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28 September

7 Tips for Better E-Mail Newsletters for Your Non-Profit

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Does your non-profit use e-mail newsletters to cultivate and steward donors? If not, it should… e-mail newsletters are one of the easiest and best ways to stay in touch with …

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03 August

The Most Important Question You Aren’t Asking Your Donors

Most non-profits know that great donor cultivation is the key to long-term donor relationships. When donors feel like part of your team, they want to donate, and they tend to …

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02 May

Do Your Donors Want Your Fundraising to be More FUN?

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As non-profits, we tackle some serious issues: disease, homelessness, education, and everything in between. Because we want donors to believe in our mission and support our work, we spend a …

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03 January

The Best Tips for Amazing Non-Profit Newsletters (Non-Profit Blog Carnival)

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Donor newsletters (both snail mail and e-mail) provide the foundation for many non-profits’ donor communications strategies. Newsletters help organizations build better relationships with their donors and prospects, and keep supporters …

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19 October

The 5 Most Important Words and Phrases for Your Donors to Hear

Most non-profits spend lots of time talking to donors. They do it in person, on the phone, through letters, on websites, through social media, in newsletters and e-mails, at events …

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30 April

For Better Donor Communications, Cut Out the Jargon!

In the non-profit world, we have a serious jargon problem. We love telling our donors about our “multidisciplinary approaches,” and letting prospects know that we have “peer-reviewed research” that proves …

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26 April

Zzz: How Not to Bore Your Donors

There comes a time in every fundraiser’s career when he or she needs to ask: am I boring my donors? Do I even know if I could be boring my …

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17 December

The Power of Curiosity in Fundraising Communications

Have you ever seen an ad on a website that started, “Use this one weird trick to…”? Or, have you ever seen a link or an e-mail subject line that …

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16 July

What Your Non-Profit Can Learn from WKRP in Cincinnati

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Did you ever watch WKRP in Cincinnati, the late 70’s / early 80’s sitcom? When I was young, I used to watch the show, which at that point was in …

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30 June

The 7 Steps for Producing a Supercharged Non-Profit Newsletter

You’re ready to sit down and produce a newsletter for your non-profit – either a snail mail newsletter or an e-mail newsletter. You want it to be a great newsletter, …

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14 June

The 7 Fundamental Rules of Amazing Donor Communications

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A strong donor communications program is the basis of great relationship-building for your non-profit. The newsletters, e-mails, annual reports and updates you send out to your donors will become the …

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10 May

5 Reasons Your Non-Profit Didn’t Get a Major Gift Last Week

Sometimes, non-profit fundraisers treat opening the organization’s mail like playing the lottery. We know it’s highly unlikely that there’s a big check in one of those envelopes, yet we gleefully …

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01 March

Fundraising is a World of “We” not “Them”

Every week, I get e-mails from well-meaning fundraisers talking about “them.” Sometimes, it’s a non-profit that wants to raise more money, but doesn’t want to ask their donors or board …

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19 November

Creating Your Non-Profit’s Story Arc

By now, you probably already know that your non-profit needs to be telling a story. The story of your work, your mission, and the positive changes you are making in …

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21 May

Conversation is the Foundation of Fundraising

I want to tell you about the most important lesson I’ve learned in my fundraising career. It’s not something that I learned overnight, or in one big “A-ha!” type moment. …

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07 September

Don’t Let Your Donors Forget About You

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People are busy. They’ve got jobs, kids, social events, church activities, favorite TV shows and more often than not, a list of charities that they care about. It’s easy for …

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