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5 Text Best Practices to Boost Your Fundraising Success

Get Fully Funded

With your help, we raised $200,000 for those affected by the devastation in Puerto Rico. Within 10 minutes, Jacob responds by asking what matching gifts are and how to find out if he’s eligible. We couldn’t make a difference without you! Campaign update: Thank you again for your donation to our hurricane relief campaign!

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Ready for Year-End? Here Are 10 Easy Things You Can Do to Raise More Money

Everyaction

The image below is from World Central Kitchen, and it shows the impact of their work providing over 1 million meals in Puerto Rico! You are likely to see a 10% to 20% bump in gifts. You can also ask sustainers to make a 13 th gift in 2017. Use create-a-list to segment on more than recency, frequency, and average gift.

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The Surprising Truth About Donor Fatigue And What Nonprofits Can Do To Avoid It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

However, I still plan to make my year-end gifts (during Giving Tuesday), but I couldn’t help but wonder about donor fatigue and if there will be any impact on year-end campaigns. . as they have to the recent hurricanes in Puerto Rico + the Caribbean ($4.6M I surpassed my giving budget for disaster relief giving.

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Giving Tuesday #Inspo: 14 Donation Pages That Know What They’re Doing

Everyaction

Small details like a simple check box for transforming one-time donations into a monthly gift, take this donation page from good to great. In this case, they’re directly relating the work they do to the immediate need for relief efforts in Puerto Rico. A one-click checkbox to convert one-time donations into monthly gifts?

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Win Back Your Lapsed Donors

Bloomerang

So their last gift could have been, you know, last year, but unfortunately, not this year, right? So that’s going to be the very first way to identify them in your database is to look at when was their last gift. So that would be a wide touch, a repeat-back, a “Here’s what your gift did. ” Jackie: Right.

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4 Keys to Engaging Employees in Your Company’s Matching Gifts Program

Connection Cafe

But one of my favorite programs is what I’d call a building block of any give-back program – matching gifts. And it’s what I’ve seen unfold at Blackbaud after we launched our matching gift program. Culture – Matching gifts on their own without a culture that cares about giving back are just another program. I have four thoughts.