29 Tips for Gaining and Retaining a Donor Base

On-site acquisition can occur at the front desk, reception area, during events, in your store or in the development/membership office.

15. Activities for acquisition efforts. This can be a membership month, where your organization pulls out all of the stops and does everything it can to get new members; employee contest to challenge employees to get the most new members; member-get-a-member contests where the member who brings in the most new members gets a prize; personal solicitation; brochure distribution; online promotions; charter membership; and through advertising, though Rich said this can be expensive.