Telephone fundraising

Breakthrough Breast Cancer: ‘touch look check’ campaign

The leaflet.

by SOFII

This campaign successfully united two aims: to increase knowledge of the warning signs of breast cancer and recruit a large number of regular givers.

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Telephone fundraising, part 3: designing and delivering a campaign

by Bethan Holloway

The third – and last for the time being – article on telephone fundraising from Bethan Holloway explains how to design and deliver a campaign.

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Tap-n-Give: modern technology for fundraising

Tap-n-Give is an innovative iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad application in which for a small donation, users receive customised images and wallpapers which they can show to family and friends.

by SOFII

This simple yet innovative exhibit shows how a new iPhone app is raising awareness and increasing donations. Will you try it out?

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Telephone fundraising, part 2: how to use the phone across different programmes

by Bethan Holloway

In the second part of her articles on telephone fundraising, Bethan Holloway gives an overview of fundraising campaigns that the telephone could massively improve.

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Wood Green Animal Shelters: urgent £3 food appeal

The picture of Honey used on the outer of the mail pack and one of the press advert variations speaks volumes to any animal lover.

by SOFII

Wood Green, The Animals Charity changed their fundraising strategy and are now achieving better ROIs on their cold recruitment campaigns than ever before.

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Telephone fundraising, part 1: why the phone is a great fundraising tool

by Bethan Holloway

In this first of three articles Bethan Holloway gives five reasons why the telephone is such a great fundraising tool whether your organisation is small or large.

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Send a Cow: thank-you drive

by SOFII

The team at Send a Cow are passionate about saying thank you to their supporters.

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Wood Green Animal Shelters: hungry mouths SMS Christmas campaign

by SOFII

The fundraising team at Wood Green Animal Shelters decided to be brave and try something new in their Christmas campaign – and it paid off. Their successful SMS campaign resulted in new donors and new gifts.

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Defenders of Wildlife: multi-channel direct marketing integration

by SOFII

With more nonprofits engaging in online marketing, those that are coordinating their messages or campaigns across many channels are standing out above the crowd.Defenders of Wildlife are leaders in the field and here we look at three of their campaigns to highlight some of the best multi-channel integrated marketing in the sector.

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African National Congress: the emergency pre-election fundraising, from 1992

by SOFII

The ANC campaign that pioneered professional political fundraising in the UK and offered the British public the chance to play an active role in getting rid of apartheid forever.The campaign raised £2 million in six months with no budget and just one paid member of staff.

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The Chilean Bible Society: mobile phone texting campaign

by SOFII

SOFII's first exhibit from Chile. This is a very clever use of text messaging with an intriguing involvement device built in, in the form of a Bible knowledge quiz. Each text generates a small donation and increases the sender's bible knowledge, which must suit the Chilean Bible Society very well.

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UNICEF India: the ‘tele-facing’ campaign

by SOFII

This novel approach to re-qualifying potential major donors sits between telephone and face-to-face fundraising. It is an example of how telephone fundraising and face-to-face fundraising are evolving and being adapted in India to take account of the country’s large population and distinctive business culture – with quite impressive results.

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