How To Manage Large Donor Recognition Lists
It is always a question if you should list all donors on a donor wall. You consider the cost of updating the wall, is it worth listing all the donors? Some donors give millions others give five dollars, but you can recognize all your donors. The most cost...
Digital Donor Content in Many Locations
Presentations added a sleek new donor recognition wall to Trinity Health Systems. Easy to update, the digital donor sign allows easy and remote interaction with the digital touchscreen to add new content through the cloud-based ARREYA digital signage software...
Can A Donor Wall Update Increase Donations?
The ongoing battle with donor walls is designing something that brings in more donations. Donor walls can always be beautiful, but do they do more than recognize previous donors, do they inspire. Recently we were asked to update a donor wall for a hospital birthing...
Custom Donor Recognition Displays
Celebrate your donors with a donor recognition wall that represents your organization and the money your raised. Engraved tiles are a thing of the past and look more like tombstones than a giving campaign. Donor walls made up of engraved blocks and printed lists are...
10 Donor Wall Project Planning Tips
1. Plan Early The time to think about donor recognition isn't when you're planning the celebration party. Include a recognition wall display cost in your total fundraising effort and be sure to integrate the design into your architectural and signage program. 2. Don't...
Creating Digital Donor Wall Content
Congratulations! You made the decision to enter the world of digital signage. You purchased the necessary hardware and got it installed. You plug it in, turn it on and nothing...where is the content? Unlike television, digital signage doesn't come with preprogrammed...
Digital Donor Signage Made Easy with ARREYA Software
You have heard it all, digital signage systems claiming to use the latest technology, touchscreen friendly and easy, simple, quick content editors that can handle anything. Don't be fooled by all the digital signage systems that are claiming they deliver the moon....
5 Key Steps to Digital Donor Wall Success
Digital Donor Recognition Walls is the fastest growing segment of the donor wall market. If you are looking at a new donor wall or adding digital to existing, you are probably looking at digital along with static donor walls. Keep in mind that static costs a...
Is Price the Only Thing That Matters?
In the case of gasoline prices the answer is yes, but when designing a display that honors your organization or donors do you want to go cheap? A cheap display with no visual indication of your story or corporate brand will deter donors from giving and project an...
What to Do with “Redundant” Naming Plaques on Donor Recognition Walls?
Our hospital has undergone major renovations, resulting in re-location of a number of services. In some areas there are plaques dating back many years, recognizing gifts of donors to a specific service (eg. - pediatrics or endoscopy.) We call...
Is Donor Recognition Marketing?
Okay, you raised the money, the hard work is done, now put the names on a plaque and move on to the next fund raiser. Is this how you view donor recognition? If it is, your missing a great opportunity to make your job easier and to gain more donors without...
Does Location Matter for Donor Walls?
Once you ask the question the answer may seem obvious - Of course location matters! Celebrating donors and marketing to future donors is what donor walls are all about. In the past donor walls were looked at as memorials and they were built to look like headstones. It...
Top 20 Fundraising Mistakes
Call them what you will -- gaffes, blunders, oversights, or errors -- mistakes creep into everyone's professional life. But in fundraising—unlike other fields—where thousands if not millions of dollars are often at stake, mistakes can be especially hazardous. Who...
How Do I Determine My Donor Recognition Budget?
Set aside a percentage of the total building budget for the donor wall construction. Avoid the appearance of overspending, but keep in mind that attractive walls make donors feel appreciated and encourage others to give in the future. On a major campaign, the total of...