Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2014

Make a donor retention calendar to keep your donors loyal! Another way to make this process less overwhelming is to decide different levels attention for different levels of donations. Do you have a donations policy? Over $100 Check in the mail: Thank them with a phone call & letter. Phone-a-thons.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 9, 2022

As we approach the end of the calendar year, many of your donors will be thinking about end-of-year donations to your organization. Of course, Salesforce has a set of tools that allows for this customization and personalization for your constituents. Consider Accepting Non-Traditional Donations.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Major donors make a major impact on your nonprofit, but it can be a bit scary to ask major donors for a donation. But how do you get to know someone when all you know is that they gave your organization a bigger-than-average donation in the last year? Contact them and thank them again for their donation. Start With Gratitude.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. I’m referring to individual donations , corporate partnerships , events , grants , and online campaigns. With CauseVox, you can customize your donation page to align with your organization’s brand.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

In this interview, Julia shares some of the strategies she teaches her clients, including her secret formula for social media calendars, how nonprofits can improve engagement on their social channels, and the one thing she wishes nonprofits would stop doing online. Another thing I recommend: look at your calendar for the year.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

Several online fundraising solutions can be integrated into email campaigns, text-to-donate drives, and more to make your marketing plan more effective. Through sponsorships, donation matching, cause marketing, and other efforts, strategic partnerships with businesses create long-term revenue streams to help your nonprofit thrive.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

End-of-year giving letters are a great way to ask your donors for one last donation before you start fresh and strive to meet new fundraising goals in the next year. More likely than not, you’ll send a few end-of-year giving letters as the year winds down to ensure that your donors have plenty of opportunities to make their final donations.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Autumn definitely means “go time” in the life of a fundraiser, often because it signals the start of year-end , a period of time you may get upwards of 60% or more of your annual donations. Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

They’re underwhelmed by your response to their last donation and they’re already looking for somewhere else to give. When you execute a fundraising method, of course you are trying to get people to give your organization money. How Do I Make Sure My Donors Feel Good About Donating? This is how you get donors who keep giving.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

They can’t be expected to keep track of their giving status–especially if you’re on a fiscal year and they think in calendar years. . Sort them according to dollar range so you can prioritize contacts with the largest donations. Please put it on your calendar for next year as a ‘must do.’ Don’t worry about appearing pushy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

Throughout 2015, add to your calendar the time necessary to write one or two LinkedIn Recommendations each month. Add causes awareness days to your calendar. Organized around the use of a hashtag , nonprofits worldwide are adding tweet chats to their editorial calendars. Write LinkedIn Recommendations.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

If you operate on a calendar year, your fourth quarter will be your most lucrative by far. Work with your Board to decide the best course of action. Remind yourself that you have plenty of time to make adjustments and additions to your fundraising calendar to catch up. Thank-you texts or phone calls? Handwritten notes?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 23, 2022

Also include a remit slip so that people who can’t participate in your auction still have the chance to support your mission with a donation. When you use text marketing, make sure to send out messages sparingly to avoid becoming annoying or intrusive on people’s phones. How to donate money. Email marketing. Ticket price.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 14, 2022

Scrolling on phones, reading the news, referencing the latest trends— social media is ingrained in popular culture across the generations. The truth is that social fundraising has come a long way from the standard “Donate” button featured on profiles and Facebook fundraisers. It raised double the donations than originally expected.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And yet the most charitable giving that happens in all of the calendar year is December 31st. Does the calendar year matter to you? I want you to ask them questions, “Hey, so does the calendar year matter to you in your charitable giving?” ” “Does the calendar year matter to you in your charitable giving?”

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Donation Tickets: Some attendees may want to contribute more than the ticket price. Donation tickets allow them to do so easily, increasing both ticket sales and overall fundraising. With everyone spending hours a day glued to their phones and computers, digital channels will be the best way to reach them.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

According to the calendar, we’re supposed to start counting our blessings around Thanksgiving and work our way up to total and complete joy by New Year’s Eve. It can be at night just before you go to bed, or when you get up in the morning (after you have coffee, of course.) Gratitude journal. That’s okay. Do you have running water?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 15, 2021

Are you entirely funded by donations? Of course, if you have a really good holiday fundraising season, you might start the new year with a financial surplus that covers salaries for at least the first few months, which gives you some breathing room to raise money. Create an annual budget and work with your Board to adopt the budget.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Nonprofits receive 50% of their annual donations between October and December. Not only that, but with the move to more and more online giving (there was a 32% increase in online revenue in 2020), events like #GivingTuesday have become an even more important part of your fundraising calendar. Why is year-end giving such a big deal?

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These campaigns may involve phone calls or occasional events and demonstrations, but most advocacy work will be conducted through virtual means. . Of course, there are several challenges to getting noticed online. Posting calendars. Digital advocacy campaigns refer to campaigns that are run almost exclusively online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

This year, I’ll also be offering online courses and programs. Sometimes a phone call or a quick walk down the hall to speak in person is more effective. In other words, when I look at my calendar, do I actually have enough hours in a week to accomplish the priorities I’ve identified or am I’m trying to do too much at one time?

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

That doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate a personal touch; the next most popular method of receiving updates was through personal phone calls. That helps get more eyes on your event, which means more registrants and more donations for your cause. Almost 50% of Boomer donors prefer to give with a physical check.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

Now anyone can create and edit video from their phone … yet it still seems to be the final frontier in nonprofit marketing. Despite the fact 57% of people who watch a nonprofit video go on to make a donation, video still seems skill- and cost-prohibitive for strapped fundraising professionals. Time to get festive. Show your skills.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

All of the tools mentioned allow you to do things like store and share documents, calendars, project management schedules, and presentations online at no or low cost. Donated or Discounted Online Collaboration Products. an array of features, which include instant messaging, phone. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Spend time building your donor base by doing things like online fundraisers, fundraising appeals, starting a monthly giving program, and asking folks within your network for donations. You need a “yes” to each one before adding that funding prospect to your final prospect list and your grant calendar – thus, meeting the 3-Way Fit Test.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2022

Over the course of your sweepstakes, you’ll be capturing contact information for everyone who enters. Most importantly – display QR codes that link to your sweepstakes website so donors can enter easily from their mobile phones. You get the idea! Show off the prize at your facility. 3) Timing is Everything.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

He offers courses, consulting, and coaching to transform your organization and your leadership. Some donors look for these signals of community support (everybody’s doing it) to make the decision that they would be in good company if they donate. Swag or merch: calendars, printables, planners, notebooks. Welcome packet.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

Outdated or invalid addresses, deceased supporters, missing phone numbers, and more can cost your organization time and money by sending out appeals for donations to people who can't receive them. Good for recommending one or more courses of action. " and includes performance optimization and decision support.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

39% of donors support a nonprofit by volunteering before they make a donation. And when you are kicking off your fiscal year or your calendar year, set those expectations high so people know what they can do to be helpful. We’ll craft talking points and you know, do you have an event calendar or prospect list?

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Update your web site and make your donation page easy to use. Be ready to welcome them there with an easy to follow online donation process. Use phone, postcards, letters, emails and social media to build a series of appeals. Always (of course) send out personalized letters. Set up a calendar of mailings and plan ahead.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Picking up the 500-pound phone and calling donors was a big struggle for me. So I consider myself an introvert, and as an introvert, there are a lot of things that I really dislike about the phone, right? Phone calls can feel a bit intrusive to me. So I’m still not in love with the phone, right? I hate phones.”

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

The most common web-related projects we find ourselves involved in relate to online events registration, online donations, and self-management of member accounts. Online donation tools are a great help for organizations that don't want to deal with setting up their own merchant account and secure server.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Picking up the 500-pound phone and calling donors was a big struggle for me. So I consider myself an introvert, and as an introvert, there are a lot of things that I really dislike about the phone, right? Phone calls can feel a bit intrusive to me. So I’m still not in love with the phone, right? I hate phones.”

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Check out our course with Chief Whaler George Weiner and GivingTuesday’s own Director of Digital Strategy Kathleen Murphy. Create a PUBLIC calendar invite. Create a public calendar invite on Google (and others) to remind your audience to take action on Giving Tuesday. TEST YOUR DONATE PAGE. Check your reputation.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

After seeing thousands of successful nonprofit crowdfunding campaigns, we’ve seen what strategies work the best to drive more donations for your nonprofit. It’s fun with calendars and countdowns. This helps to drive urgency and lets donors know that they should donate now instead of tomorrow or next week.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

we do tests where we send dozens of donations to nonprofits to see how we’re treated as donors. . And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. And did they go out of there thrilled that they doubled their donation? But essentially.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A matching gift is a great opportunity to leverage a generous donation from one donor, or a group of donors, to bring in even more money from other donors for your nonprofit. Of course, they say “Yes!”. Double your donation right now! . It makes donors feel extra good to stretch their donation dollars.

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