{"id":3315,"date":"2021-06-15T23:07:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T23:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.promotionproducts.com.au\/blog\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2021-06-15T23:07:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T23:07:41","slug":"how-a-charity-tripled-donations-by-leveraging-reciprocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.promotionproducts.com.au\/blog\/how-a-charity-tripled-donations-by-leveraging-reciprocity\/","title":{"rendered":"How A Charity Tripled Donations By Leveraging Reciprocity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reciprocity, it’s one of the big reasons why promotional products work<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It simply means that if someone receives something they feel a desire to “return the favour”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charities looking to raise more money for their organisation should be aware of its power and how to utilise it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An experiment conducted by the Behavioural Insights Team<\/a> showed that giving a packet of sweets in conjunction with sending a personal email increased the percentage of bankers that donated to the charity from 5% to 17%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across all trials they managed to raise over \u00a3500 000, however it’s estimated that if every employee received a personalised email and sweets they could instead have raised over \u00a31 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Experiment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Behavioural Insights team worked together with the team of Deutsche Bank in their London offices as a part of a fundraising campaign to support Help a Capital Child and Meningitis Research UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal was to get employees of the bank to donate a day of their salary to the charity. (Also notice the clever way in which this is framed).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The control group resulted in around 5% of people opting in. Which increased to 11% when they were given some promotional lollies<\/a> upon their arrival and 12% when they received a personalised email from the CEO that addressed them by name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, by far and away the most effective strategy was sending a personalised email as well as giving the lollies. This resulted in donation rates more than tripling from the control group (17%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.bi.team\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BIT_Charitable_Giving_Paper-1.pdf<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summing Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Although this same methodology might not be suitable for all charity organisations it provides useful insights into the norm of reciprocity and how small changes can have a big impact on the amount of funds raised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A simple “nudge” can be all it takes to influence behaviour for the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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