
EP 74: Steal this Stewardship Plan + Free template for Busy Leaders!
08/02/23 • 9 min
Keeping supporters informed and engaged is critical for donor retention!
Donor stewardship is the key to building lasting relationships with your supporters and growing your nonprofit. Successful stewardship needs coordinated, authentic activities that keep pace with each stage of the donor journey, from thank-you notes to phone calls and more.
Keeping track of all these tasks and making sure they are done on time and by the right person can start to feel like a full-time job. That’s where a Stewardship Plan comes in handy!
Join Cara for a short, sharp session setting out a Stewardship Plan that will assist with outlining your stewardship strategy, goals, timeline, and responsibilities; plus, help you organize your efforts and measure your results.
To get started, download your free Stewardship Plan Template here:
✅Sample Stewardship Plan - Donorbox Library.
If we’ve piqued your interest, here’s a webinar link that will add to your stewardship skills:
✅Donor Retention + Acknowledgements Webinar
You can also find more resources, checklists, and playlists on the Donorbox Library page to help you with every step of your stewardship planning.
Plus our excellent Nonprofit Blog has a comprehensive guide to set you up for stewarding success:
✅Donor Stewardship: Motivate Donors to Stay & Support:
https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/donor-stewardship
✅8 Donor Metrics to Improve Donor Stewardship & Fundraising:
https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/donor-metrics
Learn more about maximizing your organization’s fundraising and reaching your mission goals with the right tools with Donorbox. Get connected with Donorbox Academy monthly Premium workshops -- email [email protected]g
The Nonprofit Podcast is available every Thursday on all your favorite podcast platforms, so follow, rate, and download so you never miss an episode:
🎙️ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-important-podcast/id1483848924
🎙️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2fj1bk0PHws7kn6CMwzhLQ
🎙️ Buzzsprout: https://thenonprofitpodcast.buzzsprout.com
🎙️ Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3oppTeO
Find out more at: https://donorbox.org/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=70
Keeping supporters informed and engaged is critical for donor retention!
Donor stewardship is the key to building lasting relationships with your supporters and growing your nonprofit. Successful stewardship needs coordinated, authentic activities that keep pace with each stage of the donor journey, from thank-you notes to phone calls and more.
Keeping track of all these tasks and making sure they are done on time and by the right person can start to feel like a full-time job. That’s where a Stewardship Plan comes in handy!
Join Cara for a short, sharp session setting out a Stewardship Plan that will assist with outlining your stewardship strategy, goals, timeline, and responsibilities; plus, help you organize your efforts and measure your results.
To get started, download your free Stewardship Plan Template here:
✅Sample Stewardship Plan - Donorbox Library.
If we’ve piqued your interest, here’s a webinar link that will add to your stewardship skills:
✅Donor Retention + Acknowledgements Webinar
You can also find more resources, checklists, and playlists on the Donorbox Library page to help you with every step of your stewardship planning.
Plus our excellent Nonprofit Blog has a comprehensive guide to set you up for stewarding success:
✅Donor Stewardship: Motivate Donors to Stay & Support:
https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/donor-stewardship
✅8 Donor Metrics to Improve Donor Stewardship & Fundraising:
https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/donor-metrics
Learn more about maximizing your organization’s fundraising and reaching your mission goals with the right tools with Donorbox. Get connected with Donorbox Academy monthly Premium workshops -- email [email protected]g
The Nonprofit Podcast is available every Thursday on all your favorite podcast platforms, so follow, rate, and download so you never miss an episode:
🎙️ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-important-podcast/id1483848924
🎙️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2fj1bk0PHws7kn6CMwzhLQ
🎙️ Buzzsprout: https://thenonprofitpodcast.buzzsprout.com
🎙️ Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3oppTeO
Find out more at: https://donorbox.org/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=70
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Ep 73: Influencers: Igniting Nonprofit Impact with Nick Lynch
True influence is about leveraging authenticity.
No one knows this better than Nick Lynch, co-founder, and CEO of Collidescope.io, a social media measurement and data analytics platform that helps nonprofits, influencers, and organizations to collaborate and measure their impact on social causes.
Join Nick and Cara for 20-minute dive into the power of social media influencers to drive and amplify awareness of the social impact nonprofit organizations are making. On a mission to bring transparency and accountability to the social good sector, Nick and Collidescope.io achieve this by matching nonprofits with established influencers who share their values and causes.
From building targeted social media campaigns to providing measurement, analysis, and reporting tools that show the results of their collaborations, Nick unpacks how influencer marketing is a key part of successful social media marketing.
- To learn more about working with Nick, visit https://collidescope.io/
- Join the ultimate online course for learning how to use influencers to scale impact, and find more resources here: https://collidescope.io/resources/
The Nonprofit Blog is a great source of information to establish a stellar social media strategy, including these 2 guides to get you started:
📑 How to Turn Social Media Followers Into Donors
https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/how-to-turn-social-media-followers-into-donors
📑How These Nonprofits Gained Donors Through Social Media
https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/how-to-turn-social-media-followers-into-donors
Learn more about maximizing your organization’s fundraising and reaching your mission goals with the right tools with Donorbox. Get connected with Donorbox Academy monthly Premium workshops -- email [email protected]g
The Nonprofit Podcast is available every Thursday on all your favorite podcast platforms, so follow, rate, and download so you never miss an episode:
🎙️ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-important-podcast/id1483848924
🎙️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2fj1bk0PHws7kn6CMwzhLQ
🎙️ Buzzsprout: https://thenonprofitpodcast.buzzsprout.com
🎙️ Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3oppTeO
Find out more at: https://donorbox.org/
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Ep 75:6 Steps to Raise Awareness with Zach Thanasilangkul
Does your nonprofit marketing feel like a guessing game?
If you are a nonprofit startup this is an absolute must-listen! Jena and Zach Thanasilangkul, communications coach and founder of Mission Driven Impact, tackle six practical questions nonprofits need to answer to clarify their message, define their donor journey, and attract an engaged audience.
Mission Driven Impact helps nonprofits refine their message to get the word out online to raise awareness of their mission and ensure they make the impact they were called to make. Using a 6-step framework Zach talks us through vital, practical questions nonprofits need to answer to reach the right person, at the right time, with the right message to build and grow an engaged audience.
Don’t miss the opportunity to develop a simple, sustainable, scalable marketing plan that raises awareness, and inspires action.
✅ You can find out more about Zach and Mission Driven Impact here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachthanasilangkul/
Or here:
✅ http://www.missiondrivenimpact.com/
Plus our excellent Nonprofit Blog has a comprehensive guide to set you up to move your mission from idea to impact:
✅ Nonprofit Marketing Plan and Content Plan – A Comprehensive Guide:
https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/nonprofit-marketing-plan-and-content-plan
✅ 9 Must-Have Nonprofit Marketing Materials for 2023:
https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/nonprofit-marketing-materials
Learn more about maximizing your organization’s fundraising and reaching your mission goals with the right tools with Donorbox. Get connected with Donorbox Academy monthly Premium workshops -- email [email protected]g
The Nonprofit Podcast is available every Thursday on all your favorite podcast platforms, so follow, rate, and download so you never miss an episode:
🎙️ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-important-podcast/id1483848924
🎙️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2fj1bk0PHws7kn6CMwzhLQ
🎙️ Buzzsprout: https://thenonprofitpodcast.buzzsprout.com
🎙️ Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3oppTeO
Find out more at: https://donorbox.org/
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