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How to generate advocacy calls from your supporters to elected officials

EveryAction

If you work on multiple issues and have tagged your supporters by their interests it will be easy to identify your most likely action-takers, but you have several other options as well. If they’ll be calling multiple targets, they’ll be automatically connected with the next phone number after their first call.

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6 Simple Tips to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Phone Fundraising

NonProfit Hub

Maybe, but for many NPOs, saddling up, getting down in the dirt and hitting the phones is still one of the most effective ways to get those donations. We’re also wannabe hipsters, however, so today we’re going to walk you through how to improve your nonprofit’s phone fundraising because, well, we’re totally retro and not mainstream.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. About the TAG study. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders.

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Unlocking The Power Of A Donor Thank You: Feeding America’s Approach

Bloomerang

There, they welcome local hunters to donate specific, legally tagged, wild game meat, including deer, and they’ve designed an FDA-approved butchering process to package the meat for community members who select that food option. When a gift comes in, the team member receives the donor’s details and a script to guide the conversation.

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10 Questions You Can Ask Major Donors to Build the Relationship

Get Fully Funded

Would you be available this week or next for a phone call? I like to suggest both a phone call and a coffee date, and see which one the donor feels more comfortable with. For a phone call, you can literally have these in writing in front of you. Phone or In Person? Or, even better, would you like to meet for coffee?”.

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It?s Never too Early to Start Your Annual Campaign

NonProfit Hub

Is your data up to date and tagged correctly? You’ll also want to segment your data if you haven’t yet, and update the tags for each contact. Consider email, handwritten notes, and phone calls. You can build your email templates and draft your call scripts now so that you can thank donors in a timely manner.

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Ideas You Can Use To Thank Donors During the Holidays

Get Fully Funded

If you don’t have their phone numbers, send an email letting them know you would like to call them and ask if they’d be willing to share their phone number and the best time to reach them. It helps to provide the people making calls with a script. They are free to veer from the script, but they can use it to get started.

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