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Data hoarding: Does the term apply to your donor data?

3rd Sector Labs

You keep mailing out newsletters and fundraising appeals. You keep adding new donors, new prospects and your mailing lists get larger. Have you done the math on returned mail? If 5% of the addresses are bad, that’s 5,000 pieces of returned or wasted mail each mailing. Donors lapse. Some move away. Others pass away.

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Nonprofit Email Basics: Master Effective Fundraising Communications

sgEngage

Tycely Williams, chief development officer of The Bipartisan Policy Center, encourages nonprofits to step outside expectations. “A Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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10 Best Practices for Email Security

Tech Soup

For instance, by converting a Word file to PDF, any potentially harmful scripts can be removed. In addition, have an email policy in place that lists the dos and don'ts of email use. Read more about how to create an email policy and download a sample policy. Check Internal Emails. Block Emails with Many Recipients.

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Nonprofit Email Basics: Master Effective Fundraising Communications

sgEngage

Tycely Williams, chief development officer of The Bipartisan Policy Center, encourages nonprofits to step outside expectations. “A Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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5 Steps to Keep Your Email Attachments Secure

Tech Soup

IT departments should consider creating a policy that blocks email attachments with potentially dangerous formats, such as.exe files or password-protected zip files. For instance, by converting a Word document to a PDF file, any potentially harmful scripts can be removed before they can do any damage. Block Dangerous Attachment Types.

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Online Fundraising Ideas (7 Strategies & 63% More Donations)

Nonprofits Source

Note : Be sure to have a remarketing privacy policy visible on your site to inform visitors of how you may be using their information. To add this code you’ll need access to place the script in the header or footer tags of your website. You can even connect the lead captures directly to a mailing list provider, like MailChimp.

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ePhilanthropy: 10 Valuable Tips for Shooting Web Video - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Heres the outline: Tell a story Keep the audience in mind Make a clear call to action Shoot video with repurposing in mind Think outside the box Prepare a script and get some feedback B-roll is important Sound is critical Give the viewer the right web tools Host a screening To get the details, read the full article. All rights reserved.