Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2022

From emails to videos to phone calls and beyond, do whatever you can to personally connect with each of your donors and make sure that they know how much you value them and the incredible impact their giving has already had for those you serve. You can even send a postcard in the mail with the same copy as your social media post.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As we’re preparing for our year-end appeals, can you offer some advice on how we can infuse our year-end appeals with the magic of the season? Provide multiple giving options , including email, QR codes, Apple Pay or Google Pay , text, mail, and phone, to accommodate different donor preferences. Throwing a gala?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 5, 2021

You can’t begin to engage your supporters on mobile without their phone numbers and permission to text them. Your donors will most likely provide their phone numbers on your donation form. All that’s left is to ask for permission to contact them via that phone number. How to opt supporters in to text messages.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to attract corporate matching gifts: Dear Charity Clairity, I have a question about how to attract corporate matching gifts. Just sitting by the phone waiting for your donor to figure it out—and do all the work—is simply not going to cut it.

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Forum One

MARCH 20, 2023

We’ll have lots of goodies, helpful tips, and advice, and would love the opportunity to meet you and learn about your nonprofit communications activities. [Breakout Session] Increasing Your Nonprofit’s Impact with Service Design Wednesday, April 12th, 12:45 – 1:15 pm Now more than ever, people rely on technology. Stop by and say hello!

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

We move, take new jobs, change phone plans, change email accounts, marry, divorce, raise families, change religions, develop new interests, attend new events, and get involved in new activities. Next problem, the fundraising advice. Less than 5% of the advice focused on technology and/or data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Muchos kudos to the nonprofits that kept the donation process limited to one or two pages with only minimal data required to donate (name, mailing/billing address, and credit card information). 5) If the nonprofit required a phone number to make the donation. 5) If the nonprofit required a phone number to make the donation.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Donor love is the act of showing that appreciation via thank-you emails, handwritten notes, kind gestures, donor appreciation events, and other methods. How to create a donor appreciation letter or email. One of the simplest ways to show donor love is to send a message to donors via letter or email.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

Some examples of fundraising and marketing assets you may use in your campaign include: direct emailing , radio ads, bus ads, mail drop, etc. Being able to write your direct mail letters in September. And I know for a lot of people, they start to get nervous and wonder if this approach is going to turn donors off?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

If you're still struggling to find the right method for integrating your fundraising, our advice is to keep it simple at first: take a common sense approach. Communicating with your audience via print media, radio, television, mail, phone, Internet and email is a regular part of most marketing plans.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

How to use email marketing efficiently. Before you hit send, use this helpful advice to get the most out of your email marketing for Giving Tuesday. Your highest priority when sending Giving Tuesday appeals via email is to earn the most donations possible. Personalize your emails. Target your engaged supporters.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

Today’s question come from a fundraiser and donor who wants advice on how to handle poor donor engagement: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m a fundraiser, but also a donor. She reached out to me at least quarterly, we had phone calls, Zoom calls, and even met in person for coffee. That individual sent me an email.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Direct mail appeals are most successful with Baby Boomers. That doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate a personal touch; the next most popular method of receiving updates was through personal phone calls. Email marketing tips. Not sure how to get started with an effective email campaign? Want your emails to be more effective?

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Practice Marketing Fundraising Social Media 52

Bloomerang

JUNE 9, 2022

Volunteers, event attendees, annual fund donors, or people with whom you have engaged on some level through your emails and newsletters are often great candidates to move up the pyramid—they just need to receive some personal attention to motivate them. Follow up with a phone call. Narrow down top-tier donors to a small, select group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

5) What is the most important piece of fundraising advice that you have to offer charitable organizations in Brazil? 51% of donors in Brazil prefer to give online (credit/debit card), 22% by bank/wire transfer, 13% cash, 9% via PayPal, 3% through direct mail, and 2% via mobile payments. ? 77% have never heard of #GivingTuesday. ?

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Personalize the ask In a study of email fundraising campaigns, we found that the emails with the highest engagement rates addressed the recipients by name and used “you” language, speaking directly to the recipient. Offer specific options Most advice will say it’s important to give a specific amount when making a request.

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Map Donor Guide Newsletter 52

NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

As a nonprofit professional, you appreciate the fact that email campaigns are an affordable and effective way to reach as many clients, donors, members and media as possible. Even more important, is it meeting the needs of the email recipients that you hope will 1) open and read the message, 2) consider acting on it, and 3) take the action.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s why it’s important to follow advice like the Pareto principle, which advises putting 80% of your resources into cultivating the top 20% of prospective donors who are likely to give you 80% of your funding. Follow up with a phone call, thanking them for past engagement and discussing what they love about your mission.

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Gift Raise Guide Relationship 101

NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Have you ever felt trapped by your email provider -- dissatisfied with the features and/or service but daunted by figuring out how and where to move? Why do you need an email service provider? Here’s how to find the right ESP for your organization and to manage them to get the most from your bulk email campaigns.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

According to research : An average organization with a database of 50,000 records could be wasting up to $3,200 per mailing due to inaccurate addresses and deceased records. Find constituent phone numbers. Check and identify constituent phone numbers annually – and cell phone numbers biannually. Ensure email delivery.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Versus, “If you plan to give this year, will you reply to this email by the end of this week to give me a sense of when that will be? Listen, hun, your emails are too long. I know you love long emails, but you got to stop that. Your emails are too long. Just say, “Okay, what is the purpose of this email here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I’m talking about the stuff we consume daily to keep inform of our professional field. It comes speeding at us from our email boxes, social networks, kindles, and even paper and snail mail! We scan, we browse, we try to thoughtfully read the best stuff, and interact through online conversations.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

These days, investing in fundraising tools with CRM integrations is more of a necessity than general fundraising advice. Personalized emails. By integrating your fundraising tools and your CRM system, your communications team can use accurate donor data to individualize email content. Phone calls. Direct mail.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 22, 2011

Your payment would be sent to you via any of your preferred option and would be mailed to you via UPS. you are advised to contact our correspondent in Africa the delivery officer McCulley Terence with the information below, Email: terencemcculley@yahoo.cn. Your Address: Home/Cell Phone: Preferred Payment Method (ATM / Cashier Check).

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

If not using an automated or mobile bidding platform: Printing or emailing receipts to guests with a list of purchases and total sale prices. Printing and mailing thank-you letters with tax deductible information. Soliciting sponsors over the phone or in-person to be a part of your event and assist your mission.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

I’m a big believer in having conversations across the industry ( check out my podcast, if you haven’t already) to share honest advice about what’s working and what’s not—I feel that it’s one of the best ways for us learn and lift the fundraising profession together. Building year-end content strategies.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

The average smartphone conversion rate is up 64%—this means that people are making decisions to fill out forms, download more information, and buy things all from their phones. If your site still requires someone to sit in front of a laptop for the best experience, you’ll shed all but the most motivated mobile phone users.

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

With NetSuite LightCMS , you can use templates to design a website that adapts to be viewed on phones, tablets, and computers, plus a built-in online store with a database for up to 1,000 products. If you need some advice on whether going mobile is right for your nonprofit, check out our Mobile Impact series !

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2012

We want to be able to easily share information on the Internet — but we also want to keep programs off our devices that will allow people to see things we don't want them to see: passwords, credit card information, mailing addresses, bank information, etc. Snail mail versus email security (is one *really* safer than the other?).

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2017

Make no mistake, multi-channel, integrated marketing efforts – the coordination of online, direct mail, telephone, print, social media , tv – produce on average twice the net income and far higher retention rates than the old channel-by-channel approach. that adds some graphic detail and urgency to the direct mail appeal.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2018

Opening Advice: First do no harm. Are they coming online or from events or direct mail? It’s not uncommon for new mid-level donors to get pulled out of the mail stream by major gifts, where they will languish at the bottom of a major gifts officer’s portfolio. Solution: Put the donor back in the mail stream. Parting Word.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2014

Over $100 Check in the mail: Thank them with a phone call & letter. Over $1000 check in the mail: Call them up and see if you can go to coffee. Multi-year donor: thank them with a phone call. Phone-a-thons. Tuesday: Email a donor. Here are some examples of thanking policies: 1. Friendraisers.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

A world of information, much of it free, is as close as our nearest smart phone, tablet or computer. He wrote about writing direct mail letters, and he actually wrote direct mail letters. That’s the person whose advice you should listen to. These days, we are fortunate. Not sure what a charitable gift annuity is?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

He offers this advice: In the future, there will be even more email, more IM/SMS/ mail/phone calls/video mail, more websites, more podcasts, and richer intranets. Here's my early curriculum and some more recent posts. Someday, maybe I'll have time to think about this more and develop a workshop.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Maybe you’re checking your mobile email. Either way, you definitely have your phone out. Before you start with this mobile-specific series, if you’re in the market for some more general fundraising advice, look no further than this article: The Secret Sauce of Fundraising Success. Imagine you’re standing at a bus stop.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 11, 2024

Send new online donors an additional thank you by mail. Don’t just send them an automated email response. Even donors who give online should get something in the mail, especially if this is their first gift. It “sticks” in a way an emailed thank you just doesn’t.

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