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Making the most of mid-level

M+R

Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. These are the folks in your file—and not yet in your file—who are likely to have the capacity and interest to give significantly more but haven’t ever done so. Her clients include Oxfam America, the American Museum of Natural History, and the American Red Cross.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something? Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? You just need to show proof of membership.

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Finding Your Next Funder: How Prospect Research Helps Secure New Major Donors

Connection Cafe

The American Alliance of Museums conference was last week, and I had the opportunity to meet and introduce the panel of a jeopardy style session, What is Prospect Research, Alex? You won’t always have time to go through prospects files in detail at the office prior to a meeting or an event. Prospect research.

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Once Just Isn???t Enough| How to Keep Constituents Engaged Beyond their First Visit

Connection Cafe

The Online Marketing Benchmark Study released by Blackbaud in 2013 found that the median amount raised per email address on file is $13. Have a major donor pledge to donate money as a matching gift for emails sent, clicks, orFacebook likes from your website. Request their contact information and, at minimum, their email addresses.

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3 Superhuman Ways Donor Management Software Can Improve Your Organization’s Fundraising Efforts

NonProfit Hub

Right, of course that data is in an Excel file on the Invisible Man’s laptop, wherever he is. Basic contact information, preferred modes of communication and matching gift information that can help to maximize fundraising should be available in an instant. Yikes, well, do we know when they last volunteered?

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Your Cause Camp 2018 Lineup is Here

NonProfit Hub

He is going to do that, with the hope that one day, a TV producer will see how cool and interesting our field is and make a show about nonprofit work, featuring attractive actors attending strategic planning meetings and filing 990 tax forms. Kristen Hadeed. kristenhadeed.com. ignitedfundraising.com.

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

Yeah, the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. I’ve been to the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. You are running your annual campaign, you may be running a capital campaign, and/or you may be running like an endowment campaign, or maybe even some kind of restricted gift campaign. What prompted that gift? That’s right.