CDE project 11: communication with individual donors
Project 11 is made up of six different sub projects investigating how the donor experience can be enhanced via different channels commonly used in communicating with individual donors. These projects cover: • Mass media • Direct mail and other areas of direct marketing • Telephone fundraising • Digital fundraising • Community fundraising • Face to face fundraising.
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CDE project 11f face to face: section 3 - The Door Fundraising Rulebook

by The Commission on the Donor Experience
Rules and principles.
Read moreCDE project 11f face to face: section 4 - recruitment and training

by The Commission on the Donor Experience
Recruitment of your fundraisers and/ or your external specialist agency.
Read moreCDE project 11f face to face: section 5 - ongoing development

by The Commission on the Donor Experience
By investing more in staff over their initial induction period, you can keep more staff, and retain more of the supporters that they go on to recruit.
Read moreCDE project 11f face to face: section 6 - involvement devices and props

by The Commission on the Donor Experience
In 2004, Gift Fundraising took Personal Digital Assistants to the street for the first time! Gone were the paper mandate forms, (unless the server was down), and the novelty of the personal data system was unleashed upon the face to face world.
Read moreCDE project 11f face to face: section 7 - location and integration

by The Commission on the Donor Experience
Over the last 5 years, face to face fundraising has been moving to private sites. The danger here is that the annoyance of face to face is just moving location.
Read moreCDE project 11f face to face: section 8 - public relations

by The Commission on the Donor Experience
Celebrating face to face publicly and changing the perception of what a face to face fundraiser is should be looked at in earnest. Some members of the public simply find it an annoying interruption in their day-to-day lives.
Read moreCDE project 11f face to face: section 9 - auditing and compliance

by The Commission on the Donor Experience
Auditing the agencies that fundraise on your behalf is crucial to gaining a full understanding of whether they comply with your policies, and those of our regulators.
Read moreCDE project 11f face to face: putting the principles and actions into practice

by The Commission on the Donor Experience
- Welcoming the supporter and further communication.
- Upholding Good Practices
CDE project 11f face to face: appendices 1 and 2 - case studies and sources

by The Commission on the Donor Experience
Case studies and sources.
Read moreCDE project 11f face to face: appendix 3 - methodology

by The Commission on the Donor Experience
My approach to pulling this paper together was to firstly reach in to the depths of my own experiences over the past 16 years.
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