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The 5 Rules of Successful Annual Appeal Fundraising Letters

The Fundraising Authority

It usually gets sent to every donor in your donor file (or at least, every donor that has been active over the past several years) and normally gets sent out around the same time each year (the time of year differs by nonprofit, but once you pick a time of year, you normally stick with it). Tell them why you need them to get involved.

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5 Nonprofit Tech Solutions For Improving Internal Communication

TechImpact

For nonprofits, staying connected and efficiently communicating is a high priority. Another common communication tool that poses maintenance and sometimes service issues. File sharing. Your nonprofit might have a on-site server used for file sharing, which is great if you have the time and resources to maintain it.

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7 Ways Nonprofits Can Automate Donor Retention

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Frequent communication is vital in cultivating donor relationships, especially with new supporters. Using DonorPerfect’s partnership with Constant Contact can make drip campaigns easy and effective. In Constant Contact, you can build your email series and apply DonorPerfect’s filter so only those donors will receive the emails.

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Maintaining Nonprofit Compliance With Fundraising Software

Greater Giving

Although increasing revenue to fund your mission is an important goal, you’ll eventually find yourself sorting through donation records and event recaps to craft financial statements and file the necessary paperwork to maintain your nonprofit’s compliance with the IRS. Data is not only important for Form 990 filing.

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Top 20 Best WordPress Plugins for Nonprofit Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

He helps women-led communications teams free up their time and lock down WordPress from getting hacked. Enable Media Replace – easily replace an image or file without having to delete, rename, and re-upload to the Media Library. By Chuck Spidell , a Nonprofit WordPress Security Expert with ILLUSIO.

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What You Should Know if You’re Thinking of Starting a Nonprofit Organization

Bloomerang

At this time, you should also establish business contact information including location (can be a residential home) and email address. You must have your founding Board of Directors and officers selected prior to filing your Articles of Formation or Articles of Incorporation with the state. Prepare and file Articles of Incorporation.

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Doing Your Appeal In-house? 5 Tips to Save Time & Money

Get Fully Funded

That’s why nonprofits outsource to nonprofit mail experts as their donor file grows. Canva is a great tool for digital communications, but I don’t recommend designing your print letter there. Save the file in its original format and in the format your design software requires for mail merge. That’s often.CSV.

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