Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

If you can find 10 good grant leads — we can usually find at least 10 hot leads when we do grant research for our clients—then you can fill your grant calendar and keep your grant pipeline full all year long. Create a calendar of Asks. And there is nothing wrong with using a paper desk calendar, if that’s your jam.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Put together a master marketing calendar. To make your multi-channel marketing efforts successful, it’s important to implement a campaign calendar. Your communications across every channel you use should be included on the calendar. How to use email marketing efficiently. Personalize your emails.

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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. . Ideally, mail callers stationery in advance (or send them copy they can print on their own stationery) so they can follow up with a thank you note or a letter with a remit envelope, as appropriate.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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. Here’s an example of a SMART year-end fundraising goal: We have a goal of raising $15,000 from #GivingTuesday through December 31st through a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign and an email campaign.

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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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Mail Money Raise Tips 61

Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2014

Make a donor retention calendar to keep your donors loyal! Over $100 Check in the mail: Thank them with a phone call & letter. Over $1000 check in the mail: Call them up and see if you can go to coffee. Multi-year donor: thank them with a phone call. Phone-a-thons. Tuesday: Email a donor.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 23, 2022

While it may be tempting to stick to one marketing channel, a multi-channel strategy uses email, social media, text messaging, and direct mail, to reach a wider audience and generate more excitement for your auction. Direct mail marketing. Email marketing. The key to success with email marketing is segmentation.

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Achieve

MAY 21, 2019

Events are an important part of your organization’s yearly calendar. Email is going to be one of the most valuable tools in your staff’s wheelhouse for event marketing purposes. We’ve collected a few of our favorite tactics for event marketing via email here for you. Segment your email lists. Personalize your emails.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2020

You have to collect stories and photos of program participants, get their consent, pull data on your programs, clean up your donor database, plan events, schedule donor meetings, print materials, fix your mail merge and lick a thousand envelopes ? Set an operations calendar. Direct Mail. all in one month. . Keep it tight.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

These letters can come in many formats, from direct mail to emails. The best way to do that is to include a donation form with all your end-of-year giving letters, whether you’re sending them by email or direct mail. End-of-Year Giving Letter Strategies. Focus on your donors. Give your donors options.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

The center of my workflow, like for most consultants, is email. I’ve used a variety of email clients of one sort or another over time, and I have recently just decided to ditch them, and use gmail exclusively. I also access Evernote on my Android phone. Evernote rocks my world. It’s a great tool.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Direct mail appeals are most successful with Baby Boomers. That doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate a personal touch; the next most popular method of receiving updates was through personal phone calls. Email marketing tips. Not sure how to get started with an effective email campaign? Want your emails to be more effective?

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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. This involves recruiting new supporters and staying in touch with existing donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Collaborative overload is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails. Have a formal policy about sending after hours emails. Sound familiar?

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Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 120

sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Understanding who gives, why, and when can help your nonprofit make more sensitive and inclusive appeals at the close of the calendar year. In addition to face-to-face connections, appeals can be sent via email, promoted on social media, introduced by phone, and mailed directly to donors. Online Giving.

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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. Versus, “If you plan to give this year, will you reply to this email by the end of this week to give me a sense of when that will be? Does the calendar year matter to you? It is not too late. Do you plan to give this week?

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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

According to research : An average organization with a database of 50,000 records could be wasting up to $3,200 per mailing due to inaccurate addresses and deceased records. Find constituent phone numbers. Check and identify constituent phone numbers annually – and cell phone numbers biannually. Ensure email delivery.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Our nonprofits depend on email. Shared calendaring has become a basic need. You can access your email and data from wherever, whenever, on any device. Cloud-Based Phone Systems for Nonprofits Wednesday, April 17, Noon to 1 p.m. Want to forward your office phone to your mobile phone? No problem. No problem.

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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. Keep supporters updated with email blasts about fundraisers they can participate and set up a social media calendar to easily post across social media platforms.

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CauseVox

MAY 16, 2022

Fundraising Calendar Template. Once you have your plan and calendar in place, it’s time to set out your goals. Make sure you are communicating with all channels – social media, email, direct mail, even phone calls! Don’t waste time designing a new system for event planning every time.

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Achieve

MAY 19, 2022

Maybe you’ve batched similar tasks to focus on one thing at a time, automated email outreach, or duplicated a past annual report PDF template to avoid fully reinventing the wheel. Managing checkout, allowing guests to pay for their phones. For example, you could automate email campaigns to avoid hitting send on each and every email.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 5, 2010

I tested PocketMirror, CompanionLink, Go Contacts Sync, gSyncIt, Google Calendar Sync, and Evernote. Calendar: Google Calendar Sync. gSyncIt would probably be fine, but I already had Google Calendar Sync working before I found gSyncIt. That's not ideal -- it doesn't respect the manual mail sync frequency I had set up.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

One of the best ways to stay in touch with your donors on a consistent basis is through a nonprofit email newsletter. When done well, email newsletters can be fast and cheap for you and heartwarming for your donor, basically meeting everyone’s needs. The right nonprofit email newsletter format. Your regular email (e.g.

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Newsletter email Create Template 124

Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

In a survey of 200 nonprofit organizations, Freewill found that nonprofits using virtual technology plan to steward major donors as follows: Phone conversations (21.6%). Emails (19.9%). Direct Mail (19.2%). At a minimum, try a mix of three channels (email, social media, phone, etc.). Newsletters (15.7%).

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Virtual Donor Fundraising Retention 62

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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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

If you operate on a calendar year, your fourth quarter will be your most lucrative by far. Remind yourself that you have plenty of time to make adjustments and additions to your fundraising calendar to catch up. Did you push the campaign on social media and through email marketing as hard as you could? How did they perform?

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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. Year-End Fundraising Email Campaign.

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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 is pretty easy to set up on a phone or mobile device. This makes your Outlook.com messages, calendar, and contacts viewable in your regular Outlook.

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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.

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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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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Use an editorial calendar to help manage what you want to share with prospective students and their families. The average smartphone conversion rate is up 64%—this means that people are making decisions to fill out forms, download more information, and buy things all from their phones. Follow up with mail.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

There are year-end fundraisers and volunteer appreciation events to attend, donors to thank, holiday cards to get in the mail, and last-minute appeals to send out. 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.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Segmenting your target audience will also dictate whether your organization should appeal through mobile, snail mail, email, social media, or phone calls. One snail mail letter to a long-time donor for a year-end gift may be enough. Get #GivingTuesday tips and resources in Blackbaud’s free toolkit: Download it now !

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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. As Maeve Strathy puts it, “direct mail is not dead and works very well when integrated with other outlets.” Just because donors are ready doesn’t necessarily mean your nonprofit is.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

We connect with members using e-mail and social networking, carry out research on search engines and Web sites, and use online services to purchase supplies and produce and store documents. And our members also rely on technology to take part, booking reminders in online calendars or using GPS-enabled cell phones to get to events.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

The "Fall Festival" advertised on their homepage is for 2008, and the "events" link opens up to a May 2009 calendar. Still, I called them up, and their voicemail message identifies them as Helping Hands, although no one was answering phones during their advertised office hours. A webpage doesnt always mean much, though.

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