Give to the Max Day

How Habitat for Humanity Used Storytelling To Exceed Their Giving Day Goals

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Human beings have been sharing stories for thousands of years. In fact, there are cave paintings in France that are 30,000 years old! We are hard-wired for storytelling, which is why storytelling in nonprofit communication works as well as it does. Effective storytelling centers on people, NOT ideas or statistics. Apartheid is a powerful story partly because of […]

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7 Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn From Give to the Max Day

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Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington was the first giving day event for the D.C area. And because it was the first year, there were three primary goals for the event: Strengthen the fundraising capacity of the nonprofit community Develop and nurture the bonds among D.C. nonprofits Help these orgs deepen donor-nonprofit relationships Give

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Uncensored, Uninhibited Giving: How The Playwright’s Center Raised Money

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Last week, GiveMN held their third annual Give to the Max Day and raised an amazing $13.4 million from 47,534 donors for almost 4,000 nonprofits across the state. One of the organizations that participated was The Playwright’s Center (PWC), a full-service organization based out of Minneapolis that supports local and national playwrights with grants, workshops, and career

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How Are You Inspiring New Givers?

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“Individuals today are no more generous than their predecessors were over four decades ago,” according to a new report released by Blackbaud titled Growing Philanthropy in the United States. The report outlines 32 recommendations for nonprofits on how to increase overall giving organized around the following four themes: Enhancing the quality of donor relationships Developing

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A Message from Gary Vee: Don't Pitch Me, Bro

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Today, over 150 Washington, DC-area nonprofit community leaders are meeting at the AARP building for an all-day, online fundraising training conference for Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. New York Times bestselling Author of the Thank You Economy, Gary Vaynerchuk provided these nonprofit leaders a short video message about online fundraising as they prep

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