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Improving Fundraising Asks: 5 Tips for Boosting Donations

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Broadcasting your marketing materials on several different platforms can ensure that your donors will see your message through at least one of the methods. . Segmenting your audience is also especially effective with direct mail and would allow you to tailor your fundraising asks to fit more specific audiences. 91% of companies.

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Encouraging Donors to Participate in Corporate Giving Programs

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Direct mail. Match ratios (i.e., This method is quick, easy, and very low cost. On the other hand, you might reserve pricier tactics like direct mail outreach strategies (i.e., Let’s explore a few of our favorite ways to get the word out about matching gifts : Online donation pages. Confirmation screens. Social media.

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Using Prospect Research to Improve Your Ask: 5 Tips

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This research method has the innate ability to uncover valuable information on prospective donors, helping your organization better understand its audience and determine key cultivation steps. . For instance, you should vary your outreach approach by contacting prospects via email, phone, and direct mail.

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Major Gifts: Defining and Enhancing Your Strategy

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The clear majority of giving is made through one of three methods: direct mail, online and special events. and “What methods work best to raise these gifts?” For instance, how large they are, what tools organizations really use, and what methods work best. — 2017 Major Gifts Fundraising Benchmark Study.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Collaborative overload is defined as the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. This can contribute to overload unless you have a method to establish a remote work policy. Take a trend-line view.

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How to Turn Your Current School Parents into Lifelong Donors

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There are innumerable methods you can use, including newsletters and direct mail pieces, e-mails and e-mail newsletters, small group meetings, invitations to events at the school, calls from school administrators and staff, volunteer opportunities, etc. Staying in touch need not be expensive or time-consuming.

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The Key to Relevant Fundraising in 2015 and Beyond

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He quickly told me that he had no interest in direct mail as it was totally irrelevant in 2015. I bit back a world of arguments; yes, online donations are rising, but direct mail is still doing the heavy lifting in terms of direct response income. Are the ratios changing? Will direct mail be totally obsolete in my lifetime?