Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 18, 2023

Communicate frequently with your supporters. Because of their success, virtual fundraisers will continue to be a popular and prevalent way to get in front of supporters and donors, even past the pandemic. For your next fundraiser, provide donors the option to give in person or online depending on what’s easiest for them.

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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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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Engaging donors is no simple task. Building long-lasting fruitful relationships with your donors requires diligence, hard work, and careful planning. But if you follow the principles of the donor engagement cycle, you can use them as a framework around which to build the rest of your donor stewardship plan.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

This is a popular time for charitable giving because supporters are motivated by the holiday spirit and because it’s the last opportunity for donors in the U.S. Direct mail is the most popular year-end giving marketing method. What were the demographics of our year-end donors? to submit tax-deductible gifts.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Your work attracts new students, engages current students, and delights alumni and donors. Attracting Students. Potential students are excited and nervous all at once. As marketers, we’re always trying to stay on top of the latest trends—and college-age students are a discerning audience.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I’ve offered you checklists , FAQs and e-guides with templates for writing donor-centric annual appeals. This is the specific donor you’re appealing to. . In order to inspire the donor to take action, you need to create a sense of urgency around the ask. . Have you written to one specific donor? . how you would talk).

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It’s one of the most overlooked places to seal the deal with your donor: the fundraising landing page. . This valuable piece of online real estate is where the donor goes to take action and give your organization money. Your fundraising landing page is a perfect opportunity to make a strong connection with your donor.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

The most important thing you must do when you receive a donation of any size is immediately thank your donor warmly and provide a donation receipt. Most nonprofits completely miss this opportunity to wow their donor, so it’s not that hard to stand out. We call it the Cycle of Giving and here’s how it works: The donor gives a gift.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. The very best time to ask donors how they prefer to be connected with is at the time you onboard them.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

As the world continues to grapple with the ups and downs of COVID-19, it’s essential to meet your donors where they’re most comfortable, and that means coming up with inventive online fundraising ideas. Check out our comprehensive list to keep your fundraising campaigns fun and fresh for all of your donors. Email campaigns.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 4, 2023

It’s an important part of a good donor retention strategy. Your GivingTuesday thank-you letter does more than simply thank your donors. But writing an email that will delight your donors can feel like a monumental task. To do this, use personalization tokens to address your letter to your donor by name. We hope so!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

That means you need to make sure you don’t lose any of those donors you took such pains to acquire last year. 8 Fiscal Year-End Donor Retention Action Strategies + Practical Tips. There’s nothing more important to your bottom line and long-term sustainability than donor retention. Call your most important lapsed donors. .

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

Well, I’ve got some eye-opening stats that might make you reconsider where to channel your communication efforts. When it comes to reaching your fundraising goals, email reigns supreme (after direct mail and face-to-face, of course). Is it time to take a step back and reevaluate your communication strategy? It depends.

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Qgiv

JULY 6, 2022

While the most well-known giving day is Giving Tuesday, more and more organizations are looking to partake in other giving days to engage their community of donors and meet their fundraising goals. For a standard online fundraising campaign, you’ll need to create a giving day-specific donation form where donors can give.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2019

As stewardship professionals know well, strengthening and preserving relationships with the donors is essential to an institution’s success. In fact, over 50% of higher education institutions are focused on creating more impactful donor stewardship practices in 2019. No longer do you need to reach back out to edit their notes.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

We are witnessing the rise of a new generation of donors and nonprofit employees. Your donors have experienced strong emotions too. How have you considered your donors’ changed perspectives in your fundraising and marketing strategies? Did you recruit new donors, or not? . And how did this work out?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Did you know that, on average, 88% of total nonprofit donations comes from just 12% of donors? This small portion of your nonprofit’s supporter base is known as your major donors. To secure the support of these crucial donors, your nonprofit needs to build a robust major gifts fundraising strategy. billion in 2022.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

With the introduction of the internet and social media, donors now have the ability to participate and give in new and more accessible ways. Lowering the bar for smaller donations is a great way to expand your donor pool. You’ll reach new, often younger donors, who wouldn’t be able to contribute at a higher level. .

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. Reach out to donors, volunteers, and board members who you think would be great assets to your committee.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

In this blog series, we're focusing on how Higher Educational Institutions use technology to communicate with and engage their students and alumni. Don't miss the first installment, covering how Student Activities offices are using digital tactics to increase engagement on campus ! Digital communication that stands out.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

In this blog series, we're focusing on how Higher Educational Institutions use technology to communicate with and engage their students and alumni. Don't miss the first installment, covering how Student Activities offices are using digital tactics to increase engagement on campus ! Digital communication that stands out.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your vision for your new organization probably includes vibrant programs, happy donors, tons of community support, and the opportunity to change lives. Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? What impact does this organization have on the community? Will donors give money to sustain the program?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Second, year-end giving gives nonprofits an opportunity to use a big chunk of their resources to meet their annual fundraising goals, and it gives donors a last chance to get a tax-deductible gift out the door. At CauseVox, we’re all about helping everyone to meet their goals – donors and the causes they support.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2013

The parents of your school’s current students can and should be one of your biggest fundraising assets. In order to unleash the potential of your students’ parent, however, you will need to work hard to build a relationship with them before their children graduate on to their next level of schooling. Communicate Often.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2017

We had goals to increase total giving to the NMSU system, increase alumni giving rates, see participation of 1,000 donors, add endowments for colleges, departments and units across the system and establish communication partnerships with local businesses. Our #GivingTuesday results were transformational. We raised a grand total of $5.7

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2018

Over 50% of colleges and universities are focused on creating more impactful donor stewardship practices in 2018. Some universities are working to collect more thank-you letters from students, while others are starting to share video acknowledgements with donors. Empower Writing of Powerful Impact Statements.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

She is passionate about fundraising, especially direct mail, and loves helping nonprofits start their giving programs. On Tuesday, November 30, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students worldwide will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate and encourage philanthropic giving.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Recent data shows that total commitments and donor retention are both down in 2020. Whether it’s rethinking how they contact their donors, the language they use on donor calls, where they ’ re direct ing their funds, or even how they ’ re partnering with students to drive donor engagement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Web-based email communication services such as iContact , Constant Contact , or MailChimp make it very simple to launch an e-newsletter and fees start at $15US monthly for email lists of 500 subscribers or less. 2) Launch an e-newsletter. Many NGOs do send e-newsletters, but via BCC.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2020

When international students had to return to their home countries, m any institutions matched international alumni living abroad with these students back in their home country. COVID-19 pressure has tested existing EdTech needs and processes, especially in the areas of support for online students.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2020

According to Jonathan Greene, a marketing blogger at Brit Student and Write My X , “Mapping content with your segmented list helps you make sure you’re sending subscribers the right content for the stage of the sales funnel. It’s important that you don’t bombard their mailbox as much as not communicating often enough so they forget about you.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet, there is one last statistic that makes fundraisers stay awake at night—the sorry state of donor retention overall , and especially retention of first-time donors. I suggest a nonprofit differentiates itself to its donors when it is: Genuinely personal. It’s easy to talk at donors but not always to them.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

Securing donors only to lose them is just silly business. If you want to move away from transactional one-time gifts, and towards longer-term, transformational giving, here is the single most important thing you need to know to keep nonprofit donors: RESOLVE to rock the power of thank you! Begin by making donor retention a priority.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 21, 2017

Many organizations of faith don’t think of their supporters as “donors,” though. Churches and dioceses think about “members,” while religious schools think about “students,” “families,” and “alumni.” Other faith-based organizations talk about “donors,” but wonder about how to solicit donations while still honoring their higher calling.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Our speakers in the super session took a deep dive into trends across higher education technology landscape, strategies for using technology to effectively engage students and alumni, and the considerations institutions must make when managing and awarding scholarships. . Moving down the path of modern digital transformation .

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

You need to communicate with your team and tell them you are overwhelmed. Send someone else to pick up the mail, drop off a deposit at the bank, or pick up toilet paper for the office. Find a college student to do this for you. Data entry — either in Quickbooks or your donor database. And then you need to DELEGATE.

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