The Next Web

MARCH 20, 2013

For less than $10 you can spam 40 million email addresses. Now imagine the following scenario: imagine if a spammer sent out 40 million emails, and instead of getting 40 orders, he or she received a million faulty orders. There’s more… The second thing I would love to see is an automated script to keep spammers busy.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Tip 1: Maximize your year-end fundraising emails. Your year-end fundraising email strategy is critical to your overall fundraising success. Send emails from an individual associated with your organization. Don’t use noreply@ or development@ for the sender email. Add contact information at the end of the email.

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Donorbox

APRIL 8, 2022

Organizations may hold events and send mail or email appeals to ask for donations, but there will come a time when phone calls or in-person asks are the best […]. The post All You Need to Know About Fundraising Scripts (Samples Included) appeared first on Nonprofit Blog. Unfortunately, it is a reality for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Email is a critical business tool for nonprofits. Unfortunately, nonprofits face the same threats to their email security that other businesses and organizations face. Deploying a central email security solution and following 10 best practices will help keep your email system protected. Stop Spam & Phishing Emails.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

In fact, according to Nielson , 92% of people claim they trust personal recommendations and other earned media, while just over half trust messages found on a company’s website or sent via email. So set objectives and let them guide you. 2) Choose the right people. Be direct with your expectations. This is not the time for brand policing.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 13, 2012

I created a ScreenSteps document to show them step-by-step how to enter a new contact/household and distributed the PDF via email. Fill in their name, email address and mobile phone (household address and phone are on the household record). Edit the Household record to insert the mailing address. It’s 14 pages long.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 30, 2009

So far, I’ve created SSBs for my task manager ( RTM ), my 2 main Google email accounts, my timesheet & expense application ( Clicktime ), Salesforce, Convio Admin, Box.net , and my feed reader ( Fever ). I no longer have to be concerned about keeping my mail tabs accessible in Safari. Mail, Facebook are built in to Fluid.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Send a series of automated email thank yous—starting with the one sent immediately after a donor makes a gift online—expressing thanks and encouraging engagement. “ Instead, the email series is an opportunity to go deeper into donor relationships.” They usually send three emails over ten days. There’s nothing better than that.”

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Blue Fox

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Is your staff prepared to make the asks, attend the events, mail the collateral and try some Facebook fundraising ads? And don’t forget to shoot us an email and let us know how it’s going. In 2020, U.S. nonprofits raised $2.47 billion dollars. What was your piece of that ‘pumpkin’ pie? Let’s talk 2021!

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Plan Impact-Driven End-of-Year Giving Campaigns You’ve raised money all year long using different techniques from direct mail to email marketing. If anyone’s a bit “phone shy,” consider creating a simple script. Chances are, you will be reaching out to community members via email at some point for this campaign.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

If this has been your experience when setting up and configuring any software, stop reading this post and email me ASAP what you are using. I went to school for music education and, up until this point, had a long-winding road learning how to write code in Google Apps Script. Give yourself a pat on the back! You did it!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions. Ideally, mail callers stationery in advance (or send them copy they can print on their own stationery) so they can follow up with a thank you note or a letter with a remit envelope, as appropriate.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 11, 2022

If a prospective donor encounters an obstacle while trying to donate (like if your donation process is cumbersome or if they can’t find the donate button or if there’s no address for them to mail a check), they may give up. You might be surprised how many people will want to write a check and mail it to you! Don’t go on and on.

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 1, 2015

You keep mailing out newsletters and fundraising appeals. You keep adding new donors, new prospects and your mailing lists get larger. It applies to outcome measurements, web traffic, social media data, emails, image files, document versioning, backups, backups of backups, etc. Email data is overwhelming corporate America.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 18, 2012

Most successful annual giving programs consist of a combination of regular email communications, direct mail pieces, telephone calls and face-to-face meetings. The plan is important to be sure the schedule is followed and communications are coordinated to prevent email or mail overload.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Being thanked for my previous gift was much more persuasive than receiving multiple emails and direct mail letters. After giving, I received email updates that always included expressions of appreciation for my contribution. New Donor Email Welcome Series. Also email or text simple gratitude message.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For online donations, they should get an automatic thank-you email that doubles as a tax receipt. If they donate by check, you should send them a hard copy thank-you letter with tax information by regular postal mail, sent within two business days of when you receive their check. They open your emails. Just say thank you.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Specific personalization When sending an appeal letter, thank-you note, or email to a donor, always include a note at the bottom and say something about the impact their gift has made and something very specific about their kids, dog, family, home, job, favorite sport, hobby, alma mater, volunteer work, or latest travel adventure.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

Mail The gold standard is a prompt and personal mailed thank you letter. It’s why I advocate mailing a thank you letter to donors who give online, in addition to the immediate email receipt. Email This is what you send immediately when donors give online. Top 10 Ways to Say ‘Thank You!’ to Nonprofit Donors 1.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Expand this task to managing a public contest for supporters to email in pictures that volunteers can then clean up and put into the master library. Recruit volunteer thank you ambassadors to leave scripted messages on fundraising pages. Virtual Volunteer Tools Bundle. More about donor thank you messaging and templates.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2020

You have to collect stories and photos of program participants, get their consent, pull data on your programs, clean up your donor database, plan events, schedule donor meetings, print materials, fix your mail merge and lick a thousand envelopes ? Direct Mail. Consider email, handwritten notes, and phone calls.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

This was my email inbox that morning. People really like getting an actual physical thing in the mail (versus a code to download an iPhone app). In hindsight we should have solved this problem sooner but I always expected the number of sales to dramatically drop off after launching. Always driving sales.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

For Thunderbird, the two I’ve been trying out include XNote , which is kinda fun, it allows you to add sticky notes to email messages. I use several Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr: AllSizes+, How Interesting?, Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass. It’s great to have easy Google tools at my fingertips.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Email signatures should encourage donors to reach out to the point of contact. They’ll receive thoughtful calls and emails about what moves the donor to give. For this group, make between two and eight solicitations a year, mostly via mail. Consider sending a handwritten thank you note or personal email for each gift.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Although they are essential in most businesses, email attachments can be used to spread malware infections, gain access to systems, and leak confidential information. Here are five ways to keep your email attachments secure. Check Email Attachments' Content. Files containing sensitive data should not be sent via email.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

If it’s helpful, consider drafting a short call script for your board members to refer to in their Thanksgiving messages to donors. In the script, be sure to mention the donor’s name, the amount they contributed, and maybe add one unique detail about their donation (time, place, etc.). After all, it’s the thought that counts.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Finalize your direct mail and send it (and your data) to the print/mail house. you designed and finalized your direct mail appeal (and, hopefully, the rest of your fundraising pieces). Now it’s time to get your appeal to your print/mail house so it can get out the door! Build and prep email solicitations.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

Even three months after Gebru’s controversial termination from the AI Ethics team, the sustained campaign of aggressive tweets and emails keeps coming Timnit Gebru had expected her colleagues to rally around her when she was abruptly fired from Google on December 2nd. The men met over email and collaborated through social media.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 14, 2014

Furthermore, the typical nonprofit cleans data reactively, once problems are discovered or direct mail pieces are returned to the office. Not enough emails? If you don’t, you have plenty of company. Most nonprofits that we speak with do not. From your data assessment, list your data quality problems and build them into your plan.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

Your email thank-you should arrive immediately after a donation is made online. Your donor software should allow you to insert the donor’s name into the thank-you in either email or snail mail letters. It creates two pieces of mail or email for the donor to open and read. Send your thank-you quickly.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

First I’ll show you how the Environmental Defense Fund used their email list in a creative way to increase online donations by 63%. Custom Facebook audiences are an effective way to leverage your existing email lists. To add this code you’ll need access to place the script in the header or footer tags of your website.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

direct mail, email, social media, text, phone, advertising, website), targeting different donor audiences. After giving, I received email updates that always included expressions of appreciation for my contribution. You can find a sample script here. You can shoot these on your own cell phone; they don’t need to be long.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So be on the lookout for an email from me with all those goodies. They do the mailing. Maybe you send one email, and you don’t do any direct mail. Maybe you do like, you know, five emails and like four direct mail pieces. Just choose in the poll how many appeals mail and email you sent.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2011

Perhaps it's something else, but regardless the cause, some ingenious script-kiddy has turned the tables and suddenly you're responsible for thousands upon thousands of spam messages. As a result of this mayhem, your email service has been blacklisted by every anti-spam system in the universe. My name is really mud.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I was able to resolve these issues by modifying our existing donation form and utilizing the email acknowledgement capabilities within our fundraising software. Credit cards were not being charged immediately, processing fees were high, and staff needed to manually assign ticket numbers. Increase giving with personalized ask arrays. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

They cut down on the number of reports they mailed directly (and made the report available online) but made sure to continue sending the paper version to some local lawyers. When you designate the next steps supporters should take to further engage with your organization, you ensure the mailer won’t just get lost with their junk mail.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So we’re going to talk about scripts, and strategy, and tactics, yes, but we’re also going to step into greater courage. Versus, “If you plan to give this year, will you reply to this email by the end of this week to give me a sense of when that will be? Listen, hun, your emails are too long. I don’t.

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