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Continued Consolidation in Q2 2024 as the Sector Sees More Dollars from Fewer Donors

While charitable giving increased moderately in Q2 2024, we are seeing a worrying decrease in both the smallest and the most frequent donors, indicating that the increase in dollars is due to a consolidation of large gifts.

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Mike's Message Takeover: Navigating the New Normal: Compensation, Benefits, and Flexibility in Fundraising

According to the 2024 Compensation and Benefits Report, the average fundraising salary in the U.S. saw a modest increase of 0.8% in 2023, rising from $95,841 to $96,621. This figure pales in comparison to the robust 6.7% increase seen in 2022, reflecting a slow growth trend that fails to keep pace with the 3% inflation rate over the same period.

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01 Jul 2022

Fundraising Tools: Program Performance—The Tie That Binds

Performance. Donors demand it. Development officers plead for it. Program managers assure executives they do it. Websites advertise it. But what is it...

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01 Jul 2022

Fundraising Tools: Major Gift Metrics Shouldn’t Focus on Visits— A Pandemic Epiphany

A number of articles have been written on major gift officer metrics over the years, and I want to add my thoughts because the pandemic helped me...

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01 Jul 2022

Sponsored Content: Fundraise Up—Nonprofits Aren’t Fully Connecting With International Donors—Here’s Why

With more than 10 million nonprofits worldwide, people looking to give have a plethora of charitable organizations to choose from. In terms of...

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01 Jul 2022

The Art of Communication: Mapping the Donor Experience

Use a donor touch point calendar to boost engagement across all channels. A donor’s overall experience with our organizations is made up of many tiny...

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01 Jul 2022

The Art of Communication: Stewardship is the Year-Round Celebration of the Gift

Above Photo Credit: freestocks Gift officers often work so hard to cultivate and solicit a gift that once the gift is received, they celebrate and...

Zainab Salbi in a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

01 Jul 2022

In Conversation: Living a Life of Kindness—To Yourself, To Others

Above Photo: Zainab Salbi in a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zainab Salbi, a humanitarian, author, journalist, and ICON 2022...

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01 Jul 2022

Fundraising Tools: Why Acquisition is the Lifeblood of Nonprofits

The word acquisition often conjures a lot of angst and surfaces past feelings of absolute hopelessness among fundraisers. This is the case because...

01 Jul 2022

Philanthropy in Focus: In Defence of Philanthropy

Beth Breeze is the winner of the 2022 AFP/Skystone Partners Research Prize for her book “In Defence of Philanthropy.” I began my career as a...

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01 Jul 2022

Falling Into Fundraising: Falling into Fundraising—Surface Pressure

Amplifying the Voices of Racialized Women Fundraisers In late 2021 and into the first quarter of 2022, Danisha Bhaloo-Shivji, CFRE, spoke with women...

01 Jul 2022

From the President: Communicating What We Need—The Fundraiser Bill of Rights

Welcome to the July issue of Advancing Philanthropy! Our theme is communications, and we have several articles that focus on engaging and...

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