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- 4 Easy Ways to Acquire New Donors for Your Nonprofit with Peer-to-Peer Fundraising February 5, 2023Peer-to-peer fundraising is the number one tactic that inspires donors to give to charity and 39% of Americans who’ve donated to charity have done so because a friend or family member asked them to. Keep reading to learn four easy ways that you can acquire new donors with your next peer-to-peer fundraiser!
- [New Data] The 2023 Nonprofit Tech for Good Report February 1, 2023The 2023 Nonprofit Tech for Good Report is based on the survey responses of 1,732 nonprofit professionals. Survey questions covered website and email communications, online fundraising, social media, and professional development in the nonprofit sector.
- [Free Webinar] Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits January 25, 2023Blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of new content to use in your e-newsletter and share on social media which, in turn, increases traffic to your website and awareness of your nonprofit’s brand. Blogging is also one of the best ways for your nonprofit to improve your search engine optimization (SEO).
- [Free Webinar] Why Sponsorships Are Key to a Lucrative Golf Fundraiser January 24, 2023Sponsorships are at the heart of a golf tournament’s fundraising power. While golfer registrations are an important piece of the golf event revenue puzzle, sponsorships are where nonprofits can get the most return.
- How to Use Trial & Error to Find the Right Fundraisers for Your Nonprofit January 20, 2023Volunteers are critical to nonprofits—in many cases, the good work wouldn’t get done without them! So, what do you do when your helpers lose interest and disengage? Here are 6 effective strategies to prevent volunteer burnout.
- How Donate Now, Pay Later is Transforming Millennial & Gen Z Giving for Nonprofits January 12, 2023Donate Now, Pay Later allows donors to give to their favorite charitable cause over time, while the nonprofit gets all the money upfront right away. Furthermore, donors who use Donate Now, Pay Later give roughly more than 3.5X more on average.
- [Free Webinar] How to Accept Donate Now, Pay Later™ Donations to Grow Giving in 2023 January 5, 2023Donate Now, Pay Later™ was inspired by the widespread acceptance of Buy Now, Pay Later in the consumer retail space. Across generations, nearly 60% of consumers say they prefer Buy Now, Pay Later over credit cards due to the ease of set payments and the lack of interest charges.
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- Tom Peterson’s new book: Want to Change the World? Accelerate Your Nonprofit or Cause September 6, 2022New book from Tom Peterson Stakeholder Press $16.99 Click HERE to Order Democracy at risk. Last chance to save the world. Enormous gap between the ultra-rich and billions of struggling people. Huge needs in every community. In Want to Change the World Tom Peterson celebrates the giant Movement that is taking on […]
- People of Heart August 5, 2019By Tom Peterson Just as our most-important muscle, the heart, pumps oxygen and nutrients to the cells in our body, another heart supplies life to our communities. You see this heart in what a people do, especially how they treat others. Acts of heart are often unnoticed: speaking kind words to a lonely […]
- Can 26 lead soldiers conquer the world? July 14, 2019“Give me twenty-six lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.” By Tom Peterson What is the most powerful human force? Some say it’s reason, some say love, some say cooperation. They all depend on communication. So does your cause. Having a great message is not enough, you also need a way to […]
- The Power of Stories July 11, 2019By Tom Peterson Storytelling is an ancient art. It’s what makes us human. And stories are the building blocks of culture. Because they speak to our emotions they are the heart of an effective message. They resonate. Get to know the power of stories. They can move the rest of […]
- Marketing Mix: the 4 P’s June 20, 2019By Tom Peterson Not too long ago many nonprofits looked askance at the idea of marketing. In the mid-nineties, an organization I worked with was raising about $3 million a year from what we would today call marketing. Some colleagues—particularly Michael Cervino, who had helped grow Habitat for Humanity—and I had […]
- Positive deviance can reveal extraordinary solutions June 5, 2019By Tom Peterson Maybe there are a few oddballs doing something right. And maybe they can point the way for the rest of us. In facing a tough social challenge positive deviance tells us to look for any outliers who may be like everyone else but who found […]
- This campaign to save a library in Troy, Michigan May 23, 2019The post This campaign to save a library in Troy, Michigan appeared first on Thunderhead Works.
- Find and keep talent, avoid “normal” people March 6, 2019By Tom Peterson If you happen to be in a role of hiring staff, key volunteers or outside vendors consider that every position you get is a precious gift. A cause’s most valuable asset is its collection of people, so a leader’s top job is find and keep the most insanely talented folks possible. Most […]
- What Insanity? The Urgency of World Change February 18, 2019By Tom Peterson Every year Oxfam reports on the massive gap between the world’s super-rich and the poor. In 2017 the report named just eight men—Bill Gates, Amancio Ortega, Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim Helu, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Michael Bloomberg—who have more wealth than the poorest half of people on earth. Some […]
- The many hats of world changers February 10, 2019By Tom Peterson Do you see yourself in here? You are needed. No matter who you are you have some gifts, some talents, some skills to lend to some cause. Look for yourself in the following list: The one with ideas, with creativity. The one who can borrow an idea they saw somewhere else. […]