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Raise More By Avoiding “One Size Fits All” Email Appeals

NetWits

While nonprofits often deliver highly relevant content in direct mail appeals – based on giving history, interests and past actions – that approach isn’t always carried over to their email appeals. Analyze the stats of previous emails. Maybe a hat or pair of gloves? It usually doesn’t work out so well. When making a hard ask.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats. It can: Make your organization more memorable – stories are proven to be more easily remembered than stats and facts! Direct mail. Social media posts.

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Top 3 Trends to Fool Proof your Future Fundraisng

NetWits

Further, donations to the American Cancer Society dropped by a shocking 11%. According to stats from the RUN. If you look at the shift in fundraising over time from door-to-door to the phone, mail, email, the Web and social media sites, you will also be able to see a fundamental shift in donors’ attitudes.

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10 Essential Tools for the Nonprofit New Media Manager on the Go

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Numerous celebrities used TwitPic to report while on location at a recent Stand Up To Cancer fundraiser. In the future you may be building you e-mail and mobile lists by simply bumping smartphones with supporters. Related Links: [STATS] New Study Shows the Mobile Web Will Rule by 2015. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Once you’ve set up your new Google account, sign up to receive Google Alerts via e-mail on a daily basis at google.com/alerts. For organizational reasons, you could opt to use the Gmail e-mail account that you created for your nonprofit when setting up your Google account for all social media and mobile technology accounts.

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Fundwriter.ai 101 – Can A Robot Write Better Than You?

The Fundraising Authority

Facts and stats are useful here. Inputs: Organization : Los Angeles Cancer Center (LACC) Mission : Our mission is to serve as a regional destination for oncology services that ranks with the best major treatment centers to ensure we deliver superior care to our patients. Mission – Enter the organization’s mission.

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Biggest Bang for Your Buck - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Challenge: Recruit walkers to commit at least $95 to participate in a 3-day event to raise money to fight breast cancer. A recent study conducted by Marketing Sherpa on behalf of the National Philanthropic Trusts Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk reports that email is the way to go. Did they test combining direct mail and email?