Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Your nonprofit does incredible, life-changing work. Done well, your year-end campaigns (print, email, and social media) will inspire donors to give generously at year’s end and throughout the year after. For emails, your donate button should be eye-catching with short and clear text. About the Author.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The upcoming iOS15 update will create some changes in how email marketers use opens to track success and retarget their audiences — but as we all know, adapting to change is part of operating in the digital landscape. Here is what you can do to prepare for the impacts of iOS15 on email marketing. Email Opens + User IPs.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Direct mail fundraising should be an integral part of your nonprofit’s direct response strategy. When leveraged with other communication channels, direct mail can generate significant engagement and gift-giving from donors. Allegiance Group makes achieving direct mail success simple. Does direct mail work? Contact Us!

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Wouldn’t life be easier if people opened and read your fundraising emails? Maybe you check your open rate and see that only 25% of your audience bothered to open the email you spent hours writing. Maybe you check your open rate and see that only 25% of your audience bothered to open the email you spent hours writing.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 23, 2021

For the last 5 or so years, there has been a trend in new donor acquisition : Response rates continue to drop while average gifts continue to rise. As we look specifically at direct mail or email strategies for new donor acquisition, the way to improve this global trend is to mail fewer people with a focus on connecting with the right people.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

that generational lines haven’t stopped millennials from being exceedingly active in movements for change. direct mail campaigns. Changing marketing tactics to keep up with shifting trends and attitudes can be a full-time job, which is where crash courses like this article can help. benefits of direct mail.

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Media Cause

JULY 11, 2023

Did you know that f or every $1 spent on email marketing, the average return on investment is $42 ? Automated email services for nonprofits are unsung heroes in achieving just that. Automated email services for nonprofits are unsung heroes in achieving just that. Why Automated Email Marketing?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

Online channels (email, social media, website, donation forms, and texting) encourage real-time interactions, personalized messaging, and taps into tech-savvy younger donors. Traditional methods, like direct mail, are still important for reaching older or less tech-oriented supporters. However, this is not a universal rule.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 18, 2021

Sarah writes: Our organization is overdue for creating a welcome email to send after someone joins our mailing list. Right now it’s just the standard message that comes with our email service provider (ConstantContact). that I don’t have the time to change it up regularly. Welcome emails have a 91.43% open rate.

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Kindful

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

There was a time not too long ago when digital channels like email, social media, and text messaging were seen as complementary to direct mail: the cornerstone of any robust donor communications strategy. Unfortunately, direct mail seems to have fallen out of favor with nonprofit communicators. Yes, direct mail can be personal!

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Just this month, Google made crucial changes to Gmail in an effort to combat spam and improve user experience. If your nonprofit engages in email fundraising, these are changes you’ll need to be aware of. This change aims to simplify the process for recipients and discourage unwanted emails.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 5, 2022

All of us have experienced it: an inundation of emails that leaves us with email fatigue, prompting us to unsubscribe from a mailing list. An Email Preference Center (EPC) can contribute greatly to ensuring your prospects continue to receive the content they want from you, without bombarding them with unwanted communications.

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Roundtree

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

6 Ways to Improve Your Donor Emails. Email remains one of the most important channels of communication. It is cost-efficient for the organization and gets more engagement than other forms of communication, like social media or direct mail. How can your organization send donor emails that improve open and click rates? #1:

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The days of the “wild west” when it comes to mass email marketing, where anyone can employ mass email to send an email message to any email address, if it existed, and it was delivered, have come to an end. Today, email is about engagement and not quantity. Today, email is about engagement and not quantity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with the organization’s case for support, annual reports, theory of change, and other collateral materials. Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). Is the donor renewal rate low?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

With average email open rates at 20% for nonprofits , many organizations struggle to grab the attention of supporters, volunteers, and donors. Today, statistics show that one in five consumers has more than 1,000 unread emails in their personal inbox. Maybe there’s an intimacy to text messaging that email lacks.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 25, 2021

Mail stats. Direct mail response rate (to house): 4% Postage per letter: $0.49. Mail stats. Direct mail response rate: (to house): 5% Postage per letter: $0.47. Mail stats. Direct mail response rate: (to house): 5% Postage per letter: $0.49. Mail stats. Mail stats.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

Below are my slides and a round-up of tips for getting started with a more engaged membership responding to your emails! Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results. From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

30 cents per email address when asking your supporter based for money through an email appeal? With 10,000 people in your email list you’d make $3,000.00 in revenue from one mailing. Subtract the money it cost you to send the email and you’re looking at a pretty good RIO. Would you be happy with a return of.30

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

. — Did you know that nearly 90 million Americans use their phone to read email ? ComScore reports that nearly 90 million Americans use their phone to read email – and that number grew by 28% over the past year. 14 of the 15 messages with the mobile template performed better, by an average of 2 percentage points of open rate. (So,

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Mobile messaging is a useful part of a multi-channel fundraising and engagement strategy , given the state of email and direct mail. Email inboxes are often crowded, and major players in the tech sector have made changes in the recent past that affect the way we understand open rates. Volunteering.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

These include direct mail, phone calls and messages, and in-person solicitations. This change reflects a broader trend in nonprofits. It’s changing how we identify potential donors and set targets. Artificial intelligence is also changing how we personalize donor experiences and maximize donations.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Feeding America’s mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all. Charity Navigator has awarded Feeding America a four-star rating for ten consecutive years. Instead, the email series is an opportunity to go deeper into donor relationships.” There’s nothing better than that.”

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2021

Direct mail is a valuable fundraising strategy, but figuring out how to send a nonprofit appeal can be confusing. You’re just mailing a letter asking for a donation, right? If you’re a beginner at mailing fundraising appeals , it’s really important that you understand the strategy and psychology behind what makes a good letter.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 4, 2023

Should you print, stuff, and mail your own fundraising letter? If you have fewer than 200 mail recipients, the answer is probably yes. When you get more than 200 donors, you may be eligible to mail at nonprofit postage rates as low as 19 cents per piece (as of July 2023). No labels needed!

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sgEngage

AUGUST 10, 2021

Are you freaking out about how Apple’s recent announcement regarding new privacy functionality of the upcoming iOS 15 might impact your email strategy? What is email engagement really? When someone actually reads and feels compelled to click an email, we know we’ve made genuine impact. Hear me out. I know you can do it!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Collecting registrations online means there’s no need to track down and manage mailed registration forms, checks, and receipts; search for information in multiple spreadsheets, emails, and handwritten notes; or enter and re-enter registrant information. Keep participants informed of changes or updates.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Let’s focus on these four main channels: Direct mail. Yes, physical mail can be a part of digital marketing! In fact, consumers are likely to spend 25% more when you use direct mail and email together. Email campaigns are vital to digital marketing, and there’s a wide variety of ways you can use them.

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

Social media strategists (ok, not all) love to discount email in favor of, you guessed it - social media. They have deemed email a dying communications channel, which is absurd. You can leverage your email list to drive further action on other platforms. Email raises money. Monthly giving revenue grew 25% in 2013.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

But first, let’s compare how the major communication channels of direct mail versus digital communications play a role in donor retention. Direct Mail versus Digital Communications . A prevailing myth in the nonprofit sector is that traditional mail has been phased out by the internet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

By Christy Smaglio , Instructional Writer at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Did you mail out an appeal at a different time? Did you use a different subject line in an email appeal? In this scenario, you spent $0.43 for every dollar raised. 3) Past Trends.

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M+R

JUNE 22, 2023

That’s how I felt the first time I got a demo for Scout Quest, the dashboard my M+R colleagues developed to leverage data to enhance mail programs and help with things like deliverability , reactivation, and mid-level donor upgrades. Super useful email applications. A lovely interface.

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

Social media strategists (ok, not all) love to discount email in favor of, you guessed it - social media. They have deemed email a dying communications channel, which is absurd. You can leverage your email list to drive further action on other platforms. Email raises money. Monthly giving revenue grew 25% in 2013.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

Sending targeted emails, social media messages and text alerts based on donors’ stated preferences ensures communications are relevant. Tracking open and click-through rates for each segment provides data to refine messaging. Personalize the email with the donor’s name, donation amount, and cause supported.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

Your website serves as the central hub for your digital strategy, followed closely by the ways you drive folks to your website, including email, blog posts, newsletters, social media, text messaging, QR codes in print media, and advertising. Is it easy to join your mailing list? Most nonprofits don’t email enough.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

Direct mail is the most popular year-end giving marketing method. Creating a memorable brand ensures that your year-end fundraising efforts as a whole are memorable and that they stand out in supporters’ social media feeds, email inboxes, and mailboxes. You can certainly send one year-end email appeal to your entire supporter base.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2019

Email is still king in the invitation world. With proper segmentation and a good cadence plan (don’t forget those follow-ups), you should be able to get a good conversion out of your supporter email list. This includes the sign-up page, their confirmation and follow-up emails, and even in the reminders leading up to your event.

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