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Raise More By Avoiding “One Size Fits All” Email Appeals

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2) A medical foundation exceeded their fundraising goals and averaged over $1,000 per gift when they personalized their email appeal by: Thanking people for last year’s gift (in the headline and first paragraph). Capture more info during event registrations. The point is to get creative in how you capture info about your supporters.

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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. Include your logo and basic info.

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HOW TO: Claim Your Nonprofit’s “Company Page” on LinkedIn

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, the Taproot Foundation has uploaded a logo, a description, their location, website, Tweets, and utilized the “Services&# functionality: Company Page :: Taproot Foundation Overview. Company Page :: Taproot Foundation Services. Also, it’s important to note that you can not use a Gmail, Yahoo!,

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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. You can sign a petition, forward info from the site, or more if you are so compelled.”. Help the organization by researching and compiling information on foundations in your area or state.

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New on SSIR: How to Build Trust with Your Community

Amy Sample Ward

There are many different ways to build trust, but some of them are passive, or in other words, they become the foundation for more active trust-building communications or engagement. But does it just list the info@ email? Passive Ways to Build Trust. Share your data. Allow for feedback. I’m sure you have a Contact Us page.

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How to Use AI for the Right Ask (Without Being Creepy)

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Instead, fundraisers should create a series of touchpoints, building the foundation of the relationship before making the ask. Setting the Foundation: Pre-Ask Due Diligence There are many steps in the donor lifecycle before an ask is made. Ask for too little and you miss out on opportunities for your organization.

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6 Ideas for Using the Instagram Donation Sticker to Raise Money

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The British Heart Foundation wanted to attract younger female runners to fundraise for its MyMarathon campaign. Since the Foundation’s desired demographic was really into using Instagram, they focused their advertising message there and received almost 13 percent of total sign-ups from the platform: View Story.

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