Prospective donors are more comfortable making a gift to your organization once they hear the personal stories of other donors who are satisfied and delighted with their own charitable giving experiences. The "testimonial" can be a powerful motivational tool to include in your marketing efforts.

In recent years, though, many of our clients have told us that because of budget cutbacks and other demands they simply don't have the time, or fear they don't have the necessary writing and/or interviewing skills, to make these donor stories a reality. The answer: Pentera's donor-story writing service.

We have compiled a questionnaire that gets to the heart of who your donor is and why he or she is making this gift. Use this questionnaire to interview your donor. Once you've completed the questionnaire, simply fax or e-mail it to us. A member of our staff will write a warm, inspiring story for you. Once written, we will return it for your approval. This service is complimentary for our newsletter clients.

If you would like us to conduct a phone interview with the donor, there is a modest fee for this service.

We also have an insightful questionnaire that can be used to profile those helped by gifts to your organization—a scholarship student at a college or university, for example.

This service is available to our contract newsletter and custom booklet clients.