10 Articles to Jumpstart Your Chorus's Year-End Fundraising

Links from Around the Web

• September is Boom Time for Donors, Google Says A study released last year shows that donors may start researching year-end giving earlier than expected.
• Five Things to Do Now for Year-End Fundraising Success Check these items off your list in September to set your organization up for a good December.
• Year-End Fundraising Campaigns as an Experience of Your Brand Nonprofit communications firm Big Duck says that year-end fundraising should be guided by your brand strategy and appeal to your core donors.
• Summer's Philanthropy Quandary: To Do #GivingTuesday Or Not? What to consider before dedicating staff and volunteer time to your #GivingTuesday efforts. And if you do decide to participate, here's some expert advice on how to make the most of it.
• Stand Apart from the Crowd with Your Year-End Fundraising Campaign Simple steps your chorus can take to revive your annual appeal and better engage donors.
• Making the Most of Year-End Fundraising Appeals Strategies for maximizing your year-end fundraising revenue, from basic to more advanced.
• 8 Ways to Make the Most of Your Year-End Fundraising Campaign Use this checklist to make giving as easy as possible for your donors.
• 3 Ways to Wake Up Your Donors Consider "warming up" your donors for your December appeals by reaching out with some special messaging a few months earlier.
• 200 More Email Subject Lines from End-of-Year Fundraising A good starting point for brainstorming–this will give you ideas of what to avoid if you want to stand out from the pack.
• 10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits Year-end gifts are often online gifts. These best practices can help you upgrade your web presence.

Chorus America Development Resources

• Fundraising Plan Outline An annual planning template that you can also use to lay out your end-of-year campaign.
• Never Ask for Money! Four Steps To Greater Fundraising Success A values-based strategy that aims to match donors with ways that they can give back to their communities—and removes the ego factor that can make fundraising scary.
• Acknowledging Donors: Saying Thank You Is Just the Beginning Accepting donations is just the first step in a longer- term effort to engage donors more deeply in your chorus.