Raising Funds For Your Nonprofit Using An Annual Direct Mail ProgramWritten by Berwyn J. Kemp
A good annual direct mail solicitation program can produce unrestrictive operating funds for your nonprofit organization year after year. And such an annual direct mail program, if done right, should produce more funding for your organization each year.There are very few nonprofit organizations that couldn't benefit from an effective, and ongoing direct mail solicitation program. If you're currently using annual direct mail solicitations and would like to use it more effectively, or if you're not using this form of fundraising but would like to set up such a program. Then here are some steps to help you do this much more successfully: 1. Expand your mailing list or build one if you're just starting your direct mail program. To do this ask yourself: Who are most likely people to support your organizations financially? If you are already using direct mail answer to this questions should be obvious to you, in which case you need to find more of these kinds of people. Some of many ways to do this are using compiled lists, rented or leased lists of people who support similar causes and etc. If you aren't using direct mail now then start with users of your services and/or friends and family members of users of your services, then explore complied, and rented or leased lists next. 2. Prepare a powerful direct mail package to solicit your list, which will include an appeal letter, and response form, a reply envelop, and of course an outer envelop to mail your package in that has full legal name of your organization on it. Too in preparing your appeal letter by sure to make them emotional, interesting, and personal, and keep focus of this letter on how those you serve will benefits from gift as well as how donor will benefit also. And always ask for their gift.
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Also called reorganization bankruptcy, Chapter 13 allows debtors to keep most of their assets and make arrangements to repay debts, sometimes for less than what is still owed. You and your lawyer list your income, expenses, assets, and debts. Your Bankruptcy lawyer will then file forms plus a proposed repayment plan describing how you intend to repay your debts over next 3-5 years.About a month after filing, you and your
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