Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

With 12% of all gifts made during the last few days of the year , fundraising emails are a powerful tool to encourage year-end generosity among your donors. But how many year-end giving emails should you send? Emails are a valuable, low-cost option for organizations, and the number of emails sent is increasing year over year.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

In difficult circumstances, it’s helpful to return to the fundraising basics to ensure you’re making the most of tried and true strategies to boost your nonprofit’s donation revenue. Generic communications like mass emails sent to everyone in your organization’s donor database do little to form meaningful connections.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

There will always be a place for email in a nonprofit’s communication arsenal. Then why, you may be asking, is email engagement declining across the board? Why are only half of my nonprofit’s emails being opened? Because of this, your emails must cater to the busy reader. Image courtesy of OnQue Digital Insights.

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EveryAction

JUNE 22, 2016

Yesterday, EveryAction hosted a webinar to discuss insights from our 2016 Email Deliverability Study. Unfortunately, there were so many questions from the audience that we weren't able answer them all during the alotted time. Here are some great, thoughtful questions that we received and Brett's email wisdom. "

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CauseVox

MAY 17, 2024

In this 30 minute session you’ll learn: Strategic Storytelling: Learn how to strategically weave compelling narratives into every facet of your multi-channel fundraising campaign, from emails to social media, and beyond.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Wouldn’t life be easier if people opened and read your fundraising emails? Maybe you check your open rate and see that only 25% of your audience bothered to open the email you spent hours writing. Maybe you check your open rate and see that only 25% of your audience bothered to open the email you spent hours writing.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A good fundraising email subject line can make or break your request for funds. You see, most people focus just on the email itself and the subject line is an afterthought. You see, if the email doesn’t get opened, you get no donations. Your fundraising email subject line has ONE job: to entice the recipient to open the email.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Having solid donor engagement strategies in place is important for any nonprofit that wants to inspire generosity in their community and build a base of lifelong supporters. How can you connect with your donors despite all the other ads, social messages, texts, and emails that are vying for their attention? paragraphs in your emails.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 15, 2023

“I currently send out only newsletter emails for my non-profit, but I am curious to know more. Are there different types of email marketing that I can add to my strategy?” Great question, but first, let’s explore what email marketing is and is not. What is email marketing?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

No longer an abstract concept, many nonprofit staff are experiencing the “dividend of time” as they adopt tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT for scheduling and managing meetings, processing email, writing drafts, summarizing long reports, analyzing data, and creating efficiencies in other common workflows. Investing in “soft skills.”

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2021

In part 1 of this series, I outlined my top six fundraising strategies for 2021: . Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. In this post, I’ll explore the second strategy. . Then ask yourself these questions: Is your mission clear and compelling (i.e., Here are some questions to ask: .

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Innovative learning strategies I want you to think for a moment about how you learn best. Ready to give some learning strategies a try? 3 learning strategies to practice Today I’d like to focus on three modalities I’m using in an intensive course I’m taking from Tara Mohr about how to love well. And the trick works all too well.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Establish your organization’s brand purpose and use it to guide the development of your marketing strategy whilst considering the most effective ways to communicate that purpose to various audiences. Developing a strategy for embedding purpose-driven communications based on audience data will likely involve a fair amount of trial and error.

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Double the Donation

JULY 27, 2022

Email marketing is an extremely cost-effective way to reach out to your supporters. Compared to other types of marketing, email campaigns don’t require any physical materials or the same level of staff time. Not to mention, they also offer a higher response rate than other marketing methods such as direct mail or phone calls.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Email marketing. With more than 4 billion users, email empowers you to reach a vast audience while targeting your messaging to particular constituents. Let’s dive into the basics of nonprofit emails so you can improve your fundraising results in any economy. Ask a question. (“How A key tool in overcoming these challenges?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

During a hectic work day where many can only squeeze in a lunch break between firing off emails, it can be hard to know if you’re making your donors feel appreciated or if you’re giving them the impression that they’re getting copy and paste interactions. How to become a better communicator through questioning. It starts a dialogue.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

As a result, you’ve probably found yourself needing to write informative and engaging emails to connect with your community with limited time and manpower. With Open AI’s ChatGPT , nonprofits can generate high-quality emails in a fraction of the time it would usually take to write them. What is ChatGPT?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Email marketing. With more than 4 billion users, email empowers you to reach a vast audience while targeting your messaging to particular constituents. Let’s dive into the basics of nonprofit emails so you can improve your fundraising results in any economy. Ask a question. (“How A key tool in overcoming these challenges?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your passion and drive demonstrate why donors should give to your cause, but finding new donors and keeping existing ones takes something more: a solid fundraising strategy. A thorough, thoughtful strategy takes the guess work out of the daily operations of your nonprofit.

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Classy

AUGUST 9, 2021

To help you capitalize on the biggest donation day of the year, we’re answering top questions from nonprofits that are zeroing in on the year-end giving season. It’s the perfect time to nail down your strategy and decide how you’ll stand out. How many emails should you send on Giving Tuesday? Nonprofits raised more than $2.47

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

One of the best methods to increase your donor retention is to leverage your overall communication strategies. In fact, studies show that donors are more likely to read a direct mail appeal than an email appeal. No matter if you’re sending donors direct mail or an email message, it’s critical to personalize your appeals. .

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Developing a digital donor acquisition strategy takes a similar approach to direct mail. Then, once you understand your audience members and which strategies resonate with them, you can build a strategy. Which strategies were most effective at attracting first-time donors? the timing of their donation)?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

In part one of this series, I outlined my top six fundraising strategies for 2021: . Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. In this post, I’ll explore the fifth strategy. . Master an analytic approach to strategy and planning. Number of donors emailed personally. Let’s say you’re a food bank.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email is a powerful marketing tool, but to get results you need to learn how to write fundraising emails that connect emotionally and inspire people to give. That means you can’t throw just anything in an email, push “send,” and expect thousands of dollars to pour in. That means you may need to leave out a few things.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

email marketing is one of the most effective channels for nonprofit organizations. Here are 5 nonprofit email marketing mistakes to avoid. . As a nonprofit organization, email marketing should be one of your top priorities. Around 42% of donors prefer to hear from nonprofits via emails. Overlooking mobile users.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2011

I’ve been deep in the world of email marketing for the past few months. There are very well established best practices, standard metrics that are tracked, widely accepted and proven statistical data to measure your effectiveness by and countless bits of information on the web to teach us how to do email marketing and communication well.

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Forum One

JANUARY 20, 2022

As we are closing in on the end of January, you have likely be finalizing your nonprofit’s digital strategy plans. Over the past year, you and your team devoted time and resources to optimize your digital platforms, social media and email marketing to support your organization’s goals and overall mission. Email metrics.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2024

In this guide, we’ll explore how marketing can level up your major gift strategy and some of the most effective strategies to use. What role should marketing play in your major gift strategy? Work closely with your development team to determine which strategies will resonate with the donor. Let’s get started!

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

We understand what it takes to empower teams of supporters, and using our firsthand knowledge, we’ve pulled together several volunteer engagement ideas and strategies for maximizing your team’s impact. Much like a volunteer recruitment strategy, this volunteer engagement playbook is essential to all your volunteer programs and activities.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Year-end appeal strategies ask you to start planning in the summer and then to implement the drive in mid-October. Follow this plan for your year-end appeal strategy We’ve done the work for you. Here are the last-minute year-end appeal strategies to implement now: What’s your core year-end message? What do you do now?

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2024

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., So, let’s look at some strategies to build your list (both snail mail and email). Baker’s dozen of list-building strategies Ask those closest to you for names/addresses of their friends and colleagues. Of course, you’re correct.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2021

Here are three questions whose answers will give you guidance on how to start serving donors. Question 1: What are our donors’ needs? Question 2: What is your core belief and expertise? Question 3: Where does our belief and expertise overlap with our donor’s needs? There are many strategies for promoting your resource.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

In part one of this series, I outlined my top six fundraising strategies for 2021: . Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. In this post, I’ll explore the third strategy. . Talk to your team to see what questions people are asking. . They must write for the website, blog, email, social media, and more.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Instead, while your auction guests still have the event fresh on their minds, take time to send an engaging follow-up email to strengthen their relationship with your organization. Why you should send follow-up emails You’ve just completed a massive fundraising event. Why should you take the time to send a follow-up email?

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CauseVox

MARCH 24, 2022

Your donors ask or think about this question every time they consider giving. Ask the donor more questions before responding? “Why should I give to you?”. When a donor says it out loud, most nonprofits are ill-equipped to answer it. Do you go through your programming? Maybe all of the above?

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Roundtree

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

6 Ways to Improve Your Donor Emails. Email remains one of the most important channels of communication. How can your organization send donor emails that improve open and click rates? #1: Focus every email around one topic: pick one program, event, or need. In your emails, be as specific as possible. 1: Say less.

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In this guide, we’ll answer four common questions about planned giving, including: 1. Just like cultivating other major donors , outreach and relationship-building strategies grounded in prospect research are essential for your organization to make the most of planned giving. Why Is Planned Giving Important to Nonprofits?

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