{magictabs}Getting Started::

Fundraising

• Basics of fundraising
  
• Basics of donor management
  
• Case Study: CrossTalk TV & Radio uses Basic to grow
  
• Thank before you bank: the importance of saying thank you
  
• The basics of FundRaiser Basic: thank you letters
  

Segmentation

• Segmenting your list of donors
  

Codes

• Choosing and using category codes
  
• Code maintenance: what's in a name
  

Targetting

• Why target mailings
  
• Using Basic to target mailings
  

Donor Solicitation

• Arm yourself with knowledge
  
• Getting over the fear of asking for money
  
• Building donor loyalty
  
• Three myths, 9 truths about fundraising
  

Event Fundraising

• When are events good for you?
  
• Recording information about an event
  

Backing up data

• Backing up
  
• Archiving and rotating
  

Importing and restoring data

• Confusing import and restore
  

Evaluation mode

• Why am I in evaluation mode?
  

Lapsed Donors

• Lapsed donors
  

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Segmentation

• To send or not to send: four ways to decide who gets your next mailing
  
• Using the four most important segmenting factors in FundRaiser
  

Codes

• Eliminating unnecessary codes
  
• Simplify coding for yearly events
  

Targetting

• Direct mail personalization -worth the additional expense?
  
• Direct mail personalization technical tips

Donor Solicitation

• Prospect research
  
• Best donor prospects
  
• Asking for a large donation
  
• Major gifts, part 1: What makes a gift major?
  
• Major donors and FundRaiser Basic
  
• Major gifts, part 2: Working with donor solicitors
  
• Donor solicitors and FundRaiser Basic
  

Event Fundraising

• Organizing charity golf tournaments 
  
• How to get attendance at your golf tournament... or any event
  
• Benefit events mean more than money
  
• Event management in FundRaiser Basic
  

Letter Writing

• Psychology of letter reading for fundraisers
  
• 8 steps to writing successful fundraising letters
  
• When to take names off your mailing list
  
• How to mark records as 'no send'
  

Tax End-of-Year Letters

• What can Tax End-of-Year letters do for you?
  
• Getting prepared for Tax End-of-Year correspondence
  
• What needs to be in your Tax End-of-Year letters?
  
• How to produce Tax End-of-Year letters
  

Donor Management

• Best donor management practices: recording donations
• Avoiding common pitfalls in your daily routine
  

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Capital Campaigns

• Capital Campaign Phases
  
• Capital Campaigns for Small Groups
  
• FundRaiser Software and Capital Campaigns, part 1
  
• FundRaiser Software and Capital Campaigns, part 2
  

Codes

• Avoiding major donor coding pain
  

Donor Solicitation

• Using Reports to Help Organize Your Major Donor Drive
  

Memberships

• The Name is the Game: Memberships and Named Gift Opportunities
  
• Nonprofit Membership: Best Pracitces with Donor Management Software
• How can memberships benefit my nonprofit organization?
  
• Tracking memberships with FundRaiser Software

Online Fundraising

• Security issues for online databases
  
• Donate or Volunteer Now buttons
  
• Marketing your organization online
  

Pledges

• Increase donations and donor loyalty wth pledges
  

Premiums

• Premiums: please and thank you!
  

Tributes

• Tribute fundraising: making your cause the gift
  
• Tribute gifts (In honor/ In memory)
  

Volunteer management

• Working with Volunteers
  
• Volunteer tracking tips
  

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