Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Founder John van Hengel developed the concept of food banking when he was a soup kitchen volunteer. Another example of engagement is when Feeding America asks its volunteers to sign cards to include in a new student backpack that a pantry is distributing. I asked Aaron about Feeding America’s current commitment to direct mail.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 18, 2012

Recruit an annual giving chair or lead volunteer to help you. A bold and connected volunteer who is hungry to ask supporters to give and potential supporters to join the mission is a key part of your success. Begin with your board in your search for this volunteer. Create scripts and make the asks.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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. You can include a mail option and a QR code linking to an electronic survey. It helps to provide the people making calls with a script.

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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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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. Have you done the math on returned mail? If 5% of the addresses are bad, that’s 5,000 pieces of returned or wasted mail each mailing. Donors lapse. Some move away. Others pass away.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Engage Your Board of Directors To Make Phone Calls Your Board of Directors isn’t just a governing body, they’re also your biggest supporters and most eager volunteers. If it’s helpful, consider drafting a short call script for your board members to refer to in their Thanksgiving messages to donors. It’s a win-win-win.

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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 ? You can even task volunteers, board members or corporate sponsors to guest write posts.

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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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Fundraising Nonprofit Donor Donation 115

3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 14, 2014

Steve Shattuck, VP of Marketing at Bloomerang, recently posted about the challenges of working with technical volunteers ? Furthermore, the typical nonprofit cleans data reactively, once problems are discovered or direct mail pieces are returned to the office. Within a nonprofit organization, many data inputs are often manual.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

The audience for this report is the donors, volunteers, constituents, and other stakeholders who have been involved with the organization’s projects and programs throughout the year. You can also thank other key stakeholders like volunteers, corporate partners, and board members. Appreciation for your contributors.

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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. Learn more in my free Donor Thank You Calls eBook + Script. Ask the donor to take another action, such as volunteer, attend a free event, sign a petition, complete a survey, or share on social media.

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Retention Donor Nonprofit Gift 130

Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Create a script that your development team can follow during these follow-up conversations with your new supporters. Customize these scripts based on the segments of supporters who are being called. Volunteer Opportunities. Volunteering may not immediately sound like an appreciation idea, but hear us out!

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Donor Ideas Strategy Create 135

Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Create a script that your development team can follow during these follow-up conversations with your new supporters. Customize these scripts based on the segments of supporters who are being called. Volunteer Opportunities. Volunteering may not immediately sound like an appreciation idea, but hear us out!

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Donor Ideas Strategy Create 135

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Add “subscribe” buttons not only on your website, but also in the footer of your emails, in email signatures, on direct mail QR codes, and in your social media bios. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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email Communication Effective Fundraising 97

Greater Giving

APRIL 16, 2021

This type of segmentation provides insight into the best way to deliver your message or how to encourage your donors to contribute, such as including a pre-stamped, self-addressed envelope in a direct mail campaign or directing them to an easy to use online donate button through an appeal you’ve posted on social media. Demographics.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

direct mail, email, social media, text, phone, advertising, website), targeting different donor audiences. You can find a sample script here. No one plan fits all nonprofits, but there are all sorts of successful strategies from which you can pick and choose. Even better, pick different strategies to use across multiple channels (e.g.,

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Donor Giving Retention Nonprofit 130

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Add “subscribe” buttons not only on your website, but also in the footer of your emails, in email signatures, on direct mail QR codes, and in your social media bios. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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email Communication Effective Fundraising 94

Kindful

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Mail them a handwritten card. Even in an increasingly digital-first world, getting something in the mail is refreshing and can be heartwarming. You could also have a volunteer write a thank you note, which would give a better look at the ways one person can support your organization. Mail them swag or merch. .

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Donor Giving Gift Mail 62

Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2024

Recruit a volunteer team to manage registration, ticket sales, and event logistics.” 1 month before: Meet with your volunteer committee to review list of those volunteering on event night. Revisit the volunteer roles list and assignments. Conduct a status check on volunteer recruitment and work assignments. *

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

You want to have a connection with the donor, with the volunteer. Intentional authenticity, it results in increased volunteer engagement. Because I sound like a broken record saying this, I’m going to say it again, volunteers make your very best donors. So this is prime time for you to re-engage those volunteers.

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Virtual Communication Video Newsletter 119

Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2011

To get you started, here are 7 creative ways to say thank you and steward your donors: Have an intern or volunteer prepare a stack of thank you cards on your stationary with a printed digital photo that highlights your mission : a child at play, a family together, a student at work, a natural reserve, you get the picture.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

So, consider Board members, staff, and volunteers who might be good prospects for major gifts. An introduction by a friend or Board member or volunteer can be the connection you need to meet your next major supporter. Identify prospects from your organization’s inner circle. Ask “who do you know?” Look through your current donors.

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Donor Nonprofit Gift Donation 72

Achieve

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Educate your staff, peer-to-peer fundraisers , and board members about matching gifts by: Outsourcing training via professional online courses Creating digestible infographics about the basics of matching gifts Providing example scripts pitching matching gifts Ultimately, matching gifts programs are an easy concept to grasp.

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Care2

MAY 1, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Achieve

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Perhaps the people you serve have successes to share, or your volunteers want to talk about why they partner with your organization – testimonials let them tell your story in their own words. . Every piece of collateral that you create – be it a video, blog post, or direct mail piece – needs to feel like it’s coming from the exact same place.

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Video Marketing Nonprofit Guide 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. And you know, if they volunteer a lot, and, you know, we’ve gotten some great shots of them. And I had a like Anthony.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And so the last question we have, what percent of charitable donors are also volunteers? So I was pretty surprised to learn that on the next slide, it’s actually 62% of charitable donors are also recent volunteers. And this is according to a 2020 report The Role of Volunteering In Philanthropy by Fidelity Charitable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Nonprofit Online News is tied with Scripting News (Dave Winer's blog) as the oldest weblog still being published, period. The growth of the web and mailing lists was explosive and I was very interested in remaining well informed. Q: When did you start publishing? How did you get started? It's pretty threatening on a lot of levels.

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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. Start with the volunteers, start with the donors, no matter what amount they give. So sample scripts here could be, “Hey, I’m following up on our previous conversation. ” Right?

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Gift Video Donor Giving 122

NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Additionally, when one of your major gift donors works for a company that matches donations, your organization is in a better position to form a partnership with that company, resulting in more donations and volunteers in the future. When your nonprofit hosts its next phonathon, incorporate matching gift information into the script.

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Gift Fundraising Donation Donor 28

Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So they may be perfectly happy giving by direct mail, giving online. . I had a script, and it was on paper and actually like stuck it up to my ring light, and it took me 18 takes to get a 2-minute video done because I was literally. They may be perfectly happy giving the way they’re giving right now, right? I was so scared.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

loyal donor for a period of years; current board or committee member; active direct service volunteer; enthusiastic user of services). You can organize this as a live or virtual phonathon and enlist your board and other volunteers to help. You can learn how to make this call by grabbing my free Thank You Calls E-Book + Script.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Do you have volunteers who are volunteering multiple times each month? . As you would send a note to a friend, do something to make it sound personal and specific, not scripted. The donors who are most active and engaged with your organization are your best major donor prospects. . That’s “Casablanca,” not “Hocus Pocus.”)

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

Work with your staff and volunteers who work directly with the people you serve to capture stories like this one for sharing in thank-you notes. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2015

The campaign started with in-house staff and an outside consultant. They recruited some pro bono volunteers to create a video, editorial, and public relations – to help pull together the pitch and endorsement videos, and to help pitch the campaign to media outlets. Utilize staff and board as champions.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

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. You’re going to be scheduling your emails and your social and your mail drop.

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Fundraising Video Guide Gift 109

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

Like volunteering, joining a committee, coming on a tour, attending an event, signing a petition or sharing something with their friends. Whatever you do for supporters who give via mail. Some folks recommend that volunteers, especially board members, make these calls. Offer supporters ways to engage that don’t involve money.

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