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Giving Tuesday Playbook
Playbook

The GivingTuesday Playbook: Your Guide to Campaigns That Inspire Generosity

Practical strategies, step-by-step timelines, and proven tools to help nonprofits cut through the noise and drive donor engagement on the biggest giving day of the year.

The GivingTuesday Playbook from Virtuous provides nonprofits with:

  • Background & Momentum: An overview of GivingTuesday’s history, global reach, and impact on generosity.
  • Step-by-Step Timeline: A 60-day countdown plan to craft messaging, segment audiences, and prepare communications.
  • Audience Segmentation: Practical strategies to engage recurring givers, lapsed donors, and first-time prospects.
  • Campaign Tools: Guidance on creating optimized donation forms, leveraging matching gifts, and setting clear goals.
  • Communication Templates: Ready-to-use outlines for email, SMS, direct mail, and social media content.
  • Social Media Calendar: Sample posts and timing recommendations to build anticipation and drive day-of engagement.
  • Responsive Fundraising Practices: Tactics for personalized, donor-centric outreach that increases retention.
  • Measurement & KPIs: Key metrics like average gift, new donor count, and retention to evaluate campaign success.
  • Post-Campaign Insights: Frameworks for reporting results, debriefing with teams, and planning next year’s improvements.
  • Virtuous Tools: Built-in features for segmentation, automation workflows, campaign tracking, and analytics to simplify executionVirtuous_GivingTuesday- Playbook.
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