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Ideas You Can Use To Thank Donors During the Holidays

Get Fully Funded

If they donate by check, you should send them a hard copy thank-you letter with tax information by regular postal mail, sent within two business days of when you receive their check. You can include a mail option and a QR code linking to an electronic survey. You’ll be tempted to share a ton of info in your welcome kit – don’t.

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How to Succeed in the First Year of Fundraising for Startup Nonprofits

Get Fully Funded

If a prospective donor encounters an obstacle while trying to donate (like if your donation process is cumbersome or if they can’t find the donate button or if there’s no address for them to mail a check), they may give up. You might be surprised how many people will want to write a check and mail it to you! Don’t go on and on.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. For more info, web search for: hacking "inside job" (As of late, the China/Google scandal commandeers at least the first three search pages. I also use [link] as an incoming mail filter proxy. Click ahead for more variety.).

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Donor Data Migration for Nonprofits: Explained

Neon CRM

Validation” is really just a technical data management term for “make sure that the info you have is correct.” A good place to start would be looking at your email bounces and returned mailings to see if any email or physical addresses are out of date. Update outdated or incorrect information using reliable sources.

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[VIDEO] The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

Bloomerang

So you want to focus on info and stats about your cause, rather than your thoughts, appearance, or external factors. And so I’ll do like a script with them. We typically send three mailed campaigns a year to our major donors.” So do the three mail campaigns and then also send them as a monthly donor.

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