Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

We’ve all received a fundraising appeal letter in the mail asking us to donate. You may have given money to some of these groups after receiving a request in the mail. Direct mail DOES work after all. However, statistics show that direct mail works. Lots of people do. In fact, it can be frustrating. That’s great!

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People Giving Fundraising Mail 98

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

It’s normal to feel pangs of fear every time a big event happens – hurricanes, earthquakes, war, global humanitarian crises – taking away some of your donors’ attention. Getting to 1,000 may sound intimidating, but there are tons of strategies to find new donors , like: Mail appeals. Email asks. Social media. Media coverage.

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Stream Fundraising Grant Fund 136

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

You were looking at some sort of return on investment selection tool or something before you put an appeal to those donors in the mail. So one thing that you absolutely need to look at is, just like it sounds, when did they last give? Kari: So we’ve got three sample donors. This could have been an intentional thing.

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