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Premium Fundraising Courses
Expert Advice: Media in the Midst of Crisis
28 Mins
Marketing guru Phil Cooke shares his expert advice on how to position your brand (your promises to your constituents) during any crisis. Glean practical, easy-to-implement ideas you can execute immediately to amplify your organization’s unique voice.
Expert Advice: Making the Most of Radio as a Development Tool
26 mins
Media expert Paul Goldsmith talks about the often-overlooked but powerful platform of radio in advancing your nonprofit’s mission and your donor base. Learn how to assess if radio might fit into your mix of communications and development platforms.
Expert Advice: Positioning Your Brand Through Challenging Times
45 Mins
Times of unrest and crises are often the best time to make needed changes to how you share your organization’s story and deepen donor relationships. Join Ideation Founder & CEO Charles Lee as he shares the latest thinking and best practices from the frontlines of corporate and nonprofit brand management.
Expert Advice: Distinguishing Your Organization with Key Donors
38 Mins
Distinguishing your organization’s mission is key to attracting and retaining donors. Join Kristin Hammett, Director of Ministry Services at The Signatry, as she shares best practices and easy ways to ensure you’re setting your organization apart in the minds of donors.
Year End Fundraising Toolkit
Building an end-of-year fundraising plan can feel overwhelming. It’s the most important quarter for most nonprofits’ contribution revenue. Build your year end fundraising strategy.
Non-Routine Leadership
43 mins
Leaders are facing an increased need to handle non-routine situations and work. As the complexity of today's nonprofit environment continues to increase, you'll need to learn how to deal with new circumstances. Jeremy Reis discusses non-routine leadership with Alloy CEO Jeff Dickson.
Nurturing Your Donors: Increase Retention with Gratitude
22 minutes
Only 19% of first time donors give a second gift. Donor acquisition is expensive. Learn how to retain more donors through gratitude. Create a welcome series that thanks donors.
Major Donor Engagement
3 hours, 34 mins
Donors Are People Too author and noted fundraising expert Tim Smith teaches you how to cultivate major donor relationships. Learn the secrets to building authentic donor relationships.
Create and Build a Monthly Donor Program
You will learn how to start and grow a monthly donor giving program. Recurring donor programs can be one of your best fundraising tools. Learn how to excel with your monthly giving by Jeremy Reis.
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COURSES TAUGHT BY EXPERIENCED FUNDRAISERS
Fundraising, marketing and leadership courses taught by nonprofit experts excited to share their experience and expertise with you.
Relevant Topics from Experienced Fundraising Professionals and Nonprofit Leaders
Learn relevant and timely information from experienced nonprofit leaders. NonprofitDonor.com courses are designed to teach you how to be a top fundraiser through the highest quality teaching. Learn how to start a major donor program from someone who literally wrote the book on major donor relationships. Learn monthly giving from leaders who have developed multiple monthly giving programs generating millions of dollars of income per month. Learn direct marketing from professionals with over 30 years of experience with dozens of nonprofits. Relevant and timely training from people who have been on the frontlines.
Get Your Questions Answered – in Person
You’ll receive the best recorded training and an opportunity to be coached by the best in the business. For Standard Members, there is a monthly group coaching call open to everyone. You’ll also have access to archives of the calls in case you miss one. Growth Members can attend the monthly group coaching call and also participate in a small group call to have one-on-one help from someone who has been in your shoes. You’ll receive the attention you need and get your questions answered. The opportunity to grow and become a fundraising expert has never been available like this before.
New Courses Each Month
New courses are added every month so you have access to an ever growing library of training. Additionally, get access to premium templates and examples of fundraising appeals, planning tools, and other tools you can use to raise more money to help more people. You’ll also receive access to webinars – discussions with industry leaders about current topics in nonprofit development. All of this is included in your monthly membership to Nonprofitdonor.com. Learn about membership »
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Most Recent Blog Posts
How to Transition Fundraising Events to Virtual Events
For many organizations, the crisis surrounding the spread of the Coronavirus is drastically and negatively impacting our fundraising. For organizations hosting physical fundraising events, many are being forced to cancel the event. Learn how to move a physical fundraising event, such as a race, gala, or fundraising auction, to online.
Episode 34 – How Do We Use an Email Welcome Series to Reduce Donor Attrition?
In this episode of Nonprofit Answers, you will learn a four part email series that will help retain more donors and get that second gift.
50 Calls to Action for Nonprofit Landing Pages
In any fundraising appeal, the call to action is one of the most important pieces to get people to click thru to a landing page and convert. Discover 50 proven calls to action to help your next fundraising campaign.
25 Nonprofit Creative Director Interview Questions
Hiring the right creative director for your nonprofit is crucial for the success of your marketing team. The right creative director understands how fundraising and your nonprofit brand work togetherness her to produce the results you need. These interview questions will help.
4 Steps to Fundraising Testing
Make intelligent decisions about what to test and then get out of the way of the data. Learn how to define your fundraising testing.
Writing a Donor-Focused President’s Letter
Sending a President's Letter (or Executive Director's Letter) at the beginning of the year helps donors know the impact they made in the previous year. It's a wonderful engagement tool and a way for donors to feel gratitude for what their donation accomplished. With an example letter!
Most Recent Podcasts
Episode 36 – 10 Tips for Successful Year End Fundraising
For many nonprofits, year end fundraising is crucial for success. As a fundraiser, this can also be a stressful time of year. In this episode, we explore ten tips to making your year end fundraising a success! Learn everything from planning to follow up.
Episode 33 – How Will the Election Season Impact Nonprofits?
The election season is upon us in the US. How will this impact fundraising? Explore how the election will impact your nonprofit and what you can do about it.
Episode 32 – Should We Move All of Our Communications to Digital?
Learn about which communications make sense for digital and how other channels still have a place in your communications plan in this episode of the Nonprofit Answers podcast.
Episode 31 – Setting Annual Fundraising Goals to Meet Your Strategy
Your nonprofit organization’s strategy determines the direction of where your organization is headed and the scope of what you’ll do. It is the thing that determines what your limited resources will accomplish for your beneficiaries, donors, and other stakeholders. How do you create goals to help you achieve your strategy?
Episode 30 – How to Say Thanks to Your Donors
Demonstrating gratitude to your donors may be your most important job as a fundraiser. Why? A happy donor gives a second, third, and fourth time. A well thanked donor tells their friends. Learn creative ways to thank your donors.
Episode 29 – Secrets to Effective Event Fundraising
At Food for the Hungry, we acquire tens of thousands of monthly donors each year from events. In this episode, you'll learn how we structure a sponsored event for the best possible outcome: a new monthly donor. Learn the format for the event, how to do an effective fundraising, and how to integrate volunteers.