Qgiv

DECEMBER 13, 2022

From knowing your target audiences to getting them to donate, there’s a lot you need to know as a fundraiser. Create an eye-catching donation form. Your donation form is an opportunity to create a great first impression for people just discovering your nonprofit organization. Host a fundraising auction to raise even more.

Raise 52

Raise Money Guide Nonprofit 52

NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2020

You have to collect stories and photos of program participants, get their consent, pull data on your programs, clean up your donor database, plan events, schedule donor meetings, print materials, fix your mail merge and lick a thousand envelopes ? Your campaign is only as strong as your data, so review your donor database now.

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Campaign Calendar Mail Contact 88

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Where contact information is requested, provide (if applicable) Name, Title, Address, Email Address, Phone Number. Organization’s Donation Website. consider mapping the common fields identified here to any data fields available via Application Programming Interface (API) in your public database. Intern Roles (if any).

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Analysis Grant Application Contact 94

Achieve

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Continue running ads throughout the month of December, with urgency to donate increasing as the month goes on. We suggest sending around three emails in the month of December, each with an increased sense of urgency to donate. Build and prep email solicitations. Plan individual outreach.

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Campaign Mail Script Test 52

Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

But wouldn’t it be nice if your events system could talk to your donor management system, and tell you who among your guests has never donated to your organization before? Donor management systems like DonorPerfect also provide APIs for saving pledges and donations and accessing donor information. APIs to the Rescue.

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API System Data Share 67

DipJar

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These campaigns may involve phone calls or occasional events and demonstrations, but most advocacy work will be conducted through virtual means. . Script-branching. Even with scripts and designated canvassing areas, your volunteers are likely to still encounter both unexpected opportunities and challenges. Real-time reporting.

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Advocacy Causes Campaign Tools 52

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AUGUST 28, 2018

Consider including a list like this on your event’s landing page and in-room donation materials. Having your RSVPs in a database is the best way to make sure your event is headed for success. Talk on the phone or in person to make sure you're on the page. Choose the range based on the giving capacity of your donor base.

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Fundraising Hosting Tips Director 55

Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

To help fund one of their main programs, you decide to give a donation of $100. He found that 5% of one-time donors thought the charity didn’t need them, 9% had no memory of supporting, 13% never got thanked for donating, and 8% never had any information about how their gifts were used. 13% never got thanked for donating.

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Ideas Donor Strategy Create 134

Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

To help fund one of their main programs, you decide to give a donation of $100. He found that 5% of one-time donors thought the charity didn’t need them, 9% had no memory of supporting, 13% never got thanked for donating, and 8% never had any information about how their gifts were used. 13% never got thanked for donating.

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Ideas Donor Strategy Create 134

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

39% of donors support a nonprofit by volunteering before they make a donation. So could each of our board members over the course of the year thank 25 people, make five phone calls, write five thank you notes, write five emails. So you recommend people getting involved in making phone calls, writing thank you notes.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 64

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Assess your needs: Conduct a thorough analysis of your current donor database’s shortcomings, challenges, and the goals you aim to achieve with the new system. Map each field from the old database to its corresponding field in the new system, accounting for data format differences and potential transformations.

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Data Donor Map Test 52

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

If your fundraising plan doesn’t include a strategy for finding, cultivating, and asking major donors for a large donation, you’re missing out on some big gifts for your small nonprofit. I was pretty nervous about asking people for a large donation when I was new to fundraising. They don’t know who to ask.

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Donor Gift Nonprofit Relationship 72

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

We’re a donor database. “Donate.” ” I already was going to give when I went to their donate page, but now I’m really going to give because I get it. George heard about this and he grabbed his phone and he videoed a whole bunch of people saying, “Thank you to the Smith Family Foundation.

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Video Fundraising Louisiana Minnesota 94

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

To use donor data most effectively, you’ll need to periodically go through your database and records and clean them up. Once your fundraising page is all ready to go, kick things off by making a donation to your personal fundraising page and then share your story of why you support [Organization Name] with all your friends and family.

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Template email Fundraising Tips 59

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We’re a donor database. And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. Well, they want to know number one, has my donation made a difference? That makes sense, right?

Money 101

Money Personal Relationship Raise 101

Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

That’s what Bloomerang is, it’s a donor database. Their donor database, it’s fantastic. And that is how you get the results of them buying into your organization, buying into your message, wanting to donate. You really have to look at your donor database and you have to understand what works for your donors.

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Virtual Communication Video Newsletter 119

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In our own donor communications experiment over at Bloomerang, we made a $5 online donation to 50 random nonprofits. For each nonprofit, the donor was new to their database. In a perfect world, we should have received 19 phone calls (only 19 asked for a phone number on their donation form).

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Donor Phone Gift Retention 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Since we see many people carrying FlipCameras, mobile phones with video recording capability, etc, it seemed like it could be interesting to have people share footage of the conference from a participant perspective. It is just some CSS based on Mike Cherin’s Donation gauge (well it did take some PHP monkeying to make it work for me).

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Social Media Media Social Flickr 81