The South Street Gang Goes Downhill--Fast

Anxious to hear all the other ideas and comments! This may be related to new donors gravitating toward more local organizations where they feel their dollars will have the greatest impact.

Obviously a new donor acquisition approach is needed for many organizations, but I would hate to see this news cause some nonprofits stop their direct mail fundraising efforts. To me that is ages ago, and affects United Way, not individual charities. But I realized 1 of course it affects individual charities who depend on United Way; and 2 our donor market expects higher ethics of non-profits and has a very long memory.

Your point is well taken. This bias is called. People act in order to gain a positive outcome or to avoid a negative one.

The most powerful outcomes in motivating or altering our behaviour are those who are immediate and certain. While major donors share most of the motivations of individual donors e.

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The effectiveness of these principles is based on human psychology rather than specific channel characteristics. I can only answer for the effectiveness of fundraising messages that use behavioural science. Some cultures may be more or less susceptible to a certain bias. Hence, if that bias is used in a fundraising message it will be more or less effective for that population.

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Ideas , applications , tools , processes , and case studies of break-through solutions in fundraising , including:. No one has totally dodged the decline: January 12, at January 12, at 3: January 12, at 4: January 13, at 7: Ask A Behavioral Scientist. I can think of the following principles that could be applied: Are there testing or white papers that confirm the need to make a specific ask in a fundraising appeal? I assume you refer to the mention of a specific gift amount.

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