Relieve your development team from routine tasks and see your fundraising program grow.

The most valuable skills your development team’s members bring to your nonprofit are their unmatched relationship-building skills and their ability to passionately, articulately share your organization’s mission and accomplishments. However, there’s no escaping the reality that today’s fundraising programs must master data and details to succeed. If your nonprofit isn’t providing your fundraisers with administrative support, I guarantee you that either data and details are suffering or your relationships with funders are suffering. Nonprofit Virtual Assistants are an affordable way to get your fundraising back-end humming and give your fundraisers the time and tools they need to cultivate, solicit and steward.

Nonprofit Virtual Assistants (NPVAs) are seasoned virtual administrative professionals, with certification in nonprofit best practices, who can be engaged for as little as 10 hours/month or 40+ hours/month depending on the support your organization needs. Here are a few of the ways they can be engaged to support fundraising:

Maintaining and Segmenting Donor Data

NPVAs are well-versed in CRM systems and can help clean and migrate data into a new system or regularly update data in an existing system. They can also help nonprofits get more from their donor and prospect data by generating system reports and segmenting data to enable more personalized appeals.

Managing Gift Acknowledgements

Unfortunately, when administrative support is lacking, acknowledgement letters or emails may not go out promptly or may not go out at all. An NPVA can manage this process for you, ensuring donor acknowledgements go out like clockwork. If you want donors at different levels to receive different messaging, NPVAs are adept at managing those details.

Preparing Solicitors to Execute

Solicitors need appointments made and confirmed, meeting materials prepared and delivered, notes transcribed and sent, actions tracked and responses logged. NPVAs can manage these details so your team can focus on building relationships.

Leading or Supporting Event/Campaign Planning

NPVAs can take the lead on many aspects of event planning (venue selection and menu planning, event RSVPs, AV set-up and more) or they can help keep your planning committee on track by taking meeting notes, setting up centralized checklists and keeping track of key milestones. They can also develop timelines for multifaceted campaigns, like your year-end giving push or Giving Tuesday campaign, tracking and closing action items and sounding the alarm if things “fall off the tracks.”

Supporting Social Media and Email Outreach

NPVAs can support the social media and email marketing efforts of your organization, including building and scheduling posts and emails.

Researching New Prospects

NPVAs can help you build out your pipeline of prospects. They can conduct online research for prospects meeting certain criteria or they can help work out logistics and execute on creative ideas like adding information about your organization to a town’s “welcome to the neighborhood” package.

To learn more or get matched with an NPVA, you can purchase a package online now or book a call with Jill, our NPVA Program Manager.