Avoid These 5 Nonprofit Fundraising Mistakes

Struggling with fundraising for nonprofits? Boost your fundraising strategy by avoiding these 5 mistakes I made early on. #Nonprofit #Fundraising #Nonprofits

Starting on fundraising for your nonprofit and coming up with fundraising ideas and strategy can be a challenge if you haven’t tried it in the past. Some of the mistakes I made when I first started prevented my nonprofit organization from growing faster than it could have! In this video I talk through 5 fundraising mistakes I made that I really hope you can learn from to move your mission ahead faster, smarter, and more effectively.

Hope this helps!

// CHAPTERS

00:00 About 5 fundraising mistakes
01:19 What motivates donors
03:35 How marketing helps
04:48 How to use storytelling
06:20 About donor relationships
08:00 About donor appreciation

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[davem.]

I have been donating to various causes for years and I found that if you are asking for a large amount, such as $5, 000 to supply water filters for a village, a donor might not believe $40 or $50 will be utilized until the full amount is realized. When possible, it’s much better to break down the benefit to the smallest denominator. Such as $40 = 1 water filter for 1 family. Make it affordable for a donor, with a higher likelihood that there will be an immediate impact.

[GoGreaterGood]

Gosh these videos are wonderful. Great tips and reminders for me to stay zoned in on. The last 2 hit me. I have fundraised in the past in the exact way I will be doing again. But I feel I lost all previous donors by not thanking them as much as they deserved / keeping in touch.

[AmberMelanieSmith]

What are some of your fundraising challenges?!

[ksk]

Hi Amber I'm a non-profit owner North Olympic Sports Association for a yearly fall fun run race North Olympic Peninsula Turkey Trot and I'm looking to get grants to invest and upgrade my equipment as I want to be a race director and do things in house so I will be able to contribute more monies after costs to local charities in my area and eventually add more races and series to my non profit to give the people who live here more choices for races locally without having to travel long distances to others races unless they choose to do so looking for your reply and thanks for your great videos keep up the good work

[Emmanuel.King-ou]

The kingfoundating was giving out free medicine and free treatment

[carolhollinger]

It feels like i need to spend money to make money.... and by money i mean my own .... to hopefuly oneday not to have to spend my own to grow the charity. thing is if i am doing it all wrong then i should have just donated my own money directly as a tax donation.