Growing your appeal, Debbie West at the IoF National Convention 2012
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How to grow your appeal
The growth of the Save the Children’s annual restricted appeal
Covering in this session
• How it all started• Growth over the last three years• What have we learnt?• Where next?• Top tips to take away
How it all started
N.B. not the traditional major donor model for a capital appeal...
Feasibility study
Donor identification by constituency
Goal setting
Project and campaign calendar
Individual giving appeals calendarAdding a new propositionOffering option to give to restricted findsDemonstrating tangible impactCreating sense of ownership
• Individual giving appeals calendar
• Adding a new proposition
• Offering option to give to restricted funds
• Demonstrating tangible impact
• Creating sense of ownership
Started in 2009
• Best performing appeal in the programme
• 2010 saw opportunity for growth – started planning
Brand context
Changing Perspective
• New data driven objectives– Identified key audience segments– Objectives in addition to net income– Longer term view on success– Closer working with our data analysts– Feeding into supporter journey planning
Growth over the last three years
Audience growth throughout the years 2009 2010 2011 2012
Warm supporters
Warm supporters
Warm supportersProspectsHV donorsCold DM Legacy ask integration (ask in thank you)
Warm supportersProspectsHV donorsCold DM Legacy ask integrationCold otherMajor donorsCommunityPR & CelebritiesDigital
Income growth
£0.00
£100,000.00
£200,000.00
£300,000.00
£400,000.00
£500,000.00
£600,000.00
£700,000.00
£800,000.00
2009 2010 2011 2012
Gross income
Testing our way in 2010 – Tanzania Appeal
• Selected a wider range of people from the warm file to mail
• Testing ask prompts • Testing high value pack (to middle donors)• Role of engagement • First online appeal• Development of the journey
2010 – Tanzania Appeal
2010 – Tanzania Appeal HV
Journey development
• Online– Email Appeal– Email data capture
incentive through DM appeal
– Email updates from the field
• Offline– Solus updates
(postcards)– Newsletter
feedback
2010 – first development of the feedback journey
Main objectives – to surprise and delight supporters, to reinforce decision and to ‘warm up’
to the next capital appeal
Feedback / engagement journey
‘WOW’ postcard
Build update in Children
Now (Winter 2011)
Best completed brick engagement
(2012)
Feedback / engagement journey
Clinic built and lives saved in Children
Now
Feedback / engagement journeyBuild
update in Children
Now
Email feedback / engagement journey
Email AskEmail Thank
You
Open for business – first babies delivered
2010 Tanzania Appeal learning
• Drove an increase in income of almost £40k through better targeting and prompting
• Message engagement helps to drive those usually less responsive segments to give, those multi givers who wrote a card gave a higher average gift
• Small proportion of income was from online – but it showed potential for future growth
• Introduction of the ‘feedback journey’ had a good impact on email address penetration
• Prioritise how to increase the performance of those less responsive segments through testing tactics.
2011 South Sudan Appeal
• Drive net income, but also look to improve the responsiveness of those less responsive segments
• Introduction of the high value audience • Introduction of the legacy ask integration to
the campaign • Test low value £5 buy a brick tactic to less
responsive segments • Test in direct mail acquisition• Introduction of a reminder appeal
2011 South Sudan Appeal
Warm supporter
appeal
2011 South Sudan Appeal Low Value
Low value & acquisition
pack
2011 South Sudan Appeal High Value
HV donor pack
2011 South Sudan Appeal online
Email Appeals
Donation landing pages
2011 South Sudan Appeal Learning
• Campaign raised approximately £500,000 – the best campaign performance in years
• Reminder appeal had a big impact on the success• HV donors contributed £46,800 additional income to
the appeal • Low value prompting did increase the
responsiveness, but did have an impact on the overall income.
• Direct mail acquisition was a huge success achieving a 4.26% response rate
• Legacy ask in thank you outperformed any of the other legacy activity throughout the year
2012 Bangladesh Appeal
Community (Save the Children Week)
Digital Hub
Individual Giving & Legacy
PR & Celebrities
Corporate
Trust, Major &
HV
Marketing partnerships
Campaigning
Individual Giving
Baby Nirob, 10 weeks old suffering from severe diarrhoea and wheezing with every breath
Acquiring Supporters Existing Supporters
Radio SMS ask across a range
of stations
DRTVTesting across existing
stations
OutdoorTesting trains and buses
Digital Banners
Cold Mail
Press ads and Inserts (low volume testing)
Mail appeal and reminder
Email segments
SMS
Supporter journeys for responders online and
offlineIncluding campaigning and legacy asksThank you to cold
respondentsCampaigning ask
Shopping centresFace to face ask, £5 SMS to buy a brick
Roll out of £5 buys a brick engagement
Virtual Clinic1) Quick Donate2) Browse and shop for
items3) Items over £250 - option
to set up a Just Giving page
Crowdfunding
virtual clinic wall of fame
Photos link to face book
Corporate donations
Can be anonymous too
community giving
AMYA ChallengeAsian youth group bucket
collections
pilots – new audiences Existing Supporters
Nursery ChallengeSponsorship for nursery children to dress up as what they want to be
Curry Life Magazine targeting restaurant trade
a) Run a curry night b) Put £1 on the bill c) donate tips
for a week
Collections and House to House
Baking – Cakes!
Retail
Raffles, Collections,
Tombola
Branch Activity Tea Parties, Coffee
Mornings, Frog Races!
Corporate partners
Collections in 3 Stores
6 Collections e.g. Birmingham Bull Ring
Communication to supporters, banners on their website, in match
programme 5th May
Gifts in kind to the clinics e.g. condoms,
cleaning productsMatch funding for
bloggingFunding for 1 clinic
build!
Trusts, Major & High value
Major Donors High Value Trusts
2012 summary results to date Objective Status Statu
s
Raise minimum £500,000 (stretch target £1 million)
£760,000 pledged (at 26th June)
Recruit new financial donors – both cash and committed
Circa 9000 donations to date (text, mail, online)
Thank you legacy cross sell measured by response rates
Beaten target response rate. With a mix of ‘have included’ & ‘are considering’ a gift in their will
Engage business partners in fundraising Corporate partners actively engaged
Recruit new campaigners Ask is within the supporter journey
Recruit new collectors Hit low target, although not high value
Engage new Trusts and new high level major donors
1 Major Donor given / Trusts TBC
Mobilise 1 major marketing/media Partner
In process of securing for 2013
Reinforce health worker or nutrition messaging
Messaging fully integrated
Campaign highlights
Celebrity PR
Est. reach 10,500,000Outdoor results
Radio resultsFace to
face
Legacy Pledges
Blogger Conference
I want to be
Venue collections
Volunteer trip PR
Supporter Feedback
I just made a donation after seeing the excellent report from Myleene Klass on the ITV news.
I made a donation, I lived in the next village to where Nirob lives, so this appeal really touched my heart.
I saw the picture of Nirob on the envelope, I fell in love with him.
House to house income was up 50% [owing to] higher profile and having a specific theme with a pamphlet to give out.
Supporter engagemen
t
Room for improvement
DRTV
AMYA Challenge
Press ads
Campaigning integration
What have we learnt?
What have we learn?
• We can drive an integrated organisational fundraising appeal!
• It really can be used to engage different audiences• Planning needs to commence earlier – 7 months is
not enough for e.g. corporate to get on board• Gathering content can be expensive • Although a staggered launch the campaign felt
integrated across all types of story and engagement• Digital needs a BIG one day burst to have stand out
What have we learnt?
• Country and perceived need can influence engagement
• Visual and target and deadline are important
• An enemy • Need led images • Strong project management is required – to
help build integration cross team. One person/team owning the project from within the lead fundraising team
Where next?
Where next?
• Full review of the campaign:– What worked what didn’t – Stop– Room for improvement – Ingredients for success – roll out
• Start planning for next year (already underway)– Project selection – Content gathering – Concept development
Top tips to take away
What to consider for an integrated capital appeal
• Objectives and KPIs agreed at outset• Structure and process/project management• Resources • Budgeting & objective setting – what does
success look like? • Content gathering - before, during and after• Contingency planning• The right partners - internal and external• Test your way in • Start early - rolling planning
How to assess whether it’s right for you?
• Can you restrict funds to a particular project?• Opportunity cost? Restricted versus
unrestricted• Do you have the ability to emotionally engage
someone with your cause?• Can you create a supporter experience? • Do you have the organisation behind your
ambitions?• Can you demonstrate the impact of the
appeal to your decision makers?
Thank youAny questions?