How to Choose the Best Donor Recognition Vendor
With over 30 years working in donor recognition, we have the edge on experience from every angle. Trying to find a vendor for donor recognition is often overlooked until the…
Donor recognition is the act of acknowledging your donor for the donations they gave to your nonprofit organization. There are many ways to recognize your donor including thank you letters, events, and plaques. Our blog brings to life the thirty years of experience we have had helping nonprofits recognize their donors.
Healing Garden Recognition: This is a large cast bronze plaque attached to a limestone base. The graphics include the floral pattern used on all Cancer Center recognition.
Donor Recognition Ideas: How to Appropriately Recognize Your Donors
Recognizing donors is a delicate process, it is important to find the right budget for recognition of the campaign. Donor recognition is best described as a way to say 'Thank…
Is An Interactive Digital Donor Wall Right For Your Organization?
Based on your past experiences you may feel that a traditional donor wall is expensive, cumbersome, challenging and time consuming to update and costly to clean and maintain. In fact,…
A Step By Step Guide to Successful Non-Profit Capital Campaigns
A capital campaign when a nonprofit organization wants to raise a substantial amount of money for a specific purpose within a certain time period. The campaign could be for many…
How to Find Large Donors & Land $500 Million Donation
While surfing the web, I came across an interesting article that I would like to share from Software Advice, Inc. that dives into how to find large donors & how to get…
9 Step Guide to Planning your Donor Recognition Project
Determine your objectives.Try to imagine how your donors would like to be recognized for their gifts, ask yourself these questions: Were promises made to donors about how they should be…
Top 5 Marketing Trends For 2020 vs 2015
The article from Nonprofit Hub reviews the top 5 marketing upcoming marketing trends for 2015. We provide a link to the full article at the bottom of the page. 1.…
How to Locate Past Donors & Donor Plaques (And 3 Reasons It’s Important)
It's fairly straightforward: now knowing how to locate past donor plaques could jeopardize your charitable organization...we've heard horror stories from clients of past donors bringing family and friends to show…
How to Clean & Refurbish Your Donor Plaque
Many organizations purchase donor plaques individually when needed, and then allow them to sit on a wall somewhere for decades. to get the most longevity out of a donor plaque…
How to Minimize Donor Wall Maintenance Costs
The ability to clean a donor wall is critical and often over looked. Oftentimes people focus solely on the design without planning for future upkeep, which is why so many…
Finding Donors for Nonprofits: 4 Ways to Successfully Find Non-Profit Donors
While doing my own research, I came across useful information that I would like to share from GrantSpace.org, 'Foundation Center'. They review some of the most successful ways to find individual…
How the Recession Affected Charitable Giving & Non-Profit Donations
The good news is if you live in the Northern Plains of the United States, you are most likely seeing an increase of over 10% in charitable funds. However, if…
Why You Should Have a Donor Recognition Policy (and How It Keeps You in Control)
You finally land that big gift and the donor insists on outrageous recognition...how do you tell them NO? Not long ago we designed a project for a client who had…
5 Tips To Plan Successful Donor Recognition Projects
Planning a donor recognition project? Great! Just keep in mind you'll have to live with your new donor recognition system for many years. This means whichever system you decide on…
Permanent Campaign Donor Wall: Donor names will not change so they are silk screened on aluminum panels which are set between wood splines. The background material is a high quality frosted acrylic.
Donor Recognition Best Practices – DonorSigns.com Blog
We've been planning, designing and implementing donor recognition for organizations all over the country since 1993. We've become pretty good at it, and by it, I mean by helping our…