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Answer these 6 questions to frame your fundraising plan structure

Get Fully Funded

If you have a donor management system, such as Bloomerang or Little Green Light , you can easily pull a list of donors and prospects. Use the tools you need, just don’t try to keep everything stored in your brain. Donors who send a check can be kept informed via postal mail. “Who will we ask for money?”. Be specific here.

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5 Have Fun, Do Good Letter Writing Ideas

Have Fun - Do Good

They have all kinds: cards that go in your printer, cards you can paint on with watercolors, photo frame cards, and "green" cards made of hemp, bamboo and recycled fiber. For inspiration, check out the book Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art , and its corresponding Good Mail Day Flickr group.

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10 Tips for Managing Social Media Burnout

Nonprofit Tech for Good

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. Get more greens. Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. from working on the weekends. Pick a time to quit in the evening and stick to it.

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How to Improve Your Website’s Emotional Appeals: 5 Tips

Pamela Grow

Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Note the strategies used in each example that may also appeal to your audience. Tell compelling stories.

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. Many mail houses and data systems. Now, 50% of people pay more attention to direct mail than to any other marketing channel. I go in and I look at clients who just use e-mail and send out their e-mail.

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Planning a Showstopping Fundraising Event in 10 Steps

OneCause

If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. He or she will also act as the representative for your event, meaning the individual will pitch fundraising ideas to your nonprofit’s board of directors to get the green light to start planning. Print ads in local newspapers.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

I’m going to start sipping my green tea, like you said. And I learned a lot about fundraising before the internet, when you just dialed for dollars and sent mailings and had a lot of house parties. . I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . So I’m going to pipe down. She called.

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