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  • How to organize and run a fundraising dinner
  • How to organize and run a fundraising gala
  • 101 products to sell at your next fundraiser
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  • Where to look for grants
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How to Discover How Many Donors You Need to Reach Your Annual Revenue Goal

By Alan Sharpe, CFREDoes your charity need to double or triple or quadruple its income over the next five or ten years? Are you trying to figure out how to do that? Follow these simple steps to discover how many donors you’ll likely need to reach your goal. [Read more...]

Major Gift Fundraising and Prospect Research: How to Find Major Donors in Your Donor Database

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE
The best person to approach for a major gift is someone who already supports your charity. Sometimes those donors are hidden in plain sight in your donor database. Here’s how to find them. [Read more...]

Eight Direct Mail Fundraising List Segmentation Tips

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE
1. Make a distinction between individuals, foundations and businesses
Do not mail one appeal letter to everyone without distinction. Instead, segment your database into individuals, foundations and businesses, and speak to each audience in a unique way.

[Read more...]

Four Common Database Mistakes that Will Derail Your Direct Mail Fundraising Campaigns

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE
I dislike being called Allan, Allen, Mr. Sharp and Mrs. Smith. If you want to please me as a donor, start by getting my name right and follow up by getting my address correct. To do that, avoid these four common mistakes found in most donor databases. [Read more...]

Six Easy Ways to Warm Up a Fundraising Letter Appeal

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE
Which would you read first (and right to the end): a typed, generic fundraising letter from the Red Cross or a hand-written letter from your grandma Hostetler in Muleshoe, TX? I’d choose the personal letter over the impersonal every time. And so would your donors. [Read more...]

Dear Alan, What is “list cleansing” in direct mail fundraising?

List cleansing is the process of keeping a mailing list accurate and up to date. The process involves, among other things, removing duplicate records, formatting addresses to postal standards, and updating addresses of those who move.

See more definitions at the Glossary of Direct Mail Fundraising

Is Your Returned Mail Costing You $481 a Piece?

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE
You have a costly problem with returned mail. All non-profit organizations do. You mail perfectly nice letters to donors who have supported your cause for years, and then, one day, without so much as a by-your-leave their mail comes back to you marked RETURN TO SENDER. [Read more...]

How to Help Your Lettershop Bungle Your Fundraising Campaign

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE
I know from reliable sources that the Mr. Murphy who coined Murphy’s Law (“If something can go wrong, it will”) worked as an account manager at a lettershop. After leaving his position of direct mail fundraising manager at a national charity. After all, in what other line of work, other than, say, launching a space shuttle, could you meddle with so many small details to sabotage your mailing? Murphy knew every way to mess up a direct mail appeal, but he had his favourites. Here they are. [Read more...]

Reduce Undeliverable Fundraising Appeals by Acquiring Phone Numbers and Email Addresses Before Donors Move

By Alan Sharpe, CFRE
Stephen Hitchcock makes a wise recommendation on how to keep your mailing list clean. In his article, Keeping Your Donor File Clean,  in Contributions Magazine, Stephen recommends the following step:  [Read more...]

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