Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

She asked staff to give 15 minutes of their time to handwrite a card and prepared them with ready-made assets, stationery, stamps, and sample scripts. In other words, they looked at retention and future gifts among both groups. Like a timeless piece of music, gratitude has an incredibly long half-life.

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Gift Volunteer Celebrate Culture 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge. Be prepared to improvise more and drop the script if it isn't working with the audience. Learning the tools is like learning a music instrument, start slowly and work up speed and practice.

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Channel Instruction Instructional Instructional Design 87

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

Begin by making donor retention a priority. The ‘holy trinity’ of successful donor retention (I call them “3 P’s”): PROMPT thank you. You can even add music. By now you probably know data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) shows the average nonprofit in the U.S. loses over 80% of donors after the first gift !

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Donor Nonprofit Mail Gift 82

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. It’s how do we really create this retention? But you really want to script it, you just don’t want to have some.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

” Write your phone ask scripts and plan your list of who you’re going to call and what you’re going to ask for. In November I want you to set up all of your acknowledgments, your email autoresponder, your thank you cards, your thank you scripts. If you do that, I recommend giving them a script to make it super easy.

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Video Fundraising Guide Test 76