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5 Tech Best Practices Universities Should Use To Keep Alumni Connected

Everyaction

With so many other influences vying for their time, attention, and financial support, it can be difficult for Alumni Engagement offices to ensure that alumni are retaining a sense of connection to the university. The key to running a cost-effective direct mail program is effective testing. Digital communication that stands out.

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5 Tech Best Practices Universities Should Use To Keep Alumni Connected

Everyaction

With so many other influences vying for their time, attention, and financial support, it can be difficult for Alumni Engagement offices to ensure that alumni are retaining a sense of connection to the university. The key to running a cost-effective direct mail program is effective testing. Digital communication that stands out.

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From Lost To Loved: Turning Lapsed Donors Into Devoted Donors

Bloomerang

How you SHOULD NOT communicate with lapsed donors Stop sending reinstatement and member renewal mailings to lapsed donors on auto-pilot. You can find me at (insert email address) or [insert phone here] (when I’m not (description of some awesome mission activity), of course! Thank you for being a part of our family, (donor first name).

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). Research the steps needed to create a direct mail fundraising program (e.g. bulk mail permits, rules and regulations, mail houses). your neighbors.

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Reigning in shadow databases

Robert Weiner

The following story, posted with permission, was sent to the FUNDSVCS list in response to a question about how to reign in schools and departments at a university that keep their own shadow databases of contacts. In the process, I discovered that they had mailed to 5 deceased people. We do phone and email appends.

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How To Stop Your Nonprofit’s After Hours Email Habit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Collaborative overload is the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other online collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. Is it habit or are you addicted to getting the notice that you have mail? ” Individual Techniques.

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Cell Phone Data Cleaning – It's Easy

Tech Soup

This week I had the chance to attend the Electronics & Sustainability: Design for Energy and the Environment Symposium at the University of Illinois. It was a good opportunity to get several perspectives from university researchers and industry experts on green IT and electronics recycling and reuse.

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