Multi-channel Fundraising, and maximizing donor engagement

1. Multi-channel Fundraising, and maximizing donor engagement

2. Who Am I? Mike Johnston Founder, hjc, Integrated Fundraising Specialist, Aerobics Instructor, Game Player, and Sports Fanatic

3. Take our online, integration survey at the end of the session! • At the end of the session, we’ll ask you to go online and fill out our integration survey. We’ll select 1 WINNER to receive complimentary 1-hour multi-channel, best practice, consulting session • http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5RNDHZ2 • We’ll pick the winner from those who complete the survey!

4. Examples without a theory or a hypothesis is like… “Best practice fundraising creates results (statistics) that prove that fundraising integration of more channels and more areas of fundraising and non-fundraising – is indeed, best practice.”

5. The NeedWhat is driving changes in how we fundraise? • The ValueWhat’s the value of being integrated? • Self-AssessmentWhere are you as an organization? • SolutionHow do you align culture, staff, and technology? • Evidence – Put It All TogetherWhat does best practice integration look like?

6. The Need • Nonprofit offline donors are aging around the world • Donor files and acquisition list sources are shrinking • Revenues are flat and–in many cases–are falling • Fundraising costs are increasing/ fundraising margins are shrinking Nonprofits need (younger) more valuable donors in many parts of the world

7. The Value

8. The Value: Qualitative • Integrated Marketing Benefits • Deepens constituent loyalty and increases lifetime value • Strengthens the brand • Engage new audiences, grow revenue, and maybe even save money. • Audiences are becoming increasingly multi-channel – in every country - and greater data intelligence is required to raise more money.

9. Increasingly Multi-Channel Behavior % Who Agree, Appropriate Solicitation Channel Source: Next Generation of Canadian and American Giving

10. Best Practice • The Brady Campaign started with 38,000 email addresses • 16,000 were Brady members • 22,000 were non-donor activists

11. Rapidly Growing An Email File • Launched branded campaign and microsite NRAblacklist.com supported by a print ad campaign • The site had a visitor to “signer” conversion rate of 40% • Grew email list from 38,000 to 101,257 in under 3 months

12. Sustaining Engagement Started a new branded campaign: stoptheNRA.com Growth of NRAblacklist.com was followed by urgent federal legislative battles

13. Multi-Channel: Acquisition – Best Practice An online advocacy effort by the Brady Campaign grew their email file from 40K to140K. The vast majority were new prospects. Email Solicitation Phone Solicitation Direct Mail Solicitation 0.37%; $46 avg. gift 1.26%; $24 avg. gift 21%; $27 avg. gift

14. Best Practice Takeaways… • Don’t Wait! Integrate online non donors into online, direct mail, and telephone conversion as soon as you have enough for a good test. Remember: younger donors ACCEPT more channels for solicitation! • Flanker Brand Campaigns. Need constant campaigns (like NRAblacklist.com) to grow your online non donor list. • Petitions. Build campaigns around online petitions so that you get full address.

15. Best Practice: Integration Increases Multi-Channel Loyalty and Value Annual Donor Value1 Retention Rate2 $255.74 82.3% $191.35 70.1% 62.3% $102.64 • Sources: • total contributions over 12 month period, excluding $10k+ gifts for SPCA of Texas • Ibid. Comparison of retention rates for multi-year donors, SPCA of Texas

16. Multi-Channel Grows Revenue: Spanish Best Practice • Campaign subject: Safiya Hussaini • Condemned to brutal execution by neighbors • Campaign goals: Amnesty Spain wanted signatures and money to stop the execution (fixed date) • Strategy: Build an emotional/powerful campaign to save her • Integrate channels

17. TV Radio Call center amnistiaporsafiya.org Internet Press letters E-mail Face to Face World Class Best Practice: Integrated Marketing Strategy Letters to leaders News coverage Letters to leaders News Coverage Publicity News coverage Banners Publicity Email Marketing Letters to university students 17/19 Amnesty International Spain

18. Direct Mail • AI Spain sent a stone with a letter to the opinion leaders • This was distributed in the university 18/19 Amnesty International Spain

19. Online Marketing • Collected approximately 300,000 “warm” emails through viral marketing campaign • Sent out approximately 240,000 emails in a test: half text only email/half HTML email

20. Online Appeal Results • 1,022 monthly donors, giving an annualized income over 130,000 Euros • 688 single donors giving an average gift of 50 Euros • HTML had a 50% better response than the text only email

21. Continued Online Marketing • Well darn, that worked well! Let’s do it again! • Collected 220,000 more warm emails and sent out an HTML version of the same email from two month prior. The results: • 1,478 monthly donors, giving an annualized income over 160,000 Euros • 977 single donors giving an average gift of 44 Euros

22. Overall Results • Safiya was saved • 1,170,535 petitions were delivered to the Nigerian Embassy. • Spanish goverment communicated directly with Nigerian authorities on this case • AI Spain found 5,000 new members – both monthly and single gift donors through an integrated fundraising and marketing approach! • What could have been better or has changed since then? What channels? What areas of fundraising? 16/19 Amnesty International Spain

23. Self-Assessment to be Best Practice Where Are You in the Multi-Channel Evolution?

24. Where are You? Single Silos Integrated Coordinated • Online Marketing Makes Minimal Contribution • Calendar-Based Campaigning • Not Financially Committed to Second Channel • Separate Metrics & Team for Online Marketing • No Calendar / Campaign Coordination • Online Constitutes 5-25% Direct Response Revenue • Thematically Integrated • Coordinated Appeals • Integrated Calendar • Shared Metrics • More Stuff, More Channels • Unified Strategy & Full Integration Across Channel Managers • Measures Success Across Channels, Not By Channel • Seamlessly Integrates New Media • Shared success, budget and goals

25. Which Type of Organization Are You? Type A Type B Source: Mark Climie-Elliott, HJC Senior Consultant, “Turning Point” Webinar, April 15, 2010.

26. On A Scale of 1-5… • “1” = Type A, “5” = Type B • Where do you fall on the scale?

27. Multi-Channel Sophistication Not Correlated with Org Size (or country!)

28. “ANYTHING is possible, but NOT EVERYTHING is possible.” • Two factors that have the greatest impact on advancing integrated marketing & communications: • An organization’s / leadership’s commitment to the philosophy • Investing in the mechanics to make it happen • Absence of these becomes a real barrier to integration.

29. Solution • Getting people to change – to become best practice

30. Where to Begin? Release the Fear. • To create change – you need a process. • System • Input • Challenge • Three drivers of change for a more integrated organization: • People • Knowledge • Technology

31. Shared Reality • Your organization as it is today: • How you see it – your reality • How others see it – their reality • No right or wrong – simply respected observations • Collectively, this becomes your “shared” reality. Reality is something you rise above. Liza Minelli

32. Shared Future • Shift ahead & articulate a shared vision or desired state of what you want (or think) your fundraising will look like in 3-5 years • Can be applied to any time frame • Short-, Mid-, Long-Term

33. The Camembert All the rest: Online 1%; Legacy 2%; Major 3%; Corporate 4%; Government and Foundations 3%

34. The Camembert All the rest: Online 25%; Legacy 12%; Major 3%; Corporate 8%; Government and Foundation 3%

35. A Quick Exercise • Draw your fundraising pie charts: NOW 2021

36. Integration of all LEVELS of giving Legacies, Large Gifts and smaller gifts..

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39. Online • Focus Groups • Events • Telephone • Visits • Direct Mail • A ‘symphony’ of channels…

40. Face to Face, mail, phone, online • Dozens of legacies • Hundreds of individuals who WANT a visit! • Millions of dollars in potential gifts that were uncovered through an integrated fundraising approach

41. Integrated Survey: Best Practice • The cultivation survey: • Sent to 57,400 donors • 3 key segments: Monthly, Active & Lapsed • 5,530 responses (response rate of 11%) • Raised $17,574 – a bonus! • Reactivated 30 donors • Found 85 expectances and 292 legacy leads and 143 middle and major donor leads! • Key: shared budgeting!

42. The goals of the survey • Collect personal preferences of donors for targeted marketing appeals • Collect demographic data for marketing purposes – and connect it automatically to the database! • Build a deeper relationship with donors – give them a platform to be heard • Uncover leads for other forms of giving – including legacies, middle gifts, and major donor gifts proprietary and confidential

43. Facilitation Getting everyone on the same page

44. Integrated Planning: a full contact sport…

45. What does a face-to-face have to do to be successful? • You must bring senior management e.g. VP, CEO level staff into the planning of an online and integrated plan • You must have one person to manage facilitation • You must be able to facilitate a face-to-face session that brings diverse teams together to plan together • You must have the ability to forge agreement (budget, responsibilities, etc) on an integrated plan that includes many departments, many channels

46. What do you do before you meet? • Talk, and listen, to team members • Review the past, the current reality, and future plans • Analyze the data • Prepare for a face to face session that will push, pull, cajole, challenge and team build.

47. What do you do before you meet? • Talk, and listen, to team members • Review the past, the current reality, and future plans • Analyze the data • Prepare for a face to face session that will push, pull, cajole, challenge and team build.

48. The Balanced Scorecard The Dramatic Oversimplifcation of Integrated Fundraising, Marketing, Communications and Campaigning

49. proprietary and confidential

50. The Evidence Putting It All Together