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How to Succeed with Proven Offers for Major Donors

May 19, 2025
Jeff Brooks
Major and Mid Value Donors
Do you know the top reason non-donors give for not donating? “There’s no point to giving.” They believe – and not without justification – that no matter how much they give, the world’s problems will not be solved. So the…
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Your Complete How-To for the Power of Matched Giving Fundraising

August 26, 2024
Jeff Brooks
Offer
Everyone loves a bargain. That’s why we so often see commercial advertising that’s entirely focused on low prices. Like Half-Off Sales and Buy One, Get One Free. A bargain is one of the most dependable ways marketing has to overcome…
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An Integrated Multichannel Fundraising Campaign Is Easier Than You Think

The Unrestricted Funds Conundrum: There’s an EASY Solution

March 13, 2023
Jeff Brooks
Fundraising
A few weeks ago, one of our members in The Fundraisingology Lab asked a question: The organization had done a highly successful appeal to raise funds for a specific person facing extraordinary need. Funds poured in from energized donors who…
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How the 40-40-20 Rule Gives You Freedom, Confidence, and Success in Fundraising

November 14, 2022
Jeff Brooks
Creativity, Direct Mail
Let me share a rule I learned from a grizzled old-time direct response professional. He learned it from the classic days of commercial direct response, when he’d spent years creating direct mail for magazine subscriptions. It’s called the 40-40-20 Rule. …
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An Integrated Multichannel Fundraising Campaign Is Easier Than You Think

Here’s an Easy Tool that Can Turn You into a Fundraising Genius

October 31, 2022
Jeff Brooks
Fundraising
How often do you see fundraising that asks donors to do things like these? Will you help us do our work by sending a generous contribution? Stand with us today in this important cause. Please show your support for our…
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The Fundraising Secret Ingredient You’ll Swear by for the Rest of Your Career

July 26, 2021
Jeff Brooks
Fundraising
My Mom had a secret. It was a magic ingredient she could sprinkle into just about anything she cooked, and it made the food better. More flavorful. Richer. Just yummier in an almost undefinable way. She didn’t want people to…
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VIDEO: My Favorite Fundraising Appeal: The Power of Specificity

September 13, 2019
Jeff Brooks
Fundraising
If you’re in or near Seattle, or you can manage to get to Seattle, you don’t want to miss the St. Demetrios Greek Festival every September. The highlight of the Festival for me comes a few months before that, when…
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Matching Gift Appeals: How Many Is Too Many?

August 19, 2019
Jeff Brooks
Fundraising
Be not afraid. That’s generally good advice, and it’s very good advice when it comes to matching gift offers. Matching gift appeals are maybe the easiest and most dependable way to increase response to your fundraising. It works any time…
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How to Bulk Up Response to Any Fundraising Ask with Matching Funds

August 27, 2018
Jeff Brooks
Fundraising
I don’t throw around terms like “magic” lightly, because there’s no such thing. But matching funds come close to magic. A match offer can cut through the clutter and encourage more donors to give. In fact, in my experience, a…
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11 Ways to Beat the Odds and Raise a Lot of Money

January 22, 2018
Jeff Brooks
Fundraising
Fundraising is just hard. Not only are you trying to persuade strangers to give you money for almost nothing in return — but you’re asking all that of people who are being asked by dozens of other fundraisers at the…
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