Stop Treating Donors like ATM Machines

Fundraising solicitations drop into my inbox every day. I usually ignore them, but one caught my eye recently, and not for a good reason. The subject line read, “The reason we have to send so many fundraising emails.” I was intrigued and began reading. It wasn’t until the third paragraph that I found out the answer: They send so many emails because “only 1 percent of our readers ever make a donation, and that’s a problem.”

Scott Freiman