Your crummy thank you feels bad Put yourself in your donor’s shoes. Sometimes saying thank you is treated as an administrative (boring) necessity. It should be an integral part of building strong donor relationships. But the really sad thing is it’s so easily fixed! Think about the little cartoon above. If your thank you letter reads […]
Want happier donors? Do one easy thing this week.
Want happier donors? Have you ever thanked your donors “just because”? In my experience, January seems to be the quiet after the end-of-year storm for solicitations and other mail. So it’s a great time to start the year off right with some gratitude – the best kind, no strings attached. When I’ve done this, I’ve […]
Gratitude is a blessing
Gratitude is a blessing. I hope you feel it. On the day we in the US usually stop for at least a moment to think about our blessings, I want to thank you. Thank you to my old friends, who do me the favor of reading these posts. Thank you to my new and yet-to-be […]
Do you want your donors to stick around?
Do you want your donors to stick around? Donor retention continues (rightly) to be a hot topic. It risks being like the weather, though: everybody’s talking about it, but nobody’s doing anything about it. Let me share an example from my past. I thought about an organization I used to work for. Riverfront Recapture built and programs […]
No fundraising plan? Don’t worry. Here’s what you can do.
No fundraising plan? So, it’s October and you still haven’t gotten around to making a plan for your fundraising through December. Yeah. You’re screwed. No, just kidding. You can still make this work. But you need to start today. Why not just wing it? Just do what you always do, right? Who has time to think […]
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