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6 Ways to Create Buzz Around Your Charity Golf Tournament

sgEngage

This demographic is one that sponsors are interested in gaining exposure to, which could add sponsor appeal to your tournament. If you decide to add direct mail to the mix, include a QR code for a quick link to your event website where folks can immediately register, become a sponsor, or make a donation as soon as they hear about it.

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8 Tried-and-True (Secret) Individual Donor Fundraising Action Tips

Bloomerang

Ask them if they’ll write a brief handwritten note on the next appeal you mail (give them a few sample notes). If they can’t come into the office, send them a bunch of sticky notes to write and mail back to you; insert these into the appropriate envelopes. ACTION: Get board members to review your donor list.

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Making the most of mid-level

M+R

Some nonprofits are increasingly experimenting with combining wealth scoring, RFM market research, and additional behavioral and demographic data with the goal of building more precise predictive models for mid-level prospects. . In all likelihood, you are able to reach these donors via direct mail and/or telephone outreach.

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Giving USA 2021 Key Findings: How to Retain and Upgrade Nonprofit Donors Before Year’s End

Bloomerang

direct mail, email, social media, text, phone, advertising, website), targeting different donor audiences. You can find a sample script here. The best ones are brief, engaging, and ask about the donor’s interests and preferences rather than seeking demographic information.

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Digital Natives and Twitter (and RSS)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now, admittedly the sample size is small, so this doesn't necessarily project to all digital natives, but I was surprised about a few things. including cellphones, text messages, instant messages, e-mail and face-to-face conversations. The people who I see using it are an older demographic, people in marketing or P.R.

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Great reads from around the web on October 14th

Amy Sample Ward

But these characteristics won't change about the demographic: They are vocal, demanding and discerning." And like the generation that was forever altered by the harsh sacrifices of World War II, millennials are likely to be permanently affected by the Great Recession and its long-term ripples.

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3 Ways to Integrate Donor Acknowledgements and Appeals

NonProfit Hub

The make a donation, and then are immediately thrown into whatever communication pattern is already in progress, regardless of their gift type, gift size or demographic information. Consider creating unique tracks for each donor and sticking to them, and filtering out very recent (first-time) donors from your appeal mailing.