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Why Monthly Giving is Easy

Top Nonprofits

Mind you, she had only heard me speak once before with a different monthly giving focus. Erica Waasdorp is President of A Direct Solution , located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, working with non-profit clients nationally and internationally on appeals and monthly giving. The Sleeping Giant and NEW: Monthly Giving Made Easy. Recent Posts.

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New Email Tests Improve Clicks, Slow Exiting

The NonProfit Times

Nearly half (48%) of donors cited email as their preferred giving channel ahead of social media, text messaging, direct mail, and phone calls in a study published last year by fundraising platform Neon One in Chicago. Email deliverability continues to be top of mind for digital marketers for these reasons. Research backs this up.

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How to Find and Work with a Nonprofit Virtual Assistant

Get Fully Funded

For example, a horse rescue may be located in Massachusetts, while the virtual assistant lives in Oregon. Your nonprofit needs you working in your strengths , not setting up your newsletter in Mail Chimp or scheduling your next Facebook post. Keep in mind that you are not committing to a full-time hire. Nor should you.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

Areas served: Boston/Massachusetts. If you believe your charitable organization has a request that fits within their guidelines, they suggest that you send them by regular mail a preliminary letter of no more than two pages. Lilly Endowment Inc. Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Areas served: Indianapolis/Indiana.

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

Bloomerang

But don’t do that right now because one of my favorites joining us from my hometown of New Bedford, Massachusetts, one of the many reasons why Robin and I get along. So as Steven was saying, I live in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and part-time in Mollymook Beach, New South Wales, Australia, curiously enough. You doing okay?

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[VIDEO] Best Practices for Recurring Donor Acquisition

Bloomerang

Wait about 59 minutes or so because we got one of my favorites joining us from beautiful Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Erica Waasdorp. If they give online, and again, obviously, a lot of direct mail is going to get people online, but it’s still about 12% of donors that are going online, so a lot of money still comes in offline.

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[VIDEO] How to Get a Return on Your Nonprofit Technology Investment

Bloomerang

But joining us from beautiful Sandwich, Massachusetts near my homeland up there on the Cape, Maureen Wallbeoff. And my mail tool has to be set up in a way where it can share data and use data from my fundraising system. You read my mind exactly, Jennifer. We don’t mind. I am righting a huge wrong. So, you know. .