The Giving Edge

BIG NEWS! 🎉

The Giving Edge is officially partnering with Arreva.

Why Arreva? Because I’ve spent nearly 40 years watching nonprofit professionals do important work while fighting with systems that make their jobs harder.

Donor information over here. Online giving over there. Another spreadsheet somewhere else. And probably a sticky note on someone’s desk holding the whole thing together. There’s a better way!

Arreva’s ExceedFurther platform brings online fundraising, donor management, auctions, communications, reporting, and more together in one place. That matters because technology should make fundraising EASIER. It should give you more time to build relationships, engage donors, strengthen your organization, and actually do the work you came here to do.

At The Giving Edge, we help nonprofits build the strategy, skills, systems, and relationships they need to raise more money. gives them technology that can support it. That feels like a marriage made in heaven to me.

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Your donors are not ATMs.

They’re human beings trying to create change in the world.

When your appeals focus only on your organization’s needs, donors disconnect. When your appeals focus on transformation, donors lean in.

That shift changes everything. Join me for Appeals That Work on October 28.



Register: https://www.nicheacademy.com/webinar-appeals-that-work-crafting-appeal-letters-that-bring-in-the-bucks

There IS money out there.

The question isn’t whether people are generous. The question is whether your organization is communicating impact in a way that inspires action.

That’s exactly what we’ll cover in Appeals That Work with Niche Academy on October 28.



Register: https://www.nicheacademy.com/webinar-appeals-that-work-crafting-appeal-letters-that-bring-in-the-bucks

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If your donors never gave you another dollar...
How would you want them to remember the way your organization treated them?

That’s not just a fundraising question, it’s a values question.

Philanthropy is love in action.
Act accordingly.

The Gift Isn’t the End of the Relationship Imagine spending three months pursuing someone romantically.

Your January fundraising stewardship strategy should be written before your year-end campaign launches.

Know now:
Who gets called.
Who gets handwritten notes.
How first-time donors are welcomed.
How loyal donors are recognized.
How impact will be communicated.
How people can come closer without immediately being asked for more money.

The campaign doesn’t end when the gift arrives – that’s just one stage of the process.
https://givingedgefundraising.com/the-gift-isnt-the-end-of-the-relationship/

Your receipt tells donors: We got your money.

Your stewardship should tell them: Your gift mattered.

Those are not the same thing.
The #1 reason donors drop you like a hot rock is because they feel like their gift (they) don’t matter. Make sure they know they do.

https://givingedgefundraising.com/the-gift-isnt-the-end-of-the-relationship/

A donor just gave you money.

Before asking: “When can we solicit them again?”

Try: “How do we honor the trust they just placed in us?”

Very different questions. Very different relationship.

https://givingedgefundraising.com/the-gift-isnt-the-end-of-the-relationship/