NonProfit News That Matters
Welcome to our NonProfit News That Matters Blog. Here at Goettler Associates, we are continuously watching developments in the philanthropic marketplace, reviewing new research studies, reading trade publications, and scouring industry blogs. The quantity of available information is a little overwhelming at times, so we though we’d help our friends and colleagues along by sharing the NonProfit News That Matters most.
Let us know what you think, join the conversation.
Recent Articles
Category: News & Information
The first element of fundraising success begins with defining your nonprofit as a solid organization. Is this still valid today?
Even before the momentous events of 2020, the world-wide pandemic, and last summer’s civic disruptions there have been a growing number of voices that are challenging the status quo of accepted best ...
Category: News & Information
Navigating the Road Ahead through the elements of fundraising success
As the dust settles from Covid-19, we are discovering that the Road Ahead is fraught with concerns and challenges similar to the shutdown itself. There is also a growing chorus of voices that are challenging the status quo of today’s best practices and social construc...
Category: Fund Raising
Professional fundraisers need to remember that Giving Makes People Happy. This is an informative and well researched post from Bloomerang that reminds us of how to best approach our work. Helping our colleagues, co-workers and board volunteers to adopt this philosophy will help them to share in the joy of successful fundraising done well.
Non...
Category: Fund Raising
50 Things You Can (Still) Do Before Year-End
In a FONK (Fear of Not Knowing) about your Covid-19 year-end fundraising? Here is a check list of 50 things you can still do before year-end (actually, it's more than 70) to make your year-end fundraising appeals more successful.
Lori Overmyer, Executive VP of GoettlerAssociates has developed a f...
Category: News & Information
And now for some good news. The Fundraising Effectiveness Project’s (FEP) 2nd Quarter 2020 report shows an uptick in giving and the resilience of givers in the US. As with previous economic downturns and cataclysms, we can see that the philanthropic spirit of the American public has endured through the second quarter of 2020. Fundraising ...
Category: News & Information
The Fundraising Effectiveness Project's (FEP) 1st Quarter 2020 report indicates a decrease in total current giving to nonprofits through March, 2020. Giving USA's recent webinars heralding an increase in total giving in 2019 may be less instructive than the FEP's more timely reporting and there may be disturbing trends developing for total giving...
Category: News & Information
Memorial Day – the traditional beginning of summer – looked
like no other this year. But with it
came the news that, in many parts of the country, people began to look at the
gradual reopening of our economy. Somehow
the word “reopening” is too facile a term to adequately describe what we have
all endured. . .perhaps re-emergen...
Category: News & Information
Welcome to Week 10 of our Covid-19 fundraising blog. When this all started, we didn’t realize that
we’d be at it for ten weeks. Writing a
weekly blog is harder than we first imagined.
Life is like that sometimes.
How to Make Fundraising Easier
Saying you are going to do something is often easier than actually doing it....
Category: News & Information
Don’t jump to conclusions based on the spate of donor
surveys that are starting to surface, and attempting to gauge the effects of
coronavirus on the future behavior of donors.
The results are at best inconclusive, and at worst alarming.
Don't Jump to Conclusions: with donor surveys predicting doom and gloom
Take, for instance...
Category: Fund Raising
Demonstrating our own advice to be nimble and adapt to the circumstances, we are sending our Tuesday blog on Wednesday of week 8. We thought it was best to steer clear of #GivingTuesdayNow.
Time to Reverse Engineer the Special Event
We hope you had great success with Giving Tuesday in May and tested some new strategies and ta...
Category: News & Information
It is week seven of the great shutdown and there is still so
much that we don’t know. We ended our
post last week with the acknowledgement that we don’t know, but we were going
to find out. Well, having spent some time
thinking about it, knowing is difficult to achieve. We all believe we know certain things. Many of us ...
Category: News & Information
Raise
your hand if you know more about the Spanish Flu of 1918 than you ever dreamt
you would. If “goodbye” has been
replaced by “stay safe and stay healthy.” If you have grown weary of the phrase
“Don’t let a good crisis go to waste” or some variation thereof. What else have we learned these past weeks?
Covid-19 Fundr...
Category: Fund Raising
Everyone is talking about the CARES Act and the deep and lasting impact of the corona virus on our lives and our economy. And rightfully so! But when we get back to raising money for our organizations we need to be equally aware of the impact of the SECURE Act. We all know that older donors are likely the best candidates for large major gifts, ...
Category: Marketing & Communications
Zoom in on better Etiquette
It is the second day of week five in Covid-19 Fundraising, and like you we visited with family and friends over the past weekend via video conferencing to share Easter/Passover Holiday greetings. We’ve also been using Zoom for virtual happy hour with friends and colleagues over these past weeks, and it is bec...
Category: Fund Raising
It is the second day of week four of Covid-19 Fundraising, and this week we are inspired to adopt, adapt and improve. Like so many other regularly scheduled events, the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) turned its 2020 Annual Conference into a VIRTUAL event, demonstrating the path for all of us to adopt, adapt and improve.
Yo...
