Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

One of the best ways to stay in touch with your donors on a consistent basis is through a nonprofit email newsletter. When done well, email newsletters can be fast and cheap for you and heartwarming for your donor, basically meeting everyone’s needs. Your newsletter’s audience Who you should sent your newsletter to?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

There are many elements of your donation pages that can be adjusted to test their impact on the form’s conversion rates, including the headline, photos or images, and the number and layout of fields in the form. Testing several versions of your donation page will help you ensure the maximum amount of conversions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

These best practices serve as a foundation for upgrading your website to be compatible with the Social Web and are then elaborated upon in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Online Fundraising and e-Newsletters. Use bold for headlines. Subscribe to E-newsletter and Text Alert Functionality.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

You can also emphasize your headlines and key phrases by bolding them, increasing the font size, and capitalizing the letters. And be sure to include a mailing address. Make it easy to sign up for your newsletter. Display a newsletter sign-up option in the footer, but avoid the word newsletter. They invoke a mood.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2012

We were also very excited that these efforts resulted in two popular social media newsletters among Latinos picking up the story. Our ACA story headlined Las Blogueras (hashtag #lasblogueras), a largely Spanish-language Twitter newsletter with 15,000 readers.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Main | Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team » Wednesday Jan 14 2009 10 Fast Tips to Boost E-newsletter Performance Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:40AM | by Allyson Kapin Let’s face it: People have a love hate relationship with their email. Here are some useful tips to increase your e-newsletters performance rates.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Here’s our mailing address if you want to send a check. Component #2: A short paragraph that nudges the donor toward giving Once you’ve hooked people in with your headline, it’s time to fan the flames you’ve kindled in their heart with a very short paragraph designed to pull them in even closer. They want to give to support the cause.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This engineering insight became his headline: “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in a Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.” For example, if a mailed appeal with a matching gift incentive consistently outperforms others, keep using that format. Sending a recurring newsletter or print mailing to engage supporters.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

One of the things I have to do for my job at C3 on a regular basis is produce our monthly e-newsletter. It took a while, but I finally have a template that seems to be working well for us: I’ve tested the template in Outlook (2003 and 2007), Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and Apple Mail and it looks just like the screen shot above, or close enough.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s especially gratifying to see this shift in a period where “rage donations” have grabbed headlines. Email newsletters saw similar declines. With new technology available that helps you track giving and update credit cards automatically when gifts fail, these programs are easier than ever to maintain over the long haul.

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Here’s today’s headline for you: NEARLY 95% OF EMAIL IS JUNK Nearly 95 percent of the e-mail sent in 2007 has been “spam,&# junk advertising loathed by its recipients, according to a report released Wednesday by a US Web security firm. Because email… what’s the technical term?… … sucks.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 9, 2015

Don’t get me wrong, it’s important for your organization to pay attention to some trends—hell, we even published two of those headlines above (not the puppy one). But don’t fret, because this can be anything from sending a direct mail piece, email, newsletter or even making 100 calls in a particular month. Yes, every month.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Imagine what your donors and constituents would say if they saw your name in that headline. Donny welcomes comments and feedback via e-mail at donny@myitk.com or reach him by phone at (808) 735-8324. Tags: Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN privacy.

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See3

AUGUST 9, 2007

Seeing the headlines, “ Johnson & Johnson Sues Red Cross Over Symbol &# it is easy to say look at the big bad corporation going after the poor nonprofit. Now four of my perscriptions I get mail order without insurance because it cheaper then AARP’s United Health Care. I am not sure that’s the case here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

Building a donor base or subscriber base by collecting contact information from those subscribing to newsletters, white papers, and other resources that you make available. Signing up for you mailing list. These include: Encouraging donations from donors and potential donors. Submitting a contact form. Donating a contribution.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

5) Use Compelling Images And Headlines: Images can help draw your readers in and help connect them to your organizations mission and initiatives. Also try and use headlines, par"you" or "your" where possible. ” Provide links to resources, fact sheets, and important articles so users can easily click to read more.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Although sadly our unabbreviated name is too long to fit the 25-character limit on ad headlines.) Then, they might click through, sign up to join our e-mail list, and spend time exploring our site, using our resources, and getting to know the organization. 60) Search « Why Every Nonprofit Should Embrace the Web 2.0

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

You can quickly see the actual cost per friend you recruit, the supporter you recruit, or cost per donation and hopefully compare that to other options - web traffic, direct mail, ads, email, events, etc. Best practices to date indicate thats via email, both in acquisition and in response.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

You can quickly see the actual cost per friend you recruit, the supporter you recruit, or cost per donation and hopefully compare that to other options - web traffic, direct mail, ads, email, events, etc. Best practices to date indicate thats via email, both in acquisition and in response.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

You can quickly see the actual cost per friend you recruit, the supporter you recruit, or cost per donation and hopefully compare that to other options - web traffic, direct mail, ads, email, events, etc. Best practices to date indicate thats via email, both in acquisition and in response.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2018

Tip 1: Master your direct mail fundraising. For over a century, direct mail has been a fundraising staple. With the advent of the Internet, email, and social networking, many school fundraisers are wondering: Does direct mail fundraising still work? Include headlines and plenty of white space to make it easy to read.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

They do the mailing. Maybe you send one email, and you don’t do any direct mail. Maybe you do like, you know, five emails and like four direct mail pieces. Just choose in the poll how many appeals mail and email you sent. You’re going to be scheduling your emails and your social and your mail drop.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2017

Personalize the donation forms and autoresponders for major donors so that the headline, opening statement, and donation amounts, reflect messaging for specifically for them. Invite major donors to contribute their ideas, thoughts, or passion for your cause via a blog or article for an e/newsletter. Guest Blogging. Video Stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." Since widgets were fairly new, I installed a mail widget on my blog and asked nonprofit techies what they thought. Using mail widgets and chat client wigets but depends on your audience.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Whether you’re crafting a newsletter, blog post, or email about an upcoming event, your first step in writing copy is to be conscientious of your readers. Mentioned this week in the Agitator , SOFII has become the treasury of the Jerry Huntsinger’s direct mail fundraising advice. Give it a look. What’s your tone?

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