Nonprofit

5 Year-end Tips for the Nonprofit Fundraising Professional

It’s not too late to have an incredible year-end fundraising campaign.

Dan Hanley
2 min readMay 9, 2024

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Author meeting a donor. Photo credit: Author

If you’re in nonprofit fundraising, you are hearing a lot about year-end fundraising.

Or perhaps not. After all, it’s only May.

This story is for those in nonprofit fundraising whose year-end is June 30th.

It’s focus is to ensure you’re making at least one last ask of your donors to support your mission before the end of your fiscal year.

You’re already very close to being overwhelmed. The board meeting is coming up, you’re short one or two people on your fundraising team, your fall appeal turned from an annual direct mail piece to a quick e-appeal, and your family has decided that summer vacation will be in June.

Can you relate to any of this?

I have always liked to begin my year-end fundraising campaign a couple of months before year-end.

If you have not started your year-end fundraising, or feel behind, try these five actions to get into the groove:

Tune out any noise that says you are behind. It’s not helpful.

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Dan Hanley

I write about nonprofits, fundraising, recruiting, self-care. Human rights, domestic violence, borders, and refugee focused. Sober. Vegan. https://altrui.org/