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Stay Connected With Your Donors by Creating a Communications Calendar

Ann Green

The good news is that better donor communication (thank yous and updates) can help you raise more money. Ideally, you should communicate with your donors at least once or twice a month throughout the year. Some of you may already have a communications calendar, which is great. All departments need to work together.

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How You Can Simplify Your Donor Communication

Ann Green

Even so, you need to continue to raise money and communicate fairly regularly with your donors, while not taking on too much. Here are a few ways to simplify your donor communication without making it too difficult for you. Here are a few ways to simplify your donor communication without making it too difficult for you.

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How to Improve Your Communication for Better Donor Engagement

Ann Green

If it’s not, it’s time to move away from generic and impersonal communication. Here are a few suggestions to help you improve your donor communication. Segment your donors Your donors aren’t the same, so they shouldn’t all get the same letter or other types of communication. Your donors deserve better.

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How to Execute Your Peer-to-Peer Email Communications Plan

NonProfit PRO

So, you’ve created a strategy for your peer-to-peer email communications. You’ve segmented your audience, built compelling content and prepared to design emails that will grab your readers’ attention. Now there’s one thing left to do: Start executing on your plan (and find ways to improve it).

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Communicating With Confidence: 5 Tips to Communicate With Groups Effectively

NonProfit Leadership Center

According to research from the Project Management Institute, the biggest predictor of a project’s success — or failure — is communication. Their report found that project managers should spend 90% of their time on communications to ensure a project’s success, and up to 56% of revenue could be lost due to poor communication.

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What Should Your New Communications Hire Do?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

We love to see nonprofit communications teams grow! I always do a little dance in my chair when someone in our community says they’ve been approved to hire a new comms team member. But then the question becomes, what should that new communications hire do? How should we write that job description?

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Will Nonprofit Communications Teams Grow in 2024?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Would you like to guess what percentage of nonprofit communications teams will grow in 2024? We are working on the 2024 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report for release later this month, which will explore this question further. So, which organizations were most likely to have staffed up their communications teams in 2023?