Robert Weiner

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

It does Direct Marketing but not Major Gift fundraising (or it does Major Gift fundraising but not Direct Marketing); we need support in both areas. The current software will not support our “road warrior” fundraisers, or we cannot access it via the browser or devices that we wish to use.

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2008 Online Giving Trends

Robert Weiner

The results come from 2,000 nonprofits using Blackbaud’s online fundraising tools. An average online gift of $152.12, although organizations focused on event-based and peer-to-peer online fundraising had lower average gift amounts. Tags: Online Fundraising Fundraising. in December.

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Should You Delete Donor Records?

Robert Weiner

While there are ways around it, that typically ends your ability to communicate with the donor, invite them to events, re-engage them, steward them, or understand why a subsequent gift or bequest came from them. Advancement Services Best Practices Databases Donor Databases Fundraising' What do you think?

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Chosing a donor database

Robert Weiner

to constituents based on factors like past donations, interests, event attendance, recency of gifts, lifetime giving total, etc. Talk to organizations with similar fundraising programs, staffing, IT support, etc. Here's one of mine: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/957/l/eng/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=37802.

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Twestival: Trying to raise $500,000 through Twitter

Robert Weiner

Beth Kanter wrote an extensive, thoughtful account of the upcoming Twestival event , which aims to raise $500,000 for the group charity:water. As a fundraising operations geek, I wonder how this works on the back end. Or is this a one-time event for them? I hope it’s done automatically when the donation is made.

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Thoughts on the Blackbaud – Convio deal

Robert Weiner

Provides robust, flexible support for all forms of fundraising, membership, marketing, and communications. Support advocacy, volunteer management, complex events, electronic communications, content management, online payments, and merchandise sales. Complex family, social, business, corporate, and financial relationships.

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Matching Gifts Best Practices 2009

Robert Weiner

The most effective methods for gathering employment data (cited by at least 30% of respondents) were admissions/enrollment forms, alumni directory surveys, collecting business cards at events, individual surveys (follow-ups to address changes, etc.), Tags: Fundraising. It is available at [link].

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