Fundraising Articles

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Food for Thought: How Food Banks Have Grown their Revenue with Monthly Giving Programs

A record number of Canadians are turning to food banks due to the country’s escalating cost of living. Food Banks Canada’s HungerCount 2023 has reported that in March 2023, there were almost 2 million visits to food banks across Canada. This represents a 32% increase compared to March 2022, and a 78.5% increase compared to…

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Mobile phone-list building with MobileReach

With no “phone book” of mobile phone numbers in Canada, how are you and your organization expanding your reach to Canadians via mobile? Stratcom is launching a new, innovative tool called MobileReach, where you can find likely mobile phones numbers to build engaged audiences. MobileReach pulls a list of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of…

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Stratcom increases credit card security with new dialer

Stratcom has substantially raised the level of our credit card security by implementing a new cutting-edge telemarketing dialer. Among the many changes that Stratcom adapted to during the pandemic, working from home was certainly one of the biggest. For our telemarketing staff, this meant learning how to recruit and train new callers remotely. Our managers…

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Spirit of giving through text and online

A big casualty of the stay at home orders during COVID-19 is (unsurprisingly) face-to-face fundraising activities such as canvassing on the street, door-to-door or live events. Charities are now pushed to find new ways of connecting and deepening relationships with their donors that don’t involve in-person contact. As Stratcom has always provided telephone fundraising, we’ve…

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