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As a Disaster Unfolds, Fundraisers Can Do More Than Raise Money

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In-person visits should be approached with caution in an active disaster zone, but you can improve your organizations communications remotely via email, phone calls, text, and social media, assuming services remain available. Have links and phone numbers handy for the programs and services they might needor offer to call for them.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Offer to write letters of intent or grant requests for the organization and possibly even submit them to foundations or companies. Stay in regular contact with newsrooms and pitch stories to help the organization reach a larger audience. Build a relationship with the staff and board of your local community foundation.

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Real-world Salesforce Visual Workflow for a nonprofit

Judi Sohn

I created a ScreenSteps document to show them step-by-step how to enter a new contact/household and distributed the PDF via email. To add a new prospective member they need to: Search to see if contact already exists. If the contact doesn’t already exist, create the contact for the primary member. That’s easy.

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10 Essential Tools for the Nonprofit New Media Manager on the Go

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Some nonprofits have begun to lay a foundation for their mobile communications strategies. Beyond adding your nonprofit on the desktop site, most of the ROI from using Foursquare comes from using it on an iPhone, Android phone, or Blackberry. TextPlus allows you to easily send group texts to your smartphone contacts.

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10 Ways To Segment Donors To Improve Nonprofit Fundraising Effectiveness

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How often does a consumer like to be contacted? Phone calls. These are all examples of ways you can contact your donors. They could be an individual, a family, corporation, organization, foundation, or government. Communication frequency. If they are receptive to weekly emails, do that. Communication method. Direct mail.

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5 Things That Nonprofits Wish They Knew Three Months Ago

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Duplicate addresses, missing data, and outdated contact preferences can hinder your ability to connect with your donors. Like you, many of your constituents are also working from home, using their personal cell phones and email addresses. The bottom line: if you can’t reach your donors, you can’t solicit them.

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How to Write a Killer Letter of Inquiry (LOI) to Get a Grant

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When you write a Letter of Inquiry, you want to put your best foot forward every single time, even if you already received money from the funder or know the foundation staff personally. The reality is foundations often want to spread their resources around and give new organizations a chance. Use photos sparingly, if at all.

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