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Kristen Hay

Kristen Hay
Kristen Hay is the Senior Marketing Manager at Bloomerang. From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. Prior to that, she served on several committees and in committee chair roles.

Posts from Kristen Hay

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Bloomerang Launches Journey Automation To Help Nonprofits Raise More—Without Doing More

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Bloomerang Report Reveals Gap Between Fundraising Events and Donor Preferences

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Bloomerang and Daxko Empower Nonprofits to Raise More with Powerful Integration

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Meals on Wheels America Adds First Giving Platform, Bloomerang, to Trusted Vendor Roster

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Bloomerang’s Inaugural Conference, GiveCon, Honors Nonprofit Excellence and Advances Fundraising Innovation

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Bloomerang Report Shows Gap Between Donor Expectations and Nonprofit Actions, Highlights What Inspires Giving

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Bloomerang Launches First-of-its-Kind Giving Statements Feature to Inspire Ongoing Generosity

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Bloomerang Clients Raised A Record $56M On GivingTuesday

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Key Insights For Nonprofits From The AI Equity Project 2024

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Bloomerang’s Generational Giving Report Reveals Digital Wallets Surpass Checks for Charitable Donations

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Bloomerang Appoints Eileen Wiens as Chief Sales Officer

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Bloomerang Launches Groundbreaking AI Content Assistant for Nonprofit Communications

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Bloomerang’s non-profits increase year-on-year donations by 20% using Bloomerang Payments and Stripe

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AFP Announces Continued Strategic Partnership With Bloomerang

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Bloomerang Secures Strategic Investment from Leading Private Equity Firm Warburg Pincus to Accelerate Delivery of First Giving Platform

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Bloomerang Acquires Qgiv To Help Nonprofits Raise More Funds To Deliver Their Mission

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Bloomerang Appoints Jennifer Ruth as Chief Customer Officer

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Bloomerang Supercharges Event Fundraising for Nonprofits with its Tap to Pay Solution

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Kishshana Palmer Of Bloomerang On The Digital Divide and Why & How We Should Close It

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Bloomerang Launches Bloomerang Volunteer to Expand Nonprofits’ Relationships with Supporters

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Google Alerts for Your Nonprofit:

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Your Best Fundraising Era Yet: What Your Nonprofit Can Learn From Taylor Swift’s Marketing Strategy

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Seeking a Sponsor for Your Nonprofit Event or Program: A Q&A With Mariah Monique

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Bloomerang Acquires InitLive to Help Nonprofits Strengthen their Volunteer Management Programs

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Bloomerang Appoints Dennis Fois as CEO to Lead Next Phase of Growth

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What’s Good? Leanne Fan, A Middle School Student, Invents Headphones That Detect Ear Infections

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Bloomerang Accelerates Nonprofits’ Ability to Keep Fundraising and Financial Operations in Harmony

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Bloomerang Appoints Tommy Vacek As Chief Technology Officer

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Bloomerang Appoints Sonia Clark As Chief People Officer

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What Is Bad Data Really Costing Your Organization?

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Bloomerang Appoints Karen Maloney As Chief Customer Officer

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AFP Announces New Strategic Partnership With Bloomerang

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Bloomerang Named A Leader In The G2 Summer 2022 Grid® Report For Nonprofit CRM Software

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Bloomerang Delivers A More Holistic Approach To Fundraising On The Go With Data Fundraisers Can Trust

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Bloomerang Named As One Of The Midwest’s Best Enterprise Software Companies

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Bloomerang Named a Leader in the G2 Spring 2022 Mid-Market Grid® Report for Fundraising

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Bloomerang Appoints Tammy Hammond and Steve Byrnes to the Executive Leadership Team

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

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Art and Science of Volunteer Development

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A Case Study in Tripling Fundraising Results

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The Case for Integrated Nonprofit Planning

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How to Launch a Small Shop Planned Giving Program

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Be More Productive, Powerful & Persuasive with Board, Staff & Donors

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Ensuring Effective Nonprofit Board Meetings

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Women and Giving: Meaningful Approaches and Stewardship

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Create And Run Your First Really Big Fundraising Campaign

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How To Find And Get Grants

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Street Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Young Professionals and Junior Boards: Beyond the Kid’s Table to Meaningful Engagement

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Face to Face with a Donor Prospect for the First Time

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The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

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The Risk of Underinvesting in Fundraising

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How to Manage Your Nonprofit’s Communications for Great Results

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DonorSearch Announces Partnership and Integration With Bloomerang

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Nonprofit Silent Auction Strategies That Increase Revenue

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Sample Recruitment Process and Procedures and Screening Interview

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Beware of Bigfoot: Appreciating Donor Differences

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How To Leverage Social Media on #GivingTuesday

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Year-End Fundraising Campaign Marketing and Messaging Tips

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Best Practices for Nonprofit Photography

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3 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Create an Earned Media Plan

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3 Ways Nonprofits Can Leverage the Power of Stories before December 31st

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Major Donor Stewardship: Strategies That Build Lasting Relationships With Your Most Significant Givers

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3 Steps To Closing $10K+ Gifts By December 31

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Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

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Why You Should Ditch The Way You’ve Been Doing Strategic Planning

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5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

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Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

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Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

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Get More Grants With Donor Cultivation

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Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle: Grant Seeking Lessons and Pro Tips from the Field

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How to Get a Return on Your Nonprofit Technology Investment

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Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

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Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

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4-Step Plan to More Donations and Greater Fundraising Results

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Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

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Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

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The Early Bird Guide to Epic End of Year Fundraising

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How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

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The Science of Philanthropic Psychology

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Building a Better Grants Strategy Post-COVID

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How To Know If Your Fundraising Staff Is Leaving Money On The Table

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How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

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Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

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Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

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How to Overcome Fear, Intimidation and Imposter Syndrome to Raise More Money

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First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

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You’ve Been Let Go From Your Nonprofit Job – Now What?

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Where to Find Potential Donors to Support Your Cause

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Best Practices for Recurring Donor Acquisition

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How to Tap Into Gen Y & Z Donors

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Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

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The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

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Emerging Trends in Nonprofit Social Media Marketing

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Using the Agile Framework in Fundraising Teams

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7 Steps to a Strong Nonprofit Back Office

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COVID One Year Later: What Have We Learned About Fundraising?

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Syncing Your Fundraising Career With Your Personal Values

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Digital Wellness for Fundraisers in a Remote World

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More Clicks and More Gifts Through Effective Storytelling

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The Productive Executive Director: 3 Things You’re Over Complicating

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Nonprofit Boards Members and Their Asking Styles – a Roadmap to Success

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Storytelling To Help Donors Understand the Value of their Dollar

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The Strength of Mentorship for Nonprofit Professionals

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It’s Not Either/Or – Raising Money with an Anti-Racist Approach

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Come Together – The Road to Nonprofit Merger Success

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How to Prepare a Grants Strategy During Uncertain Times

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Legacy Giving – How to Get the Right Balance for Your Donors

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Email Writing Quick Wins to Raise More Money in December

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7 Steps to Getting Grant Funding

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Silent Auction Acknowledgement / Thank You Letter Template

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Impact of Development Planning on Fundraising Success

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Cultural Competence for Nonprofits

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Donors, Data Privacy & Security, and Doing What’s “Right”

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Personalized Communications: The Key To Donor Retention

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Nonprofit Budgeting: How to Build Your Roadmap to Growth and Impact

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Nonprofit Partnership Models for Lasting Change

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Attracting and Retaining Diverse Board Members

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Steward & Cultivate Major Donors in a Virtual World

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A Design Thinking Process for Nonprofits

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Training Your Nonprofit Board To Confront Racial Inequity

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Take Your Fundraising Event Virtual

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How To Successfully Onboard New Subscribers To Your Nonprofit E-Newsletter

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The Survey That Will Supercharge Your Fundraising

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Acquire New Donors and Create an Engaging Donor Journey

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Stewardship is the Strategy

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Legacy Fundraising Reporting and Key Performance Indicators

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18 Copywriting Tips for Nonprofits

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#GivingTuesdayNow Social Media Tips, Tricks, and Strategies

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10 Google Analytics Hacks For Fundraisers

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Real Conversations With Major Donors

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Building Your Nonprofit’s Communications Engine

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Best Practices on Engaging and Keeping Your Monthly Donors

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How to Run an Online Event And Engage More People Virtually

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Grant Writing Templates That Save Time

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12 Questions You Can Ask Donors AFTER They Say Yes

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Demystifying Donor Advised Funds (DAFs)

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Nonprofit Budgeting Made Simple

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Build a Thriving Mid-Level Giving Program

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Creating a Major Gift Relationship Action Plan

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How to Create an Effective Legacy Case Statement

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Creating A 12-Month Donor Engagement Plan

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Major Gift Fundraising on a Shoestring Budget

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Is There A Grant For My Nonprofit?

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8 Expert Tips To Raise $10K+ On Facebook

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Charitable Solicitation: What Does It Take To Be Compliant?

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10 Ways to Improve Donor Retention with Social Media

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The Fundraising Myth That Should Scare You the Most

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Effective Ways to Engage Young Donors

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Grow Your Nonprofit’s Revenue Above $1M For The First Time

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Fundraising Event Sponsors: How to Find Them & Create a Win-Win

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Fail-Proof Digital Fundraising Ideas That Will Raise At Least $10,000

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Nonprofit Storytelling with Financials

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How to Survive Nonprofit Founder’s Syndrome

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A beginner’s guide to moves management for nonprofits

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How to Maximize Mid-Level Giving

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Year-End Fundraising and How You Can Cut Through the Clutter Online

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Sample Gift Agreement Template

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Employee Turnover: The One Thing Keeping Your Nonprofit Stuck

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Jumpstarting Your Calendar Year-End Fundraising

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Developing a Marketing Plan for Your Monthly Giving Program

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Essential Change Management Skills for Every Nonprofit CEO

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How to Do a Strategic Nonprofit SWOT Analysis

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Legacy Giving Essentials: How to Build a Bequest Program

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How To Be Confident For Your Next Big Donor Meeting

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Donor Stewardship That Tells a Story

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3 Ways to STAND OUT and Win the Grant!

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Surviving a Nonprofit Rebrand (and Living to Tell the Tale)

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Building a Foundation for Digital Fundraising Success

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The Value of Nonprofit Succession Planning

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Top 5 Questions Aspiring Nonprofit Consultants Ask

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5 Ways to Keep Your Monthly Donors

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How to Create a Happy Nonprofit Fiscal Sponsorship Relationship

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How Savvy Marketing Translates to More Donations

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12 First Principles of Fundraising

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Which Leadership Style is Best for Your Nonprofit Fundraising?

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Developing Effective Nonprofit Partnership Agreements

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How to Build a High-Performing Major Gifts Program

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Creating a Powerful Capital Campaign Case for Support

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Charitable Solicitation Compliance 101

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Cases for Support that Excite, Inspire and Ignite your Donors

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The Delicate Art of Marketing Fundraising Bequests

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How To Amp Up Your Fundraising Appeal’s Persuasive Power

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The State of Recurring Giving in the Nonprofit Sector

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Beginner’s Guide to Corporate Matching Gifts

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How To Find Your Nonprofit’s Money Story

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Donor Intimacy Survey Template

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Donor Satisfaction Survey Template

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Donor Trust Survey Template

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Donor Commitment Survey Template

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How to Design a No-Fail Capital Campaign

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5 Trends Shaping a New Reality for Nonprofits

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Digital PR Basics for Nonprofits

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The Secret Thing That Is Holding You Back In Your Nonprofit Career

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Don’t Waste Your Nonprofit’s Annual Report

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How Nonprofits Can Attract, Cultivate, and Wow Corporate Sponsors

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Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Policy Template

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45 Digital Fundraising Examples in 45 Minutes

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How to Maximize Offline Fundraising Events in an Online World

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Sample Gift Acceptance Policy Template

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How #DonorLove Connects Annual and Legacy Fundraising

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Creating Scalable Fundraising Systems for Your Nonprofit

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What To Do When Your Boss Won’t Let You Do Fundraising the Right Way

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Simple Development Systems Every Fundraiser Can Use

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Donor-Delighting, Money-Raising Newsletters

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How To Get Donors To A Yes

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5 Key Metrics for Building a Pipeline of Major Donors

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Why Good Gratitude Boosts Retention, Loyalty and Engagement

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Supercharge Your Major Gift Program in 20 Minutes a Day

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Storytelling 101 for Fundraisers

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Customizing Year-End Donor Appreciation and Recognition

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How to Build a Strong Culture of Philanthropy

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Last-Minute Strategies for Year-End Giving

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First-Time Donor Communication Plan Template

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The Secrets to Donor-Centered Major Gift Fundraising

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Developing Your Nonprofit’s Case for Support

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Nonprofit Earned and Paid Media Impressions Tracking Templates

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How to Align Your Nonprofit’s Brand and Programs

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Anatomy of a Successful Fundraising Appeal

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Soliciting Bequests Using Direct Marketing Techniques

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Nonprofit Pledge Card Template

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Pledge Card Template

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Digital Copywriting Tips for Fundraisers from Tom Ahern

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Roundup: Fundraising In The Wake Of A Disaster

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Convert Supporters with Powerful Landing Pages

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What To Do In The Year Before Your Capital Campaign

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Recruiting Passionate Ambassadors for Your Mission

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Excel Fundraising Event Template

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Excel Donation Spreadsheet Template

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How to Think Like a Donor in 1 Hour

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Packaging Program Into Donor Offers

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Nonprofit Earned Media Plan Template

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Identifying, Applying for and Managing Grant Funds

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Ultimate Guide to Nonprofit Instagram

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Think Bigger and Get Bolder with Your Nonprofit Growth

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Engaging Your Board as Champions, not Just Fundraisers

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7 Creative Content Ideas For Your Nonprofit Blog Or Newsletter

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13 Nonprofit Thank You Mistakes to Avoid

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What Your Nonprofit Communications Plan Should Look Like

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Gift Planning for Gen X and Gen Y Donors

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[RESEARCH] What Makes For A Truly Great Fundraising Event?

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The 7 Lessons of #DonorLove

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5 Steps to Nonprofit Public Relations Mastery

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Missionizing Your Special Fundraising Events

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4 Writing Strategies Every Fundraiser Should Know

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Nonprofit Health and Sustainability Benchmark Survey

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5 Ways to Get Your Nonprofit Press Release to Stand Out

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Capital Campaigns: Best Practices, Common Mistakes

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3 Secrets to Raising Major Gifts You Can’t Survive Without

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7 Steps to a Simple, Successful Fundraising Plan

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Managing Fundraising Event Committees

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100+ Fundraising Blogs You Should Be Reading

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Retain and Upgrade Your New Year-End Donors

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Everything Nonprofits Need To Know About Employee Benefits

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What Compliance Means For Your Fundraising Efforts

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Get Your Board On Fire About Fundraising

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Sample Documents and Templates for Nonprofits

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Asking in a Way That Helps Donors Say Yes

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3 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Needs a Crisis Communications Plan

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Nonprofit crisis communications plan template

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Crafting Your Nonprofit Event Appeal Story

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Board Member Performance Expectations

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Nominating Committee Job Description

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Governance Self Assessment

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Inventory of Skills for the Board

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Sample Bylaws

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Due Diligence Plan

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Building Your Nonprofit Internship Program

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Bloomerang Named to Top 50 Software Products List

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Sample Board Composition Policy

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Sample Policy for Board Operations

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How to Properly Ask, Thank and Report to Donors

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Engage Constituents with Your Nonprofit’s Website

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How to Recover When Your Nonprofit is in the Red

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How To Build Your Mid-Level Giving Program

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Guide to Nonprofit Social Media

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Using Stewardship to Keep Donors Happier Longer

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5 Steps To A Great Nonprofit Email Newsletter

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Introducing Bloomerang’s Content Donation Program

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Gauging The Effectiveness of Fundraising Events

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How Behavioural Economics Impacts Fundraising

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7 Pillars of a Successful Major Gift Program

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Increase Retention for #GivingTuesday Donors

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Win Friends and Influence Donors With Crowdfunding

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Best Practices for Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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Storytelling: 5 Things Nonprofits Should Do Differently

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How To Raise Major Gifts The Right Way

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How To Write A Killer Donor Thank You Letter

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Master the Art of Thanking Donors

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How An ED / Board Chair Duo Fixed Their Board

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Don’t Treat #GivingTuesday Like A Hail Mary

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Keys to Year-End Fundraising Appeal Success

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Bridging the Gap Between Fundraising Events & Major Gifts

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Content Marketing: The New Fundraising Growth Model

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Donor Retention Isn’t Speed Dating

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Fundraising On A Shoestring Budget

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Getting Started With Planned Giving

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Strengthening Your Board Through Good Governance

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Assessing Fundraising Campaign Readiness

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How Does Rebranding Impact Nonprofits?

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How to be an Awesome Nonprofit Board Member

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Project Planning to Win Grants

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The Life of An Annual Gift Officer

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Avoid the 5 Fatal Mistakes Fund Appeals Make

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Everything You Need To Know About Running a Sponsorship Campaign

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Direct Mail PCI-DSS Compliance for Nonprofits Explained

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Boost Donations with an Attitude of Gratitude

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What I’ve Learned During 50 Years of Fundraising

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Crowdfunding In Plain English

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Building A Storytelling Culture

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Major Gift Fundraising By The Numbers

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8 Foundations For A Successful Major Campaign

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Designing Better Stewardship Events

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Guest Blogging Guidelines

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Start and Grow a Recurring Donor Program

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An Introduction to Grant Writing

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A Collaborative Approach to Engaging Your Board in Fundraising

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The Secret to a Successful Direct Mail Campaign

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Move a First-Time Donor to a Major Donor

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Donor Communications Tips from Tom Ahern

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Responsive Web Design 101 for Nonprofits

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Bloomerang’s Steven Shattuck on the Pete the Planner Radio Show

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Getting Your Board To Fundraise

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2014 $5 Donor Communications Experiment

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10 Decisions You Will Face With Any Donor Data Migration Project

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How to Build a Major Gifts Program from Scratch

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How Fundraisers Can Get Over the Fear of Asking

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Getting More People To Open Your NPO eNewsletter

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Mobile Impact 101: Taking Your Cause Mobile

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Donate Now Button Kit

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How to Start and Run Your First $100k Fundraising Campaign

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A Guide to Nonprofit Strategic Planning

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Fun and Visual Ways to Say Thanks to Donors

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How Wabash College Raised $465k in One Day

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Nonprofit Volunteer Recruitment Done Right

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How to Build a Sustainable Donor Stewardship Program

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How to Get Your Board Members to Embrace Fundraising

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Winning Strategies for Nonprofit Compliance

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10 Tips To Ensuring Long-Term Nonprofit Sustainability

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Bloomerang CEO Jay Love Honored by Butler University

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Avoiding Common Capital Campaign Mistakes

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Identifying the Major Donors On Your Donor List

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An Introduction to Crisis Management for Nonprofits

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The Nonprofit Consulting Playbook

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Indianapolis Star Names Bloomerang a “Tech Company to Watch in 2014”

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Prospect Research Tips for Donor Database Managers

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5 Things You Can Start Doing To Create Lifetime Donor Relationships

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Effective Multi-Channel Fundraising Strategies

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Nonprofits: Don’t Wing It With Social Media

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The Keys to Establishing a Planned Giving Program

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How to Find Stories that Cause Donors to Give Again

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Recruiting and Building a Strong and Effective Nonprofit Board

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Are You Ready For A Capital Campaign?

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P2P Fundraising and Donor Retention Don’t Have To Be Enemies!

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Ask Without Fear! Powerful Secrets to Help Fundraisers Handle Objections

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How To Write An Annual Fundraising Appeal Letter

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How To Optimize Your Live Event For Fundraising Success

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How Many Fundraising Events Should A Nonprofit Hold Per Year?

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10 NPO Communications and Asking Techniques for Fundraising Success

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Everything You Need to Know About Creating & Retaining Donor Relationships