Don’t waste time and money by trying to communicate to those who have shown little or no affinity to your cause.
Our webinar will examine how to look at your constituents through the filter of your database, thus providing a better understanding of who they are and what they are interested in.
Know your audience…manage your data. Successful fundraising strategies depend upon it!
Magic Monthly Giving - Sustainer Best PracticesBrady Josephson
A hallmark product at Target Analytics is Collaborative Benchmarking meetings – annual conferences that gather sectors together to share data, strategy and the challenges of fundraising in today’s ever-changing environment. With the continued growth of recurring giving in the last 10 years, the Sustainer Benchmarking conference has also grown to include some of the largest non-profits in the US. This session will share what best practices, tips and must-dos these organizations have learned while establishing and growing their programs.
Email Fundraising: Getting, Sending, and Optimizing with TechSoup CanadaBrady Josephson
Sending more quality emails to more qualified people leads to more revenue for your cause. This presentation looks at how you get, send, and optimize your strategy around email fundraising to raise more money.
It's and Not or
Danielle Johnson Vermenton, Senior Interactive Consultant, Blackbaud, on the latest trends of online philanthropy and the impact on nonprofits. Learn how online philanthropy is the pipeline for all your fundraising goals - and tips on how to get started.
Developing a Donor Focused Communication StrategyBrian Barela
Pragmatic tactics within a donor-focused framework to help grassroots fundraisers raise more money, communicate results more effectively, and meaningfully engage donors on the channels they prefer.
Magic Monthly Giving - Sustainer Best PracticesBrady Josephson
A hallmark product at Target Analytics is Collaborative Benchmarking meetings – annual conferences that gather sectors together to share data, strategy and the challenges of fundraising in today’s ever-changing environment. With the continued growth of recurring giving in the last 10 years, the Sustainer Benchmarking conference has also grown to include some of the largest non-profits in the US. This session will share what best practices, tips and must-dos these organizations have learned while establishing and growing their programs.
Email Fundraising: Getting, Sending, and Optimizing with TechSoup CanadaBrady Josephson
Sending more quality emails to more qualified people leads to more revenue for your cause. This presentation looks at how you get, send, and optimize your strategy around email fundraising to raise more money.
It's and Not or
Danielle Johnson Vermenton, Senior Interactive Consultant, Blackbaud, on the latest trends of online philanthropy and the impact on nonprofits. Learn how online philanthropy is the pipeline for all your fundraising goals - and tips on how to get started.
Developing a Donor Focused Communication StrategyBrian Barela
Pragmatic tactics within a donor-focused framework to help grassroots fundraisers raise more money, communicate results more effectively, and meaningfully engage donors on the channels they prefer.
Strategies to Build Donor Love — How to Create Donor-Centric Communication an...Beth Brodovsky
How can your communication strategy work to show your donors you know and love them? Donors – both present and potential – are special. Every communication is an opportunity to draw donors closer to the heart of your organization. It takes planning, creative thinking and commitment to focus on the donor — but there are a multitude of inexpensive and easy ideas for attracting you donors’ attention.
This presentation will help you examine your organization to find the road-blocks and opportunities in getting your donor’s attention. We’ll explore technology tactics, direct marketing mysteries and creative concepts that assure donors you know and understand their interest in your cause.
Learning Objectives:
Flipping the focus
Telling great stories in new ways
Making communication personal
Managing what gets in your way
12 Questions You Can Ask Donors AFTER They Say Yes - Sample QuestionsBloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Andy Robinson will show you the “after questions” that you can use to strengthen donor relationships, serve your donors better, and set the stage to raise even more money in the future.
https://bloomerang.co/webinars-events/
In 2019, $449.64 billion was donated to charities in the US. Last year, giving increased more than 10% -- IN A PANDEMIC! AND - 80% of these contributions are made by people. Yet many nonprofits lose 1/3 of their donors each year. Are you ready to get off the treadmill (donors on... donors off... donors on... donors off...)?
One of the keys to building a successful individual giving program is by building and deepening rapport with your donors. This goes well beyond sending timely thank you notes and a quarterly newsletter. In this webinar, you'll learn the techniques you can use to solicit larger gifts from your donors, while deepening their loyalty to your organization.
Boosting Your Major Gifts Fundraising - Professional Advancement QuizRoewen Wishart CFRE
Just started a new major gifts job or wanting to switch roles? Wondering where to begin with major gifts? Needing a “circuit breaker”?
Are you a board member or CEO - wondering if there’s something simple but important which isn’t happening the right way?
Try this professional advancement quiz. Our suggested answers to these four questions might surprise you.
What’s the most effective first step where major gifts prospects are lacking?
What case material is most useful for staff to engage with donors to encourage major gifts?
What is useful for staff to prepare before a cultivation meeting with prospective donors?
What’s the one irreplaceable staff role in major gifts planning and execution?
Donor Communications to See You Through Every CrisisBloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Pamela Grow will provide attendees with an understanding of how a strong, multi-channel donor communications builds sustainability through any crisis.
How to Raise Major Gifts -- The Right WayBloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
This webinar from Amy Eisenstein, ACFRE will highlight the findings of a brand new research project on how small and mid-sized nonprofits can successfully raise major gifts. We will break down the findings into concrete steps and identify best practices nonprofit organizations can use to raise major gifts in more effective and efficient ways.
We will make recommendations for organizations looking to be more sustainable and raise significantly more major gifts. We expect to be able to provide genuine insight into the world or major gift fundraising and validate or debunk myths surrounding major gifts.
At the conclusion of this session, participants will:
Understand research-based best practices for raising major gifts
Debunk myths around raising major gifts
Learn practical tools and techniques for raising major gifts and creating a more sustainable nonprofit organization
In June 2016, the international HQ of a global NGO hired me to help develop a presentation about online fundraising for their board. There was no short term rush, but it foresaw that in a few years it might be at risk if its large institutional funders stopped or reduced their contribution. Online fundraising was seen an an option it needed to explore.
The preferred approach was to experiment with online fundraising models until it had the evidence and expertise to make a better judgement on how viable it was. These slides are the input to that presentation - not the presentation itself!
This was developed based on the input from individuals I contacted and from the ECF (eCampaigning Forum) community. This unbranded version of the slides also removes any reference to the commissioning organisation.
Charities use newsletters to communicate with donors. But often with mixed objectives and for mixed audiences. In this presentation we look at what makes good communications and what newsletters are for. Towards the end, all attendees critiqued each others newsletters (anonymously) and the result was a resounding disappointment. Only one of the newsletters were actually achieving good communications.
See3 CEO Michael Hoffman gave this talk to the 2013 International Fundraising Conference in the Netherlands. Watch to find out why what you thought you knew about social media fundraising should go right out the window.
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Rachel Muir, CFRE will help you see through your donor’s eyes in this thought provoking workshop loaded with tips for better donor communication, cultivation and discovery.
Enterprise Online Fundraising Plan and ResearchRebecca Higman
Enterprise Community Partners (a nonprofit national leader in investment capital and development services for affordable housing and community revitalization) spent some time wondering how to up their online fundraising results, and a whole lot more time acting.
The deck includes research topics, creating donor profiles and personas and six strategies to online outreach.
This presentation was first shared at the Network for Good and Maryland Nonprofits "ePhilanthropy 101: Effective & Inexpensive Fundraising in a Downturn" program on March 27, 2009.
Kurzvorstellung des sitepackage:// Newsletter-Systems für Social E-Mail-Marketing. Gezeigt werden darin Funktionsumfang und Vorteile der Software, Zahlen und Fakten zur Internetnutzung von Zielgruppen sowie Referenzen und Beispiele erfolgreicher Kampagnen. Abschließend erhält man einen Überblick über das Preismodell und die verschiedenen Tarife in Abhängigkeit von Verteilergrößen eines Versenders
Strategies to Build Donor Love — How to Create Donor-Centric Communication an...Beth Brodovsky
How can your communication strategy work to show your donors you know and love them? Donors – both present and potential – are special. Every communication is an opportunity to draw donors closer to the heart of your organization. It takes planning, creative thinking and commitment to focus on the donor — but there are a multitude of inexpensive and easy ideas for attracting you donors’ attention.
This presentation will help you examine your organization to find the road-blocks and opportunities in getting your donor’s attention. We’ll explore technology tactics, direct marketing mysteries and creative concepts that assure donors you know and understand their interest in your cause.
Learning Objectives:
Flipping the focus
Telling great stories in new ways
Making communication personal
Managing what gets in your way
12 Questions You Can Ask Donors AFTER They Say Yes - Sample QuestionsBloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Andy Robinson will show you the “after questions” that you can use to strengthen donor relationships, serve your donors better, and set the stage to raise even more money in the future.
https://bloomerang.co/webinars-events/
In 2019, $449.64 billion was donated to charities in the US. Last year, giving increased more than 10% -- IN A PANDEMIC! AND - 80% of these contributions are made by people. Yet many nonprofits lose 1/3 of their donors each year. Are you ready to get off the treadmill (donors on... donors off... donors on... donors off...)?
One of the keys to building a successful individual giving program is by building and deepening rapport with your donors. This goes well beyond sending timely thank you notes and a quarterly newsletter. In this webinar, you'll learn the techniques you can use to solicit larger gifts from your donors, while deepening their loyalty to your organization.
Boosting Your Major Gifts Fundraising - Professional Advancement QuizRoewen Wishart CFRE
Just started a new major gifts job or wanting to switch roles? Wondering where to begin with major gifts? Needing a “circuit breaker”?
Are you a board member or CEO - wondering if there’s something simple but important which isn’t happening the right way?
Try this professional advancement quiz. Our suggested answers to these four questions might surprise you.
What’s the most effective first step where major gifts prospects are lacking?
What case material is most useful for staff to engage with donors to encourage major gifts?
What is useful for staff to prepare before a cultivation meeting with prospective donors?
What’s the one irreplaceable staff role in major gifts planning and execution?
Donor Communications to See You Through Every CrisisBloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Pamela Grow will provide attendees with an understanding of how a strong, multi-channel donor communications builds sustainability through any crisis.
How to Raise Major Gifts -- The Right WayBloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
This webinar from Amy Eisenstein, ACFRE will highlight the findings of a brand new research project on how small and mid-sized nonprofits can successfully raise major gifts. We will break down the findings into concrete steps and identify best practices nonprofit organizations can use to raise major gifts in more effective and efficient ways.
We will make recommendations for organizations looking to be more sustainable and raise significantly more major gifts. We expect to be able to provide genuine insight into the world or major gift fundraising and validate or debunk myths surrounding major gifts.
At the conclusion of this session, participants will:
Understand research-based best practices for raising major gifts
Debunk myths around raising major gifts
Learn practical tools and techniques for raising major gifts and creating a more sustainable nonprofit organization
In June 2016, the international HQ of a global NGO hired me to help develop a presentation about online fundraising for their board. There was no short term rush, but it foresaw that in a few years it might be at risk if its large institutional funders stopped or reduced their contribution. Online fundraising was seen an an option it needed to explore.
The preferred approach was to experiment with online fundraising models until it had the evidence and expertise to make a better judgement on how viable it was. These slides are the input to that presentation - not the presentation itself!
This was developed based on the input from individuals I contacted and from the ECF (eCampaigning Forum) community. This unbranded version of the slides also removes any reference to the commissioning organisation.
Charities use newsletters to communicate with donors. But often with mixed objectives and for mixed audiences. In this presentation we look at what makes good communications and what newsletters are for. Towards the end, all attendees critiqued each others newsletters (anonymously) and the result was a resounding disappointment. Only one of the newsletters were actually achieving good communications.
See3 CEO Michael Hoffman gave this talk to the 2013 International Fundraising Conference in the Netherlands. Watch to find out why what you thought you knew about social media fundraising should go right out the window.
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Rachel Muir, CFRE will help you see through your donor’s eyes in this thought provoking workshop loaded with tips for better donor communication, cultivation and discovery.
Enterprise Online Fundraising Plan and ResearchRebecca Higman
Enterprise Community Partners (a nonprofit national leader in investment capital and development services for affordable housing and community revitalization) spent some time wondering how to up their online fundraising results, and a whole lot more time acting.
The deck includes research topics, creating donor profiles and personas and six strategies to online outreach.
This presentation was first shared at the Network for Good and Maryland Nonprofits "ePhilanthropy 101: Effective & Inexpensive Fundraising in a Downturn" program on March 27, 2009.
Kurzvorstellung des sitepackage:// Newsletter-Systems für Social E-Mail-Marketing. Gezeigt werden darin Funktionsumfang und Vorteile der Software, Zahlen und Fakten zur Internetnutzung von Zielgruppen sowie Referenzen und Beispiele erfolgreicher Kampagnen. Abschließend erhält man einen Überblick über das Preismodell und die verschiedenen Tarife in Abhängigkeit von Verteilergrößen eines Versenders
Recruiting-Mailings sind ein maßgeschneidertes Personalmarketing-Tool mit sehr geringem Streuverlust, denn Sie können diese zielgruppen-genau zusteuern.
Doch bei der Umsetzung gibt es einiges zu beachten. In der Präsentation erfahren Sie anhand praktischer Beispiele, wie Sie Ihr Mailing gestalten sollten, um eine hohe Rücklaufquote zu erreichen.
Mehr zu den Themen Recruiting und Employer Branding finden Sie unter www.jobnet.de.
Mit welchen Worten lassen sich bestimmte Zielgruppen dazu animieren, Kontakt aufzunehmen und Anfragen zu stellen? In dem Dokument finden Sie einen Referenztext inklusive Angabe aller Rahmenbedingungen.
In this economy, you have to be creative to get donations.
At Fundraising Success, you'll learn ways to raise more money with your direct mail campaign, including:
* Design ideas, production tips and cost saving options
* Messaging and copy that will resonate with your donors for larger gifts
* Integration with email and other online tactics to lift your response rate
Warum Werbklischees wie Fast-Food sind. Und wie Kreativität und Insights Werbemachern und Werbetreibenden helfen können, klischeehafte, ineffiziente Werbung zu vermeiden. 13 gelungene Beispiele mit konkreten Ergebnissen.
The Secret to a Successful Direct Mail CampaignBloomerang
Did you know that 40% of all giving happens in the month of December? A thoughtful and well crafted year end appeal can help increase the revenue your organization generates during the height of this year’s giving season. Whether you have your planning underway or have yet to begin, join Giving Tree’s Amy Schiffman, Lizzy Sternberg and Lisa Sheridan to learn best practices in preparing for and maximizing the return on your direct mail campaign.
Learning Objectives:
The webinar will focus on campaign planning and execution in the following areas:
Timeline creation
List preparation and expansion
Messaging and content
Design and layout of collateral
Personal notes
Printing, mail house and postage
e-campaign
Preparing your team and resources
Acknowledging donors and notifying your team
Time will be given for a lively Q&A session.
About the presenters:
Amy Schiffman
Since founding Giving Tree Associates in 2008, Amy Schiffman has helped her clients to raise tens of millions of dollars via public and private funding sources. As a principal of the firm, Amy manages annual, capital and endowment campaigns, facilitates board leadership development and solicitation training workshops, builds strategic plans, develops communication strategies, and recruits professional leadership.
Lizzy Sternberg
Lizzy Sternberg joined Giving Tree Associates in 2009 and plays a pivotal role in revenue development and strategic planning for Giving Tree clients. Her expertise in event planning, annual campaign management, volunteer leadership and training, software implementation and data management allows her clients to build successful strategies and exceed fundraising goals. Lizzy is Giving Tree’s in-house expert on donor and event management software and has successfully transitioned dozens of clients to new platforms. She also has strong experience leading the fundraising assessment process and partnering with GTA principals on campaign planning. Lizzy supervises the firm’s Associate Consultant team with a strong client-based approach to project management.
Lisa Sheridan
Lisa Sheridan joined Giving Tree Associates in 2012 and specializes in event management, database research and implementation, data configuration, board recruitment and annual campaign management. Lisa’s guidance allows clients to build the sustainable infrastructures, processes and strategies to successfully meet and exceed their fundraising goals. Lisa collaborates with volunteers and staff to execute campaign strategy and mentors new members of the Giving Tree team.
Mit emotional aufgeladenen Mailings gelingt es weitaus besser, eine Vielzahl an Kunden zu mobilisieren, als mit "nüchternen", rein sachlichen Mailings.
Mehr Blogbeiträge zu diesen und ähnlichen Themen finden Sie auf http://www.communi-care.at/blog/
Trends and Insights in non-profit technology from Great Britain and the US (#...Purple Vision
Keith Collins and Alexander Kopetzky from Purple Vision share trends and insights in non-profit technology from the UK (Great Britain) and USA.
Speaking on 20 May at the Deutscher Fundraising Kongress 2015 (DFK15), with Salesforce Foundation, Keith, Alex and Vicky share the potential for a number of simple tools and integrations to have a high impact on the performance of your fundraising and non-profit operations.
Inspiring donors and prospects to give more and more oftenFiona McPhee
The seven simple steps to revolutionise your direct mail fundraising program
* Best kept secrets
* Tried and tested approaches
* New Development
* Campaign examples
What They Didn't Teach you in Fundraising SchoolAplos Software
A practical look at what goes on behind the scenes for any successful nonprofit fundraising operation. This is designed for any sized nonprofit or faith-based organization.
Development/fundraising operations are the activities that hold everything together – data management, gift processing, office procedures, and event management. Without strong operations, your development activities will flounder. Achieving strong development operations requires a balance of planning skills, time management, and even some HR skills.
This webinar will highlight:
• How to get the most out of you Donor Management/Database system.
• Gift Processing and Records Management.
• Ways to make the right investment in your fundraising operations and the overhead myth.
• The “Too much to do and not enough time” dilemma.
Learn what are the most important elements charities need to include in their digital fundraising strategy to raise more money online. Also case studies on how charities are using digital to prospect for bequestors/ Gifts in Wills.
Whether you have a "one-person shop" or a team of development professionals, achieving the maximum, sustainable results depends upon a clear understanding of what you need to do to get to the next level of support.
This webinar will emphasize that there really are ONLY two ways to increase your (and your program's) success: by increasing the number of people who give and by increasing the average level of support.
We'll discuss how to be truly successful - and here's a little preview...you must DO BOTH!
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Victoria Dietz will show you the proven steps to have meaningful conversations and build stronger relationships with your donors by keeping them engaged and properly setting expectations.
Nonprofits today are faced with unprecedented challenges, and yet we continue to approach board leadership using concepts from thirty years ago. As our organizations enter into new territory, so our boards need to lead differently - yet we continue to put our efforts into getting the structure 'right'. But there is no magical number of board members or committees, or use of Robert's Rules of Order or Consent agendas, that will transform our boards into the strategic thinkers or powerful decision makers they need to be. Instead, structure must be seen as only the foundation - and board behavior and dynamics approached in a new way - to lead effectively into the future.
On Today's Menu: Your Successful Grant Proposal4Good.org
How can you whip up a successful grant proposal? You’ll need just the right proportions of research, planning, drafting, and editing. And don’t forget to garnish with tasty feedback and a dash of good timing!
Foundations and corporate funders are always looking for ways to make good investments in your community. To partner with them, you have to show exactly how you can help make that happen!
Webinar participants will get a special discount on Dalya’s award-winning book, "Writing to Make a Difference: 25 Powerful Techniques to Boost Your Community Impact."
Who should attend: This webinar is ideal for: nonprofit directors, staff, board, volunteers, and consultants who help raise money from foundations and corporations; jobseekers are also welcome.
Successfully Outsourcing Your Accounting Function4Good.org
For startup or small nonprofits, hiring the right financial expertise can be challenging. Outsourcing to a qualified firm allows you to focus your efforts on mission and fund raising, can strengthen internal controls and often results in significant improvements in your overall financial management and reporting. The keys to success are to clarify your expectations for outsourcing and identify the right outsourcing partner with whom your organization can build a collaborative relationship.
Inbound Marketing & Millennial Donors: A Perfect Marriage4Good.org
The Millennial Generation does not want direct mail from your nonprofit, nor do they want generic communications. To get to these early donors, 84% of which donate or want to donate online, you'll need to earn it through transformative content that effectively tells the story of your cause.
In this webinar learn how to utilize inbound marketing techniques to attract Millennial donors who live on their smartphones, and to how incentivize their giving to your fundraising efforts.
Building your brand – A practical guide for nonprofit organizations4Good.org
This "brand 101″ session is designed to help nonprofit leadership and board members understand the basic concepts around developing and maintaining a strong brand.
Many entrepreneurs – social, triple bottom line or otherwise – do not avail themselves of all potential capital sources when seeking funding to grow or scale, limiting prospects to cash flow their initiatives. This seminar explores a range of options for funding: external in the marketplace, internal within an organization, new ideas and classics not to overlook.
Most nonprofits involve volunteers in program areas and administrative areas. You might not be aware, however, of the many ways you can involve volunteers in your fundraising activities. This webinar will outline ways you can involve volunteers in fundraising, where to find volunteers, how to recruit them, and how to keep them enthused about your organization.
Could your mission statement describe any of several other organizations that are similar to yours? Do you just haul it out once a year for your annual report and 990? If you’ve been around for many years, you’re clear about your nonprofit’s value to your community, your stakeholders and/or your cause, why bother to revisit your mission statement?
The answers to these questions can make the difference between sustainable success and failure in several ways. Organizations that have a page-long mission statements and think that any effort to review it would be just empty wordsmithing may want to join us for this webinar to see what a rigorously crafted mission statement can do for marketing, fundraising, stakeholder loyalty, strategy, and managing change.
Enter your mission statement in the 4th annual What’s Your Mission? Competition, at http://bit.ly.SyPmission
Takeaways:
Why your mission statement is so important.
Why it’s worth editing your mission statement–and how to do it.
What’s in a good mission statement, and what’s not.
How a good mission statement forms the basis for strategic decisions.
How to measure your performance against your mission statement, and why that’s valuable.
e-Strategy for Your Nonprofit (Cast Your NET, Catch More Fish: Effective Inte...4Good.org
This seminar shows how any nonprofit can develop and execute an Internet strategy to further its mission. We’ll examine how nonprofits are using the Internet, how they’d like to be using the Internet, and how they should be using the Internet (but may be unaware of) – and how to bridge that significant gap easily and quickly. You’ll learn how to drive more traffic to and fundraising through your site. We’ll give specific suggestions on how you can improve your website so it will offer lots for your website visitors to SEE and lots for them to DO.
Key Leadership Factors for Fundraising Success4Good.org
As the CEO of your organization, you are tasked with many things from operations to quality improvement; fundraising is only one of your concerns. But did you know that everything you do affects fundraising? In fact, the most important factor in fundraising success is not the competence of your fundraiser but your own leadership and that of your Board of Trustees. Join Susan Black, CFRE to learn the six key factors for fundraising success that every nonprofit leader needs to know.
Barriers to Change: Understanding Roadblocks to Progress in Organizations and...4Good.org
We all say that we desire change yet, it seems so difficult for it to actually occur. In this webinar, learn more about the barriers to change that keep us from moving forward in our personal, professional and organizational lives.
Nonprofit Blogging Best Practices: Why Your Nonprofit Needs a Blog and How to...4Good.org
Despite the popularity of social media including “micro-blogging” sites like Tumblr and twitter, traditional blogging is still one of the most important tools in your digital marketing arsenal.
Larger nonprofits have been early adopters of blogging, seeing the benefits in increased website traffic, email sign ups and online donations. A consistent, quality blog has been proven to have a direct benefit on marketing and fundraising efforts – so why do so many nonprofits ignore this powerful tool?
The question remains: How can smaller nonprofits get on board with blogging and create a dynamic outlet that grows their supporters and helps them accomplish their goals?
Why are some nonprofits successful at attracting funding while others struggle? How do funders differentiate between the myriad of nonprofits that want their money? How has the process of successfully approaching funders changed? This cutting edge webinar, based on the practical experience of hundreds of successful funding campaigns, examines the fundraising process from the other side of the desk, that of the funders, and illustrates the techniques that work in today’s economic environment, all designed to help you earn Asking Rights™.
Four Great Hormones to Stimulate Well-Being4Good.org
Recent neuroscience research has verified that the well-being that comes from meaningful conversations depends upon four hormones that we have the ability to either stimulate or depress in ourselves and in others. This Webinar will deal with the four and explain their role in personal and interpersonal well-being.
What do you do when someone signs up for your email list or donates to your organization? Do they have to wait until your next “monthly” newsletter to learn more about who you are and what you do? If so, you are missing out on a huge opportunity to engage, inspire and motivate your supporters to take action.
One of the best ways to engage with new subscribers (or new donors for that matter) is to create what is called a “Welcome Series” of emails. These emails are set to automatically be sent to the individual over the course of a few weeks – Day 1 they get an email, day 4 they get another email, day 8 they get yet another email, etc. These emails are designed to introduce yourself and your organization to the individual, as well as show them the impact your organization is having and why they should stay connected.
Sounds like a great idea and something all nonprofits should be doing right? The problem is that most nonprofits are not currently using a Welcome Series and are missing out on this powerful tool. If this includes your organization, then join us for this jam-packed webinar where we highlight a number of successful strategies and tactics you can start using immediately including:
- Why a Welcome Series is so powerful (Its all about the relationship)
- How to create an engaging and compelling Welcome Series
- How and why you should have multiple Welcome Series’ – subscribers, donors, attendees, etc.
- How a Welcome Series can increase your donor retention
On Today's Menu: Your Successful Grant Proposal4Good.org
How can you whip up a successful grant proposal? You’ll need just the right proportions of research, planning, drafting, and editing. And don’t forget to garnish with tasty feedback and a dash of good timing!
Foundations and corporate funders are always looking for ways to make good investments in your community. To partner with them, you have to show exactly how you can help make that happen!
Webinar participants will get a special discount on Dalya’s award-winning book, “Writing to Make a Difference: 25 Powerful Techniques to Boost Your Community Impact.”
Who should attend: This webinar is ideal for: nonprofit directors, staff, board, volunteers, and consultants who help raise money from foundations and corporations; jobseekers are also welcome.
Mission and Leadership: Work Motivation That Strikes a Chord4Good.org
Most organizations have a formalized mission statement. Too often it is merely posted on a wall in the conference room. Often, employees grow cynical and state that the organization’s mission statement is just that: an empty statement. However, other organizations follow a structured process that allows their managers to lead with integrity while using the core principles of mission-driven organizations.
In this extremely practical presentation, that Dr. Eyal Ronen has never shared in the past, he will describe the practical steps to creating a clear mission, vision, and values for the organization. He will also describe the 4 things every leader must do in order to be effective in accomplishing his or her, and the organization’s mission.
Affordable Special Events Data Tracking and Analysis4Good.org
Special events can be complex and in the process of planning a perfect event, details can be missed. Using data to track the ways in which people participated in the event can help you determine what worked, what didn't work and what people are responding to about your event.
Have You Been Sequestered?—Developing Diverse Sources of Revenue4Good.org
Many nonprofits are excessively dependent upon a single type of revenue. The classic example is the organization which is only funded through government contracts or grants. Others may be totally reliant upon one or two private foundations or local corporations. In this webinar, volunteer leaders, agency CEO's and chief development officers will learn the value of diversifying the sources of revenue so as to enhance financial sustainability.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
1. Sponsored by:
Simplified Data Mining for Direct
Mail
Sue and Ron Rescigno
May 28, 2013
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President & Vice President
Rescigno's Marketing Connections
Hosting:
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6. In this presentation we will answer…
What is data mining?
What data should I be gathering?
How can I use data for my fundraising campaigns?
How can looking at data save me money and
reduce my costs?
How can I maximize my fundraising budget by
making more money with less of a budget?
How can I give this data to a mail house that
understands what I mean?
7. Data Mining is the search for hidden information:
The locating of previously unknown
patterns and relationships within data
using a database application.
8. The real answer to that depends on how you want to target your message to your audience. But
here are a few that you absolutely should collect:
Name (first and last in separate fields)
Salutation (My name is Susan but most people call me Sue)
Age
Year of Graduation
Affiliation with your organization
Gift Amount
Date of last gift
Response code (what solicitation they responded to)
Programs or Services that they are interested in supporting
Birthday
ETC…
What information should you be gathering to improve
your fundraising campaigns?
9. Once you have collected the
information and put it into the system,
it can be used by segmenting your
data into groups and writing
specifically to each group member.
Here are some ideas of different
segments…
10. Ideas for Segmenting
Donor/Non Donor
Age
Gender
Friends
Current Parents/Parents of Alums
Lybunts/Sybunts/Event Attendees/New Members
Past Patients Community Members
11. Segment Options
•Major donor – this referenced their largest gift
from the past 5 years
“John, the Brothers always appreciate your
support. Among your gifts over the years was an
especially generous $1,500. Please know that
we are grateful for your support at whatever
level is comfortable for you. We would like to
ask, however, if you could consider renewing
your support at that significant level.”
12. Segment Options
LYBUNT – last year donor
“John, the Brother’s always
appreciate your support and thank you
for keeping up with us, most recently
with your contribution on March 5,
2011 of $100. We hope we can rely on
your continued support at this level.”
13. Segment Options
Event Attendee
“John, the Brothers always appreciate your
support and thank you for keeping up with us
through your attendance at alumni events over
the years. If now would be a good time for you to
invest $50 or $100 or more, you would be helping
us significantly as we strengthen our efforts to
invite young men to join us.”
14. Personalized Mail
Campaigns offer:
– Increase Response Rates
– Increased Average Gift
Rates
– Improves Campaign ROI
The average response rate
for a static direct mail piece
today is .5%, but when we
personalize that piece, the
response increases to 3% -
4%.
Why should you worry about collecting data and using it in
your direct mail campaigns?
Example:
2,500 x .5% = 2.5 responses
2,500 x 3% = 75 responses
5,000 x .5% = 25 responses
5,000 x 3% = 150 responses
10,000 x .5% = 50 responses
10,000 x 3% = 300 responses
15. “The Question should not be how many can
we mail within our budget. The question
should be how many do we have to mail in
order to achieve the desired results.
Personalizing your piece will get you higher
response rates. The desired result is always
a better response!”
- HP 2010
16. So how can we save money by looking at our data?
First look at how many you are mailing to and what your
response rate is
Should you be mailing to all of these people on your list?
When is the last time you heard from these people?
Are you writing to them about something they are interested in?
Are you writing to them just because this is the list you inherited and you
never really looked at it?
17. Data mining is the most cost
effective way to increase your
ROI for direct mail
$ $
$
$
18. Staying Cost Effective
If you are mailing to 12,000 people and getting basically
the same 1,300 donors to renew their gift every year,
then you have to ask yourself if that is cost-effective.
By taking a look at your donors, you can find the patterns
or similarities in them and find out what your average
donor looks like. For example:
Gender
Age
Income range
Geographic location
19. What’s NEXT?
You can then take that information and find those
that match that group in your non-donors. You could
cut your list in half or even more.
I am not saying don’t communicate with those other
but in a time when you have to watch your budget so
closely, maybe you shouldn’t be mailing to them as
much as the donors.
Keep them on newsletter lost and email list.
20. This is an example of a small non-profit, only
8 years old, that wanted to start a direct mail
program. Instead of mailing to everyone on
their list, they narrowed their list of 10,000
people to 1,202
Community College Foundation –
Current Client
Description Quantity
Mailed
Responses Average
Gift
Total
Dollars
Raised
Response
Rate
ROI
Holiday
Appeal
1202 81 $135.21 $10,707 6.7% 331%
21. Description Quantity
Mailed
Responses Average Gift Total Dollars
Raised
Response
Rate
ROI
Holiday Appeal 1202 81 $135.21 $10,707 6.7% 331%
So, let’s look at this and use these numbers to get a good picture of this
organization. This is the first time they have mailed a solicitation letter to
their constituents.
-They started with a small number of 1,202 prospects
-Their response rate was 6.7%, so they targeted the right list
-They raised $10,707 dollars
-They received a 331% return on their investment
(They invested about $3,000 into this project and raised over $10,000.)
-They also have 81 people who have given them a gift with the
majority being first time donors
22. Now what..?
Now that we’ve discussed what data mining
is, what kinds of information should be
gathered, how are other organizations using
their personalized data and how you can use
it to save money on your direct mail, we need
to talk about how you can collect the data
and present it to the mail house so mistakes
are not made.
23. Data – what to include
•Minimum fields:
•Name (full name or prefix first middle last suffix fields)
•Address
•City, State Zip
•Additionally:
•Company
•Title
•This is your ADDRESS BLOCK
24. Data – what to include
•Include additional fields used in the mailing
•ID
•Ask Amounts
•Last Gift
•Salutation
•Segment Version
•Include fields not needed in the mailing for internal use,
such as ID numbers or dates or last gift
25. Sample Data with Extra Fields
This is a sample of data with the mailing info, but
also fields needed to segment on our end and data
used by the client to pull their data.
26. How to add information to your
existing data
•Put reply codes on reply devices to track campaigns
•Personalize your reply cards and ask for updates (incl. ID
#’s to make data entry easier)
•Leave room for Cell #’s, Email, etc.
•Utilize data append services – can add age info, income,
ownership, etc.
27. Data – formats
•Best – Excel or Access table
•Also accepted – comma or tab separated
•Each field should be in its own column
28. Data – what NOT to do
•Do not include line breaks in data – example:
•7501 W 85th St
•Suite 110
•It should instead read: 7501 W 85th St Suite 110
•Do not include notes in the address fields
•Do not setup the list as “address labels” in word or excel
29. Data – what NOT to do
•Do not include multiple mailing addresses (like home and
work) in the same record. You should have TWO records
for this person
•We CAN fix data that is not in the right format, please
contact us BEFORE the job comes in.
30. Your data and you…
•Your donor database should be your institutional memory.
•it should make it easy for you to look up donors, view
giving histories, understand relationships and analyze
trends.
•It should help your fundraisers work more effectively.
•It should be an aid, NOT a chore!
31. Rescigno’s Data Consulting
•Rescigno’s Marketing Connections can help you with your
data.
•Available for consultation, database creation and
updates/pulling queries
•We can host your database and give you remote access to
it.
•We can append your data with more information.