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Ten Steps to Your Major Gift Checklist

Learn how to attract passionate donors and cultivate meaningful relationships for lasting impact with the top 10 insights from our recent training session with Vistage. Prioritize quality over quantity and shift your narrative to inspire transformative giving.

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AI and ChatGPT: What is it and how do I use it?

This blog explores the transformative journey of AI from the internet's inception to the ChatGPT era. Read about the critical interplay between technology, creativity, and human oversight in generating impactful content tailored to nonprofit goals

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Achieve Major Fundraising Success with Our Dynamic Gift Table

Enhance your fundraising success with our Free Dynamic Gift Table! This powerful tool helps you fine-tune your goals, experiment with scenarios, and secure major contributions. Easily adjust gift levels, identify prospects, and create winning strategies. Don't miss out on this essential resource to unlock your fundraising potential.

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Boost Your Fundraising Game with Our Free Top Prospect Report Tool

Unlock fundraising success with our Free Top Prospect Report Tool! Identify key prospects, set action plans, and secure major donations. This dynamic spreadsheet adapts to your goals, tracking next steps efficiently. Download now and unleash your fundraising potential! Don't miss this opportunity to transform your game.

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Understanding Nonprofit Fundraising Metrics: An Explainer

Nonprofit fundraising metrics are key for measuring the effectiveness of your fundraising efforts, but they can be a little tricky to get started with. Use this short guide to select your own fundraising metrics, develop a strong habit of tracking them, and then, put them into action so that you can move your mission forward.

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Nonprofit Giving Season: 5 Steps to Prepare and Maximize Year-End Giving

The most philanthropic months of the year see many organizations making mass appeals at full speed by email, social media, letters, and every other method of petitioning. Major individual donors are often overwhelmed or under-stewarded, and it is difficult to cut through the seasonal commotion. So, how do you stand out?

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Peter Heller Peter Heller

How To Measure Social Impact for Nonprofits in 6 Steps

Guest blogger, Kenneth Cerini, explains a multistep process to help nonprofit organizations measure and report on their social impact. How well does your organization address a social issue or cause? There are 6 key steps that can you can use to help measure your nonprofit’s contribution to the overall wellbeing of society.

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How Fundraising Consultants Help Break Through Nonprofit Challenges

Why should you hire a fundraising consultant? - To help you break through barriers to raise a lot more money! The Heller Fundraising Group consistently guides its clients to raise more money than ever before. The secret to our success; combining our philosophy and our expert practical strategy and tactics.

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Top 20 Giving and Fundraising Quotes From Our Fundraising Experts

Quotes can be simple reminders to us all of the importance of giving, fundraising, volunteering, appreciation, wealth, stewardship, gratitude, and our favorite, keeping an abundance mindset. Whether you’re working on a capital campaign, feasibility study, major gift program, organizing volunteers, or planning a fundraising event, we hope these quotes will help you stay aligned with your vision for a better world.

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What a Nonprofit Development Staffer Does… and why it’s smart to hire one!

Fundraising professionals don’t have magical powers! Successful ones have a deep understanding of best practices, they are disciplined and organized, and above all, they work really hard. But what exactly do they do? And why should you hire one? Read on to learn why your nonprofit needs a professional development staff member.

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Fundraising & Pop Culture: Spock at a Gala

Spock and Kirk brilliantly sum up how to best think about your fundraising gala guests. Are nonprofit donor VIPs more important than the rest of us? Yes and no. Here’s why...

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You Have an Endowment, Now What? Solutions for Nonprofit Organizations

Nonprofit directors are often subject area experts, but not necessarily financial experts. For many, the task of shepherding an organization’s financial resources can seem daunting. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Read on to learn the questions you should ask to craft a financial beliefs profile that will help your organization prepare to find the right professional management team.

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