End Of Year Fundraising Trends

Now that the 2015 giving season is over, you’re probably knee deep into planning your fundraising calendar for 2016. We invited special guest Brad Davies, Fundraising Expert from NextAfter to share his experience and talk through a specific strategy on how to grow your organization this year and turn your 2016 fundraising goals into a reality.

The angel in your supporters’ hearts overrules the bookkeeper in their heads all the time – and yet many nonprofits center their donor communications on the bookkeeper, talking mostly about tax receipts, to-do lists, event logistics, and program statistics. Instead, what if you focused on connecting with and engaging those inner angels to the point that you became their favorite nonprofit? Just imagine the good they could make possible for you and your cause.

About 80% of employees worked remotely during the pandemic, up from 30% before COVID-19. Nonprofits now face new pressures as hybrid work models and remote work environments are becoming the norm. This video explores the issues nonprofits face with remote and hybrid workplace models and offers tangible steps you can take to mitigate those risks.

Open, honest, and transparent communication with grantee partners can help minimize power imbalances and help foster a sense of mutual transparency and accountability that is critical to our success as grantmakers. Ultimately, if we want to cultivate honest funder-grantee relationships, we must embrace and prioritize our own ability to be transparent and responsive. In this live, online event, we'll hear from leaders in the field about tactical ways to embrace transparency, the "faceplant" moments they've had along the way, and how they and their foundations have benefited from taking a more transparent approach. We'll explore questions such as: How can you be more transparent with prospective grantees about what you do and don’t fund? How can we strive for transparency with current grantees, especially if it has to do with making changes to your funding strategies? How can we remain responsive to our grantee partners amidst our very busy schedules and crowded inboxes? And… What might we be missing even when we think we’re being transparent and responsive? The knowledge that this panel will share will be of interest to any and all staff levels of community, corporate, and independent & family foundations.