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Using Donor Data to Personalize Your Text Donation Appeals

Ann Green's Nonprofit

By Mike Snusz In order for your nonprofit to effectively reach supporters via a text donation campaign, you will need to simulate an authentic, one-on-one communication experience. The best way to personalize your messages and create highly tailored donation appeals is to leverage donor data. Do they give on a recurring basis ?

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How to Issue Donation Receipts for Different Types of Gifts

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Donation tax receipts allow you to confirm that youve processed and implemented a charitable contribution while expressing appreciation for donors gifts. While donation receipts must follow several standards, well provide tips for customizing your receipts to recognize different donor groups’ individual contributions.

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News to Use! What Fundraisers Can Expect from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Expiration

Gail Perry Group

Written by Gina Vaughn, Managing Consultant at Gail Perry Group. While the TCJA didnt change charitable giving deduction limits - you could still deduct up to 60% of your adjusted gross income for cash donations - it reduced most tax rates and doubled the standard deduction to $12,000 for individual filers and $24,000 for couples.

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American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused

The NonProfit Times

Money donated for Haiti earthquake relief went into a restricted account that could only be used for programs and services for Haiti. One of the named plaintiffs who donated an unspecified amount of money, Nathaniel Ballantyne, shares a last name with Renee A. Their hopes and struggles and agonies Get us grants and consulting fees.

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Learning from peers to refine your nonprofit funding strategy

Candid

These include categories like grants, donations from individuals, support from companies, and earned income from services or products. Research funding strategies Researching your peer organizations funding strategies involves checking out public financial sources and, ideally, talking directly with those peers to get more details.

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Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations?

Candid

As a fundraising professional and nonprofit consultant working on a doctorate degree in business, I was curious about just how much a mission statement matters when it comes to nonprofit fundraising. The post Does your nonprofit mission statement drive donations? It gets them excited about helping to achieve that mission.

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Top Fundraising Articles of 2024

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short, when you know the reasons people support your cause, you have an edge in asking for and getting donations. What Should You Say to Get People to Donate?: Thats how youll get people to donate. More donors means more donations, and that means more programming and the opportunity to change more lives.