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It’s Not Too Late: 3 Strategic Year-End Fundraising Tips

Bloomerang

For donors who pledge or make a donation, send them a donor acknowledgment as soon as possible. I know it’s a busy time, and hopefully I can make it easy by taking your pledge or even your credit card payment over the phone.”. After a supporter makes a pledge, send out an immediate thank you letter or email. Try three times.

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How to find donors online – 22 ideas that work

Whole Whale

These are usually things like ebooks or larger downloadable reports/guides that allow users to access the content in exchange for an email. Pledges to reduce use or avoid a purchase decision can be built with any basic form tool and offer a way to promote a campaign that builds an email list with an evergreen ask. Lead magnets.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. It’s not too late to pledge your support for our work. Brennan has Retinitis Pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment and blindness.

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6 Proven Ways to Grow Your eMail List using Facebook [w/ Slides]

Connection Cafe

Research has also shown that people who pledge to make a donation will likely will follow through on that promise. For example, the American Diabetes Association has a micro site around making a pledge to stop diabetes. 6 ways to answers the WIIFM question: 1. With an e-book you can offer a a lot of value for very little money.

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White House Summit Promotes Pro Bono Service: Connecting Companies with Nonprofits for the Sake of Social Good

Connection Cafe

In fact, more than half of the companies that have taken the pro bono pledge are small businesses. If you need some final inspiration, check out this eBook we produced with A Billion+Change and Riggs Partners to celebrate #GivingTuesday. But pro bono isn’t just for the big guys, a key message A Billion+Change works to convey.

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Write Better Fundraising Appeals by Implementing One of Dr. Robert Cialdini’s 6 Principals of Persuasion

Connection Cafe

Of course we could talk about how to apply the science of persuasion to many different areas of our lives, but let’s stick to the topic of improving your fundraising appeal (download the ebook ). After they do that, be sure to cultivate them further and ask them to pledge support to your organization in some other small way.

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Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Software Tips for Medical Nonprofits

Qgiv

A matching gift grant ensures all donations up to the pledged matching donation amount are matched. This eBook provides tips for marketing peer-to-peer fundraising events across a variety of marketing channels. This can be accomplished through a private matching gift grant from major donors or a corporate partner.