CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of your donations will come in as pledges and some number will drop off over time. To help combat that, use automated pledge fulfillment (we recommend using our Pledge Now, Pay Later functionality) to make sure these pledges come through. An example of Pledge Now, Pay Later. Next, think about attrition.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? These could be included online or in email newsletters. Well, my point is that all of these sites have user logins. How do you use logins?

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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. Bye bye capital campaign gift. Hello Donor Love (& $’s) !

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Have A Comprehensive Email Strategy. Prime Your Donors With Email Communication Write A Personal Appeal Send Out “Closers” To Wrap Up Your Campaign. CauseVox’s Pledge Now, Pay Later Feature. Create a direct mail and email calendar and checklist. Effective communication in the last week of the year is essential!

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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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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2021

Who you mail to depends on the timing of your mailing, how close it is to other fundraising activities, and what else you have planned, so check your fundraising plan and activity calendar to see what makes the most sense for your situation. You could plan to send your letter only to donors you have a mailing address for but no email address.

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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.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2012

As a consultant to nonprofits , I get calls and emails daily from organizations are who are looking to market their online campaigns, grow their email list, and raise more money. Develop a One-Year Campaign Calendar. Don’t just send supporters emails or tweets asking them to take action or donate money.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s also important to keep the information on your site—your mission statement, your “About Us” page, your events calendar—up to date. Pledging to keep your email account tidy is almost laughable in this day and age. Have newsletters, updates and all other subscription-based mail go to a separate folder.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

They should receive an email confirmation of their donation. This can be done via email, on your website, or on the event invitation. For example, donors who submit a pledge or donation at an auction can see their name and gift appear on a large scoreboard, complete with a fundraising thermometer, if your software supports this.

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CauseVox

JULY 1, 2022

Make sure to feature your monthly giving program on your social media, your emails, and your website. Mention Monthly Giving In An Email Sequence. Along with your website, the most common form of communication you likely have with donors is email. A welcome email series can drastically improve your donor retention.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

You may have read about how to translate a Facebook following into in-person volunteers or even email subscribers. A virtual walk-a-thon , in which supporters pledge to walk a certain distance each day and raise funds using a Facebook fundraiser while doing so. For 2021 and beyond, we’re now seeing the focus shift.

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Double the Donation

JANUARY 28, 2022

For example, you might hold a meeting, send a company-wide email, share a pamphlet, and add an explainer to your employee handbook. Event pledges. This may be a certain number of months or align with your calendar or fiscal year. Then, be sure your staff knows where to go to seek additional details on the program! Text-to-give.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We recommend creating a fundraising calendar to keep you on track and organized in your efforts. Download our Fundraising Plan and Calendar Template: Fundraising Strategies for Nonprofits 1. This underscores the value of introducing pledges on your donation page. Download our Fundraising Plan and Calendar Template:

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

There those who say the perpetrator(s) didn't just hack one account at a time , but rather, hacked into one person's account that then gave access to anyone connected with that person via phone book, text, or email. My colleague Ariel has more info on staying safer online and how pledging to do so is the first step.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. Says Perrone, “We will also look at app users who came into the BFAS fold over time (email database, do they keep giving, etc). ” The Android version is coming soon!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2019

They receive quarterly newsletters and two holiday wishes emails in addition to their annual solicitation letter. Our annual giving pledge card now offers an explanation and instructions for signing up for recurring giving as well as the option for traditional annual giving. They have their own spot on the Foundation’s donor display.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Using social media ads, emails, and their website, they invited everyone to sign up and take a 7-week pledge, getting easy weekly action steps to further build their community. A compelling call to action that inspires sign-ups, including: A pledge to take action in your community.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

based projects, pledges are processed by Amazon Payments. Indiegogo is quite a bit more flexible than Kickstarter, giving you the option to choose an "all-or-nothing model or to keep your pledges whether you not you reach your goal. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

When outlining each fundraiser, use a fundraising calendar to maintain a balance—ensuring enough activities to meet budgetary needs without overstretching your resources. Identify Guaranteed Income: Record the expected income from guaranteed, committed sources such as major gifts , recurring donations , pledges , and grants.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So just be on the lookout for an email from me with all those goodies. 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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Care2

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Email Communications. Came up with sassy email newsletter and went against broadcasting best practices. Email List Growth. Each year, Defenders sends out Calendars. With a simple and compelling concept, they asked their supporters what calendar would like. Winner: KQED. Winner: Defenders of Wildlife. Best Website.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

based projects, pledges are processed by Amazon Payments. Indiegogo is quite a bit more flexible than Kickstarter, giving you the option to choose an "all-or-nothing model or to keep your pledges whether you not you reach your goal. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 29, 2015

Many CRM tools can help you can stay on top of all your prospects with tools such as: Reports with information on donations, pledges and grants. Email tickets and receipts to attendees. Set email alerts and reminders on a calendar. Fundraising in hospitals is a fickle business, as patients are always coming and going.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

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. Senator Patrick Leahy agreed that "our federal electronic privacy laws are woefully outdated" and members of Congress pledged to hold hearings this spring to review current law.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 10, 2015

Or, consider offering a silly pledge—like throwing a pie at your executive director—each time a fundraiser meets a specific goal. Sending an email and direct mail to your current and past donors is a good way get the word out and recruit supporters to fundraise for you. Building Your Communications Calendar.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Email Communications Honorable Mention: NRDC - National Resource Defense Council Winner: KQED Came up with sassy email newsletter and went against broadcasting best practices. Integrated Fundraising Campaign or Program Honorable Mention: Human Rights Campaign Winner: Defenders of Wildlife Each year, Defenders sends out Calendars.

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See3

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

I made that pledge, but I didn’t return the envelope. A typical match program will get a high-net-worth donor to conditionally pledge some money, say, $75,000. They will pay the pledge if you can get another $75,000 to match it. “I just got this email about the matching and I want to donate.&# But not now.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The final months of the calendar year bring out the best in all of us. Plan a special email welcome series for new donors. Don’t let confirmation emails go to waste. Early preparation will also allow you to prepare your core campaign tools, such as: Your donation form Social media calendars Email series.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

Integrated Calendaring I see we have some calendar-related requests lined up to deal with in the next month or two. There are a number of web-based calendars being touted as "web2.0" What they want are calendars tied directly into their facilities management and events management databases.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Stop by Booth 88 at the Science Fair and film your own video for your limited edition NTEN Spark™ to syndicate your Tweets, share on Facebook with friends, and create your own Pledge. Then use winwin apps to send an email out to your supporters requesting a $1 donation. (Be Learn more at www.call2action.com. Care2, Inc. in booth 22.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Use the same appeal message and call to action in your mail solicitations, on your web site, and in your email communications – and reinforce your message over and over. Use phone, postcards, letters, emails and social media to build a series of appeals. Set up a calendar of mailings and plan ahead. A reply/pledge card.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Stop by Booth 88 at the Science Fair and film your own video for your limited edition NTEN Spark™ to syndicate your Tweets, share on Facebook with friends, and create your own Pledge. Then use winwin apps to send an email out to your supporters requesting a $1 donation. (Be Learn more at www.call2action.com. Care2, Inc. in booth 22.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How to Find a Donor to Offer a Match One of the main things that keeps people from launching matching gift campaigns is feeling like they don’t have anyone to pledge the initial match. Share mockups of marketing materials and a sample calendar. Use email marketing and other social channels to get the word out.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. So I’ll do something like calendar year-end appeal 2020, calendar year-end appeal 2021, and make sure the naming conventions are consistent. So following a large campaign pledge, sometimes. It can be things like events.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Just be on the lookout for an email from me later on today. And in terms of the general information that you should gather, and this could be then built into your grants calendar, general information, and including contact information, it’s very, very critical to have that and how they like to be contacted. Is it phone, e-mail?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I will email that to everybody later on today. . I thought about it for about three nanoseconds and I said, “It’s got to be Lori Jacobwith,” and she was so awesome to return my email and say yes. . Make a five-year pledge for $1,000 a year.” So emails, social media, your website. ” Bam.

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