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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 effective way to manage large donor recognition lists is with interactive digital donor recognition. Digital signage is user friendly and engages contributors and visitors. Added content that includes donor stories, foundation information, videos, celebrations and events make people come back to the display again and again. Added features for instant online donations give value to the digital component of your donor wall.

Arreya Digital Signage Suite is the only digital signage software service specifically developed for interactive touchscreen donor recognition displays. Developed by Presentations, Inc with an understanding of the clients need to make their own updates easy and affordable. The cloud-based software service (Saas) allows the user to login in from anywhere into their online account and make changes. Through the clients personal subscription they can login to their ARREYA account from anywhere and push content instantly to all devices. Large donor lists can be uploaded using the exclusive ARREYA widget List-Eez. The special widget takes Excel data lists and automatically processes the list to populate directly into the ARREYA content. List-Eez also automatically separates the lists into pages and columns to fit the digital screen. No code writing required. It automatically replaces donor listings without reformatting content.

Have different donor campaigns? Interactive digital donor recognition with Arreya digital signage allows for multiple campaigns within the same content. Arreya allows digital content to be shared on unlimited devices without adding any costs, even tablets and phones. Donor recognition walls can be seen by donors anywhere, expanding the marketing for donor campaigns and potentially gaining more donors.

Want to spotlight on specific donors with donor stories? Digital donor recognition with Arreya digital signage allows clients to add and change donor stories instantly and remotely with the easy built-in editor and manager.

Digital donor recognition is the perfect addition to any donor recognition project. It combines so many of the needs of donor recognition while reducing the ongoing maintenance costs and engaging your audience and future donors.

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 unsure atmosphere within your organization.

Let’s say you are planning on spending $8000 on your donor recognition, but you find a company that will give you the design, and build it for $4000. Wow! What savings, but the design is a tile wall you have seen in 100 other organizations, is too big for the space you had planned and six months later someone destroys one of the naming tiles and you can’t get a hold of the company to replace it. You have just wasted $4000 and need to start over.

Shop for the four things that mean more than price, and in the end make you money:

Customer service
Quality design that speaks of your organization
Quality, durable construction
Credible company

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 solicitation. Deep down everyone wants to see their name in lights and a thoughtfully designed donor recognition display will entice people to give, just to see their name on the display.

Recently, someone told me a donor wall we created is referred to as the Holy Spirit. It was great to hear that the donor display has taken on a new life and people are impassioned by the design.

If your donor recognition looks like a tombstone, you are probably missing the mark. Give the potential donor something that catches their attention and speaks to your vision and mission. A true extension of your marketing.

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 didn’t matter where you placed them, because no one ever looked at them.

Donor recognition walls are now a piece of art and through environmental design, they can add to the space. Just like a well placed painting or sculpture a donor wall invites closer inspection and should inspire people to give.