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The importance of expressing impact and gratitude in fundraising

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Do thank-you calls increase charitable giving? Available at SSRN: [link] [8] [link] (“‘Over 70% of people that we recruit into organizations never come back and make another gift, so we’re caught on this treadmill where we have to spend lots of money on acquisition which most nonprofits lose money on anyway, just to stand still.’

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Dr. James explains why sustainable giving starts by answering, “Do we have a shared future?”

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Professor Adrian Sargeant explains, “It typically costs nonprofits two to three times as much to recruit a donor than they will give by way of a first donation.”[10] Donor retention: What do we know and what can we do about it? Charitable contributions in an ideal estate tax. (Nature says, “Strangers make bad partners.”)