NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 14, 2022

Conquer your 2022 ecommerce goals – from achieving frictionless customer experiences, to slashing shipping costs. Melissa’s latest solutions catalog shares leading tools to autocomplete customer data at checkout, enrich records for deeper insights, and find targeted mailing and email lists.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 7, 2023

Successful direct mail campaigns help donors understand the goal, visualize their impact, and get excited about giving. Using data and segmentation, nonprofits can target donors with customized messaging that resonates on a personal level. And while managing segmented data can be complex, it does not have to be difficult.

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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. Of course, you’re correct. Host a webinar.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When planning year end appeals, your goal should be to make an ask (through a letter, call, or other means) to every single current donor – you never know who has money left over at the end of the year to give, so my suggestion is that you try to make sure that every donor gets at least one fundraising communication, or perhaps more (e.g.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In a fiercely competitive environment in which donors make difficult decisions not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the good, the goal needs to be forging, nurturing, and sustaining lifelong friendships. How many handwritten notes do you receive via snail mail? That misses the mark.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). Research the steps needed to create a direct mail fundraising program (e.g. bulk mail permits, rules and regulations, mail houses). your neighbors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What are the strategies and tactics that best helped you achieve your goals last year? 2) Review Your Goals. 2) Review Your Goals. Review your end-of-year fundraising goals, but think deeper. Donors shouldn’t be motivated to give because of a number that fits into your programmatic goals. Here’s how to start.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 26, 2021

As passionate as we all are about our causes and their corresponding missions, from the inside looking out, sometimes we lose sight of the actual goal of our communications. A good place to start is by making sure that our communications and branding fulfill one or more of the following goals: Move people to a specific action.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Send out letters, send out e-mails, make calls, write posts on your website, hold small group meetings…. If you’re going to solicit through e-mail, you’ve got to cultivate through e-mail. If you’re going to make asks through direct mail, you have to cultivate (i.e. communicate) through direct mail.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Tribute giving can help an organization reach its fundraising goal because tribute gifts come from a strong belief in the organization’s mission and are generally given from a place of pain, heartache, healing, and love, and the donor wishes to give back in a meaningful way. Make the tribute section a standard element on all donation forms.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Donation request letters, whether sent via email or direct mail, are one of the most effective ways to reach donors and solicit gifts. Donation letters are used to request financial contributions or solicit in-kind donations through traditional channels, like direct mail, or using digital channels, like email. Explain your mission.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

So easy, in fact, that a Daffy user can feel like a billionaire making a quick donation to their chosen charity without having to fill out forms, mail checks, or any of the other tedium that can slow the giving process downsimply hit a button, or make a verbal command, and make a donation.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 14, 2025

Use the answers to those key questions to define goals by audience segment. This is particularly beneficial for goals around: Number of new donors Increasing the number of gifts per donor Increasing the average gift This isnt the time to delve into tactics. Direct mail still a top performer? Where do you see consistent growth?

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Or does it have other goals? Many charitable events have more than one goal. Figuring out the details for your charity event will depend on knowing what goals you are trying to achieve. You should develop a goal based on the team members and tools available to you. Start with a humble goal and an aggressive plan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2022

Creating your next fundraising campaign requires a lot of work: you must identify your goals, your audience, segment your lists, create compelling content, and set up and test everything in your CRM. How will you hit your fundraising goals if you are not able to engage?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

A well-crafted year-end fundraising plan helps nonprofits define clear and specific fundraising goals, identify potential donors, and tailor their messaging better to resonate with their supporters. Traditional methods, like direct mail, are still important for reaching older or less tech-oriented supporters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2019

1) Start with a clear goal. The good news is, you don’t have to pick just one goal— but it does help to think about the different results each event type might produce, so you can set yourself up for success. Refer back to your goal and really think about what supporters might best fit your event. We’re at 90% of our goal.

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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. To start building your recurring giving program, identify your goals, analyze your audience, and plan a campaign to promote monthly giving.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Adjust Year-End Goals Based on GivingTuesday Insights Again, since time is of the essence, this step should be swift. If your GivingTuesday goal wasn’t met the day of, don’t worry—extend that goal into your year-end plans. And don’t underestimate the power of direct mail. It’s not too late!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

However, to achieve your goal, what else do you need? a revenue goal and a budget. Your most passionate volunteers have a lot of useful data floating around in spreadsheets, e-mails, texts, and minds. That is a GREAT start. an identified need in the community you serve. people who want to help. the tools to help you do your job.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Nonprofits are always looking to raise more funds and connect with both new and established supporters, all with the goal of advancing their missions. To help nonprofits achieve this, they continue to innovate and evolve. Here are four key steps nonprofits need to take to push their missions forward in 2025.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Since you probably raise a good percentage of your fundraising goal during the month of December, you have to make the time count! Plan Impact-Driven End-of-Year Giving Campaigns You’ve raised money all year long using different techniques from direct mail to email marketing. Most of the time, you’ve asked for money to create change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 13, 2020

4) Add to Mailing List. Decide what’s most important for your organization so you can streamline your call-to-action towards your end goal. So make it easy for them to find you by including the relevant links on your confirmation page.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Your nonprofit’s fundraising plan lays out the overall strategy for your fundraising activities, while your fundraising systems are the step-by-step process you follow each week, month and year to carry out that plan and meet your goals. The letter will be sent out in the mail on the following day. #4 A cultivation system.

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The Fundraising Authority

AUGUST 6, 2021

Your goal as a fundraiser is to make sure that you are maximizing your events to raise as much money as possible, without wasting valuable time and resources. The revenue goal for your event should be thought of in terms of “net revenue,” not “gross revenue.” Add them to your mailing list. 3: Money saved is money earned.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Charities would be notified by mail that the Secretary will designate the nonprofit as a terrorist supporting organization unless the organization satisfies the requirements of subclause in the legislation. 9495 may achieve the goal of expediting these cases, but it does so at the expense of fairness and transparency. Section 4 of H.R.9495

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

times more likely to hit their mission goals compared to peers with low digital maturity. In minutes, a data check query can bring me up to speed with a spreadsheet containing all the organizations CRM goals, projects, and training needs by category. Digitally mature nonprofits are, in fact, 3.5

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Candid

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I learned that traditional approaches like annual drives, direct mail campaigns, and newsletters felt impersonal, disconnected, and transactional to donors. At Imani Collective, we began inviting donors to be part of specific projects, highlighting the unique contributions they could make to our shared goals.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Enhance the effectiveness of your organization's fundraising emails by spotlighting impact goals. Here are four tips to get started, and stand out from the crowd.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

If, like my client, youre asking if its time to change your fundraising CRM , the starting point is understanding your current situation (your team, your data, and your needs) as well as your goals for the future. Do you need to track volunteers , create event registration forms, track employee giving, create segmented mailing lists, etc.?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The key to achieving your nonprofit’s greatest goals? Provide them with a resource that outlines your goals and plan to achieve them. With Mail Merge functionality, you can store templated letters for both charitable sponsors and donors, so you can access them from anywhere. What you expect the end result to be.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 22, 2020

What I have noticed, however, is that there are seven key traits that are shared by the most effective development professionals… those who are most likely to meet or exceed the goals laid out by their organizations. Then they follow up with an e-mail. How many of these habits do you share with them? They Pick Up the Phone.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

If sending direct mail, include a QR code that goes to a landing page with multiple giving options. Put this into a written plan, with goals, objectives, and who/what/when/where/how strategies and tactics. The end goal of all this reporting is creating increased human connection to your movement, whatever it may be.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 6, 2019

1) Clearly define your goals for the event on the front end. Start with broader objectives, then narrow in on SMART (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, Timely) goals that fall under each. Refer back to your goals when considering who and how you recruit supporters for the event. Is fundraising your key priority?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2023

Nowadays, life’s moving fast, and donors really appreciate the option to give when they want to, without dealing with going somewhere or mailing a check. When it comes to online giving, donors don’t have to stress about being there in person or mailing in their support.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2022

A fundraising plan defines clear goals, keeps your team on track, provides accountability, and ultimately helps you raise more for your cause. Establishing a baseline rooted in past successes and failures allows you to set measurable, realistic goals. How many of our fundraising initiatives reached their goals? Define goals.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

We had close to 2,000 fundraising friends sign up, and we kicked things off by surveying the audience about their year-end fundraising goals (which we defined to include Giving Tuesday ). Year-end Appeal Creative (inclusive of email and direct mail): 96% were writing their own appeals and not using a copywriter.

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