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[ASK AN EXPERT] How Should Donor-Advised Fund Gifts Be Recognized?

Bloomerang

Annual Report; Donor Recognition Wall; Newsletter; Program; Website). If you list donations by amount/level of gift, be sure to cumulate all the gifts received from the DAF administrator to assure they are listed in the correct level. The focus should be on the giver more than the form of the gift.

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7 Ways to Celebrate National Volunteer Week 2023

Greater Giving

Share their Stories Highlight the impact of your nonprofit volunteers by sharing their stories on social media, newsletters, and website. Recognize them with Volunteer Awards Consider giving out awards to your most dedicated volunteers. Take this opportunity to celebrate the volunteers who make a difference in your community!

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Are You Stewarding Your Donors?

The Fundraising Authority

Simply put, stewarding a donor is what a non-profit does (or should be doing) from the time of the first gift, and lasting until that donor no longer has a relationship with the organization. Using newsletters, e-mails , videos, podcasts, websites, non-ask events , etc. are great ways to communicate with and steward your donors.

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8 Tried-and-True (Secret) Individual Donor Fundraising Action Tips

Bloomerang

After all, your thank you establishes trust and kick starts your ‘next gift strategy.’ Either ask the gift processor to do this or have someone else, preferably on the development team, take on this assignment. If you feel you get too many gifts a day to do this, reconsider. Do you type your signer’s signature? Scan it in?

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Turning Fundraising into a Game: Groupon, Zynga and Care2 do it, Why Don’t You?

NetWits

Register for our Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Events Newsletter and get a monthly dose of quality content. Here are a few ways nonprofits are rewarding their fundraisers: Virginia Beach Bike MS – Bike shop gift certificates, VIP parking, a 30-minute massage and an invitation to their awards dinner await participants who raise over $4,000.

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How To Build Relationships With A Storytelling Welcome Email Series

Bloomerang

Studies tell us that thanking donors right away helps them feel important and satisfied about their gift. This series of emails will be different from your standard newsletter and updates. A welcome email series can help with that, taking a new supporter to a strong “friend” of the organization with very little effort on your part. .

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Who wants to read your newsletter?

Get Fully Funded

Unfortunately, MOST of the nonprofit newsletters out there are crap. With tons of text, few or no photos, and loaded with jargon, donors are immediately turned off when they see your newsletter in the mailbox. Write about how donors’ gifts have been used in fulfilling your mission. It all depends on the content.