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Making Fundraising and Donor Management Easy

Fundraising can be an exciting process. I’ve seen unimaginable amounts of money come in right before deadlines, which saved staff positions and helped to make incredible years. The celebration in those moments will be memories that I will never forget.

Unfortunately, the fine details of fundraising aren’t always so exciting. Reconnecting with people to remind them of pledged donations could be the equivalent to pulling teeth. Printing, stuffing, and mailing annual contribution statements is something many hope to pass off to interns or volunteers entirely. DonorSnap gets it and is here to help. Here is a glimpse at two important tools that will help you collect more donations and cut processing time down to practically zero.

Recurring Online Donations

  1. Build an online form integrated with your payment processor account, and give your supporters the ability to automate their giving.
  2. Schedule donations based on a time frame or without an end date entirely.
  3. Let the donor choose how to give by using either a credit/debit card or their bank account via ACH.

The tool is so easy to use that if you can use Microsoft Word or Google Docs, you can build a great looking online recurring donations form.

After you’ve created your recurring donation form, place a link to it on your website, in an email, or embed it right on your website. We take care of all the hosting details and send all of the donations scheduled through the form right into your database for review. All it takes is one form submission and your donors can be set up to continue their giving for a lifetime.

Email Contribution Statements

I can’t imagine the time and work it takes for a small nonprofit to process and mail out their end of the year contributions statements. It’s one thing when you have an entire development team taking on the challenge, but for some organizations, we’re talking days or weeks of nonstop administrative work. It is in these moments that you realize how wonderful technology and mail merge are. Now imagine incorporating email into that equation… you’ll probably feel the urge to give a sigh of relief. This is exactly what the email contribution statements can do for your organization.

DonorSnap has built this feature right into every database. No matter how many contacts you are tracking, you get to use email contribution statements. The same contribution statement generator that you have been using is what makes up the start of this tool.

Next, add in the ability to customize the email that your statements are attached to using merge fields from your database. This means you can personally address each person in your email. You can generate all of your statements and then email them with a single click. The savings in postage alone could be enough to pay for your DonorSnap subscription this year. If it costs $0.50 per letter (not including your time and paper cuts!) compared to the cost of an email (free!)… you can do the math.

If you’re not already using DonorSnap to manage all of your donors, members, and volunteers, feel free to check it out and see how it can save your organization time, money, and effort. Visit the getting started page to view one of our free overview webinars or to get signed up today.

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