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Win Back Your Lapsed Donors: 3 Effective Strategies
Your nonprofit knows that every one of your donors is important to helping you continue your good work and achieve your mission. As soon as they’ve made their first gifts, hopefully you work hard to build your relationships with each of them, but that’ …
NextGen Nexus: The New Face of Philanthropy, Courtesy of Young America
I am often warning nonprofits looking to engage young people against putting too much emphasis on giving and social media. Research I have led has shown—and continues to show—that while your next generation of supporters donate and use social media to …
3 Online Fundraising Tips for Small Nonprofits
There’s regular fundraising, and then there’s small shop fundraising. Raising money when you’re limited to a very small fundraising staff presents some unique obstacles that aren’t typically faced by larger organizations. Thankfully, online fundraising …
Three Things We Know About Engaging Millennials in Your Cause
I’ve studied how millennials engage with nonprofits and social causes for more than 10 years—a decade in which young leaders have revolutionized cause engagement. The way young America today approaches injustices is unlike that of their parents’ genera …
Some Say Fundraising Is Just Sales: They’re Wrong!
Early in my 30-plus year career in the philanthropic arena, I was looking for a major gifts officer for a reproductive health clinic in Los Angeles. Of the many résumés I received, one was from a candidate with ten years of solid experience—but for eig …
Fundraising for “Friends of” Organizations
Work your advantages as a “Friend of,” and your fundraising efforts will have you feeling like the cat’s pajamas!
Why You May Need to Delete Half of Your Email List
When Facebook changes its news feed algorithms, it’s all nonprofit communicators talk about. But much more important changes are underway elsewhere: Over the last few years, big email providers like Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo! have been changing the lin …
Finding Your Voice As a Nonprofit
In these tumultuous political times, the nonprofit community has started asking important questions: What is our responsibility to speak out on behalf of our staff, clients, and community? How do we advocate for them without violating our 501(c)(3) sta …
Resources of many kinds: What is American Nonprofits and what can it do for you?
Here at Blue Avocado, we work hard to bring you the most relevant and practical information for small to medium-sized nonprofits. But we couldn’t do this work without our parent organization and publisher, American Nonprofits (AN). Working together to …
Lide Haiti: Helping women and girls help Haiti
The Lidè Foundation provides instruction in the arts and literacy to over 550 adolescent girls at a dozen locations in rural Haiti.
