Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

This is a great question to play with for creating a unique prompt for creating draft personas for your nonprofit. They help nonprofits understand their target audience better and create effective fundraising campaigns. For example, donors who have given multiple times may be more likely to respond to a recurring donation campaign.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. This comes from the “tin cup” model of fundraising, where we come from a place of begging. For example, if pitching a sponsorship, what are your constituent demographics?

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Unlock the fundraising potential of your nonprofit by understanding your target audience. Discover our step-by-step guide to connecting with donors who truly care about your mission, and watch your fundraising efforts thrive. Based on your research, create profiles of your ideal donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

They think: “many of our supporters are women aged 50-60 and are interested in animals, so let’s target that demographic on Facebook.” But Facebook has a lot more information about its users than the relatively blunt demographics that your database can provide. 8) How to run an effective test.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing a digital donor acquisition strategy takes a similar approach to direct mail. Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. Streamline the form to ensure you are only asking relevant questions like their name, email address, payment information, and whether they’d like to make the gift a recurring one.

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TechImpact

JULY 29, 2014

So how do you go about answering that though question? With your CRM, you can record how many people from a specific demographic donated to your nonprofit during your last campaign. Now, you can compare that information to last year, or the last time you ran a similar campaign targeting that demographic, and compare the two.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Credit card payments are donors’ preferred giving methods— 63% of donors prefer to give online with a credit or debit card , followed by direct mail (16%), PayPal (10%), wire transfer (5%), cash (4%), digital wallet (1%), and text-to-give (1%). There is also a 1% fundraising platform fee on all transactions processed through Bloomerang.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This guide is here to help you learn more about nonprofit fundraising platforms, what’s available to your organization, and when you should consider using each. Amongst the many tools nonprofits can benefit from, fundraising tools, CRMs, and marketing tools are the must-haves for organizations seeking success. Key fundraising tools.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

50% of nonprofits receive the majority of donations from October through December, so it’s critical that you have a plan in place to maximize your fundraising efforts during this time. It’s crucial to understand just how important year-end fundraising is for your organization. What were the demographics of our year-end donors?

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Greater Giving

APRIL 16, 2021

A strong donor segmentation is much more than just breaking up your donor list into the basic demographic groups that define your community by age, location, or gender. This includes the basic demographic information typically used to segment donors by gender, ethnicity, and age. Demographics. What is Donor Segmentation?

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Turning Crisis into Community: How to Make Emergency Donors Lifelong Supporters As nonprofit professionals, we are all too familiar with the cycle of emergency fundraising. Segmenting new donors based on demographics, interests and preferred channels can enable more personalized outreach.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Practical Tips for Donor Engagement Strategies As a fundraiser, you probably have a good feel for how your donors want to engage with you, whether it’s on social media, through email, over the phone, or face-to-face. Check out this blog article on effective fundraising communications tips you can use as you talk with your supporters.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. This comes from the “tin cup” model of fundraising, where we come from a place of begging. For example, if pitching a sponsorship, what are your constituent demographics?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 23, 2022

The best way to market any fundraiser is by using a multi-channel approach. While it may be tempting to stick to one marketing channel, a multi-channel strategy uses email, social media, text messaging, and direct mail, to reach a wider audience and generate more excitement for your auction. Direct mail marketing.

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2023

Is the secret to growing your fundraising hiding in your CRM? These journeys work best when you carry them across all your channels, including direct mail, email, social media, in-person events, digital ads , and more. It just might be! Your nonprofit CRM is much more than a storage space for addresses and phone numbers. Who didn’t?

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

That’s not to discount the value of the small-dollar fundraising program. But from a revenue perspective, sometimes the greatest value of a small-dollar fundraising program is the extent to which it can operate like a pipeline for the mid-level program. The questions we need to ask go beyond the immediate revenue numbers.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

That’s why we bring you a list of mistakes that you should avoid in your next fundraising campaign. Get as much information from users as possible during the signup process to strengthen demographic segmenting. Buying mailing lists. Pose a question. That means it’s time to work on your email marketing strategy. .

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Effective data management is key to understanding your constituency and building better fundraising and engagement strategies. Fundraising and Donor Analytics. The ultimate goal is to uncover trends, understand performance, and discover useful next actions to help nonprofits achieve their fundraising and donor stewardship goals.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Particularly true for service organizations, but consider how your organization might use Twitter to allow for constituents to ask questions, engage program staff, and get help finding resources or using the website. Social Fundraising. Looking to build a new event or fundraising committee and want to involve new constituents?

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Achieve

APRIL 28, 2022

Ask supporters open-ended questions. Question: When there are so many different social media platforms—not to mention the old standbys of email and texts—how do you reach your followers? Ultimately, however, online fundraising is about more than asking for money. You should track your donors’: Demographics. donor data.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2014

Jen initially wrote this post for me to share a highlights from a webinar we hosted: Are you asking the right questions in your post event survey? Whether your event is tomorrow or in 10 months, it’s never to late to ask your participants questions to help you improve your fundraising events. Take it away Jennifer.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2013

That one bit of information alone should make you stop, think about your donor base, and start asking questions. Questions you should be asking about your donors. Do my donors like when I reach out to them via direct mail, email, social media, or other forms of communications? If so, how should my fundraising strategy adapt?

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

As fundraisers, we are in the business of building relationships and knowing who we are talking to helps us to tailor our messages and ultimately communicate in a more meaningful manner. Lastly, when in doubt, segment your e-mail list like you would for direct mail. E-mail Schedules & Strategies. First, Create a Plan.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Guest post blog submitted by: GivingMail, a leading provider of direct mail solutions. Along with email, nonprofit databases can also accomplish this with direct mail, addressing each supporter by their name in a personalized message. Your nonprofit can and should experiment so it can gain data to answer specific questions.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2017

This report is based on data about discretionary spending by Americans, and focuses on the key demographic indicators of charitable giving. You have limited time and resources, and focusing on the right people is important, especially for major givin g, planned giving, and other high-touch fundraising methods.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Jack has been a major gifts fundraiser and senior organizational executive working with or consulting to nonprofit and advocacy organizations. __. Not everyone responds in the same way to direct mail, and some people detest social media. Direct Mail. Encourage Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. Communicate in Different Ways.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

For each of your online campaigns, your revenue goal should tie into your overall fundraising strategy. With all of the new, innovative fundraising tools available online, the price of your campaigns may go up, making it challenging to actually get a return at all. Direct mail . You’ll also need to measure your outputs.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead?

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 17, 2016

Like most nonprofits, you’re going to spend a lot of time, attention, and money on fundraising to reap the rewards of a giving season that’s expected to see more than $30 billion in donations. With a little planning and careful consideration, you’ll be well positioned to see a better return on investment from your fundraising efforts.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2022

Nonprofits with written fundraising plans consistently outperform organizations without them. One study found that 37% of organizations with budgets under $1 million and 22% of organizations with budgets over $1 million don’t have a fundraising plan in place. 6 steps to creating a fundraising plan. Assess past performance.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

ways to bring in fundraising dollars and engage supporters is the time-tested fundraising event. If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. Here, we’ll walk through 10 steps to putting together a fundraising event that’s out of this world. Set up for the big day.

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2011

With most online fundraising and communications tools, you have the ability to easily group people together and send specific messages based on what you know about them. Simple segmentation focuses on descriptive segments, such as demographics and donor history, and tailors your communication based on what you already know about that person.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A mailing may be sent to 100,000 potential donors with certain demographics, i.e., income being most common, at a cost of a few pennies per mailing. Fortunately, a study conducted in 2012 brings forth important insights into this question. Two questions remained in my mind. Newman and Y. The “Crowding Out” Effect.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2014

The fundraising world is active; everyday it seems that more and more organizations are fundraising. Peer to peer donors are a good group of warm prospects, but the question remains will peer to peer donors become organizations’ donors? There is no way you can mail every donor on this list. It’s up to you.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 3, 2018

The truth is, it's easy to attract people to a nonprofit fundraising campaign, however, ensuring that they're going donate a different story. This is one of the common reasons why donors end up abandoning the process of donating because aside from creating an account, other irrelevant questions are being asked.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 26, 2018

Or are there simply “best guesses” floating around that may or may not accurately answer that question? . A well-crafted donor survey delivered in a savvy way can provide the facts you need to make smarter fundraising and marketing decisions going forward. They are the perfect audience to answer your questions. older donors).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. It may be mean rethinking multi-channel campaigns, particularly use of direct mail as Allyson Kapin writes on the Frog Loop blog. If it were a question of age, then folks like me would be using it.

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