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8 Tips for Managing Your Nonprofit’s Memorial Donations

Bloomerang

If they don’t, use your donor management system to look up the name of the deceased and see if you have any contact information for a family member of theirs. Once you’ve made contact with a family member or close friend, ask who the main point of contact or representative from the family will be.

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5 Things That Nonprofits Wish They Knew Three Months Ago

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Duplicate addresses, missing data, and outdated contact preferences can hinder your ability to connect with your donors. Like you, many of your constituents are also working from home, using their personal cell phones and email addresses. The bottom line: if you can’t reach your donors, you can’t solicit them.

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Member Renewal Letters: A Complete How-To Guide (Free Template Included)

Neon CRM

Briefly remind members what you’ve offered them in the past year by mentioning: Successful events you’ve planned Community-building activities you’ve facilitated Services or opportunities you’ve offered After a quick jaunt down memory lane, your member should be able to fondly recall all they’ve gained after a year as a member of your organization.

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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

Some participants will have two or more screens, others may be accessing a meeting through their phone or iPad. Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! I had asked my contact whether participants were comfortable using Zoom with Google Docs.

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Is Salesforce.com Right for Your Nonprofit?

Network for Good

Salesforce.com can be: A centralized contact list of all the people and organizations you work with. The system for tracking just about any of your other program-related work: canvassing, phone banking, events, tabling, outcomes and evaluation, etc. Take up hours and hours of staff time to organize and execute a campaign.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What Should A Donor Do When They Don’t Feel Adequately Engaged?

Bloomerang

She reached out to me at least quarterly, we had phone calls, Zoom calls, and even met in person for coffee. They don’t mean it to be awkward, but moving through the “donor pyramid,” as it’s been taught to a myriad of fundraisers, means that donors get a new “contact person” every time they get to a new “level” in their giving.

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Five Tips for Nonprofits to Avoid Virtual Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Loss of physical cues like your office conference room, appropriate physical contact (handshake or hug), other things to look at besides each other’s faces. The pandemic has inspire a new breed of online collaboration apps that facilitate drop in video chatting for serendipitous conversations that your team might want to test.

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