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How To: Write Fundraising Auction Item Descriptions

Greater Giving

Indicate comparison (competitive, superior, ultimate, etc.) Use Attention-Grabbing Language To make your headlines and auction item descriptions more tempting, use words that: Convey appeal (excellent, popular, quality, etc.) Communicate expertise (proven, reliable, noted, etc.) Suggest a good value (fortune, wealth, reward, etc.)

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent). Organization’s Founding Date/History. Staff Demographics (Age, Ethnicity, Gender, Immigration Status). Miscellaneous (3 percent). Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Alternative Supports (<1 percent). Organization’s Fax Number.

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Millennials and Direct Mail Campaigns: A Crash Course

Achieve

For nonprofits, this means millennials are a key demographic to craft fundraising campaigns around. . As you consider direct mail’s place in your marketing, remember that millennials are a diverse group, and other characteristics such as income, location, and giving history can also impact the results of your marketing campaigns.

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Donor Management Software: Buyer’s Guide + 16 Top Solutions

Bloomerang

Donor profiles show the history each supporter has with your organization. Each profile shows the donation history of each donor, their contact and demographic information, and each interaction they’ve had with your organization in the past (emails opened, calls-to-action taken, events attended, etc.). Data segmentation.

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Unicef’s Little Bet on Pinboard

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’d like to try to benchmark it against other disruptive pinterest campaigns but we’re not sure there is a good comparison case study. UNICEF has a history of innovation. We predicted it might be smaller as the campaign is disruptive to the usual pinterest pattern. Please tell us if you know of one!

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Team Obama ranked #1 most innovative by Fast Company

Connection Cafe

The true mystery lies in how we tap into this power and harness the vast WWW for our personal needs, whether they be to engage constituents, make money for a business, tap into a new demographic for a cause – the list could go on forever - and how to take what seem like highly successful anomalies and turn them into models to follow.

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Donor Management: The Ultimate Guide

Neon CRM

Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit? It may include researching individuals’ giving history, political affiliations, and philanthropic interests, as well as analyzing publicly available data and market research. 7 min read Read Now 2.