Aspire Nonprofit Partners in the News
February 2018
Susan's article on new widgets was published in the Advice from the Experts column of
Philanthropic Service for Institutions of The Seventh-day Adventist Church:
http://philanthropicservice.com/columns/advice-from-the-expert/
Gain New Donors and Boost Gift Size Now with Free Widgets
By Susan Lasker Dankoff
Would you like to attract more new donors and larger gifts in 2018? Acquiring new donors in today’s competitive market can be difficult and expensive. And, with the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, many charities anticipate the need to attract more major gifts, as fewer individuals itemize their deductions.
Two new free tools can help you meet these fundraising challenges. One enables prospective donors viewing your GuideStar profile to donate right from that page. The other allows supporters with donor-advised funds (DAF) to make gifts directly from your website—it’s as simple as using a credit card online.
1. Add a Donate Button to Your GuideStar Nonprofit Profile
Add a free Donate button to your organization’s GuideStar Nonprofit Profile. It will give donors and prospects researching your group a convenient way to donate to your nonprofit—while they are on your page! For easy to follow instructions on how to add the button, Read More.
2. Add a DAF Button to your own website
In 2016, individuals contributed $23 billion to donor-advised funds and recommended grants to charities of their choice of almost $16 billion. The average DAF gift was about $4,000! Thanks to software creator MarketSmart, you can add a button to your website that will let donors give to you directly from their donor-advised fund. The free DAF widget makes it convenient for donors to access their own fund from more than 800 established donor-advised funds.
Click here to see how: http://www.dafwidget.com/
Boost your philanthropic revenue today! Use the links above to learn how you can provide these tools to your donors and prospects.
Susan Lasker Dankoff, Co-founder
Aspire Nonprofit Partners, LLC.
O: 301-404-7650 or sdankoff@aspirenp.com
www.aspirenp.com
Susan Lasker Dankoff is co-founder (with Steve Meyerson) of Aspire Nonprofit Partners in Chevy Chase MD. She has planned and managed many successful multi-million-dollar capital campaigns, major gift initiatives and broad-based development programs during her career. As a development staff leader and as a consultant, she has served dozens of educational and charitable organizations and institutions and presented at many conferences over the past four decades. Prior to founding Aspire, she was vice president and senior consultant for Skystone Partners, an international fundraising firm, for 20+ years, and managing partner of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office for four years.
Susan's article on new widgets was published in the Advice from the Experts column of
Philanthropic Service for Institutions of The Seventh-day Adventist Church:
http://philanthropicservice.com/columns/advice-from-the-expert/
Gain New Donors and Boost Gift Size Now with Free Widgets
By Susan Lasker Dankoff
Would you like to attract more new donors and larger gifts in 2018? Acquiring new donors in today’s competitive market can be difficult and expensive. And, with the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, many charities anticipate the need to attract more major gifts, as fewer individuals itemize their deductions.
Two new free tools can help you meet these fundraising challenges. One enables prospective donors viewing your GuideStar profile to donate right from that page. The other allows supporters with donor-advised funds (DAF) to make gifts directly from your website—it’s as simple as using a credit card online.
1. Add a Donate Button to Your GuideStar Nonprofit Profile
Add a free Donate button to your organization’s GuideStar Nonprofit Profile. It will give donors and prospects researching your group a convenient way to donate to your nonprofit—while they are on your page! For easy to follow instructions on how to add the button, Read More.
2. Add a DAF Button to your own website
In 2016, individuals contributed $23 billion to donor-advised funds and recommended grants to charities of their choice of almost $16 billion. The average DAF gift was about $4,000! Thanks to software creator MarketSmart, you can add a button to your website that will let donors give to you directly from their donor-advised fund. The free DAF widget makes it convenient for donors to access their own fund from more than 800 established donor-advised funds.
Click here to see how: http://www.dafwidget.com/
Boost your philanthropic revenue today! Use the links above to learn how you can provide these tools to your donors and prospects.
Susan Lasker Dankoff, Co-founder
Aspire Nonprofit Partners, LLC.
O: 301-404-7650 or sdankoff@aspirenp.com
www.aspirenp.com
Susan Lasker Dankoff is co-founder (with Steve Meyerson) of Aspire Nonprofit Partners in Chevy Chase MD. She has planned and managed many successful multi-million-dollar capital campaigns, major gift initiatives and broad-based development programs during her career. As a development staff leader and as a consultant, she has served dozens of educational and charitable organizations and institutions and presented at many conferences over the past four decades. Prior to founding Aspire, she was vice president and senior consultant for Skystone Partners, an international fundraising firm, for 20+ years, and managing partner of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office for four years.
July 5, 2016
The 11th Annual Bridge to
Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference
July 14 & 15, 2016
Charge Up Your Leadership Team
for Breakthroughs in Major Giving
Susan Lasker Dankoff and Deborah Peeples, CFRE
Co-Presenters
As a development officer you can’t go it alone— fundraising success requires a team approach to optimize effectiveness. To achieve breakthroughs in your major giving program, you need to engage, train, and charge up a leadership team across your organization. Learn how to create a fundraising power team that can take your major giving revenue to the next level.
Deborah and Susan will present three case studies, strategies, and tips to charge up your leadership team. Having achieved dramatic increases in major gift revenue at these local and national organizations, they offer five success strategies you can implement to push past a plateau and accelerate your own major giving program. Come prepared to examine your own organization’s readiness to experience breakthroughs and leave with a new perspective on what it takes your major gift fundraising to new heights.
The 11th Annual Bridge to
Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference
July 14 & 15, 2016
Charge Up Your Leadership Team
for Breakthroughs in Major Giving
Susan Lasker Dankoff and Deborah Peeples, CFRE
Co-Presenters
As a development officer you can’t go it alone— fundraising success requires a team approach to optimize effectiveness. To achieve breakthroughs in your major giving program, you need to engage, train, and charge up a leadership team across your organization. Learn how to create a fundraising power team that can take your major giving revenue to the next level.
Deborah and Susan will present three case studies, strategies, and tips to charge up your leadership team. Having achieved dramatic increases in major gift revenue at these local and national organizations, they offer five success strategies you can implement to push past a plateau and accelerate your own major giving program. Come prepared to examine your own organization’s readiness to experience breakthroughs and leave with a new perspective on what it takes your major gift fundraising to new heights.
October 1, 2015
Aspire Nonprofit Partners Brings Transformational Fundraising Strategies to Nonprofits
Founding partners Susan Lasker Dankoff and Steve Meyerson announce the formation of Aspire Nonprofit Partners, LLC. The firm brings big picture insights and creative strategies to major gift fundraising, capital campaigns, nonprofit management, and marketing/communications for nonprofit organizations in the Mid- Atlantic region. Aspire's mission is to help nonprofits gain higher-level fundraising success and attain aspirational goals.
Susan and Steve bring their combined decades of broad-based experience serving nearly 70 nonprofit organizations. Their fundraising successes for local, national, and international nonprofits in health, education, arts, culture, environment, social service, and other fields is complemented by a wide range of strategic partners. With these top-talent consultants bringing direct marketing, communications, and other related services, Aspire customizes teams to serve as trusted advisors to CEOs, board members, and chief development officers.
Aspire helps clients achieve their unique goals by instilling best practices into new and expanded major and planned giving programs and capital campaigns, in most cases applying its own Aspire Model©.This model brings essential business management concepts--Assess, Strategize, Plan, Implement, Re-align, and Evaluate--to the larger organization, building its capacity and accelerating top-level major gifts. Other services include board development, training, coaching, and executive search.
Aspire was formed in early 2015 after Susan and Steve had successfully collaborated on significant fundraising planning studies, development assessments, and capital campaigns, demonstrating the effective synergy of their diverse talents. Since inception, Aspire is gratified with the raised sights--and even dramatic achievements--of its primary clients, including Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Phoenix House Mid-Atlantic, St. Francis Healthcare (Wilmington, DE), and Georgetown Heritage.
Aspire thanks its many valued nonprofit clients and partners that are working together to repair and transform our world.
For more information, visit www.aspirenp.com or contact:
Susan Lasker Dankoff, Partner and Co-founder
Email: sdankoff@aspirenp.com; Cell 301.404.7650
Steve Meyerson, MBA, Partner and Co-founder
Email: smeyerson@aspirenp.com; Cell: 703.405.0750
Founding partners Susan Lasker Dankoff and Steve Meyerson announce the formation of Aspire Nonprofit Partners, LLC. The firm brings big picture insights and creative strategies to major gift fundraising, capital campaigns, nonprofit management, and marketing/communications for nonprofit organizations in the Mid- Atlantic region. Aspire's mission is to help nonprofits gain higher-level fundraising success and attain aspirational goals.
Susan and Steve bring their combined decades of broad-based experience serving nearly 70 nonprofit organizations. Their fundraising successes for local, national, and international nonprofits in health, education, arts, culture, environment, social service, and other fields is complemented by a wide range of strategic partners. With these top-talent consultants bringing direct marketing, communications, and other related services, Aspire customizes teams to serve as trusted advisors to CEOs, board members, and chief development officers.
Aspire helps clients achieve their unique goals by instilling best practices into new and expanded major and planned giving programs and capital campaigns, in most cases applying its own Aspire Model©.This model brings essential business management concepts--Assess, Strategize, Plan, Implement, Re-align, and Evaluate--to the larger organization, building its capacity and accelerating top-level major gifts. Other services include board development, training, coaching, and executive search.
Aspire was formed in early 2015 after Susan and Steve had successfully collaborated on significant fundraising planning studies, development assessments, and capital campaigns, demonstrating the effective synergy of their diverse talents. Since inception, Aspire is gratified with the raised sights--and even dramatic achievements--of its primary clients, including Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Phoenix House Mid-Atlantic, St. Francis Healthcare (Wilmington, DE), and Georgetown Heritage.
Aspire thanks its many valued nonprofit clients and partners that are working together to repair and transform our world.
For more information, visit www.aspirenp.com or contact:
Susan Lasker Dankoff, Partner and Co-founder
Email: sdankoff@aspirenp.com; Cell 301.404.7650
Steve Meyerson, MBA, Partner and Co-founder
Email: smeyerson@aspirenp.com; Cell: 703.405.0750
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July 10, 2015
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The 10th Annual Bridge to
Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference
July 8 & 9, 2015
Aspire Nonprofit Partners:
Steve Meyerson, Co-Dean, Major Gifts Track
Susan Lasker Dankoff, Co-Presenter,
Major Gift Success: Moving from Incremental to Exponential
with Betsy Wason, VP, Development, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference
July 8 & 9, 2015
Aspire Nonprofit Partners:
Steve Meyerson, Co-Dean, Major Gifts Track
Susan Lasker Dankoff, Co-Presenter,
Major Gift Success: Moving from Incremental to Exponential
with Betsy Wason, VP, Development, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine