Niels Teunis

“ Brave people aren’t unfamiliar with fear. They’re intimate with fear. Brave people are cowards who feel the fear, but do things anyhow. ” - SAMBA Blog: Feel the fear, do it anyway

“ Let’s imagine a different way of doing this. Giving circles are generally oganized by friends to give to a variety of causes, leaving the cause in the passive position of hoping to be supported. What if causes organized giving circles to support their cause — and other causes. I know, really scary to think about organizing your own donors to possible give to other organizations, but, hey, that’s what people do. What if you took all of your donors in one zip code, regardless of how much they gave and helped them to organize a get together at someone’s house to talk about the cause. Maybe they don’t even talk about giving the first time they meet. Maybe they just to talk about the cause, what it means, what it does, how it could do better, etc. They could come back onto your Facebook page or on Twitter and share what they learned, what they thought and dreamed for the cause. And then the second meeting they begin to talk about giving to the cause. ” - A New Relationship with Donors « A. Fine Blog

“ But if there is some possibility to have nostalgia about email, to make the medium itself meaningful, then email fundraising has a whole other future ahead. Just think what it would mean if you received a hand written request for financial support now from someone you trust. That would be a request that is very hard to ignore. ” - Personalize Email Fundraising — Niels Teunis

“ # Always tell the story.
# Tell your constituents how they are changing the world.
# In every single email follow with a call to action, to change the world even further. ” - Niels Teunis — From Vision to Execution

“ The gist is that email really is only effective when you can clearly articulate a crisis, an opportunity (crisitunity), and a theory of change (how taking action now will resolve the crisitunity). ” - How to find Fundraising Email Opportunities — Niels Teunis

“ Online donors are not just donors
They are part of a movement
They have a stake in the outcome ” - Niels Teunis — From Vision to Execution

“ Martin said that they way you become successful is to “become SO GREAT at what you do, you become IMPOSSIBLE to ignore. ” - Wish this was in the new book…can you be ignored?

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What do you do?

* Every day focus on the impact that you are making.
* Gather stories of all the people you have helped, all the lives you saved.
* Tell these stories to your donors. They will agree that what you do is incredibly important and dig deeper.
* Go online. It appears that online donations are actually up.

” - Your Passion must run your Nonprofit