Your success at online fundraising depends on four words. If you want to acquire members and donors, raise funds and encourage others to advocate for your cause, these four words must appear on your website.
Stop repeating yourself in fundraising letters and find a new way to phrase the ask.
If you send out direct mail fundraising letters, be sure you’re not using these criteria to decide on the appropriate length.
How and why to maintain integrity of donor databases
The bad news about grant proposal writing is that grantmakers will never fund what you want them to. They only fund what they want to fund.
If your nonprofit is fairly new, it might be a good idea to hold off on direct mail fundraising until you’re a little more established.
How long do most of your donors contribute to your organization before they walk away? One year? Five? Ten? You should know.
What kind of response rates do your direct mail fundraising letters generate? It all depends on the kind of mailing we’re talking about.
One of the greatest challenges in email fundraising is poor open rates. The majority of donors who subscribe to email donor newsletters receive them but never open them. Improve your open rates today using these proven methods.
How well you steward your direct mail donors is key to whether they will keep giving.
