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    Hi Kate! My name is Kendall and I am the events and fundraising coordinator for a local foster based rescue. I just started with this rescue in October and need all the help I can get. I worked with a previous rescue for 5 years and did really well, ...

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    Good morning, As our board transitions to a more engaged fundraising board, we are looking to strengthen the language in their board member agreement around expectations. I am looking for samples of language, or full agreements, anyone is willing to ...

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    Yael, regarding older donor prospects for an estate gift (a gift that benefits the institution following the death of the donor.). I have a four step process in securing and moving a simple will or trust to a higher level certainty. First, you have qualified ...

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    Hello! My organization will be making changes to our newsletter, and weve realized that we will need a new platform to incorporate the updates we want to include. We currently use Campaign Monitor and are considering switching to MailChimp, but I want ...

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    I've been working in our sector for coming up to 15 years now and one thing that always bothered me was the "best practices" around policies and procedures manuals for database management. In full disclosure, I am with a vendor but came at this problem ...

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    As primarily a major gifts fundraiser, so obviously most, if not, all will be in writing and not until a signed pledge would I record it. Remember that most major gift donors start their association with you nonprofit with smaller gifts. How you treat ...

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