Fundraising

Wisely’s Prospect Research Primer: Everything You Need to Know

Prospect Research: How to find valuable prospects, build portfolios and save donor relationships … without running a single complicated query.   Has this ever happened to you?  You’ve been working at your nonprofit organization for a few years and a team member has left and you’re asked to “help out” with their old duties “until …

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Fundraising Moves Management (part two)

In part two of our Introduction to Moves Management series we walk you through everything you need to know about fundraising moves management, and along the way, we’ll show you how Wisely nonprofit software can help your fundraising team.  If you missed the first part, we covered prospect identification, qualification, and cultivation, you can find …

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Introduction to Moves Management (Part One)

If you’ve been reading our recent #WiserWithWisely posts on fundraising strategy and Wisely portfolio management software then you know we’ve mentioned moves management quite a few times over the last few weeks.  Wisely’s Moves Management strategy is driven by best practices and assisted by AI to give your fundraising team a boost to manage donors …

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How to Use Direct Messages (DMs) to Conduct Effective Outreach

Any outreach, and especially outreach for fundraising, can be challenging. Aside from worries about personal rejection, it’s difficult to know what phrasing and communication strategies will elicit the most positive responses. While email is a great tool that has been used for decades to conduct outreach, as the digital age progresses, we’re seeing a greater …

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Steward and Cultivate Your Mid-Level, Major Gift, and Planned Giving Donors

Every week #WiserWithWisely, Wisely’s Blog, brings to you a topic that’ll help your fundraising journey. This week we talk about how your fundraising team needs to build meaningful relationships with your donors through cultivation and stewardship. Your nonprofit’s fundraising team has many different donor types in their fundraising portfolio and each of these donor types …

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