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9 NONPROFIT EMAILS THAT WORK

Sleeknote recently shared a blog that spoke to the special email difficulties nonprofits face and offered 9 emails, actual emails, that work. Take a look and get some good ideas!

Summertime is a perfect time to entertain and thank your Major Donors! It is also a perfect time to entertain and evaluate unique fundraising events to add to your annual calendar. Delight your donors with these unique ideas!

DOES YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE DELIVER DONOR HAPPINESS?

July 4th and lots of peeps are on vacation! Seems a great time to ask the question, how’s your customer service? Who and How are your donors being communicated with this summer?

SUMMER FUNDRAISING AND MARKETING MAKEOVERS

Summertime is a super time to refresh and recheck your Fundraising Plan as well as your overhaul your Marketing Strategies! How’s it going and where can you improve? Make Year-End Fundraising a breeze by doing a good Summer Check-Up Now!
https://wiredimpact.com/blog/7-ways-t…

HOW TO BUILD A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE MID-LEVEL DONOR PROGRAM

1,500,000 NONPROFITS just in the United States are experiencing a Missing Middle, no specific program to effectively work with their Mid-Level Donors! Sea Change Strategies wrote a report in 2014 focusing on mid-level donors because they found that in many cases, these mid-level donors were generating as much as one-third of an organizations income from individuals so how were they being treated? Sea Change Strategies checks in 4 years later, 2018, and gives us a super look at what’s happening in this area, what’s new, what’s not new and what’s next! They then give us 8 effective habits of Mid-Level Donor Programs that are working for 20 top non-profits! We look at a few of these habits today with tips you can immediately put to work in your organization!
http://seachangestrategies.com/missin…

RETENTION BENCHMARK STUDY REVEALED

New 2018 Benchmark Study just out that gives us new insight into RETENTION RATES just in time to make last half of year a Retention Winner! Steve Daigneault of M+R talks the metrics, questions and answers and we take notes!

Create Opportunities With These Summer Fundraising Ideas

Wow, here it is almost Memorial Day Weekend, the unofficial start of Summer 2018! Can you believe it? So let’s talk Summer Fundraising, let’s talk creative events we can use to build relationships and give opportunities for summertime fun, events that volunteers can help you pull together, events that you and your staff and board can participate in. Here are 25 showstoppers that Classy.org has put together for our perusal and inspiration!