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Think you’re too small to care for donors?

Think you’re too small to care for donors? Think again. If you raise money, you can care for your donors. No excuses. Because if you want to keep raising money, you must take good care of your donors. If your organization is small, you should know you’re not alone. Most nonprofits have annual budgets under […]

Filed Under: Blog, Donors Tagged With: cycle of giving, donor care, small organization 3 Comments

Do you like me? You like me!

Let me ask you something: do you really like your donors? I don’t mean as a group or as an idea. I mean as people. Do you like them? I recently read an article by Roger Dooley at Neuromarketing. He was writing, as he often does, about Robert Cialdini and his findings about sales. Your instinct […]

Filed Under: Blog, Donors Tagged With: donor focus, donor-centered fundraising, neuroscience 2 Comments

Is our donor focus hurting or helping our nonprofits?

Or, why donor focus might not mean what you think it means. Vu Le of Nonprofit AF recently wrote a long, very thoughtful piece about donor-centrism. He hoped it would generate conversation. And I hope so, too. Vu is an amazing dynamo who is making change happen, not just in his organization, but across the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fundraising Tagged With: donor love, donor-centered fundraising, donor-focused 14 Comments

Are you in a groove or in a rut?

Groove or rut? When messaging is good for fundraising Given time and trial, you may find ideas and language that work well for your fundraising. When you do, feel free to continue to use it. Your readers aren’t waiting for your latest artistic creation; they read your appeals to know how they can help. They […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fundraising Tagged With: fundraising innovation, fundraising plans, fundraising strategy 2 Comments

Love your donors? Why you need to care about keeping them

Love your donors? Why you need to care about keeping them Recently, Tom Belford at The Agitator shared information from the latest Fundraising Effectiveness Project Survey Report. Two statements jumped out at me. Perhaps most striking is the performance difference in retention between the top 20% of organizations, who lost on average 14.1% of their new […]

Filed Under: Annual Giving, Blog Tagged With: donor focus, donor retention 3 Comments

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