
At Charity Navigator we recognize that charities do need to ask for support and that many charities do so in a respectful way. But, there are still some that send too many appeals. So, we encourage donors to contact their favorite charities and share their preferences for receiving appeals. This can lead to a win-win situation in which the charity spends less on fundraising and the donor feels respected as evident by the following donor's comment:
"At the end of every year I sort out the many envelopes from organizations asking for money, and the ones that send the most spam usually don't get any of my dollars. I know that Americares uses their dollars pretty well, but I did complain about the number of pleas I received, and they not only cut them down to one or two a year, but I now am contacted by phone by one particular person in the organization once or twice a year. It makes gift giving much more personal, and I don't have to wade through their paperwork!"
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Good points here. Failing to interest a donor in your non-profit is one thing, turning off a potential donor who otherwise would have been supportive of you is really bad.
I'd love to see a definitive independent study of the usefulness of snail-mail appeals (by independent I mean dont by someone other than those companies who 'sell' their services in this area!!).
In todays internet age I would be surprised if there were many donors who wouldn't prefer to receive such mail by email, which in turn is far more cost effective and environmentally friendly to carry out.
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