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Your Digital Nonprofit: The Social Profit Stack

Every other Sunday, I'll spark ⚡️your nonprofit's online fundraising strategy and deliver the tools you need to succeed. You'll receive an actionable tip and three links to drive donor engagement, deliver the best online experience for your donors, and raise more revenue. Free gift inside! Join us.

Wonder about following a new path

Take Road Less Travelled - 4 Ways to Inspire Your Donors in 2025 ✨

Hi Reader, Every fundraiser knows this feeling… You send an email to a prospective donor. Then another. And maybe even one more. Still, no response. No engagement. Nothing. You check your social media posts—a few views, but nothing significant. It’s soooo frustrating. You start wondering, what am I missing? Maybe you’re doing okay—after all, you’re getting at least a 2% reply rate. Deep down, you know there’s room for improvement. What if the answer isn’t sending more emails or posts but...
Black Friday Bundle

Are You Ready For This? 👀

Reader, end-of-year bargains are rare in the nonprofit industry, but today is the day that all changes. For the third year in a row, a group of us nonprofit consultants have joined forces to give you and your nonprofit a gift opportunity that will keep giving! The Black Friday Bundle for Nonprofits includes 34 resources worth over $4,200+, designed to help your nonprofit team with fundraising, marketing, 2025 planning, and more. Even better? It’s still only $97! Here is a sneak peek at what...
Stewardship might take everything we got

Donor Stewardship Is WAY More Than Saying Thank You 🌱

Hi Reader, I thanked a donor who made an incredible gift a few years ago. This donor was passionate about the program we initiated, and our team wanted to go beyond sending a thank-you card. Their gift made a huge difference for our nonprofit, so with my limited skills, I created a short video showing how their donation helped a group of students. Using my phone, I filmed a quick tour of the program's location, the people involved, and the joy on their faces. I wanted to show how their...
Giving Tuesday Landing Pages

Make Your Giving Tuesday Landing Page Stand Out ✨

Happy Sunday Reader, Giving Tuesday is almost here. Nonprofits are brimming with generosity as people scroll through their emails, seeing all the ways to make a difference. Let me introduce you to Sandra. She’s one of your current donors who just sat down with coffee while opening your email that morning. The story she read in your email immediately inspired her. She clicks Donate. She’s taken to a webpage that is overwhelming and busy. After scrolling up and down, Sandra can’t locate the...
AI and Beyond

3 Ways AI Can Drive Year-End Donations 💰

Hi Reader, Guess what? Year-end is only 72 days away. Hard.to.believe. Giving Tuesday, only 44. It’s such a busy time, and expectations are often wild and free, aren’t they? You probably feel like your boss has asked you to help change the world. Um, probably not, but you will engage with new and current donors and continue building your organization's best community of supporters. Because you’re often expected to complete the work in record time, what if you could do the job much quicker?...
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Fitness to Fundraising - How Milestones Drive Momentum 🏋🏻‍♀️

Hi Reader, I hit a huge milestone in my personal life this week. I attended over 1000 classes at my gym, Orange Theory Fitness. OTF, as we like to call it, is a 60-minute interval training class that offers treadmills, rowing machines, and strength equipment. When I joined in 2018, I started by taking two classes per week. The classes were more challenging than I’d experienced before, but I felt incredible after attending for a few weeks. Since beginning my journey with OTF, I’ve developed a...
practice makes nearly perfect

Practice Makes (Nearly) Perfect 🍞

Hi Reader, Just this week, I made my best sourdough loaf. I haven’t told you that I bake bread, but over a year ago, my bread budget was astronomical, and it was time for a change. My husband, who loves making things with yeast (and barley), started baking sourdough bread during the pandemic. But like many new habits started during the pandemic, it quickly ended. At the time, he stored the “sourdough starter” in the fridge. If you know little about sourdough, you don’t use store-bought yeast....
What now?

A Modern Donor Experience Drives More Revenue 🏎️

Imagine you’re planning a trip to a new city. You’re full of excitement and anticipation about what you'll discover. As you step off the plane, you face two options: a crumpled, outdated map with no street names or a local guide who knows the best places to eat, the hidden gems that most tourists miss, and the shortcuts to get you there. You’d likely pick the guide. We all crave direction, the comfort of being in good hands, and the joy of discovering places that feel tailor-made for us. Yet,...
The Bear Asks Questions

6 Questions to Ask When Selecting The Best Fundraising Platform❓

If you're a member of my Facebook Group, you might have seen one of my recent posts where I enthusiastically shared content from Nathan Hill, VP of NextAfter Institute. One of the most common questions he receives at his company is, "What's the best donation platform for raising money online?" Instead of listing numerous platforms, Nathan turned the question on its head. He responded, "While there are plenty of great tools out there, not all of them will help you implement proven strategies...
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Little Things Make A Big Difference 🗝️

How’s your summer going so far? I’m keeping today’s email short and sweet. As you read this, imagine me sitting at a picnic table in front of my tent with a cup of tea and my book. – You already know that retaining your current donors can be challenging. We hear it so often. Donors say they feel like an ATM or the organization they give to only reaches out when they need funding. Let’s put the brakes on that feeling. Making the smallest positive gestures to donors can make a huge difference...

Every other Sunday, I'll spark ⚡️your nonprofit's online fundraising strategy and deliver the tools you need to succeed. You'll receive an actionable tip and three links to drive donor engagement, deliver the best online experience for your donors, and raise more revenue. Free gift inside! Join us.