Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

It sounds creepy, but this is info you can (and should) use. Ask your customers if they’d like to be added to your mailing list upon checkout, or have them opt in from your online store. There’s no reason that arts and cultural organizations can’t do the same thing. You know where they are. You can reach them directly.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Because of our team of monthly donors – who we fondly call Rescuers – I can now peacefully sleep at night knowing I’m safe and sound in my forever home and feel lots of love! Anytime throughout the year that you’re sending an appeal, whether through the mail or email, make monthly giving an option. Monthly option in appeals.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2014

If I have to spend more than 15 minutes creating a report or query to see the info I need, I’ve done something terribly wrong. Then, it hit me one day- just because someone is on our mailing list does not mean they are passionate about what we do. Sound like you? Doing it right the first time saves a lot of time in the end!

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 10, 2009

News directors, reporters and editors receive hundreds of press releases by e-mail each day. At newspapers, make sure to send the info to the correct department- it could be the Local, Lifestyles, Entertainment or Business editor. You wouldn’t blindly send a direct mail appeal that way and expect success, would you?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 10, 2009

News directors, reporters and editors receive hundreds of press releases by e-mail each day. At newspapers, make sure to send the info to the correct department- it could be the Local, Lifestyles, Entertainment or Business editor. You wouldn’t blindly send a direct mail appeal that way and expect success, would you?

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Care2

JUNE 26, 2009

Sound interesting? Contact them for more info. As a donor, you choose which project you would like your donation to support. Plastic Jungle is also starting to expand their nonprofit outreach efforts to raise money for additional organizations.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 9, 2021

OUR top 3 reasons why CLEAN DATA matters: Cleaner data gives you better, more actionable (and searchable) info. Mail merges will take less time. You’ll also save the time that is often spent correcting address labels after a mail merge. Reports will be more accurate and reliable. managing your donor data. Donation dates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

This sounds like an Abbott and Castello bit. Now, how is this different from, say, using your OutLooks address book and sending off mail merge email? Of course, the more efficient approach would be to get people to add the info themselves directly into a wiki. Ask not what do I need to know, but who knows this?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 11, 2022

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!

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

GALA CAMPAIGN TEMPLATE Flipcause Campaign Tips: Use a single landing page listing the event info and all the ways your community can get involved: buy tickets , donate , volunteer , sponsor —you can even add peer-to-peer —but try to stick to no more than 3 calls-to-action! Hold a contest with rewards for Best Dressed or Best Background.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Use a single landing page listing the event info and all the ways your community can get involved: buy tickets , donate , volunteer , sponsor —you can even add peer-to-peer —but try to stick to no more than 3 calls-to-action! You might even direct-mail pretty recipe cards to add a special physical touch! GALA CAMPAIGN TEMPLATE.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Direct mail and email will likely be your two primary channels; use their relative strengths and weaknesses to complement each other. Avoid too many statistics: It can be tempting to rattle off a series of important-sounding numbers that capture your organization’s impact. Resist that temptation.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sound exciting? Build a Donor Data Migration Strategy in 10 Steps Migrating your donor data into your new CRM sounds like a daunting task. Validation” is really just a technical data management term for “make sure that the info you have is correct.” Well, we’re starting anyway!

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Does this sound familiar? If that sounds familiar, then what your nonprofit lacks is a sound donor management strategy. Sound good? Direct Mail Then, of course, there’s the trusty old standby: Direct mail. Young people are surprisingly receptive to direct mail !) We’re going to share how it’s done.

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Care2

APRIL 26, 2007

As exciting as it sounds, the mobile wave has some substantial drawbacks as well. So check out MobileActive.org for more info and start warming up those thumbs. 60) Search « Survey Says: Nonprofits Fail to Track Marketing Impact | Main | Care2 and Free Range become One Planet for Earth Day!

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Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Keep your Greater Giving Text-to-Donate number handy because it works for any marketing medium —from snail mail to television, to a flier hanging in a coffee shop! It sounds easy to make a webpage where donors can contribute for #GivingTuesday—but what platform will you use to host it? Accept and Process Those Donations—SECURELY.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 22, 2022

One of the more pleasing updates to donation form UX in the last years is the proliferation of address lookup type-ahead functionality when inputting a mailing address. If you don’t have a plan for that info, don’t include the field. Use address lookup. All they have to do then is select the correct address from the list.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

I'm cheered to see the woman who likes to talk hiking, less so the man who flips through mail-order bride catalogs. This sounds risky to institutions like museums, where we want to design the experience through exhibits and architecture, not interpersonal exchanges. This has its positives and negatives.

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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? You know, do you send them a direct mail piece, but they give online? Makes sense? Kari: Cool.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2018

Same goes for inaccurate mailing addresses. Even if you have your donors’ contact info updated, other data hiccups could lower your donor retention. But if you keep them focused on impact even while filling out their contact info, credit card number, etc., potential repeat donors) who won’t get your message. Lost donations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

The big advent of freelancing, since the Internet, is that instead of snail-mailing my story ideas to editors, I would email them. I would love to do an info. That sounds like a horrible way to die. That sounds really nerdy, but it can actually be really fun. We do all kinds of multimedia. graphic, or a map.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So the reason we do the seminar and I wrote this book on questions is because my strong belief is, this is a methodology of approaching all kinds of fundraising, whether it’s major donors, direct mail, face to face, on the street, your digital work. . In direct mail and digital fundraising, you can often base it on money targets, $82.57

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Chad: Sounds great, Steven. You do this and they say, “Oh, you know, that sounds a little bit like my neighbor, Monica. You don’t have to be the one putting mailing labels on those kinds of things. Just be willing to explain that, but that relentless contact info capture at events is essential. Even better.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

They want to see innovative thinking and sound business practices in place at the nonprofits they support. This personal info helps ensure that you’re communicating with the donor in a way that shows familiarity and respect. Lastly, most are metrics-driven. Remember, this is not a cold call.

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Care2

JANUARY 23, 2008

They’re looking for adults over 60: Initiating new ways to address social challenges Working in a leadership role within government, non-profit, or for-profit institution Whose social change work began after the age of 50 And, who are committed to pursuing social entrepreneurship in the future Sound like you or someone you know ?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Is it phone, e-mail? And it sounds like we’re going to have a lot of questions at the end. You got her info there on the screen. Is there do not contact them until after the fact, after you submit? But I always think it’s a good idea to reach out to a funder, especially if they’re new before the submission.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

That sounds great. . Sometimes we forget to even like mail or, sorry, email them the final strategic plan. We got a lot of questions, probably more than we will get to, but do reach out to Julie, her contact info is there, obviously an awesome person. Steven: Yes. Will do it. Julie: Great. Steven: Julie, you’re awesome.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Because I sound like a broken record saying this, I’m going to say it again, volunteers make your very best donors. So you want to focus on info and stats about your cause, rather than your thoughts, appearance, or external factors. We typically send three mailed campaigns a year to our major donors.”

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Or mail in a check? That means making info visually pleasing and easily shareable. That sounds good, right? Sometimes we get so busy trying to raise money that we lose sight of something important: Why people give. What makes someone pull out their credit card and click the ‘donate now’ button?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So chatbots are very useful if you do have a list of frequently asked questions or if you want to direct people, say, to a hotline or to some other resource when you might not be directly answering e-mails. That sounds cool. It sounds really amazing. So it sounds awesome. Julia: You can e-mail. Make a plan.

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