Fundraising & Nonprofit Blog

What is Fundraising Intelligence and Why is it so Important?

You may have noticed, but we talk about Fundraising Intelligence a lot. And there’s a good reason for that. We…

How Strategic Research Leads to New Donors and More Money

A challenge for so many nonprofit organizations is developing a strategic plan to find new donors. Your organization could be…

How To Implement A Grateful Patient Program

Imagine you are the director of development at a hospital foundation in a mid-sized city. You have an average intake…

Clean Data, Clean Results: Data Hygiene For Screening Success

Talk to a room full of fundraising professionals and you’re sure to talk about data at some point in the…

Tips To Manage Your Prospect Research Data

In today’s nonprofit world, using software to fundraise is the norm. For all the good technology brings however, sometimes it…

Make the Most of Your New Donors After Giving Tuesday

You’re almost through your turkey leftovers. Black Friday has come and gone (although some of those sales last a whole…

5 Ways to Customize Your Prospect Screening

Did you know that screening is the most common form of prospect identification conducted these days? As Helen Brown and…

Finding Major Gift Prospects Using Prospect Scores

Do you search for major gift prospects within your donor database, or do you use external sources to find them?…

What Now? How to Capitalize On Prospect Screening Results

Once you receive your prospect screen results back from a screening vendor, it might be tempting to pass this information…

Balancing Proactive and Reactive Research Requests

We like to know what a “day in the life” looks like for our clients — and in this case,…

Conversation Starters: Strategies That Open Doors to Major Gift Success

Guest Post by Paul D’Alessandro, D’Alessandro Inc.  Donors, Then and Now In the late 80’s I worked on my very…

Preparing Your Donor Prospect Screen Step-By-Step

You have mapped out your screening goals and chosen your screening tool.  What are the next steps when preparing and…