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How to Collect Compelling Stories to Use in Your Fundraising Work

The Fundraising Authority

Sometimes this conversation happens in person or on the phone. Other times, we talk to our donors through newsletters, e-mails and snail mail letters. In-person conversations are better for collecting stories than phone calls, but they are not always possible. How to Solicit Stories for Your Fundraising Work.

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Marissa Mayer’s startup launches its first official product, Sunshine Contacts

TechCrunch

Its new app, Sunshine Contacts, aims to be a better tool for organizing, updating and sharing contact information with others. Or, as Mayer puts it, “if technology can drive a car, how come it can’t just organize my contacts, make scheduling easier or do some things that seem a lot more straightforward?”

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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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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). Stay in regular contact with newsrooms and pitch stories to help the organization reach a larger audience. bulk mail permits, rules and regulations, mail houses).

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Reigning in shadow databases

Robert Weiner

The following story, posted with permission, was sent to the FUNDSVCS list in response to a question about how to reign in schools and departments at a university that keep their own shadow databases of contacts. In the process, I discovered that they had mailed to 5 deceased people. We do phone and email appends.

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How to Use Data to Reduce Your Direct Mail Marketing Costs

sgEngage

With the rise of mailing costs coupled with worldwide fundraising competition for every cent, your nonprofit organization can’t afford to guess when it comes to your fundraising program’s direct mail expenses. When you allow data to guide your direct mail strategy, your organization can save time and money. Direct mail?

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10 Ways To Segment Donors To Improve Nonprofit Fundraising Effectiveness

TechImpact

How often does a consumer like to be contacted? Direct mail. Phone calls. These are all examples of ways you can contact your donors. It seems intuitive, but ensuring you’re sending millennials a text message alert or an email is far more effective than sending them a direct mail. Communication frequency.

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