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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

Get Fully Funded

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. But there is so much more to properly thanking donors. A perfect thank-you letter does both.

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Online Giving Potential: How to Bounce Back From Months of Decreased Fundraising

NetWits

The international sector’s online fundraising dropped by 55 percent after the 2010 Haiti earthquake brought in “unprecedented online fundraising levels.”. Turn One-Time Donors Into Regulars. Our report recommends implementing a solid retention strategy to turn one-time donors into repetitive donors.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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Not only is it an engaging donor experience, but peer-to-peer fundraising is often the push you need to reach essential fundraising goals. Here are some scenarios in which peer-to-peer fundraising could benefit your faith-based organization: Help raise money and awareness for an upcoming project. Increase awareness on relevant issues.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Youth Programs

Kindful

They prioritize programs that advance young people’s political and civil participation and rights, that amplify youth voices, increase their decision-making powers, and raise awareness of their rights and needs, and that empower young people to educate and inspire their peers to act. Areas served: Worldwide. Kellogg Foundation.

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How Social Media Influencers Fuel your Fundraising Goals

NetWits

Every fundraiser knows the role that social media users played in delivering dollars to the American Red Cross for disaster relief in Haiti and to Planned Parenthood for mammogram screenings in the wake of the Komen Foundation’s withdrawal of funding, but actually how social media delivers such results has been a bit of mystery.

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Consumer Attitudes Toward Mobile Giving

NTEN

Early last year, mobile giving evolved from an emerging technology to mainstream awareness with Haiti earthquake relief, raising approximately $45 million for victims of that natural disaster. Drilling deeper, 60 percent of respondents aged 18-34 were aware of mobile giving, and 12 percent had made a text-to-give donation.

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SMS Fundraising Campaign for Breast Cancer

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Given the visible success of the Haiti text to give campaigns, SMS is bound to become one of the tools in the an organization's fundraising bag if it isn't already. For example: Start with emailing your online activists and donors and place your shortcode and keyword front and center. Follow up with your donors.

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