Payment processing makes the nonprofit world go round. Whether you’re a local organization serving fewer than a thousand constituents or a national organization with chapters in every state, your team has to be able to accept donations from a variety of places.

Donors want to be able to give to their favorite organizations through their favorite methods. Those methods could be anything: check, cash, or credit or debit card. If your nonprofit isn’t prepared to accept donations through one of those methods, you’re going to miss out on valuable resources from your supporters.

If you have been reading the SofTrek blog for a while, you will know there are a lot of great ways to establish and grow your donor base.  

 All nonprofits know that each of their supporters is a wonderfully unique individual. But is your nonprofit taking advantage of that knowledge to the fullest extent?

Communication strategies are the most successful when they take into account their audience’s values, passions, and ways of life. For example, an animal shelter’s solicitations are going to be far better received by a dog owner than someone with an allergy!

Trying to write the perfect ask, holiday letter, or happy birthday note for your whole donor population in one go will lead only to disappointment and generalizations. Instead, to strengthen your communication and development strategies, you should consider breaking down your whole population into smaller, more similar groups.

Even if we don’t like the word, the truth is undeniable: If you work for or run a nonprofit organization, many of your everyday job functions might be considered “sales.” Fundraising, marketing, client or patient relationship-building—they, and many more activities, have sales-like aspects to them.