Make Your Own Christmas Gifts

Creating Christmas gifts by hand is always a winning gift idea for anyone you may be close to. These are especially loved by parents and grandparents, because they appreciate and understand the time, attention, and love that went in to making the gift.
Here are a couple of easy things you can hand make and give [...]

Advice for Reply Slip Amounts

Advice for Reply Slip Amounts
Fundraising Lesson: The Reply Slip
Quoting from Fundraising for Social Change chapter on direct mail (by Kim Klein):
“People will read the suggested amounts until they find a number they are comfortable with, but all else being equal, people will generally choose the second option in a line of numbers. So [...]

Treat Your Donors Well

Jeff Brooks, Donor Power Blog, highlights a handful of facts about people who donate to at least one charity a year, citing a University of Chicago study that has been done every other year or so since the 1970s. His point (and theme of his blog) is appreciate your donors.
Treating your donors well is good [...]