Donor Love Archives

The Most Important Gift from Your Donor – It’s the 2nd, Not the 1st!

June 10, 2019

Donor Retention, Fiona McPhee, Supporter Connection Survey, Thanking Donors

I started my working life in customer service, selling women’s shoes. This had two major impacts on my life. I have a shoe addiction that appears to be incurable. I have always believed that understanding your customer leads to the best…

20 Donor-Centric Things You Can Do to Raise More Money — Now and for Years to Come

April 29, 2019

Jeff Brooks

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I know everyone says you should be “donor centric.” It’s obvious, right? But what exactly does it mean to be donor-centric? Well, it’s not just a touchy-feely attitude. It’s a lot of actions — most of them seemingly quite small…

7 Common-Sense Ways to Love Your Donors

April 29, 2019

Jeff Brooks

Thanking donors is the best and easiest way to improve your overall fundraising results. Here are some ways you can show your donors the love by thanking them: Thank donors promptly. Don’t let weeks (or hours if it’s online) go…

VIDEO: How a Supporter Connection Survey Transformed Our Fundraising

March 18, 2019

Jeff Brooks

Baptist World Aid, Jeff Brooks, Religious Fundraising, Rose Young, Supporter Connection Survey

Rose Young, Campaign Team Leader at Baptist World Aid in Australia, wanted to know how to create a Supporter Connection Survey. She’d heard about them and how effective they are, but had never done one. She Googled it and found…

A Great Way to REALLY Thank Your Donors

January 21, 2019

Sean Triner

Examples of Good Fundraising, Sean Triner

I want to show you one of the best examples of donor care that I’ve ever seen. I got it more than 10 years ago, from the Children’s Cancer Institute in Australia. To read the whole thing, click here. We…

What Donor-Focused Websites Look Like

June 12, 2018

Jeff Brooks

Jeff Brooks, Website

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Making your website connect with donors and treat them as heroes are one of the most important things it can do. It can recruit new donors, bring in more donations, and cement your relationships with the donors you have. Yet…

VIDEO: Stupid Fundraising Sometimes Works

March 26, 2018

Jeff Brooks

Creative, Examples of Good Fundraising, Jeff Brooks

Jeff dons his “mean teacher” costume to tell the smart fundraisers a secret about how to think about fundraising in a way that will keep you clear-headed, realistic, and open-minded. Don’t miss this important mini-lecture. It might be on the…

Sorry Darling, Not Everyone Wants a Relationship With You

October 4, 2017

Sean Triner

Pareto Principle, Sean Triner, Stewardship, Supporter Care, Thanking

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It’s a question that many fundraisers ask me about mid-value donors. And it’s one of the key things that came up at my webinar All About Mid-Value Donors yesterday: How can I identify those donors ‘worth’ an extra investment in time…

Why It’s Important to Love Fundraising

September 1, 2017

Jeff Brooks

Emotion, Jeff Brooks

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Like many Americans, I have an inexplicable love for baseball. One of my favorite things about baseball is how the players watch the game. When they aren’t on the field, they line up along the fence between the dugout and…

Six Steps to Make Your Communications Sticky

September 1, 2017

Sean Triner

Chip and Dan Heath, Communications, Copywriting, Creative, Emotion, Fundraising Books, Jeff Brooks, Made to Stick, Sean Triner

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How do you make sure that everything you write grabs the reader’s attention, engages them and makes something happen? After all, there is no point writing stuff that doesn’t have the desired outcome. Even if that outcome is to help…

The Most Important Gift from Your Donor – It’s the 2nd, Not the 1st!

20 Donor-Centric Things You Can Do to Raise More Money — Now and for Years to Come

7 Common-Sense Ways to Love Your Donors

VIDEO: How a Supporter Connection Survey Transformed Our Fundraising

A Great Way to REALLY Thank Your Donors

What Donor-Focused Websites Look Like

VIDEO: Stupid Fundraising Sometimes Works

Sorry Darling, Not Everyone Wants a Relationship With You

Why It’s Important to Love Fundraising

Six Steps to Make Your Communications Sticky

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