20 EASY Ways Board Members Can Cultivate Donors

1. Send handwritten thank you notes.

2. Phone donors to thank them for their gifts.

3. Visit donors and tell them about your organization’s great results.

4. Arrange for the donor to meet your Executive Director.

5. Find out why the donor gave to your organization.

6. Ask them what they are most interested in.

7. Introduce them to someone who has benefited from your organization.

8. Take them on a private tour of your organization.

9. Bring them to an event.

10. Take them to a coffee or social in someone’s home.

11. Ask them to bring a friend to one of your events.

12. Ask them what they think of your mission and your organization.

13. Ask them who else they know who would be interested in your organization.

14. Send them handwritten notes on all special event invitations.

15. Send them handwritten notes on all brochures or newsletters.

16. Send them newspaper clippings of special interest.

17. Arrange for them to be featured in one of our publications.

18. Ask them to volunteer for a project.

19. Ask them to host a coffee or social in their home.

20. Ask them to serve on an advisory board or committee.

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