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Recent donors are your best prospects. Jeff explains why holding back could hurt you.
...With your appeals, you no doubt work hard to paint word pictures that bring to life your...
Reminder: In our parlance, "ask dropping" means skillfully dropping asks in an appeal....
Did you ever have a homemade Halloween costume?
If you did, I bet you remember it well.
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Dropping things is bad, right?
Depends on what you're dropping.
Bad things to drop include:...
"Don't put that in there!"
This is how Julie replied to my beloved first idea for a...
I love a good cliffhanger – don't you?
Question: are you using cliffhangers in your...
You can find a lot of cool stuff tucked away in the nooks and crannies of a...
I received an important appeal-writing question from newsletter subscriber Miriam.
Miriam...
There's something so special about crayons. The distinct smell.... that waxy feel…...
Last summer, I was given a project to write a content piece. The wonderful nonprofit client...
Beginnings are so memorable.
You can probably remember a bunch of "firsts" clearly. Your...
