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Embedding Purpose-Driven Communications into Email Marketing

sgEngage

For arts and culture organizations, brand purpose is often about facilitating learning and engaging visitors in unforgettable experiences that provide educational and social value. Merge tags (also known as personalization tags or personalization fields) allow you to insert data from your mailing list directly into your email campaigns.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Online Appeals and Messaging

Bloomerang

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Is it easy to join your mailing list? Consider Twitter polls or Q&A sessions or surveys. Do donors receive a mailed thank you card? Mastering relevant content marketing.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

For example, if a mailed appeal with a matching gift incentive consistently outperforms others, keep using that format. Sending a recurring newsletter or print mailing to engage supporters. Test digital engagement tactics like emoji reactions, quick polls and unfortunate consequences of inaction.

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How To Make Social Media Experiments Fun!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. E-mail marketing. Reader Polls. application. Associations. Best practices. case studies. collaboration. Conferences. crowdsourcing. CSAE and ASAE. data backup. event managment.

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End-of-Year Event Fundraising

The Modern Nonprofit

Unlike typical events driven by in-person interaction, guests can be engaged with interactive polls, live shoutouts, and rotating break-out rooms ( Zoom and similar services offer all or most of these features in one). You might even direct-mail pretty recipe cards to add a special physical touch!

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End-of-Year Event Fundraising in 2021

The Modern Nonprofit

Unlike typical events driven by in-person interaction, guests can be engaged with interactive polls, live shoutouts, and rotating break-out rooms ( Zoom and similar services offer all or most of these features in one). You might even direct-mail pretty recipe cards to add a special physical touch! SIPA VIRTUAL GALA.