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		<title>The DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards &#124; Are you in?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has your organization created an innovative, inspiring video this past year? For six years, the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards has been shining a spotlight on all the clever ways that nonprofits use video.  It’s a contest that’s all about moving the field of nonprofit video forward and encouraging cause-video creators to try new approaches that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/2197/the-dogooder-nonprofit-video-awards-are-you-in/</link>
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		<title>Ways to engage &#124; Send a Valentine to a sick child</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Children’s National Medical Center has developed a fun, donor-centric approach to engage potential new donors via their “Send Your Valentine to a Child in the Hospital” campaign. With a few clicks, you can send a Valentine’s card that will be printed out and given to a child in the hospital. Children’s National Medical Center is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/2166/ways-to-engage-send-a-valentine-to-a-sick-child/</link>
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		<title>6 ways to make your donors as happy as a dog with two tails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Valentine&#8217;s Day is coming up.  What better time to shower your donors with love? Over the past two years we&#8217;ve featured a number of ways for you to ramp up your organization&#8217;s stewardship program.  Here are six, in no particular order: 1.  Does your organization’s stewardship system need a tune-up?  Or perhaps you’re creating one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/2159/6-ways-to-make-your-donors-as-happy-as-a-dog-with-two-tails/</link>
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		<title>I support Planned Parenthood &#8211; do you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Related Posts:Ways to engage &#124; Send a Valentine to a sick childThe DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards &#124; Are you in?End-of-year appeals are out &#8211; it’s time to redo your thank you letters!6 ways to make your donors as happy as a dog with two tailsThe dirty little secret about donor retention “they” don’t tell you]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/2156/i-support-planned-parenthood-do-you/</link>
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		<title>The dirty little secret about donor retention “they” don’t tell you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We talk a lot in this industry about donor retention. All kinds of “Phantom Donor” testing occurs, such as Mal Warwick’s practice of sending a round of checks to twenty organizations to study the (usually unimpressive) returns. Articles turn up regularly on penning the perfect thank you letter, and whether a thank you letter should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/2150/the-dirty-little-secret-about-donor-retention-%e2%80%9cthey%e2%80%9d-don%e2%80%99t-tell-you/</link>
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		<title>Consistency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Awhile back I was having a conversation with Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising. Do you know Mazarine? She is one awesome woman, smart, savvy and loaded with energy and good will. Anyway she said to me “Pam, I just love your consistency!” She was talking about my weekly enews, The Grow Report, which goes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/2086/consistency/</link>
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		<title>More email marketing take-aways from Al Franken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Al Franken&#8217;s latest email, a holiday greeting from his family to you, has even more take-aways for the nonprofit marketer. How can you make your supporters feel a part of your organization&#8217;s &#8220;family?&#8221; Write in an open, personable style.  No jargon allowed. Share photographs. Use humor but keep it gentle. Creative use of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/2071/more-email-marketing-take-aways-from-al-franken/</link>
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		<title>Al Franken is scathingly brilliant!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re a nonprofit fundraiser, right?  That&#8217;s why you&#8217;re here, am I correct? Take a look at the latest email to land in my inbox from Al Franken (click to read): Takeaways? A fun, breezy subject header.  One that makes you curious to open. It&#8217;s personalized A you-centered story, one that everyone can relate to A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/2058/al-franken-is-scathingly-brilliant/</link>
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		<title>WOW your donors on autopilot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When this email from Cafe Press, wishing me a happy anniversary from the date of my first purchase with them, arrived in my inbox I thought &#8220;how easy would this be for nonprofit organizations to emulate?&#8221; Sure, if you&#8217;re the Lone Development Director, chances are you&#8217;re too busy to remember your own family&#8217;s anniversaries, let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/2037/wow-your-donors-on-autopilot/</link>
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		<title>End-of-year appeals are out &#8211; it’s time to redo your thank you letters!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s before and after example comes to us courtesy of Erin Tierney, Development &#38; Outreach Specialist for the amazing organization Explorations in Math, located in Seattle, Washington. Erin writes that after downloading a copy of the free eBook, Lifetime Donor Attraction System she was compelled to recreate her organization’s already “not bad” thank you letter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/2007/end-of-year-appeals-are-out-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-redo-your-thank-you-letters/</link>
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		<title>Listen, don’t ask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What’s the real secret to fundaising success? Last Friday #smNPchat featured guest expert Gail Perry to dish on major gifts in the small shop.  If you’re unfamiliar with Twitter chats or the #smNPchat, you can find out more here.  #smNPchat happens every other Friday and is hosted by yours truly, Marc Pitman and Amy Sept.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/1958/listen-don%e2%80%99t-ask/</link>
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		<title>November&#8217;s Nonprofit Blog Carnival &#124; The quintessential guide to giving thanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Nonprofit Blog Carnival round-up for November! This month we asked bloggers to offer up knock-your-socks-off ideas that they’ve used to thank donors.  The entries poured in &#8211; and why not?! As UK fundraiser Mark Philips noted in Five things we learned at the IFC, “Calling a donor to thank them (whether you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/1920/novembers-nonprofit-blog-carnival-the-quintessential-guide-to-giving-thanks/</link>
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		<title>Time management for the one-person nonprofit fundraising office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re a one-person development and communications department in a busy nonprofit organization, you how challenging it can be.  Your job title consists of: Individual giving manager Event planner Grant writer Database manager Director of stewardship Public relations director Social media manager Webmaster and more How do you keep it all together&#8230;or do you?  Studies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/1900/time-management-for-the-one-person-nonprofit-fundraising-office/</link>
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		<title>Are you making this mistake in your grant proposals?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s your biggest grantwriting fear? Awhile back I did a poll of my readers on the biggest fears grantwriters face in writing a grant proposal. Not surprisingly approaching new foundations, fear of rejection and facing a blank page were near the top of the list. After all, who hasn’t suffered writers’ block at one time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/1812/are-you-making-this-mistake-in-your-grant-proposals/</link>
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		<title>Blackbaud’s report and the future of fundraising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Can it be true?  Blackbaud’s recently released report, Growing Philanthropy in the United States,  notes that philanthropic giving stands at a paltry 2% of the average disposable income &#8211; a 40 year average. Yikes! How can nonprofit fundraisers increase giving to keep up with the pace of society&#8217;s increased demand? Blackbaud brought together a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/1788/blackbaud%e2%80%99s-report-and-the-future-of-fundraising/</link>
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		<title>In the words of Charlie Brown &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you in the midst of drafting your organization&#8217;s year-end appeal? I’m working on a number of  appeals right now &#8211; and, as you might imagine, my mailbox is filling up with year-end appeals as well.  Without fail every single letter (and one brochure) has made me throw up my hands and yell Why?  They’re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/1774/in-the-words-of-charlie-brown/</link>
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		<title>November’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival &#124; How are you giving Thanks?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ll be hosting November’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival and what better topic, as Thanksgiving approaches, than giving thanks? According to the author of Donor-Centered Fundraising, Penelope Burk, “90% of donors who start contributing to a particular cause stop giving by the fifth renewal request.” And fundraising expert Adrian Sargeant has noted that “Eight of 10 first-time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/1764/november%e2%80%99s-nonprofit-blog-carnival-how-are-you-giving-thanks/</link>
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		<title>A personalised video thank you that you can emulate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What can you take-away from this beautiful video thank you from CharityWater to one very special six-year old who gave up her birthday so that others could have clean drinking water? Related Posts:Being donor centric with social media [video]The DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards &#124; Are you in?The story of a small nonprofit and the power [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/1759/a-personalised-video-thank-you-that-you-can-emulate/</link>
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		<title>How does one donation stand out from thousands?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the gifts poured in following a membership appeal I created a few years back to approximately 70,000 individuals, one donation in particular stood out.  It was a check written out for $137.33 from a local business owner.  We had experimented with including the local businesses in our mailing for the first time. We ran [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/1750/how-does-one-donation-stand-out-from-thousands/</link>
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		<title>The cure for your organization&#8217;s paralysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early this morning as I was finishing up a 5K run on the nature trail near my home I couldn’t help but feel a sense of accomplishment, along with a wee bit of wonder. You see, about six years ago I woke up one morning and couldn’t walk. The pain was debilitating and I recall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelagrow.com/1736/the-cure-for-your-organizations-paralysis/</link>
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