Category: Lunch and Learn Lunch and Learn: Rock Your Year End Appeal: Best Practices to Improve Responses & Raise More Money

Lunch and Learn: Rock Your Year End Appeal: Best Practices to Improve Responses & Raise More Money


September 24, 2025

Using direct mail examples supported by performance data from dozens of appeals from many organizations, you will learn the best methods to engage donors and motivate giving:
-Donor-centric writing
-Using segmentation
-Fundraising letter and envelope design
-Effective, donor friendly reply card features
-Asking each donor for the right amount
-ROI on soliciting lapsed donors
-When to mail and email
-Performance and cost benchmarks

Gary Henricksen, Direct Response Fundraising Coach, Five Maples Development, has 25 years of industrial marketing experience & 15 years of direct mail fundraising coaching/analysis. He is a former AFP-NNE board member, frequent lecturer on direct mail fundraiser and has served on multiple nonprofit and private Boards.

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