Answering Your Thank-You Questions Live on Tuesday

by Kivi Leroux Miller on March 1, 2010

in Thank-You Letters

I promised to provide some more guidance on writing thank-you notes after sharing the results of my donation experiment where initially only 3 out of 10 nonprofits acknowledged the gift. Here’s something even better!

As luck would have it, the Chronicle of Philanthropy asked me to be their guest expert on their weekly online chat tomorrow (Tuesday, March 2). You can ask me your specific questions live and I’ll answer as many as my typing fingers will allow. This is a follow-up to their coverage of my experiment, which also generated lots of comments on their site.

Join us for Turning First-Time Givers into Repeat Donors on Tuesday at Noon ET (9:00 a.m. Pacific).

If you read the record number of comments on the original post, you’ll see that I’ve heard from American Red Cross, Defenders of Wildlife, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., so we are now up to 7 out of 10.

I hope to see you on the chat Tuesday. If you can’t make it live, the transcript will be available for you later.

  • http://mba-reading-group.blogspot.com McClain

    Kivi,

    Would you be willing/able to post these thank-you letters on your blog?

    I am teaching a unit on nonprofit communications in my honors business communication class and students are starving for *actual examples* of letters of appeal, letters of inquiry, thank-you letters, etc. Other than asking several local nonprofits to send a copy of their materials (which I am happy to do), do you know of any simpler way to help students see examples of this sort of writing?

    Thanks for your time AND for this fabulous blog. I just found it yesterday but have already come across a ton of stuff that will be useful to my students. Have a great day!

  • http://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com Kivi Leroux Miller

    Hi McClain,
    Here is transcript of the Chronicle chat, and I linked to some examples from there.
    http://philanthropy.com/article/Turn-First-Time-Donors-Into/64403/

  • http://mba-reading-group.blogspot.com McClain

    Thanks, Kivi.

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