Hi Anne,
We are a very small organization with a low budget, so we've been utilizing Google Workspace for Nonprofits and Mailchimp to coordinate this.
Our website is Wordpress, and I've embedded a form from Mailchimp directly for folks to sign up to volunteer/ get our newsletter. It automatically puts it into Mailchimp and we send communication through there.
Our adoption/foster application process is through Google Forms, which is embedded on our website, so folks can apply, then it puts the information in a shared Google Sheet where we maintain the application records (I do have to manually upload those to Mailchimp for communications every so often).
Not sure that helps a ton, but that's what we've been doing.
Professionally, I have used Airtable as a low-cost CRM that also has form embedding functionality!
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Sital Sigh
Volunteer Coordinator
Second Chance Animal Alliance
MS
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-27-2024 01:55 PM
From: Anne Fessler
Subject: Do you have a recommendation for a very low cost tool for emailing fosters, adopters, donors?
We are a small rescue and have been using RescueGroups.org for our data management and have a website built in WordPress. RescueGroups has some mass emailing functionality, but only allows 3 lists I believe. On our WordPress website, we have a plugin called "Newsletter," but the documentation and support is lacking. I do like that RescueGroups integrates email with our database.
I am totally new to the idea of "CRM." Does anyone have a recommendation for a very inexpensive option for the email portion that could still handle up to 1,000 people categorized a few ways? I don't care too much about fancy templates for the emails.
Or just share what you use. I'd love to get ideas!
Thank you!
#DataandTechnology
#FundraisingandDevelopment
#MarketingandSocialMedia
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Anne Fessler
Underhound Railroad
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