Testing fundraising methods - what can fundraisers learn
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Happiness, Testing and JustGiving
Prof. Jen Shang
Philanthropic Psychologist
Plymouth University
[email protected] Skype: Jen.Shang
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Objectives Today
• We Share Research with You
• You Share Research with Others
• We Share Research Together with the World
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5 minutes sharing research
30 minutes to beg you to But Me
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Positive Emotion and I/We Focus
CONTENT OF
THE LETTER
RENEWL FORM
CONTENT OF
THE LETTER
RENEWL FORM
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Positive Emotion and I/We Focus
• Thanks to our community’s [your] continuous annual membership support, XXX Radio has the financial resources needed to be there for you, me, and our neighbors [you] each and every day.
• We’re [You and XXX Radio are] in this together – more than 18,000 listeners join us in playing [play] a critical role in keeping this station – our [your] station – strong. Our [Your] continuous support is vital.
• As we approach the [the] November anniversary of your last contribution [approaches], we’re [I’m] writing to ask for a renewal of your membership [a renewed commitment]. Your ongoing support will help guarantee another year of our community’s [your] favorite radio programs – shows like Morning Edition, All things Considered, Car Talk, A Prairie Home Companion, and Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.
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Positive Emotion • Smiling faces versus double circles:
CONTENT OF
THE LETTER
We
RENEWL FORM
CONTENT OF
THE LETTER
I
RENEWL FORM
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Positive Emotion and I/We Focus
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Let the But Begin
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Is this a properly Designed Test?
• Let’s look at the design
– 2 by (we versus you)
– 2 by (smile faces versus double circles)
– 2 (gender)
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Is this a properly Designed Test?
• Let’s look at the material
• Thanks to our community’s [your] continuous annual membership support, XXX Radio has the financial resources needed to be there for you, me, and our neighbors [you] each and every day.
• We’re [You and XXX Radio are] in this together – more than 18,000 listeners join us in playing [play] a critical role in keeping this station – our [your] station – strong. Our [Your] continuous support is vital.
• As we approach the [the] November anniversary of your last contribution [approaches], we’re [I’m] writing to ask for a renewal of your membership [a renewed commitment]. Your ongoing support will help guarantee another year of our community’s [your] favorite radio programs – shows like Morning Edition, All things Considered, Car Talk, A Prairie Home Companion, and Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.
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Is this a statistically valid test?
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Is this a relevant piece of fundraising insights that you could use?
• How do you begin to answer that question?
• Cross check with your common sense
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Let the But Begin, REALLY!
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Millions of years of human evolution
Sober and Wilson, 1998, Harvard Dawkins, 1976, Oxford
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Itzhak Perlman
Henri Tajfel (1919 – 1982)
Thousand years of human Tribal Ritual
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Itzhak Perlman A musician
Henri Tajfel A Bristol Social Psychologist
(1919 – 1982)
Thousand years of human Tribal Ritual
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That young 100 year old social science tradition in psychology telling you
• Happiness is Love, FULL STOP
– Harvard
– Longest
– Most expensive Human Development Study on the planet
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Your 100 year profession of fundraising tells you
• It is not the raising of money, but the raising of man that matters
• From both sides of the Atlantic
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The world only philanthropic psychologist from the world only centre on sustainable philanthropy
• Flashing data, evolution, revolution, the essence of your profession at you
• Telling you we teach this stuff in the International Advanced Diploma on Fundraising, highest profession around the world…
• Challenge you in front of other 90 extremely smart people…
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Can you use smiley faces in your DM?
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It depends
Am I trivializing human suffering?
Do I treat them as victims or survivors?
May people feel genuinely empowered from supporting us?
May people feel genuinely proud raising money for us from JustGiving?
What kind of happiness is it that I should instil in my donors so I can
proudly say
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It depends
Am I trivializing human suffering?
Do I treat them as victims or survivors?
May people feel genuinely empowered from supporting us?
May people feel genuinely proud raising money for us from JustGiving?
What kind of happiness is it that I should instil in my donors so I can
proudly say
I instilled happiness in my fellow humans (supporter, donors…. Etc.);
I felt proud of myself; Because that is why I chose to be a fundraiser;
This is Lovein my profession.
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Confidence
• Sarah
• Kim
• Beth
• Alex
• Michael
• ….
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Would you please start by buting me?
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Internet and JustGiving
• For the first time in human history
• Happiness and love may be created and spread with the power of one person, millions of clicks in less than a day…
• How are you going to treasure that privilege… – By taking one action based on what you heard
today with love in your job, TOMORROW at 9am.
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Thank you for your patience to politely let me finish
Thanks in advance for your generosity
to help me learn by buting me with hard questions.
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Happiness, Testing and JustGiving
Prof. Jen Shang
Philanthropic Psychologist
Plymouth University
[email protected] Skype: Jen.Shang