A Nonprofit’s Guide to Recurring Giving

December 31, 2018

Welcome to A Nonprofit's Guide to Recurring Giving, where we’ll discuss why recurring giving is so important and effective and how you can build a strong program at your own nonprofit. Monthly giving is a hot topic among fundraising professionals. Whether your organization needs to create a recurring donations program from scratch or you have some monthly donors but aren’t doing much to strengthen and grow the community, this guide can help.

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