Clément Martin

Who would want to be a lapsed donor?

by Clément Martin

A Catholic training institute in Paris gave a telephone fundraising agency the details of 212 supporters who had stopped engaging. Some had given once, some gave more than once. The most recent supporter had been silent for twelve months and the oldest hadn’t engaged for five years – until a fundraiser picked up the phone and called all of them again. This is what happened next…

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About the author

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Clément Martin (he/him) runs a French agency, Alliance Donateurs, that reactivates lapsed donors by telephone. Since 2023 his team has raised more than EUR€2.1 million for some thirty charities, on files that letters and emails no longer reached. 

He is writing a book on relationship fundraising by phone, The Telefundraising Bible. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.