With our continued focus this month on avoiding fundraiser burnout, we were thrilled to chat with Ashima Saigal, Founder of Soapbox Engage Partner Database Sherpa, on how mindfulness and meditation inform her Salesforce work with nonprofits and what insight they can offer fundraisers.

For more on self-care and ensuring long-term success as a fundraiser, watch our free webinar, How to Raise More Money Without Burning Out, with special guest presenter Beth Kanter.

Having the right tools can make all the difference in both the end results of fundraising campaigns as well as the morale of the fundraiser. And the importance of morale shouldn't be underestimated. As we noted in a recent blog post, the average tenure for a fundraiser is just 16 months. Burnout plays a big part in that stat.

The Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack offers a powerful platform for fundraising out-of-the-box along with an immense ability to further customize that platform to meet your own needs. Over the last several months, we've highlighted a number of ways to do so. As summer nears a close and we look toward the end-of-year giving season, we offer this list of 10 how-to recipes to make your job as a fundraiser easier and your work more effective. Each range in the time required to implement. Some require as few as 15 minutes. Some a little over an hour. Feel free to tackle one or two in your own Salesforce instance to prepare your nonprofit for the end-of-year fundraising sprint.

And, to prepare yourself for that fundraising sprint, watch our free webinar, How to Raise More Money Without Burning Out, with special guest presenter Beth Kanter. We discuss signs of burnout and strategies for self-care and organizational culture that promotes it - along with some other Salesforce-specific suggestions for staying fresh as a fundraiser.

As part of our focus this month on avoiding fundraiser burnout and succeeding long-term, we had the pleasure of chatting with Beth Zimmerman, Founder and Executive Director of Pets for Patriots, on what keeps her fresh and focused on the success of her organization's mission.

For more on ensuring long-term success as a fundraiser, watch our free webinar, How to Raise More Money Without Burning Out, with special guest presenter Beth Kanter.

#GivingTuesday takes place on November 28th this year and wise nonprofits are already planning strategies to leverage this massive day of giving. For 2017, six key factors are conspiring to make this the perfect year for peer-to-peer fundraising - the act of your supporters asking their own community for donations on your behalf - to be a powerful addition for your nonprofit’s strategy.

Here’s why:

2016 was a high watermark for donations to nonprofits with a massive flood of dollars given in the final weeks of the year. This torrent of generosity was attributed to a number of expected factors: an economy continuing its recovery, the natural spike in donations at the end of the year, and a strong #GivingTuesday response. What was not widely expected was the outcome of the presidential election and the many in the body politic who chose to reach for their wallets to voice their protest of the incoming administration of President Donald Trump.