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Added for You - Fundraiser Donations - How Much You Should Ask For?
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If however you’re mailing to an
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If you ask too much you may lose the potential donor.
If, on the other hand, you ask for too little, you may either end up losing money or end up with an amount that would not justify all that effort.
What payment options should you present to your potential donor?
For example, should your “price points” on your ORDER FORM be
$1, $5, $10, $___ OTHER or… $10, $50, $100, $___ OTHER ?
I’m faced with the same question myself every time I draft a fundraiser letter.
Here are two important variables to consider:
1) What is the overall socioeconomic profile of your mailing list?
If you’ve rented a list from a mail company, what is the average income data on the Data Card?
If you ask for an average $50 donation from a group that makes $20K a year (or $10 an hour), you may lose them right on the spot. Perhaps it’s better to ask for a one-hour’s wage ($10) instead of five from such a group.
If however you’re mailing to an $
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What payment options should you present to your potential donor?
For example, should your “price points” on your ORDER FORM be
$1, $5, $10, $___ OTHER or… $10, $50, $100, $___ OTHER ?
I’m faced with the same question myself every time I draft a fundraiser letter.
Here are two important variables to consider:
1) What is the overall socioeconomic profile of your mailing list?
If you’ve rented a list from a mail company, what is the average income data on the Data Card?
If you ask for an average $50 donation from a group that makes $20K a year (or $10 an hour), you may lose them right on the spot. Perhaps it’s better to ask for a one-hour’s wage ($10) instead of five from such a group.
If however you’re mailing to an
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$1, $5, $10, $___ OTHER or… $10, $50, $100, $___ OTHER ?
I’m faced with the same question myself every time I draft a fundraiser letter.
Here are two important variables to consider:
1) What is the overall socioeconomic profile of your mailing list?
If you’ve rented a list from a mail company, what is the average income data on the Data Card?
If you ask for an average $50 donation from a group that makes $20K a year (or $10 an hour), you may lose them right on the spot. Perhaps it’s better to ask for a one-hour’s wage ($10) instead of five from such a group.
If however you’re mailing to an
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If you’ve rented a list from a mail company, what is the average income data on the Data Card?
If you ask for an average $50 donation from a group that makes $20K a year (or $10 an hour), you may lose them right on the spot. Perhaps it’s better to ask for a one-hour’s wage ($10) instead of five from such a group.
If however you’re mailing to an
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If however you’re mailing to an $100K a year income group, that translates to $50 an hour. Such folks might not mind donating one hour’s worth of wages for a worthy cause.
2) What is your per-piece cost and response rate?
Here I’m going to make 2 assumptions: a) Your response rate is 2%, which is the generally accepted rate in the industry. b) Your cost per envelope is 50 cents, without any Business Reply Mail (which would add another 40 cents per returned piece.)
If, let’s say, you are planning to mail 1,000 pieces, your cost would be $500.
At 2% return rate, you’ll get back 20 donations. That means your average donation has to be $25 to break even.
To make more, you either have to increase your response rate or the suggested average donation.
Probably there is more you can do to increase the response rate than to decrease your basic per-letter cost and
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