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Awareness Versus Impact: Which Do Donors Choose?

Does raising awareness sell? That is, do people want to donate money to raise awareness about an issue or organization? Or do they want to fund efforts to remediate wrongs directly? Robert Smith and Norbert Schwarz wanted to find out. Actually, being good scientists, they wanted to analyze donor’s metacognition about awareness activities vis-à-vis whether […]

Learn More August 15, 2018

EMAIL: The King of the Digital Hill

Email – not Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media platforms—remains King of the Hill when it comes to driving online advocacy action and contributions. That’s the key nugget delivered to nonprofit news and public media organizations by Jesse Littlewood, a campaigner and digital strategist who’s helped build Common Cause’s impressive digital advocacy and fundraising […]

Learn More August 14, 2018

Native Advertising: Can It Be More Than Clickbait?

As our donor pools shrink from overfishing, it’s important for us to bring new people to giving and philanthropy. To date our business models are built on a cornerstone of getting people who give to care about our organization. But, to insure a brighter future we need to look beyond this and motivate folks who […]

Learn More August 13, 2018

The Definition of Fundraising Success

We’ve talked about a few different definitions this week, and about what is and isn’t important. Now I’ll pose a question to which I have a possible answer, but I look to you to give alternate definitions. What is fundraising success? I’m thinking there are two components: Your organization’s doors stay open and you progress […]

Learn More August 10, 2018

Knew or should have known

“What about our telemarketing program?” We know donors who give you their preferences are worth more. And we know asking for preferences makes people more likely to opt in. But this was the big fear from a person who runs their nonprofit’s telemarketing program: if we allow people to opt out of using the phone, […]

Learn More August 9, 2018

Satisfaction vs. Effectiveness

At DonorVoice, we are constantly monitoring the satisfaction of donors. Was it easy to donate online? How was your experience with that canvasser? How satisfied were you with that event? It may surprise you, then, to hear me say that you can have donors who are satisfied by an experience and it doesn’t matter at […]

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