ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Unfortunately, there is little interest on the part of most funders to invest in high quality, methodologically sound research on leadership and philanthropy topics that are so very important to those who lead, manage, and support nonprofits. Conversely, if they want cheaper, they cannot have bigger, better, and faster. There are many.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 17, 2014

To boost your nonprofit brand’s buzzability, you have to give your brand evangelists something worth talking about beyond the latest direct mail drop or email blast. You don’t want your stories to sound like obvious marketing pitches. The big question is how do you get people chatting? Here are five ways to get tongues wagging.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They can give directly from their seats without disrupting conversation with one another. Hootsuite allows for a set-it-and-forget-it approach that frees up more time during your fundraising campaign for more face-to-face conversations with supporters and less time watching your computer screen. Outbid notifications.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 10, 2009

I had an interesting conversion recently with an owner of a new radio station here in Knoxville. News directors, reporters and editors receive hundreds of press releases by e-mail each day. Most news articles will not mention sponsors, so be careful when promising sponsorship benefits. But I understand her reasoning.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 10, 2009

I had an interesting conversion recently with an owner of a new radio station here in Knoxville. News directors, reporters and editors receive hundreds of press releases by e-mail each day. Most news articles will not mention sponsors, so be careful when promising sponsorship benefits. But I understand her reasoning.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2015

This would determine she is a good target for your next year end mail campaign. With this new information, would you still keep her in your annual fund direct mail campaign? Sounds like a sure deal, right? Within that article she talks about her passion for charities. But let’s look a little further…. Announcing Anita.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

per day per family sounds reasonable for homeless women and children. Electronic mail vs snail mail. Q: We’re a green recycling organization and we don’t like a lot of paper mailing. Q: Are electronic newsletters as effective as hard copy–snail mail? And it doesn’t all have to be through the mail.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In this article, we’ll lay out seven elements every successful year-end giving letter needs and point you to an awesome series of templates Neon One has created to use as you write year-end appeals. Direct mail and email will likely be your two primary channels; use their relative strengths and weaknesses to complement each other.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

A number of the items in this article refer to ways you can collect, analyze, and act on donor data. Conversely, if the technology your nonprofit uses is actually making things harder for your team, it may be time to evaluate a new solution. Common channels include email, direct mail, social media, phone calls, your website, etc.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Then two hours later, you’re sitting there looking through past writing projects and online templates hoping to find inspiration without a single word written… Sound familiar? In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. It feels like magic when I use Fundwriter.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 14, 2016

This information can be sent via email or traditional mail, but it should always include: A description of what matching gifts are. You can incentivize a large audience by providing your major donors’ testimonials, or even just using select quotes from your conversation. In-kind donations also pair well with events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

While I don't always agree with Allan's opinions on everything he writes, I love his insightful analysis, sense of humor, and well researched articles. It's more personal than e-mail in many ways when someone takes the time to leave a comment for instance. His blog is a valuable source in the nonprofit technology blogosphere!

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

The first thing I suggest is to be genuine -- interview people who are affected by the work your organization does, record actions you are taking to solve problems in your community, ask YouTube users to sound off on why your issues are important. Has research been done to measure conversion rates, and, if so, what has it concluded?

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CauseVox

MARCH 2, 2021

While it sounds uncomfortable at first, if you kindly offer up that something can be resolved via email due to busy schedules, the receiving end will most likely gratefully agree. If you feel the meeting getting off track, don’t be afraid to take back control by putting a stop to a conversation that is off topic.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 22, 2021

I leafed through my stack of mail the other day, and there it was: another colorful, overfull packet from Treesavers International (not the nonprofit’s real name). That sounds like a recipe for donor acquisition. At a minimum, whatever means a nonprofit employs to reach out to donors, whether it’s direct mail, phone calls, blogs, etc.,

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

By leveraging multiple communication channels—email, mobile, direct mail, websites, social media, paid and earned media, SEO, and more, you expand your reach to engage new donors and supporters. The most important one for our conversation—95% of donors consider content created by nonprofits to be trustworthy! There’s Power in Numbers.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

The first thing I suggest is to be genuine -- interview people who are affected by the work your organization does, record actions you are taking to solve problems in your community, ask YouTube users to sound off on why your issues are important. Has research been done to measure conversion rates, and, if so, what has it concluded?

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Care2

OCTOBER 13, 2008

5 Comments | by Share Article in Crowdsourcing , Misc. Sound interesting.then view my short YouTube video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb71fk-79Uc You can read all the details on the contest and submit your idea here. As they often do, Google created a nifty clip on YouTube promoting the competition: Thanks Hatef for sending this in!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2021

Perhaps you put in place a series of mailed and emailed “touches” for non-major donors, lumping $25 donors together with $500 donors. After all, for most people $25/month sounds much more approachable than making a $300 gift. Move more mid-level givers to higher levels of giving. . Usually not enough.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

If you think that fundraising and recruitment from social networks is the way for you to go, here are a few articles to help you get started. 60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It?

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

If you think that fundraising and recruitment from social networks is the way for you to go, here are a few articles to help you get started. 60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It?

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Does this sound familiar? If that sounds familiar, then what your nonprofit lacks is a sound donor management strategy. Sound good? Direct Mail Then, of course, there’s the trusty old standby: Direct mail. Young people are surprisingly receptive to direct mail !) We’re going to share how it’s done.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So the question here is, you know, when you look at your workflow, how much of your time is spent actually having these face-to-face conversations with your donors? . The volunteer did not ask for money, but they had a nice pleasant half-hour conversation. . Are you hiding and avoiding them? . If not, chat will work for this.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

If you think that fundraising and recruitment from social networks is the way for you to go, here are a few articles to help you get started. 60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It?

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 22, 2022

One of the more pleasing updates to donation form UX in the last years is the proliferation of address lookup type-ahead functionality when inputting a mailing address. Studies have shown that simplifying donation forms increases conversion rates. Use address lookup. Build on that foundation by simplifying the donation process.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They prove that the conversation is two-way. I have to feel like the post is open enough to my experience, that the blogger and the community of that blog would find my voice worthwhile, that I have some strong reaction I want to share, that I won't sound stupid. They're like magazine articles. it gets me excited.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

Resist the urge to focus on impressive-sounding statistics over individual stories. You can also use your various communication channels (email, direct mail, social media, etc.) That’s why you should focus on real-life examples of how your nonprofit’s work has positively affected people in your community.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Create a script that your development team can follow during these follow-up conversations with your new supporters. You can read more about appreciation events later in this article. . Volunteering may not immediately sound like an appreciation idea, but hear us out! Volunteer Opportunities. Thank You Letters.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Create a script that your development team can follow during these follow-up conversations with your new supporters. You can read more about appreciation events later in this article. . Volunteering may not immediately sound like an appreciation idea, but hear us out! Volunteer Opportunities. Thank You Letters.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And then I also threw in an article of mine that I wrote a little while back on how to keep your database clean and up to date. And so I’m working on developing a telemarketing program for monthly donor conversions for a group in Australia. Many mail houses and data systems. We pay attention to our mail.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

I'm cheered to see the woman who likes to talk hiking, less so the man who flips through mail-order bride catalogs. This sounds risky to institutions like museums, where we want to design the experience through exhibits and architecture, not interpersonal exchanges. This has its positives and negatives. The bus takes a long time.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

What’s the sound of your nonprofit’s brand? Colleen Fahey’s article, How Audio Enhances Your Brand Content: Find Your Signature Sound , provides guidance for how your nonprofit can strengthen its voice. It’s not a blog or an article- it’s better. Have you ever thought about it? You should.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Let me know if any of these sound familiar. So how familiar do these ones sound? So these are all limiting beliefs, even though they may not sound like it. And I don’t know about you, but I’d be hard-pressed to carve out a whole hour, it sounds fabulous, just to put my feet up and read.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? ” Well, you know, it sounds like a good goal, right, but do I need to lose that? if you could type your question into the Q&A, that will help us at the end of this conversation tackle those questions one by one. Why is it important?”

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 16, 2017

When we think of planned giving, so often we think of lawyers, accountants, legal documents, research and all of the things that sound time consuming and expensive. There, you’ll find all of the education we provide in podcasts, classes, webinars, a print magazine, and online articles that are published throughout the week.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Let me know if any of these sound familiar. So how familiar do these ones sound? So these are all limiting beliefs, even though they may not sound like it. And I don’t know about you, but I’d be hard-pressed to carve out a whole hour, it sounds fabulous, just to put my feet up and read.

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