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Fundraisers should— MOO, interrupting cow! 🐮

Learn when — and how — to strategically interrupt your fundraising stories for better results.

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Jeff Brooks: "Keep asking recent donors" (VIDEO)

Should you exclude donors who just gave from your next appeal? Jeff Brooks says absolutely not....

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How white space can help you frame your fundraising appeal...

With your appeals, you no doubt work hard to paint word pictures that bring to life your stor

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You should be an "ask dropper" ... (Part 2)

Reminder: In our parlance, "ask dropping" means skillfully dropping asks in an appeal. (Hesitat...

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"Homemade" fundraising as charming as Halloween costumes...

Did you ever have a homemade Halloween costume?

If you did, I bet you remember it well.

Homem...

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You should be an "ask dropper" ... (Part 1)

Dropping things is bad, right?

Depends on what you're dropping.

Bad things to drop include: c...

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You can't get donors to FEEL it if you don't feel it first...

"Don't put that in there!" 

This is how Julie replied to my beloved first idea for a subject l...

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Make your fundraising offer the cliffhanger...

I love a good cliffhanger – don't you?

Question: are you using cliffhangers in your fundraisin...

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Thank you for the "mental real estate"

You can find a lot of cool stuff tucked away in the nooks and crannies of a person's brain.

Fo...

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How to balance doom & gloom with happy & hopeful in your appeal...

I received an important appeal-writing question from newsletter subscriber Miriam.

Miriam writ...

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Non-obvious fundraising design tips...

There's something so special about crayons. The distinct smell.... that waxy feel… the memories...

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Writing a fundraising appeal? Do this first...

Last summer, I was given a project to write a content piece. The wonderful nonprofit client usu...

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