Bloomerang

APRIL 6, 2021

All this fundraising definitely involves sending appeals to your donor base. Deciding on the channels through which to send your appeals can be tough—there are so many ways to reach donors these days. This type of campaign uses a combination of various digital methods and/or direct mail. . Direct Mail. Social media.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 15, 2020

How are we going to shift our direct mail strategy to find more mid-level donors? Your donors (and prospective donors) will care about that mission. The best way to stay a viable, growing organization is to have donors who deeply care about and are committed to your non-profit. Tactics are important. Guess what?

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Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

It covered broad brush strategies all nonprofits today should incorporate into their donor fundraising/marketing mix. These are my favorite tips to enhance what you’re already doing to attract and sustain individual donor fundraising. . ACTION: Get board members to review your donor list. Only 6 out of 10 ongoing donors renew.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 13, 2021

Guest post blog submitted by: GivingMail, a leading provider of direct mail solutions. In order to truly maximize your fundraising efforts and better engage with the individuals who help fund your mission, an integration between direct mail marketing and a digital channel is a huge step in the right direction. . Let’s dive in!

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The first part described why donors give during the year-end giving season. If you’re a homeless shelter and have spent all year talking to donors about how you want to serve more homeless and thus need more money to add beds to your facility, talk about that at the year-end as well. communicate) through direct mail.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2023

The generosity of donors is crucial to your nonprofit organization’s success, which means that you should strategically plan your communications with them. Part of creating great donor communications is personalizing each message to its recipient, making them more engaging. Address donors by their preferred names and pronouns.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 5, 2021

Think fast: do you know where you get your best donors? Ask any fundraiser if they want more donors and you’ll get a resounding “YES” but ask what source yielded them their very BEST donors and you might see some puzzled faces. . Before you rush out to find new donors you’re wise to consider where you’ve found your best donors.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2021

So you want to start up (or restart) a donor acquisition program. The reality is, whether you are trying to grow a new file or stop attrition on your existing file, there’s no better way to obtain and keep new donors than with a well-executed donor acquisition program. Options could include: Direct mail.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Did you know as many as 81% percent of new donors don’t return to give again? And only 43% of all donors remain loyal? . Donor attrition has gotten worse over time. Donors tell us this all the time, both with words and actions. Donors tell us this all the time, both with words and actions. Donor Negative WORDS.

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The Fundraising Authority

JANUARY 15, 2021

Thank you letters have long been seen by many fundraisers as “gottados” – one of those things you just “gotta do” to get to the real work of fundraising, like writing newsletters and having lunches with major donors at great restaurants downtown. As I sat here this morning opening the mail, I came across your generous donation.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For example, at a small organization, your tactical calendar may look something like this: January – Prospecting mailing. February – E-mail fundraising letter. March – Housefile mailing. May – E-mail fundraising letter. Prospecting mailing. October – E-mail fundraising letter. December – Housefile mailing.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

While your mission is what drives your nonprofit, your relationships with donors are what sustain it. The work you do wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of your donors, so it’s vital that you work to build genuine relationships that inspire them to continue giving. That’s where email automation comes in. Let’s dive in!

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Did you know as many as 81% percent of new donors don’t return to give again? And only 43% of all donors remain loyal? Do you know what your retention rates are or how to increase donor loyalty? Yet too many nonprofits still don’t prioritize donor retention strategies. . And, yes, your donors are consumers.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 23, 2021

For the last 5 or so years, there has been a trend in new donor acquisition : Response rates continue to drop while average gifts continue to rise. As we look specifically at direct mail or email strategies for new donor acquisition, the way to improve this global trend is to mail fewer people with a focus on connecting with the right people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Some individual board members may want to start with “easier” tasks like thanking donors, but eventually, they should be directly helping raise thousands of dollars annually. Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.).

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Qgiv

AUGUST 9, 2023

Cultivating relationships with recurring donors is essential for nonprofits, especially in light of recent declines in individual giving. It’s undoubtedly a challenging time for new donor acquisition, underscoring the constant importance of retention. The Giving USA 2023 report revealed that giving by individuals dropped 6.4%

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In Mastering Online Fundraising , our class for non-profit fundraisers, we talk a lot about how small changes to your online fundraising strategy can result in major returns, including new prospects, new event attendees, and of course, new donors. You are collecting e-mail addresses on your website, aren’t you?

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In our first post , we took a look at why so many donors give during the final 4-6 weeks of the year. Why you are asking donors for money at the year-end? Second, Warm-Up Your Donors. The second phase of your year-end giving campaign is to warm-up your donors by introducing them to your theme and your need.

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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. Because when a nonprofit doesn’t treat me as if I matter, as I carefully and consciously treat donors to my organization, I get a little peeved.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

I am in the middle of writing a direct mail fundraising letter for a non-profit client, and tomorrow I will be presenting the letter to them, and explaining why it will be effective. The three things are: #1 – Letters that Focus on the Donor Raise More. Donors don’t respond to letters that talk primarily about the organization.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 4, 2023

Should you print, stuff, and mail your own fundraising letter? If you have fewer than 200 mail recipients, the answer is probably yes. When you get more than 200 donors, you may be eligible to mail at nonprofit postage rates as low as 19 cents per piece (as of July 2023). The donor can handle one lick!

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The Fundraising Authority

JANUARY 2, 2021

Put your list on paper, or into a spreadsheet, or on a donor database system , and it will grow much, much faster. Ask Your Donors When was the last time you called your donors (or met them, or e-mailed them) to thank them for their support, and asked them who else you should be calling? They never write them down.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Across the fundraising landscape, there is broad interest in reaching prospects and donors with more inclusive, equitable, and responsible messages. Strength-Based Messaging: A Powerful Tool Thankfully, in recent years, new and long overdue attention has been focused on changing the way we build our donor relationships.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But what about cultivating relationships with existing donors? Nonprofit outreach should balance donor acquisition with donor engagement, so how do you utilize social media for both efforts? online donor engagement. Create ways for donors to help further your mission via social media. digital fundraisers. ,

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . They developed programming that offered results based on the number of pages of the site and also the number of backlinks to the site, which meant it was an authority in its subject. .

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Achieve

JULY 28, 2022

One way to attract charitable young donors is through a well-designed payment processor. To help acquire younger donors, we’ll guide you through the following payment processing essentials: ?. Instead, you should work to drive engagement with younger donors as you maintain your relationship with older ones. These can include: .

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Achieve

APRIL 28, 2022

If you’re looking for your donors, they’re probably on the internet. With so much time on the world wide web, bombarded by advertisements, most people have become increasingly immune to and skeptical of even the most innocent donor outreach campaign. Keep track of your online donors. . Incentivize donors to give more.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Your donors made the decision to contribute their hard-earned money to your cause because they believe in it and want to support your organization. Showing your donors that you. When you never meet a donor face-to-face, it gets a little more complicated. . Your donor may not be aware of volunteer opportunities.

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The Fundraising Authority

AUGUST 6, 2021

You need to build relationships (with sponsors, auction donors, guests, etc.) You need to cultivate your donors. You need to start cultivating this year’s event donors for next year’s event. The best way to exponentially grow your fundraising event revenue is to start cultivating your event donors in a systemized way.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 6, 2024

Perhaps it’s your first donor newsletter. Engaging, consistent donor communications provide the engine behind your fundraising program. These are some of my favorite copywriting and donor communications pros out there. Mary Cahalane Copywriter Mary Cahalane (rhymes with “salon”) brings smarts and heart to donor communications.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

And forming those relationships requires thought-out strategies and a will to succeed with engaging your donors, especially when you can’t interact face-to-face. No matter who your nonprofit serves, there are plenty of ways to connect with remote donors and help them see the value of investing in your mission. Ramp up communications.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 7, 2014

Most charities raise money from many different sources – direct mail appeals, online donations, events, United Way campaigns to name a few. How often do the funds come in without workable donor data – or any donor data – behind it? Fundraising without donor data. I’m glad you asked. Two examples.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2021

When you’re determining who to cultivate for your major donor portfolio, do you simply look at everyone who gave more than $1,000 (or whatever your major gift amount is) and dump them all into your portfolio for the year? Who Gets an Individual Major Donor Portfolio Cultivation Plan? . Tier your donors. I didn’t know any better.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the other hand, new grant opportunities came to light, and if you were good at identifying them, you made your case to individual donors. Now ask yourself, what changes are going to stay attractive for your donors? Not wanting to end all donor communication, you shifted into email and social media, but it was all DIY.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 25, 2010

I get a lot of emails like the following from small nonprofits: We desperately need to get a new donor database and most of them are totally unaffordable!! For instance, you might need the ability to target direct mail (and email?) Or you might have some reports that are mandatory, like a lapsed donor report. event_KEY=37802.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

You may be surprised to learn how easy it is to find out important participant and donor characteristics through the right tools and data. Your most passionate volunteers have a lot of useful data floating around in spreadsheets, e-mails, texts, and minds. About the Author. Understand Your Audience.

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John Kenyon

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Authors: Mathew Emery & John Kenyon. Example: Donor loves our organization but we only had her old work email address and when that changes, we lose touch with her, costing us a lifetime of giving. The new email address is known by a board member who is a good friend of the donor. Bye bye long term donor.

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