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[ASK AN EXPERT] What is the Best Way to Acquire Donor Phone Numbers?

Bloomerang

Dear Charity Clairity, Do you have any tips for acquiring phone numbers? Dear Call Me Maybe, You’re certainly on the right track wanting to make phone calls to donors. A tried-and-true way to acquire phone numbers is to ask repeatedly, every place you can think of. We do ask on the remit, but often it’s left blank.

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Reigning in shadow databases

Robert Weiner

The following story, posted with permission, was sent to the FUNDSVCS list in response to a question about how to reign in schools and departments at a university that keep their own shadow databases of contacts. I have a story that we have used quite often: A few years ago, we imported a shadow database into Raiser''s Edge.

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4 Tips For Maintaining Your Nonprofit’s Databases

TechImpact

Database are extremely useful in simplifying business operations, communication, and workflow for both the for-profit sector and nonprofit sector. Nonprofits and charities use databases to manage donor, volunteer, and B2B profiles and aggregate data. But of course, a good database can go down-hill if it is not properly maintained.

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New Email Tests Improve Clicks, Slow Exiting

The NonProfit Times

An aggressive email campaign was the foundation. It began with an email appeal leading into GivingTuesday and continued with three more heading into the afternoon and evening. A second matching grant offer enabled leaders to extend the giving via two more fundraising emails the next day. Research backs this up.

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Advocacy for everyone: 6 ways to help your supporters take action

EveryAction

Mobile optimization —M+R’s Benchmarks for the year 2022 found that “users on mobile devices (including both phones and tablets) accounted for 57% of nonprofit website traffic.” Email Using email to share petitions and prompt targeted messages to decision-makers makes the process easy for you and your supporters in several ways.

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Top 12 Features Membership Organizations & Associations Should Look for in a CRM

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can also track engagement in different aspects of the organization. Track Engagement. You will also need to make sure that you’ll be able to track engagement with your messages. Mobile Phone Access. In fact, it’s estimated that 71 percent of workers access company information from their phones.

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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Most nonprofits use marketing tactics to recruit, like emails, social media posts, blog posts, and web pages. Keep all of this important personal information organized and in a secure database. You may also want to ask your volunteer their preferred method of communication – phone, text, or email – in their volunteer application.

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