Here are some of the top ways for you to keep your donors engaged and continuing to support your scholarship and grant programs year over year 1️⃣ Send Donor Impact Reports This will help donors understand the difference their dollars make - think, number of scholarships awarded, schools attended, dollars disbursed, demographic information, and even further accolades these scholars have received after attending college. 2️⃣ Send Donor Thank You Notes This one seems almost too simple, but the impact that a thank you note from you or even better, one of your award recipients, makes on donors can be profound. 3️⃣ Produce Student Success Stories Taking the time to highlight a couple of students who have received awards can help donors visualize where their dollars are going by hearing directly from the scholars they are supporting. These stories can be as simple as a selfie video from a scholar with templated questions. No need to have a fancy video producer in order to make this work! One of our Account Managers, Audrey, gives more details on how these strategies can be impactful in retaining donors!
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Donor engagement is such an important part of your scholarship program's overall success. Check out Audrey's tips on strategies to retain donors!
Here are some of the top ways for you to keep your donors engaged and continuing to support your scholarship and grant programs year over year 1️⃣ Send Donor Impact Reports This will help donors understand the difference their dollars make - think, number of scholarships awarded, schools attended, dollars disbursed, demographic information, and even further accolades these scholars have received after attending college. 2️⃣ Send Donor Thank You Notes This one seems almost too simple, but the impact that a thank you note from you or even better, one of your award recipients, makes on donors can be profound. 3️⃣ Produce Student Success Stories Taking the time to highlight a couple of students who have received awards can help donors visualize where their dollars are going by hearing directly from the scholars they are supporting. These stories can be as simple as a selfie video from a scholar with templated questions. No need to have a fancy video producer in order to make this work! One of our Account Managers, Audrey, gives more details on how these strategies can be impactful in retaining donors!
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We get a lot of reports of unreasonable space limits in grant applications, but today’s call out goes to the only funder who’s been reported to us TWICE for this issue. (https://lnkd.in/epDJ4sD9) ArtsHERE, a program of National Endowment for the Arts, asks good, meaty questions like “Describe how your organization demonstrates a commitment to equity,” and gives instructions like, “Be as detailed as possible to demonstrate your organization’s authentic understanding.” And gives applicants 500 characters to answer them. For reference, this post is over 1,000 characters. Specific word counts and character counts force nonprofit staff to spend extra time rewriting their already-written descriptions to match every funder’s different requirements. And that’s assuming it’s even possible to answer the question in the space provided. Come on ArtsHERE! What do you think you can learn about an organization’s “authentic understanding” in one paragraph? Report your own unreasonable funders here! 📢 https://lnkd.in/gStX7dBd
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Here are four ways to foster relationships with current and prospective donors to increase long-term giving to your school. https://ow.ly/Vfjf50Q13P2
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This, a million times. Any funders reading this, you can help all the people and organisations you want to support so much just by removing character counts. Even changing character counts to word counts would help, as it’s much simpler. But best of all would be to follow the example of funders like The Foyle Foundation, who purposely do not have word limits for their sensible questions and simply ask applicants to keep answers relevant, clear and succinct. Over to you! 🙏 #Fundraising #Artsfunding #FixTheForm
We get a lot of reports of unreasonable space limits in grant applications, but today’s call out goes to the only funder who’s been reported to us TWICE for this issue. (https://lnkd.in/epDJ4sD9) ArtsHERE, a program of National Endowment for the Arts, asks good, meaty questions like “Describe how your organization demonstrates a commitment to equity,” and gives instructions like, “Be as detailed as possible to demonstrate your organization’s authentic understanding.” And gives applicants 500 characters to answer them. For reference, this post is over 1,000 characters. Specific word counts and character counts force nonprofit staff to spend extra time rewriting their already-written descriptions to match every funder’s different requirements. And that’s assuming it’s even possible to answer the question in the space provided. Come on ArtsHERE! What do you think you can learn about an organization’s “authentic understanding” in one paragraph? Report your own unreasonable funders here! 📢 https://lnkd.in/gStX7dBd
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2moGreat tips Audrey Anfang!