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Predicting the Trends in Nonprofit Fundraising for 2022
With January and end-of-year fundraising wrapped up, it’s time to turn to the rest of 2022 and tweak fundraising plans. Given the continuance of the pandemic, an unpredictable stock market, and concerns over inflation, there’s a lot of uncertainty in the philanthropy sector. What are the experts predicting for this year?Julep staff reviewed many blog posts and articles predicting trends for 2022, and below is a summary of what we found.

How Julep Data is Organized
The beginning of the new year is a great time to review your Julep data to clean up or organize your Source Codes. Understanding the difference between Fund Codes, Program Codes, Initiative Codes and Source Codes helps your nonprofit fully use all the available Julep tools and features.

Timesaver Tip: How to Organize Data in Julep
The beginning of the new year is a great time to review your Julep data to clean up or organize your Source Codes. Understanding the difference between Fund Codes, Program Codes, Initiative Codes and Source Codes helps your nonprofit fully use all the available Julep tools and features.




How to Take the Uncertainty Out of Fundraising
Have you read the new Giving Tuesday report predicting the outcome of 2021? The biggest takeaway: it’s complicated.

Timesaver Tips: Customizing People Profiles
Did you know that both the Julep Home Dashboard and People Profile are fully customizable? It’s easy to activate the customize setting and either remove cards and graphs not being used, or drag-and-drop items to your preferred location.
This simple, yet powerful, new feature is extremely fast to set up. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the edit button to activate the customize feature. When you hover over each card or graph, you can either drag-and-drop each element into a new location or delete them entirely. Once the page is arranged, click on the blue checkmark button to save.

Are you in the 25% of nonprofits?
According to NTEN’s 2020 Data Empowerment Report, nearly 25% of nonprofits store their critical fundraising data on individual computers.
That means nearly one-quarter of nonprofits are a coffee spill or hard drive crash away from losing all their fundraising data!

Watch: Keeping Giving Tuesday Donors Engaged
Have you followed up with any of your Giving Tuesday donors yet?
Before you add them to your next email or direct mail appeal, take 30 minutes to watch our latest webinar, Keeping Giving Tuesday Donors Engaged.
Since 63% of these donors will only contribute on Giving Tuesday, many nonprofits need to rethink the typical donor journey before contacting them.

Webinar: Keeping Your Giving Tuesday Donors Engaged
Great news! Early results from Giving Tuesday project that the event broke new fundraising records. Your hard work and preparation paid off! Now, it’s time to thank these donors, add their information to your database, and focus on end-of-year giving.

Giving Tuesday – 4 Factors Most People Overlook
What are your plans for Giving Tuesday? It’s easy to dismiss the idea of creating a separate strategy for the day and simply plan general Giving Tuesday messages across all channels and networks. While it’s tempting to use a one-size-fits-all approach, spending an hour to sketch out a plan will make your Giving Tuesday more effective and efficient.

A Flexible CRM for a Changing Time
Have you noticed how the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors are changing? Here’s how Giving USA recently described this year:
The plates of institutional giving are shifting under our feet. 2020 is proving to be a year of seismic events—the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic fallout, the mainstreaming of Black Lives Matter as a global movement, a U.S. presidential election that we can expect will impact nonprofit fundraising more than in other election years—that are changing life, and also philanthropy, as we’ve known it.