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How Will You Welcome Your New Donors?

Ann Green's Nonprofit

A good CRM/database will help you avoid any missteps.* Another question to ask is whether your donors prefer print or electronic communication. Get together a group of board members, other volunteers, and staff to help you. If that’s not possible, create a thank you letter specifically for your new donors.

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Don’t Take a Vacation From Your Donor Communication

Ann Green's Nonprofit

Communicating by mail is more effective than electronic communication. Also, make sure your CRM/database is up to date. I don’t know how many people still do that, although I always enjoy receiving them. Postcards are a great way to connect with your donors. I know mail is expensive, but a postcard shouldn’t cost too much.

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Welcome Your New Donors With Open Arms

Ann Green's Nonprofit

A good CRM/database will help you avoid any missteps.* Another question to ask is whether your donors prefer print or electronic communication. Get together a group of board members, other volunteers, and staff to help you. If that’s not possible, create a thank you letter specifically for your new donors.

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

Get Fully Funded

Other office tools: Other office tools you can use to put forth a professional, established, organized image include Adobe Acrobat for editing PDFs, Docusign for signing agreements electronically, and CamScanner for all your scanning needs. But it also makes sense to start with a CRM tool right out of the gate.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

Read up on "ingestible" electronic pills, cloud storage price wars, how the Star Trek Tricorder has come to life, and more. Electronic Pills: Coming Soon to a Stomach Near You. The ingestible sends an electronic signal to a band aid-like patch on the patient’s skin recording that the patient took the pill.

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How to Streamline Your Grant Management Process with Technology

Blackbaud

Applicants will then be able to electronically submit those applications to your grantmaking organization—meaning no paper applications to sort through—and the information is integrated into your grant management CRM. Decision Making Now that requests have been submitted, it’s time for your team to evaluate and make a decision.

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Register Today for CiviCon 2012

Tech Soup

Electronic Frontier Foundation will be delivering the. switched to CiviCRM from other fundraising and CRM software products? this discount code when you. register : civisoup CiviCon brings together end-users, implementers, and evaluators to share their experiences. Kellie Brownell from the. share and learn fundraising best practices?