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The Power of Heroic Philanthropy: Understanding Donor Motivations

iMarketSmart

2] This was not the transactional reciprocity of market exchange. 5] A heroic donation is this: a sacrificial gift that protects the donor’s people or values in a crisis. It worked when the cause was Tsunami victims [11] Hurricane Katrina victims [12] Victims of war and genocide,[13] or Starving children.[14]

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Agitator Cliff Notes: “Hacking Marketing”

The Agitator

This time, I’m going with a non-fundraising book: Hacking Marketing by Scott Brinker of Chief Marketing Technologist fame. The idea is how to take the lessons from the agile software development movement and apply them to more traditional marketing. Intimate customer tribes over impersonal mass markets.

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How to develop a ‘character’ in your fundraising stories in 3 steps — according to Dr. Russell James

iMarketSmart

In one experiment, people could donate to help children in a famine. For some people, donations helped five pictured children. For other people, donations helped only one of the five children. For some people, the drugs would save eight children. The requests included the children’s names, ages, and pictures.

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Your A/B Test Didn’t Validate … Now What??

NextAfter

A business trying to get market intelligence from a survey may aim for an 80% level of confidence. So let’s take a look at a few recent experiments from our library of 5,500+ digital fundraising case studies —experiments that did not validate but do, however, provide valuable insights into donor motivation.

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Understanding Why People Give (hint: it’s not what you think!)

Get Fully Funded

You can design your marketing and fundraising materials to appeal to the right emotions. Psychologists have studied the dynamics of giving for years and identified some key internal motivators for giving. Many people live this value and it’s the main reason they give. This is a ready audience for altruistic appeals.