Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots. For example, if a mailed appeal with a matching gift incentive consistently outperforms others, keep using that format.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this blog post, I’m going to talk about how to evaluate those annual appeals before you publish them so you know you’re sending out the best possible ask. . Once you’re ready to look at your appeal again, you should evaluate it by asking the five questions below. I stick by them as a place to begin.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

They’re organized, actionable and tell a complete story of how you’re going to achieve your goals. Between all the events , phone calls and mailings your plan can bring you and your team back to the most important activities. After all, fundraising professionals don’t simply rely on direct mail anymore.

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Calendar Template Guide Fundraising 98

Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

mailing address; phone number; tax identification number). These can range from saying a simple “thank you” to giving them delightful “wow” surprises to telling stories to offering useful information. . If your website is not mobile friendly, Google may not even show your organization at all in search results.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 9, 2022

Review your donor files to evaluate the giving histories of your donors and identify your most loyal, faithful donors. Follow up with a phone call. If not now, ask for permission to spend a few minutes on the phone within the same week. Find out how you could be doing a better job of telling your story in the community.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Take a look and cast your vote so that we can share some pretty spectacular and helpful insight and stories with you next April! We’ll share benchmarks from other nonprofits you can use to evaluate your own communication. Forum One and friends have five great submissions for next year’s #23NTC in Denver.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . Share stories and testimonials from the people you help! You can also make sure your marketing material includes case studies and real stories from the people you help. . Phone calls. Direct mail.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Evaluate external threats and opportunities. Follow up with a phone call, thanking them for past engagement and discussing what they love about your mission. Make one last phone call. In fact, 42% of donors said that hearing personal stories from a nonprofit’s beneficiaries impacted their decision to give.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

In a survey of 200 nonprofit organizations, Freewill found that nonprofits using virtual technology plan to steward major donors as follows: Phone conversations (21.6%). Direct Mail (19.2%). At a minimum, try a mix of three channels (email, social media, phone, etc.). Emails (19.9%). Newsletters (15.7%). Events (13.9%).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 7, 2013

Evaluate your board’s current perception on its fundraising role. If that is impractical, bring your program to the board at a meeting, not just in numbers and written reports, but in real stories of your organization’s impact. Set clear expectations. This may require education and plans for overcoming obstacles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

First Book has teamed up with Disney to celebrate the release of "Bedtime Stories," a holiday movie. Yesterday, I caught a story on NPR about charity giving trends and social media use. They mention DonorsChoose , SharingTV , the Salvation Army's use of mobile phones for its " text a kettle campaign."

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2018

What is the donor’s story and would they serve as a spokesperson for hospital services? To properly evaluate all feedback, look for trends between the feedback and the socio-demographic profile/age/gender and other characteristics of the donor. I received a mailing from the Foundation . Share your story with us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Share stories: Celebrate every bar graph that leads to a program or campaign victory. Share it at staff meetings. Also circulate stories about other nonprofits that have become data-driven success stories. Keep the steps in the plan small and manageable. Use measurement pilots. How are you making the shift?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2010

According to community discussions and feedback, more than ever organizations see their online initiatives and integration with their traditional channels as a mission-critical function for reasons including: Prospects and donors say email from the organization has the same level of influence as direct mail on a person’s decision to give.

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Jordan Offline Channel Exercise 30

Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Effective Knowledge Transfer and Exchange for Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework, from Imagine Canada (formerly the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy), provides a framework to help nonprofits plan, conduct, and evaluate their efforts at knowledge transfer and exchange. a slogan, perhaps, or a compelling human-interest story â??

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Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 21, 2022

If you’re seeing lower email open rates, declining donations, and fewer donors giving, it’s time to take a step back and evaluate where things are off track. Remember, they want to know what happened to their last donation, so tell stories. Reach out to [name] at [phone] or [email].” Give updates.

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Communication Donor Tips Fundraising 81

Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

By leveraging multiple communication channels—email, mobile, direct mail, websites, social media, paid and earned media, SEO, and more, you expand your reach to engage new donors and supporters. For example, older donors (65+) still respond well to direct mail offers. Why is it important for nonprofits?

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Channel Marketing Fundraising Nonprofit 59

Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2013

For example, finding cohorts of direct mail responsive donors who outperform their peers, prioritizing campaign fundraising efforts, making timely contact with high potential donors, and determining how much we should be asking donors to give. Data tells a story. Evaluate early and often what is working. Eleven times!

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Be sure to share impact stories, campaign progress, and program updates to keep your community in the know. Conversely, if the technology your nonprofit uses is actually making things harder for your team, it may be time to evaluate a new solution. Check out the story of our work with the Chicago Repertory Ballet to learn more!

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

This means good marketing should allow you to: Take a critical look at your marketing strengths and weaknesses Evaluate your progress toward you current goals Set new goals based on your progress Clarify and help you connect with your target audience. How can your marketing help set you apart from other groups that are doing similar work?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So the reason we do the seminar and I wrote this book on questions is because my strong belief is, this is a methodology of approaching all kinds of fundraising, whether it’s major donors, direct mail, face to face, on the street, your digital work. . Again, integrating your own personal stories can be highly motivating to people. .

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Evaluation In this stage, the potential donor begins to consider making a donation to your nonprofit. For a better glimpse into how that works, check out this story about how one nonprofit used Neon CRM and WindFall to increase major gift prospects by 20%! When in doubt, tell the story of one person instead of sharing statistics.

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Management Donor Guide Retention 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

You need a written promotional and cultivation plan, and you need to dedicate yourself to ongoing implementation and evaluation. You can share a story every month, in fact. The goal is to show folks how monthly donors, together, create a story with a happy ending. Share your story on social media. They give/you give.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Whether or not you choose to go with a theme, you’ll also want to consider a subtler kind of theme—that of the stories you’ll share and the appeal for support that will drive your fundraising. If you’re raising money for a hospital foundation, for instance, you may want to focus on sharing stories of hope. Will you hand-write them?

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See3

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Here’s the amazing thing… a lot more money came in phone calls! If you have your own matching gift story, leave it in a comment here to share it with your nonprofit colleagues. They often get personal meetings, phone calls, special events, etc. The more retail donors get the general mailings and emails.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2011

Do you know the first steps in telling your organization's story? I have been fortunate to work at a few nonprofit organizations, and there is always a critical need to effectively tell the story. Use Your E-mail Signature. Every nonprofit has a story. ASU Lodestar Center. Keep reading. Storytelling.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

We have a short evaluation at the end and formal breaks for Q&A throughout the session, so we invite you to stay engaged. So, let’s close that, and I will pass the mic virtually over to Francis to kick us off with a story. So, going into my story here, for this story, we’re going to go all the way back to March of 2020.

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Achieve

JULY 23, 2017

If you’re short on time or resources, your print/mail house likely offers mailing list cleanup services for a nominal fee and can match your data against national registries for the most accurate results. events, emails, phone calls, social media updates, etc.) Gather beneficiary stories. Get tech in place.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

How to accept (and evaluate) any type of nonprofit donation There are three types of nonprofit donations you might receive: standard, nonstandard, and in kind. Donor-advised funds (DAF): Sometimes when you receive a check in the mail, it comes from a bank, but the check does not have the donor’s name or signature on it.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Content is online tools, direct mail, and social media. Content is how you answer the phone and the signature in your emails. That understanding is the foundation of content governance: If you’re not creating, you’re maintaining or evaluating. Content isn’t just what’s on your website. Content is everything. Surface Ideas

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Instead of repeatedly inputting bidder numbers and bid amounts, donors can conveniently place bids from their own mobile phones from anywhere in the venue or at home. share their story and make a heartfelt ask. Mobile bidding is a contemporary alternative to old-school silent auction bid sheets.

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Charity Raise Money Tips 52

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It’s important to tell the same basic story to every funder so that you can be clear in who your program serves, what your goals and outcomes are, and your overall messaging. But you still want to be sharing the same basic overall story. These are great ways to evaluate their alignment for you. .

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Most donors expect professionally printed mailings that include good stories and related giving options. Start by evaluating whether you are committing a comparable amount of resources -- people, time, and planning -- to your online initiatives. Set high expectations and focus on achieving better results in 2009.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Their small development team knows the majority of their donations come from direct mail and email appeals, so they’ll prioritize those channels. Direct mail appeals are most effective when reinforced with photos. If you have a post that performed really well with your audience, take a few minutes to evaluate it. Email appeals?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

They also had to mail these to the museum at their own expense, with no expectation that their submissions would be returned. The Online Story Development The online story development is the trickiest part to evaluate. The online contributions I also consider the online hands-on aspect to have been successful.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Receive timely responses to their e-mails? Quickly get answers when phoning your company? 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Keys To Telling A Good Story In Your Presentations. Is it easy for your customers to: Buy from you? Make returns? Get pricing and terms?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. Is it phone, e-mail? What was the story there? If they have a phone number, I would call. Rachel: Mm-hmm. Steven: All right, awesome.

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