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Category: Donor communications

You’re forcing me to do WHAT to donate?

Okay, my husband and I are at that time of year. We’re in donation mode. We’ve made the list of charities we’re going to give to and how much we’re going to give. My husband (who is also my business colleague) has the job of going online to work through the list. Because we are online donation people. It’s a pretty extensive list although I will admit, it’s not all because we’re that altruistic but because we are fundraisers ourselves and we donate to some of the orgs on our list just to get your mail. But still, a lot of you on that list we’d give to even if we weren’t fundraisers. Now here’s a list of things he’s seen so far that he’s found either annoying or out of place...
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Is your fundraising driven by corporate, academic, program or journalism communications?

Ask yourself this. What type of communications is really driving your fundraising? Because if you’re serious about raising funds – as opposed to raising awareness or educating people – then you need to be incorporating tried and tested direct response techniques into your appeals.
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Fundraising envelopes that stand out

I am utterly swamped with tax appeal work currently but when the mail came in today, I took a quick look to see if anything stood out. The image above shows the pile of envelopes I received today... and at the bottom are the envelopes that caught my eye. Those are the ones I immediately opened.
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Will you make your tax appeal target?

Will you make your tax appeal target? One week out from 30 June and I’m checking in with the charities I work with to see where fundraising income is up to for their tax appeals. So where is YOUR non-profit up to? At this point, if you’re not up to at least 50% of your tax appeal target, I can pretty confidently say you won’t reach it. (Please see the disclaimer below though.) Personally, I prefer it if my fundraising clients are closer to 70% at this point. But yes, if you run a standard direct mail tax appeal to your house file… it’s fairly common for 30-50% of donations to come in during the last week before June 30.
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