NonProfit PRO

MAY 25, 2022

Love your donors wisely. And you do that by mailing and emailing them not necessarily more but smarter. When it comes to your fundraising, don’t be like Othello. He loved “not wisely.” You should do the opposite. Here’s what to do.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2025

It takes more than thank-you letters to retain donors for your nonprofit long-term. To effectively steward donor relationships and inspire higher levels of giving, you must strategically engage donors in various ways that deepen their connections to your nonprofit. The answer is a donor stewardship matrix.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 17, 2023

Aside from your donors themselves (which is to say, your direct mail or email list), the offer is the single most important part of your appeal by far. Here is a rundown of what an offer is and how it motivates people to give.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2022

We are here to help you with 5 ways to supercharge your email campaigns through improved Email Deliverability. 1) Email Deliverability 101. Most sources agree that there are about 330 billion emails sent globally every single day, which comes out to 3.5 million emails per second. That is a LOT of email.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 13, 2022

When creating your nonprofit fundraising and donations strategy, email marketing should be on the top of the list of channels to use to support your efforts. However, 70% of nonprofits do not have an email marketing strategy, despite 26% of online donors saying email marketing is what inspires them to give.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

To help you ride this massive wave of generosity, I’m answering your burning questions Q: How much email is too much email? A : The #1 thing I see that makes fundraisers feel cringey is the fear that they’re oversaturating their list with email. Open your email platform and tell me what your open rate is. They aren’t!

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 4, 2025

When a new supporter enters your nonprofits community, a series of welcome emails can help you start off on the right foot.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Data from recent elections shows rage donors take their candidate’s loss in a presidential bid as inspiration to donate more to causes associated with the candidate’s party, while the winning team’s incoming gifts drop off. Regardless of whether they donated before the election or in response to it, don’t treat rage donors as one-and-done.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Your year-end fundraising campaigns should show your donors what you’ve accomplished together over the past year, and invite them to give toward an even brighter future. Done well, your year-end campaigns (print, email, and social media) will inspire donors to give generously at year’s end and throughout the year after.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Download this guide now to receive thank you letter templates for direct mail, email, phone calls, social media, and text messages, guaranteed to make your donors feel appreciated while also supporting your donor retention and acquisition efforts. Download now to begin maximizing impact!

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Download this guide now to receive thank you letter templates for direct mail, email, phone calls, social media, and text messages, guaranteed to make your donors feel appreciated while also supporting your donor retention and acquisition efforts. Download now to begin maximizing impact!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2019

Your most loyal donors are your multichannel donors. Multichannel donors support you in every way possible. You should want all of your donors to interact with your organization the way multichannel donors do! How can you identify your multichannel donors? Email them. Send direct mail, too!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Recruit a match from a single donor or group of donors. What number of donors gave at end of year? How many new first-time donors did we have at end of year? Schedule in-person ask visits with donors. Include a short story celebrating the donor and their impact on your mission. Filter by date.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 1, 2023

While an effective email strategy is a powerful magnet, it can also be a virtuous cycle of reciprocal care and feeding for prospects. Here are four email strategies to get your best fundraising results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

29% of online donors say that social media is the communication tool that most inspires them to give [email 27%, website, 18%, print, 12%, TV ad 6%] (According to the Global Trends in Giving Report ). Need some inspiration and specific examples of how to grow your donor base using social media? Good news! 2) Make it urgent.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

When marketers think of their email newsletters, they may be placing too much emphasis on “news” and not enough on the “letter” aspect, and Ann Handley, chief content officer at MarketingProfs, sees this as an opportunity. Here are five email newsletter makeover tips that she shared.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2022

Best Practices for Donor Acquisition and Retention Through Direct Mail. Sending a personalized, well-written appeal via direct mail can be one of the most impactful ways for schools to fundraise. But what about people who say that direct mail isn’t worth the investment? Refer to the data.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 3, 2022

The sorry state of donor retention has been a topic of discussion for at least the past decade. Yet too many nonprofits still don’t prioritize donor retention strategies. What do you do to keep donors close? A prompt, personal, powerful thank you is the bare minimum.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 9, 2025

Hardly a week passes that I dont get an email like this one from Amanda: We are looking at expanding the number of direct mail campaigns we run. Our campaigns are smaller, maybe 500 to 1,000 pieces mailed. Choosing your print shop is an important decision for the success of your nonprofits direct mail program.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By repurposing the content of your report, you can continue to present that evidence in new ways, tailoring it to the diverse fashions in which your donors prefer to receive communications and amplifying its reach. Content from your digital report can inform your direct mail pieces, and in turn, they can act as a teaser for your full report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 15, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Sending donors a third-party payment site, such as PayPal, is problematic if that is the only way that donors can give. Monthly donors give $35.46 As a result, securing more monthly donor revenue is a high priority for nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Some individual board members may want to start with “easier” tasks like thanking donors, but eventually, they should be directly helping raise thousands of dollars annually. Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Tribute and honorary gifts , made in honor or in memory of someone who is not a donor, are a great way for nonprofit organizations to raise awareness and funds while honoring an individual, either in memoriam or celebration. In fact, according to the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report , 33% of donors give tribute gifts to family and friends.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Your phone, email, and mailbox might be blowing up, too. According to fundraising copywriter and author Jeff Brooks, “ Donors to political campaigns and donors to charity are mostly different people.” Worth noting: we’re not in a swing state.) There’s no correlation whatsoever around elections hurting fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. As a general rule, donations pages should be simple, optimized for mobile giving, and ask for the minimal amount of information required to make a donation and to capture a donor’s contact information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 13, 2020

Many nonprofits fear that asking a donor for additional support, after they’ve already made a donation, will turn them off from making future gifts. The truth is, immediately following a donation is one of the best times for another call-to-action (CTA) of ways donors can continue to support your organization. 4) Add to Mailing List.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 17, 2022

When a donor signs up for a recurring donation online, there are no checks to mail and no monthly reminders needed; much of the expense and hassle on the nonprofit’s side have been eliminated. Recurring donors are over five times more valuable to your nonprofit than one-time donors, according to The State of Modern Philanthropy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

With average email open rates at 20% for nonprofits , many organizations struggle to grab the attention of supporters, volunteers, and donors. Today, statistics show that one in five consumers has more than 1,000 unread emails in their personal inbox. Maybe there’s an intimacy to text messaging that email lacks.

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The Fundraising Authority

MARCH 28, 2021

Storytelling is one of the most challenging aspects of donor cultivation. This is especially true when engaging prospective donors who are new to your cause. In today’s media-overloaded world, your message could easily be drowned out by competing emails, social posts, and direct mail. Connect with Corbit on Linkedin.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants insight into what role direct mail plays in fundraising in a digital world: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m wondering what role direct mail plays in our digitally-dominant world ? But I wonder if in the long run the ROI is better for direct mail than digital?

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 11, 2025

Funraise launched an email messaging program to help nonprofits keep donor segments updated in real-time and send customized emails.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Websites & Email 1. Mailmunch :: mailmunch.com Mailmunch enables users to create a variety of pop-up email forms for their website. mail-tester:: mail-tester.com This free tool reveals if your email domain is on a blacklist, flagged for spam, and properly set up for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC protocols.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Mobile giving is raising funds through a mobile device, whether via text, the Internet, an app, or email. Regardless of what you call it, mobile giving is one of the most popular ways for nonprofits to raise moneyand retain more donors on the go. Alternatively, you can use an app that allows donors to give with just a few clicks.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 10, 2023

Lead-generation ads are an ideal way to engage your audience, reinforce your messaging, and, of course, capture leads to add to your email, SMS, and telemarketing lists. Let’s explore five lead-generation ad tactics.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to build a nonprofit mailing list: Dear Charity Clairity, We’ve relied in the past on government and foundation grants, but since many of these sources are drying up we need to develop an individual fundraising program. Scour lists of donors to similar causes.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2024

But it’s time to think beyond direct mail pieces and brochures. Today’s legacy giving donors and tomorrow’s prospects are engaged online. Email provides nonprofits with abundant opportunities to get legacy giving messaging in front of donors. Here’s how your nonprofit can integrate legacy giving into your email program.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Have you ever worried about offending a donor? Maybe you’re afraid you’ll offend them by sending too many emails. The important thing is to be prepared to respond to your donors’ feelings. The important thing is to be prepared to respond to your donors’ feelings. What do you do if you upset a donor? Be vulnerable.

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