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7 “Must Do’s” When Thanking Donors To Win Their Heart and Set Up Future Gifts

Get Fully Funded

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. But there is so much more to properly thanking donors. A perfect thank-you letter does both.

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Text-to-Give Explained

The Modern Nonprofit

Text-to-Give lets a supporter contribute to their favorite cause with the stroke of a few keys on their mobile phone. What you may not know is that there are two types of Text-to-Give—one where the money goes through the donor’s phone carrier and the other where the money goes directly to your nonprofit.

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Text-to-Give Explained

The Modern Nonprofit

Text-to-Give lets a supporter contribute to their favorite cause with the stroke of a few keys on their mobile phone. What you may not know is that there are two types of Text-to-Give—one where the money goes through the donor’s phone carrier and the other where the money goes directly to your nonprofit.

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What You Need in Your Nonprofit’s Fundraiser Toolkit

Classy

To assist with participants’ success, nonprofits can create fundraiser toolkits that provide guidance both technically for the peer-to-peer fundraising sign-up process and strategically for outreach to potential donors. Encouragement for the fundraiser to be their first donor to show others their commitment to the cause. Through email.

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7 Ways for Nonprofits to Use Mobile Phones to Rake in Cash Monies

NTEN

moment in January, 2010, when an outpouring of donations followed the devastating Haiti quake. But what you may not have anticipated was that $41m of these dollars flowed through mobile phones via “premium text messages.” million messages valued at ten dollars each, 95% of which were from first-time donors. This, you expected.

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Making the most impact for Haiti relief: Avoiding Fundraising Fraud during Crisis

Connection Cafe

In the past 8 days, the surge of generosity for Haiti relief has been amazing. And while every donor should take measures to be as savvy as possible when it comes to giving to organizations, there are many resources available to make this a simple task. Author: Jordan Viator. Most importantly the support continues to roll in.

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Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors of the Future?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. The topic we explored was mobile fundraising, ranging from best practices, integration and why applications on phones haven’t taken off. What phones and apps are they using? Qwerty Monsters.

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