charitable contributions. The short answer is simple arithmetic: divide fundraising expenses by total […]
Nonprofit vs Not-for-Profit: What’s the Difference?
Nonprofit and not-for-profit are interchangeable words; the real line runs between state formation, federal tax exemption and how your organization earns its money.