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Using Research to Raise More Money

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

You can search broadly for something like “fundraising,” “nonprofit marketing,” or, “nonprofit donor motivation” and see what comes up. Or you could get specific and search, for example, “nonprofit direct mail strategy” or “nonprofit animal shelter fundraising” and find something more targeted. .

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Why fundraisers feel stuck in the middle between Administrators and Donors

iMarketSmart

But the job is to raise money from donors motivated by their own hero story. She can feed the administrator-hero story back to the administrators and out to the donors. Their hero story causes them to misperceive donor motives. This can lead to bad messaging and bad management. This begins with empathy.

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Donor-Centric or Faux Donor-Centric? Check the Plumbing.

The Agitator

Here at The Agitator we’re far from blameless when it comes to ignoring or undervaluing the plumbing in the house of donor care. We “exalt” the “philosophers” by reviewing books on how best to communicate with donors…we attempt to cover the latest research on donor motivation…we deal with important issues like donor identity and preference.

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Raising Extra Billions By Changing The Rules

The Agitator

Its organizers — Giles Pegram, CBE, a leading European fundraising thinker and consummate hands-on practitioner, and Dr. Adrian Sargeant, a leading authority on donor motivation and loyalty — have assembled an all-star cast of hands-on specialists with the skill, experience and guts to set the change process in motion.

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Agitator Cliff Notes: “Hacking Marketing”

The Agitator

From my dog-eared pages: What is the template for the donor story? Last week, I talked about the jobs-to-be-done framework to look at donor motivation. This asks what is the donor hiring your nonprofit to do at an emotional level ? As you can tell, there’s plenty of meat on these bones.

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Monthly Giving Part 4: Stewarding Monthly Donors

The Agitator

So, unless they told you upfront they didn’t want to ever again hear from you, here, according to Erica Waasdorp are the Top Three Tips on monthly donor stewardship taken from her Monthly Donor Motivation column in NonProfitPRO. Send a Hard Copy Thank-You Letter Immediately.

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How to build deeper connections with your donors using surveys

iMarketSmart

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 28 (4), 437-452. [47] 48] When a current gift to fund an endowment is too large for the donor, a virtual endowment might work. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 28 (4), 437-452, 447. [52] His focus is on accurately uncovering “deeper constructs” of donor motivation.