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Isaiah Swanson is a volunteer recruitment professional who has interviewed, trained, and supervised thousands of volunteers supporting dozens of nonprofit programs helping families in crisis, homebound seniors, and victims of natural disasters.
Fundraising managers must not only be able to meet challenging fundraising goals, but they should also surpass those goals for the greatest benefit of the organization's programs and clients. Talk about a time when you changed or adjusted a process that resulted in an increase in individual, corporate, or foundational giving.

Isaiah Swanson is a volunteer recruitment professional who has interviewed, trained, and supervised thousands of volunteers supporting dozens of nonprofit programs helping families in crisis, homebound seniors, and victims of natural disasters.
Focus on numbers here! Share with the interviewer what your goal was and how the process improvement helped you meet the goal or surpass it and by what specific number.

Isaiah Swanson is a volunteer recruitment professional who has interviewed, trained, and supervised thousands of volunteers supporting dozens of nonprofit programs helping families in crisis, homebound seniors, and victims of natural disasters.
"When I joined my current fundraising team, the organization had a very limited digital presence including a Facebook page and a website with minimal functionality. Our programs are focused on providing affordable healthcare based on a sliding scale, and I knew we had an opportunity to appeal to a younger demographic not currently represented in our donor base. Because of increasing interest in this issue among Generation Z, I proposed pursuing smaller, targeted social media campaigns with one-click donation enhancements. We revamped our website to include video testimonials from real clients and streamlined the donation process. I worked closely with our communications team to advise them on creating additional social media pages and devised strategies for boosting digital engagement. In the end, we saw traffic to our social media and website pages increase by more than 500%, which resulted in an additional 25,000 a year in monetary donations."

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