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

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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. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records.

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[VIDEO] How to Overcome Fear, Intimidation and Imposter Syndrome to Raise More Money

Bloomerang

Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain. It’s simply your brain doing its job. Fear is hardwired into our brain, and everyone feels it whether they like to admit it or not.

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[VIDEO] How to Overcome Fear, Intimidation and Imposter Syndrome to Raise More Money

Bloomerang

Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain. It’s simply your brain doing its job. Fear is hardwired into our brain, and everyone feels it whether they like to admit it or not.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

It’s how my brain works. Because, you know, is it giving them a script for a phone call, or a template? Yes, we do need to provide the board with scripts, like a voicemail message, and some talking points, if they do have someone pick up the phone. Very linear thinker over here. Elizabeth: There are so many ways.

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A Conversation with Michael Gilbert on Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period. The growth of the web and mailing lists was explosive and I was very interested in remaining well informed. Q: When did you start publishing? How did you get started?

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

Bloomerang

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. . It was sent to the matriarch of the foundation within a half an hour, 45 minutes of receiving their mail.

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. But you really want to script it, you just don’t want to have some. But you can just do. ” That needs to come through.

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