BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Direct mail is a major workhorse for all nonprofits. And regardless of what you hear or think about online giving, most gifts still come via the mail. This week guest blogger Gail Perry is back with her top tips to help us all raise more money by mail. 112 Tips to Raise More Money by Mail. Thanks Gail!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

Fundraising tools are another key feature for nonprofit event management software to integrate your secure donation collection tools into your event page. Qgiv will help you seamlessly integrate your events into your fundraising efforts. Other important features to consider are communication tools and mobile accessibility tools.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You should also be able to integrate with your email marketing tools so you can easily share your event registration page with your mailing lists! With data collection tools, you should be able to easily integrate with your CRM and automatically compile data about your fundraising event and your donors.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 4, 2022

When it’s the beginning of a new calendar year or the start of a new fiscal year, the fresh start is a great time to create your non-profit’s annual story strategy. Here’s an example for you: Our non-profit will use storytelling in our fundraising program to help us raise $1m through email fundraising.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Pursuing a multichannel marketing strategy using a variety of channels, from social media and email to direct mail, will allow you to expand your reach and promote your cause to the widest possible audience. Email marketing software. Also, your fundraising solutions should integrate with one another. Online fundraising.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Direct mail. within the calendar year, six months following the donation). For example, you might send out an email to all donors reminding them to check their matching gift status regardless of their likely eligibility. On the other hand, you might reserve pricier tactics like direct mail outreach strategies (i.e.,

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John Kenyon

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Example: Donor loves our organization but we only had her old work email address and when that changes, we lose touch with her, costing us a lifetime of giving. The new email address is known by a board member who is a good friend of the donor. Simple Solution: Boost Donor Data Integrity => Boost Fundraising Performance.

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CauseVox

MAY 16, 2022

CauseVox also offers an integrated ticketing system so you can present your donors with a one-stop shop for everything related to your event. Fundraising Calendar Template. Once you have your plan and calendar in place, it’s time to set out your goals. Don’t waste time designing a new system for event planning every time.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Store their contact info like email addresses and phone numbers and easily track donor interactions when they make a donation or volunteer for your organization. When integrated with a fundraising platform, you can automatically transfer and store any data you’ve collected from your fundraisers to your CRM.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, if your organization is interested in these benefits, now is the perfect time to integrate online fundraising into your campaign calendar and toy with new, virtual strategies. Once your donations are processed, you receive a check in the mail for the shoes collected. Can nonprofits hold event-free fundraisers on a budget?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

Providing super transparency into action on the ground through viscerally engaging media (email/video/photography) while providing opportunities for me to act and also socialize with other like-minded folks, are the attraction and loyalty factors. This is troubling given the changing media landscape. What is keeping your organization back?

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

Outlook.com now has 400 million active accounts, more than a quarter of which are getting their mail, contacts, and calendars on mobile devices via Exchange ActiveSync. Outlook.com users are able to use their email from @hotmail.com, @msn.com, @outlook.com, or @live.com addresses. It integrates very easily now with Skydrive.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

Emails (19.9%). Direct Mail (19.2%). At a minimum, try a mix of three channels (email, social media, phone, etc.). When sending your follow-up email, you should include the following information: A recording to the live event. Get the features you need to wow your supporters with the new Classy integration for Fondi.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 31, 2021

Your direct mail appeal is written and approved. All you have to do next is simply copy and paste that document word-for-word and drop it into an email. Mail and email are, to state the obvious, different. So how can you leverage the good work you’ve done for the mail channel? .

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

You can create everything you need for your campaign with Qgiv’s peer-to-peer fundraising platform , which empowers you to create your own branded fundraising pages, communicate with participants via email, and integrate with Facebook fundraisers. Here’s how to set one up: Send out a save-the-date email. Plan a trivia night.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

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. Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

While others make vacation plans, I work with my colleagues to devise exciting integrated fundraising campaigns for nonprofit organizations. Study after study shows how most nonprofits see their biggest influx of donations—especially those that come in via email/web/social media—during the last few months, if not days, of the year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Websites & Email 1. Mailmunch :: mailmunch.com Mailmunch enables users to create a variety of pop-up email forms for their website. The service provides analytics and easy integration with multiple third-party tools. WiseStamp :: wisestamp.com WiseStamp allows you to create HTML-based email signatures for your nonprofit.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Consider asking follow up questions in future campaign emails or surveys.​. For your p2p campaigns to be successful, your campaign web pages and emails must be mobile responsive. If you haven’t revamped your page and email templates in several years, it’s probably time to update them with an eye for mobile responsiveness.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Trello also has workflow automation features which include: Rule-based triggers Custom buttons Calendar commands Due date commands Why This Fundraising App Made Our List Trello works both from your desktop and from your mobile device with the Trello app. Automate fundraising information with integrations with top solutions like Fundly.

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Qgiv

APRIL 15, 2021

Additionally, if you can’t upload participant email addresses into your email service provider efficiently, your event communications will likely take a hit. Similarly, you can compare all of your events against one another in the same calendar year. Good event data management means being able to put your data to good use.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 15, 2014

Most nonprofit organizations can get free access to hosted email (Exchange), files (SharePoint & OneDrive), and instant messaging (Lync) in the cloud from Microsoft. Do you want to integrate Office 365 with your on-premise servers? Email, Calendars, and Contacts (Exchange Online). General Office 365.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2007

I hope you find the calendar useful. You can bookmark the calendar view at [link]. You can bookmark the calendar view at [link]. The idea behind this calendar is to aggregrate events, seminars, webninars and conferences that would appeal to the nonprofit communications professional. Thanks for your input!

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Calendar Social Media Advocacy Case Study 28

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Make a calendar – outline all activities you want to share, plan activity that integrates with overall organization messaging and schedule them in advance (tip: make a calendar). Test your messages – use different messages and calls to action, track trends and iterate the most effective techniques.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If your CSR programs are not integrated across lines of business and support departments, keep in mind this is a journey. CSR programs were once kept separate on purpose, to protect the integrity of the programs. This is no longer the case and doesn’t fit with today’s need for an integrated business strategy. Human Resources.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

You can’t sit back and magically expect to receive 50% of your budget by simply sending an email and posting a few things on Facebook and Twitter. From your strategy, you get to decide if you want to integrate several mediums or stick with just a couple. Just because donors are ready doesn’t necessarily mean your nonprofit is.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2012

It's now almost the exception to the rule that someone actually lives on a calendar year. You are planning to do testing in direct mail and didn't account for the cost. Considering throwing in a calendar with that label package you mail? Even if you only mail that to a 50,000 test panel, at the added cost of say $.50

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2011

Guest blog alert: Donna from Charity Dynamics (a Convio Solution Provider ) is sharing an real-life example of how integrated marketing and fundraising helped a nonprofit increase online revenue by more than 100%. A couple of weeks ago I shared some insights on integrating online and offline fundraising channels for strong results.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Use an editorial calendar to help manage what you want to share with prospective students and their families. Follow up with mail. Direct mail is still a closer. Its response rate is 5-9x more than email , paid search, or social media. Integrated marketing efforts from all areas of campus make this happen.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Each month, I look at dozens of nonprofit websites and hundreds of nonprofit emails. The foundational elements of effective online communications are your website and email communications. One organization spent 10 hours a month maintaining an online calendar. While there are exceptions, most have a lot of room for improvement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

For Thunderbird, the two I’ve been trying out include XNote , which is kinda fun, it allows you to add sticky notes to email messages. Lightning , which is a Sunbird calendar plug in, that gives me a calendar integrated with Thunderbird. Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Looking and entering new names, writing letters, noting details, sending emails. Team and employee scheduling - Share a calendar for staff, scheduling, due dates, medical follow ups, and events. Fundraising - Mail merge, email marketing , newsletters, anniversary dates. You're a CRM rock star! That was the easy part.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Keep members in the loop with communications on multiple marketing platforms, including email, direct mail, and text. You can send multichannel communications to members (including emails and letters) reminding them that their membership will automatically renew. Send multichannel communications. Automate annual renewals.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 9, 2024

Let’s take a look at 15 Fundraising revenue streams your nonprofit can utilize when planning your annual fundraising calendar. Online Fundraising Campaigns Seamlessly Integrating Online Giving Online fundraising campaigns have become a cornerstone of modern nonprofit strategies.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

From word processing to managing email and spreadsheets, these programs are the standard in office productivity software. Outlook integrates your email with calendars and contact information. And check out Norton 360 for an integrated security, PC tune-up, backup and restore, and online storage program.

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Qgiv

MARCH 28, 2022

Direct mail, email, social media, and text fundraising are all marketing channels through which nonprofits make donation asks to their network of supporters. Adding a matching gifts integration and recurring donation upgrades to your form is a great way to maximize the contributions you receive from your supporters.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Analyze the data available to you to set the right goals and segment your donors for relevant, effective email communications. Some tools we suggest using include: A campaign calendar that includes when you’ll send your appeal, post on social media, hold events, connect with major donors, etc. Most emails are read on phones!

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