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The Wildly Important Goal: How to Focus in a World of Lemonade Stands

Discover how Wildly Important Goals (WIGs) help nonprofits focus on what matters most. Learn the 4-step method to cut through the chaos and boost your fundraising impact.

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5 Weekly Rituals Every Small Nonprofit Fundraiser Needs

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Signal vs. Noise: The 15 Hour Focus Framework for Fundraisers

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Donor Management

Lesson 4: Input Data

Learn how to enter gifts, manage contacts, create campaigns and more.

DonorDock Updates

Lesson 1: Getting Started

DonorDock 101 - Start with the basics of navigation and terminology - a solid foundation to build your DonorDock skills on.

Donor Management

DonorDock Updates

Session Notes: Receipts

During the call we walked through all the steps you would need to take from beginning to set your receipt settings messages and signature to brushing up on on how to manage, edit, and create a receipt template through the end of pulling your reports and sending off receipts.

Outreach

5 Important Emails to Send During a Crisis

Transparent, honest communication with donors is imperative during a time of crisis or financial uncertainty. Email marketing is one mechanism by which you can continue to communicate in a safe and efficient way. There are some tactical things to consider when communicating with donors. This post will focus on five scenarios in which your organization can use email marketing to effectively engage with your donors.

DonorDock Updates

Session Notes: A DonorDock Review

This particular session instead focused on training in how to find helpful resources, access support, and submit your ideas. Lots of good DonorDock specific info in this one!

Fundraising

Create Custom Donation Pages With DonorDock

DonorDock allows you to embed donation forms directly into your website for a fully customized experience. Here are a few examples.

Outreach

Fundraising

Session Notes: Marketing & Bulk Emails

In this session, we discussed how we to take the steps to add a marketing list, create an email template, send a bulk email and what it looks like to track the activities for that email.

Nonprofit Strategy

Donor Management

Session Notes: Year-End Reporting

This session highlighted new updates and discussed how to best utilize DonorDock for year-end tasks.

Outreach

Session Notes: Bulk Emails

Last week on our Tuesday call, we had a question posed to us about presenting a summary of the call. We're going to give it a shot here and see if it proves helpful! We're always happy to get you as much information in as many accessible ways as possible. Without further ado, here's our first go at the cliff-notes version of our Tuesday call.

Nonprofit Strategy

DonorDock and QuickBooks: A Nonprofit Software Dream Team

A frequent and common request we have received since our very early days is to support integrating DonorDock with QuickBooks.

Outreach

3 Tips for Meeting with Donors Virtually

You may have seen an increase in the number of people doing virtual happy hours with friends or co-workers; in fact, even the DonorDock team has had a few over the past few weeks. It is a great way to stay engaged and see each other “in person”. This concept could also work for one-to-one engagement or small group engagement with key donors.

Donor Management

Session Notes: Imports (& Giving Hearts Day Import Pointers)

In this success session, we discussed imports, specifically for Giving Hearts Day (GHD). While GHD is a regional event, there are still similarities between GHD imports and standard data imports.

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