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New Opportunities

Exploration of emerging ideas, tools, markets, and strategies within philanthropy and fundraising. This category highlights areas of growth, innovation, and evolving practice that may present new opportunities for nonprofits.

Businessman chasing a dangling carrot symbolizing fundraisers pursuing small incentives while larger legacy gifts are ignored.
New Opportunities
Viken Mikaelian

$100K Bequest vs $10K Check: Which Gets Applause?

A $100,000 bequest barely gets a pat on the back, while a $10,000 check today earns applause, credit, and bonuses. That’s the real problem: behavior follows recognition, and recognition follows reporting. Until you start tracking, crediting, and celebrating legacy commitments like major gifts, your program will keep limping along—underfunded and overlooked. The fix is simple. Reward what matters.

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Intelligence centers for data analytics
New Opportunities
Viken Mikaelian

Planned Giving Analytics: Right Tool, Right Scale

Some nonprofits are exploring expensive analytics platforms for planned giving—complete with dashboards, donor heatmaps, and predictive scoring tools—”intelligence tools” as they are called. Often, these are rebranded business intelligence tools that have been given a “legacy twist” and called innovation. But here’s the question: Is this the right tool for organizations like yours? These platforms can generate meaningful insights… if you have 2,000,000+ prospects to analyze. But when your donor file has less than 100,000 people, do you need predictive algorithms to tell you who cares about your mission?

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Small Nonprofits Should Enter the Planned Giving Game
New Opportunities
Viken Mikaelian

Planned Giving for Smaller Nonprofit: 10 Reasons

If you’re not going after planned gifts, the bigger fish next door is. And since planned gifts are gifts from the heart, they inspire more cash gifts, too. This means, if the nonprofit next door wins your planned gifts, your cash gifts will walk out the door, too.

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Giving Magazine, Karen Alonso on Cover, United Way Las Vegas, AFP Chapter President

Giving Magazine

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