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Making Your First Donor Retention Calendar, Step by Step

Connection Cafe

Make a donor retention calendar to keep your donors loyal! Over $100 Check in the mail: Thank them with a phone call & letter. Multi-year donor: thank them with a phone call. Step Three: Put it all Together in your Donor Retention Calendar. Once you know WHO to focus on, what does a donor retention calendar include?

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It’s Not Too Late: 3 Strategic Year-End Fundraising Tips

Bloomerang

Did you know that nearly one-third of individual fundraising happens during the month of December and 12% of giving happens in the last week of the calendar year ? . If someone wants to reach you by phone or email, it should be easy for them to do so. Download our Year-End Fundraising eBook for more year-end fundraising tips!

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Dearest Donors: A Love Letter

Care2

Blackbaud brought together 14 nonprofit experts in an eBook to share tried-and-true donor retention strategies, tips, and ideas. A touch can be a simple "I''m thinking of you" note, a phone call to say that you''re thinking of them, or even a reminder of how important they are to your life. Create a retention calendar.

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App Recommendations from the TechSoup Staff

Tech Soup

I have gobs of apps on my phone, but I doubt that I actually use more than 10 of them on a daily basis. PDF Viewer to look at PDF documents and also eBooks. We both like Cozi - a family planning app for grocery lists, our family calendar, trip and camping packing lists, and household to-do lists. I have a Nokia Windows 8 phone.

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Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy: Guide, Best Practices, & More

Qgiv

When was the last time you didn’t have your cell phone on you? Text fundraising : People are on their phones all the time, which makes text fundraising a no-brainer! How to Create a Fundraising Calendar. Use this guide to create your marketing calendar. Download this eBook for more information on donor retention.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Best Practices: Event Marketing

Qgiv

That doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate a personal touch; the next most popular method of receiving updates was through personal phone calls. They can hang the postcard from the fridge or even share it with others that may be interested (after adding it to their calendar of course!). Next, send the official invitation. Conclusion.