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The Strange Survey Question that Can Help You Uncover Your “Hidden” Major Donors

July 12, 2021

I could hardly believe it the first time I saw it, but here’s a question that can help you raise a lot of extra money from donors you never knew had the capacity to give large donations. Here’s the question:…

7 Boring Ways to Transform Your Fundraising

June 14, 2021

Julie Cooper

Fundraising

Fresh out of college in the mid-1990s, I took a traveling sales job. My responsibility was to sell as many industrial tools and supplies as possible. Yes, that’s just as exciting as it sounds. My liberal arts education hadn’t trained…

€60,000 of extra fundraising revenue — and that’s not all!

November 30, 2020

Jeff Brooks

Fundraising Training Needs

Corinna Wagner of ADRA Austria faces a situation a lot of us struggle with: A small donor file. Her donors are great. But without the scale of a larger file, it can be a challenge to make campaigns really work…

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

June 10, 2019

Fiona McPhee

Direct Mail, Donor Care, Donor Love

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…

VIDEO: How a Supporter Connection Survey Transformed Our Fundraising

March 18, 2019

Jeff Brooks

Donor Love

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…

Here’s One Easy Tool That Transforms Your Fundraising

March 11, 2019

Jeff Brooks

Bequests and Legacies, Major and Mid Value Donors, Monthly Giving

Suppose I told you there’s a fundraising tool you (yes you!) can put to work that will do these things: Gather information on what motivates your best donors to give, so you can speak more personally and relevantly to them.…

Save the Snails Hyper-Personalisation In Action

August 16, 2017

Sean Triner

Direct Mail, Donor Love, Major and Mid Value Donors, Writing

Hyper-personalisation is a phrase coined by fundraising author Mal Warwick. He used it to describe going well beyond normal personalisation in direct marketing. It is all about asking donors questions and reflecting their answers back to them. Using this technique…

The Most Crazy Thing I Ever Heard

August 16, 2017

Sean Triner

Maths of Fundraising, Bequests and Legacies

I heard the most crazy thing ever: A frustrated charity fundraiser told me that they had to cancel their annual survey this year. Why? Had it failed to work? Not at all. It was still gathering game-changing data from their…

The Data Does Wonders, But Only If You Use It

August 15, 2017

Sean Triner

Bequests and Legacies, Direct Mail, Donor Love, Major and Mid Value Donors

When I tell people about our Supporter Connection Survey, one of the most common questions I’m asked is this: What exactly do I do with the data we gather? Let me give you a quick look at how to handle…

Pop Art Ice Bucket Challenge business man

How You Can Have Your Own Ice Bucket Challenge-Like Success

August 9, 2017

Jeff Brooks

Fundraising

Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? It happened in the Summer of 2015 when the ALS Association in the US (and a number of related organizations around the world, where ALS is often called motor neurone disease) became the beneficiaries of a gargantuan…

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The Strange Survey Question that Can Help You Uncover Your “Hidden” Major Donors

7 Boring Ways to Transform Your Fundraising

€60,000 of extra fundraising revenue — and that’s not all!

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

VIDEO: How a Supporter Connection Survey Transformed Our Fundraising

Here’s One Easy Tool That Transforms Your Fundraising

Save the Snails Hyper-Personalisation In Action

The Most Crazy Thing I Ever Heard

The Data Does Wonders, But Only If You Use It

How You Can Have Your Own Ice Bucket Challenge-Like Success

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