Katie Lord Senior Consultant In today’s fast-paced digital arena, many nonprofits have moved to a digital donor acknowledgement system in an effort to save time and increase the speed of gift acknowledgement. While this system can be effective from a recordkeeping standpoint for the organization and the donor, this can often be a missed opportunity to 1) convey true donor…
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Katie Lord Senior Consultant Upon receiving a gift to your organization, it is important to remember that there is a definite distinction between a donor gift acknowledgement and donor recognition/appreciation. Both are vital to the continued cultivation and management of a donor stewardship plan. However, the two should not be combined. Each communication should be seen as an opportunity to…
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Anne Corless Associate Consultant In last month's newsletter, we talked about the #GivingTuesday 2015 campaign for your nonprofit. So, you've downloaded the JB+A GivingTuesday_Toolkit_2015 and reviewed all the materials. "Now what?" you might ask. Before joining JB+A, I had an amazing opportunity to work in NYC for what has become one of the world's foremost e-commerce companies. Its incredible success was built through grassroots consumer-driven…
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Sandi Grimm Director of Administration It seems like yesterday when Jeffrey, returning from one of The Giving Institute’s Board meetings, told me about a brilliant new initiative to spur people to give during the holiday season. But it wasn’t yesterday. It was 2012, and we were about to launch into our first #GivingTuesday publicity push. What a simple yet grand…
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At JB+A, we encourage nonprofits to utilize Giving USA to improve their fundraising efforts. Discover the ways nonprofits can use Giving USA every year and cumulatively to improve their development efforts Understand the factors impacting philanthropy in general and by subsector Benchmark their own fundraising performance against national averages, helping them plan future fundraising strategies Educate Board members, volunteers, donors…
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Editor's Note: On the morning of June 25, more than 180 individuals from the nonprofit sector gathered at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Conference Center for the 501(c) Success National Speaker Series: First Look Giving USA 2015. The event was co-sponsored by Jeffrey Byrne + Associates, U.S Trust and Nonprofit Connect, and marked 10 years of the Giving USA program…
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On December 16, the Senate approved a one-year tax extenders bill that includes the charitable IRA rollover for 2014.
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Repositioning and Fundraising in Senior Living
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It's Not Always What It Seems - Case In Point: Eadie
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