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Increasing gifts through personalized communications
After reviewing past appeals and conducting extensive interviews with key Diocesan staff, we identified several opportunities for appeal improvement. Instead of only sending communications during appeals and using impersonal messaging, our campaign would create a deeper relationship with parishioners by providing additional stewardship communications and personalized messaging.
ANNUAL APPEAL CAMPAIGN
Our fundraising program strategy added stewardship communications that showed parishioners the impact of past gifts. We then used a segmentation strategy to personalize the appeal, which doubled its response rate, increased the average gift by 9% and brought in gifts from lapsed donors.
- Fundraising Program Strategy
- Data Strategy
- Appeal Letter & Brochure
- Direct Mail Marketing & Fundraising
- Custom Landing Page
- Content Seeding
- Social Media Marketing
- Spanish Language Versioning
At the same time we were deploying stewardship messaging to parishioners on Diocesan social channels, we were also using content-seeding best practices. These helped us explore the most effective social platforms and messaging to activate donors. Using what we learned, we executed a targeted social media campaign in tandem with our direct mail appeal tactics. These social media messages drove parishioners to a custom landing page where they could donate to the annual appeal. This social effort alone brought in nearly half the entire previous year’s donations in just five weeks.
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Despite economic downturn in the area, our two-pronged approach to the Diocese’s appeal doubled their response rate and increased the average gift value by 9%. By deepening The Diocese of Cheyenne’s connection with its parishioners, we were also able to help the Diocese increase its gifts. The campaign doubled the appeal’s response rate, increased the average gift by 9%, brought in gifts from lapsed donors and generated a 20% year-over-year increase for the appeal.