Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

70% say that when they first visit your website they want to know about your mission and history, and 56% want to know about your financial condition. Multichannel approach: direct mail still works, with a life of about 4-6 weeks. Communicating. 71% said they learn about organizations through web searches (like Google).

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 22, 2022

One of the more pleasing updates to donation form UX in the last years is the proliferation of address lookup type-ahead functionality when inputting a mailing address. If you are not already customizing your ask strings based on a donor’s giving history, you should start now! Use address lookup. Personalize your ask string.

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Donation Create Gift Test 52

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Focus on fields crucial for donor communication, transaction history, and engagement levels. Validation” is really just a technical data management term for “make sure that the info you have is correct.” OpenRefine is a free, open-source tool that you can download and put to work cleaning up your data.

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Data Donor Map Test 52

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It tracks donor contact details, donation history, communication preferences, event attendance, and more. The database allows nonprofits to maintain detailed donor profiles, track their giving history, and segment donors based on various criteria such as donation frequency or amount. Should My Nonprofit Choose Network for Good?

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

70% say that when they first visit your website they want to know about your mission and history, and 56% want to know about your financial condition. Communicating Multichannel approach: direct mail still works, with a life of about 4-6 weeks. Communicating 71% said they learn about organizations through web searches (like Google).

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Research Donor Gift Leadership 59

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So the reason we do the seminar and I wrote this book on questions is because my strong belief is, this is a methodology of approaching all kinds of fundraising, whether it’s major donors, direct mail, face to face, on the street, your digital work. . In direct mail and digital fundraising, you can often base it on money targets, $82.57

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

This personal info helps ensure that you’re communicating with the donor in a way that shows familiarity and respect. With prospect research, you can take a deeper dive into the donor’s giving history and preferences outside of your organization and perhaps figure out the best strategy for asking for a major gift.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I think also I’ve seen a more openness with certain types of funders who are interested in supporting organizations and providing those unrestricted funds because they realize that there’s a lot of recording burdens. Is it phone, e-mail? And thinking about the description of the opportunity, is it an open RFP process?

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Now, I do understand that some places that are opening up again, and I’m even going to a gala, later this year, a fundraiser. We’re starting to open back up, there may be more that you need done within your nonprofit organization that can justify and, maybe you had less they could do virtually. This is the perfect time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) January 26, 2009 CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) Be Helpful.

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