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Direct Mail & Communications for Nonprofits
Giving Campaigns, Lifelong Engagement, and Community Involvement—Affordably and at Scale
Mission-Focused,
Outcome-Driven Nonprofit Communications
Direct Mail for Nonprofit Fundraising, Engagement, and Communications
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Though technological advancements and digital marketing get all the headlines, direct mail remains the workhorse of nonprofit fundraising, communications, and engagement.
Boasting response rates that would make any digital marketer swoon, direct mail for nonprofits combines affordability with execution.
Whether you’re considering your first direct mail campaign, are looking to get back into it, or are simply looking for a new provider to help you make meaningful connections through mail, you’re in the right place.
At Sepire, we specialize in helping organizations get more from every mailing. With a proprietary job creation and reporting solution, high-volume variable data printing, and a team of subject matter experts, we know how to help you.
5.3
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percent of nonprofit marketers who recognize lift from personalized outreach and communications.
percent of customers who have renewed their relationship with an organization because of direct mail,
90
Estimated direct mail fundraising response rate, dwarfing email, search, social media, and paid search.
Who We Help
If you’re in the nonprofit space, it’s likely we’ve helped organizations like yours to drive meaningful connections at scale. With personalized direct mail, omnichannel communications, and fulfillment services, we understand your unique needs and challenges and are ready to help you.
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Create meaningful connections with a targeted audience so that you can help them create meaningful connections with a higher power.
From local new mover programs to national yet personalized giving campaigns, we’re experts in helping faith-based organizations generate awareness, raise money, and connect.
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No matter the mission, direct mail remains a charity’s most important tool in fundraising. And it’s part of our mission to help organizations like yours to create meaningful connections through mail.
Whether it’s a fundraising letter, thank you, outcome, or ongoing communication, we can help charities of any size or background find and connect with the right audience at the right time.
Plus, with promotional fulfillment services by Sepire, we can even help you with those ‘free gifts’ that come with donations.
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Drive enrollment, engagement, and endowments.
As one of the largest providers of direct mail and omnichannel communications in the education space, we understand the unique challenges of your institution.
And we're ready to help you connect with future, current, and former students, donors, and stakeholders.
View our Communications and Direct Mail for Education page here.
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Though each has its own unique needs, challenges, and section under the Internal Revenue Code, the goal remains the same: Drive member engagement, involvement, and lifelong connection.
And even if you may not qualify for USPS Nonprofit Marketing Mail rates, direct mail remains one of the most cost-effective ways to engage your audience, grow your nonprofit, and achieve your mission.
Whether you’re a 501(c) (6), (7), (8), or (10), our direct mail and omnichannel communications solutions help you drive better outcomes.
Business Leagues: Targeted and tailored business mailing for chambers of commerce, membership drives for professional organizations, networking, or more.
Country Clubs: Elevate your reputation, elevate your membership. Drive membership, awareness, and connections with highly-targeted campaigns for prospective, current, and former members.
Fraternities & Sororities: Raise money and awareness. Local chapters or national entities, turn four-year membership into a lifetime of engagement.
Fraternal Organizations: From membership drives to ongoing communications, we help you engage members and create members for life.
And if you’re not mentioned here but want to talk direct mail and member engagement, we’re here to help.
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From member engagement to benefits offerings, Sepire helps labor unions connect with members. Membership cards, pension reports, cobranded documents, and more, our personalized direct mail, omnichannel communications, and fulfillment can bring you closer to your members and achieve positive outcomes for life.
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If you qualify for nonprofit status, we can help you. From hospital systems to credit unions to tax exempt insurance services, our secure, high-volume, personalized direct mail solutions can help you communicate with your clients on their terms.
Personalized Direct Mail for Nonprofits
Achieve higher return on ad spend with truly connected omnichannel marketing. We fit into your programs to deliver a personalized experience at every stage of the buyer journey.
Acquisition Direct Mail
Retargeting Campaigns
New Mover Programs
Welcome Kits
Win Back Direct Mail
Retention Direct Mail
Trigger Programs
Variable Data Printing
Card or Magnet Affix
Personalized QR Codes
Personalized URLs
Die Cut Mailers
Member Communications
Fundraising Campaigns
Why Sepire?
Finding a good direct mail partner is tough. Finding one as capable as Sepire is impossible. We’re specialists. We’re diverse. We’re sustainable. And most importantly, we’re pretty darn good at what we do.
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One of the most important questions any organization should be asking is whether the company they partner with knows their unique business. At Sepire, we can confidently say, “yes.” We’ve sent tens of millions of mailpieces on behalf of nonprofit organizations.
With a client list including one of the largest faith-based organizations in the world, universities, charities, hospital systems, and more we know the unique needs and challenges of the nonprofit sector. And we’d love to help you.
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From helping you achieve nonprofit mailer eligibility to ensuring mail goes where it needs to go, we help you make the most of every mailing. Our Director of Postal Affairs has decades of experience in the nonprofit space and understands the nuances and specifics of authorization, design, mailing requirements, and more.
Paired with our ability to help you take advantage of additional discounts, promotions, and incentives, you can rest assured that we’re giving you every opportunity to get more value from your mailing. Better yet, with 100% mailpiece verification, we can all but assure that waste is minimal and mail reaches the right person.
Looking to learn more? Check out our webinar on Mailing Requirements and Cost Savings Opportunities for Nonprofits here.
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Diversity is a competitive advantage. For nonprofit organizations, working with a certified diverse supplier is an opportunity to show your commitment to equity and inclusion. Whether you need to, choose to, or would like to provide additional transparency through a diversity spending report, we’re happy to be part of your Tier One spend.
As a WBENC-certified Women’s Business Enterprise since our founding, 100% owned by our female CEO, we’re one of the few print and direct mail vendors that can help you meet your Tier I Diversity Spend Goals.
Additionally, Sepire is recognized as a diverse supplier by states including Illinois, Indiana, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
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With clients in the healthcare, insurance, and financial services sectors, our security posture is unmatched—because it needs to be.
And even if you’re not required by law or regulation to hold your print partner to the same standards as those aforementioned companies, isn’t it nice to know that you don’t have to worry about it?
Learn more about the steps we take to protect critical data on our Security & Compliance page.
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We know who we are and what we’re good at. And we hire the people we need to deliver on our promises. It’s something we like to call subject matter expertise.
Our technology team has designed an unmatched solution for job creation and reporting.
Our account directors, customer excellence, and client services teams are able to deliver unmatched flexibility.
Our security team ensures that we meet the gold standard of security certifications.
Our Postal Affairs Director’s unmatched knowledge of USPS operations helps deliver compliance and cost savings.
It’s why we promise centuries of experience despite a founding date of 2019. Throughout the organization, our people help us help you create meaningful connections at every turn.
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Going green is a good look. After all, it takes a lot of paper and ink to run campaigns, so it pays to work with a company committed to making as little impact on the environment as possible.
At Sepire, sustainability is at the heart of our business. That’s not a tagline—that’s a promise. Whatever you think it means to be sustainable, we’re doing it and more. FSC® Certified Paper. Water-based inks. Emission-free presses. It’s all here.
And once we’ve bought the rolls, printed the mail, and sent it out? Our partner PrintReleaf reforests it. Plus, if cost-savings is your goal, the USPS is offering an additional 0.5% discount on sustainable mail when paired with other promotions & incentives in 2025.
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Get Accuracy Through 100% Mailpiece Validation
It’s easy to inadvertently and unintentionally lose money when sending direct mail. And the most common culprit? Outdated lists. For nonprofits, undeliverable mail is a missed opportunity, an unnecessary cost, and a drain on funds.
From address validation through Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) to consistent recipient updates through National & Proprietary Change of Address databases, we help you ensure mail goes to the right place and person at the right time.
Not only does this help you minimize wasted postage, paper, and printing costs, it mitigates the risk of penalties under the Move Update Standard.
Centrally Located, Secure, State-of-the-Art Production Environment.
At Sepire, we don’t just promise fast, accurate, and efficient printing and mailing—we guarantee it.
How do we do that? Simple. We hire the best. We provide them with the best equipment. And we do what we can to make their jobs easy. Because they are the ones that make the magic happen.
And they make the magic happen in our big, beautiful, Burr Ridge production facility.
Centrally Located: Sepire operates and mails from suburban Chicago, allowing for 3-day average in-home delivery.
Secure: Physical security is part of our security promise and our compliance initiatives. And it’s something we live by.
State-of-the-Art: Printing, inserting, die cutting, and more, we only work with the best in the business.
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Number (in millions) of variable duplex full color sheets we can print in a 24-hour day.
Number (in millions) of variable sheets able to be inserted each day.
Number of RICOH Pro VC70000 Series Continuous Feed Inkjet Presses used to deliver the highest quality inkjet printing in the business.
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How Sepire Makes Nonprofit Mailers’ Lives Easier
It takes a lot of work to get a direct mail campaign right. With the right people, processes, and technology, our expertise in the direct mail space can make your goals a reality.
Sepire knows what it takes to take your nonprofit direct mail campaign from idea to execution. Planning, data, execution, reporting, and so much more, here’s what you get when you turn to the experts.
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Success begins long before the first mail piece is sent. When you turn to Sepire, our subject matter experts set you up to succeed.
Our team works with you to understand where direct mail fits into your omnichannel marketing strategy, help you define processes, optimize your mailing list, and more.
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Know who you’re reaching. Discover the best time, place, and medium needed to communicate with them.
The right data can send your direct mail strategy in the right direction. At Sepire, we help you leverage first-, second- and third-party data to customize your marketing efforts and deliver the right message to the right person at the right time.
Advanced analytics helps you choose the right audience, segment your mailing lists, and personalize content to significantly improve engagement and response rates.
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Our expertise lies in our ability to help you deliver personalized, meaningful interactions at scale. No matter how big your campaign, we rise to the challenge and deliver on-time and on-budget.
Automated direct mail is our competitive advantage and your omnichannel strategy’s secret weapon.
If you need a generic, low quality, bulk mail campaign, it might be in your best interest to look elsewhere.
If you want something creative, memorable, and engaging using the best materials for the job, we’re your experts.
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Leverage the information you have. Use it to connect online and offline interactions. Get results. Integration is at the heart of any successful omnichannel marketing strategy, and we’re here to make it as easy as possible.
Connected through secure cloud-based APIs, information from your customer relationship management and customer data platform flow easily into (and out of) our proprietary job management platform.
Sepire’s CompliChain technology connects to a wide range of marketing tools to automate the direct mail process. Easily run a retargeting campaign. Establish triggers to engage or reengage. Automatically send a welcome package the second a customer becomes one. Get delivery, engagement, and response data back. It’s just that simple.
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Does the average business-to-consumer business need 100% mail piece verification? Not by law. Do you serve to benefit from it? Absolutely. Sepire was built in the secure mail space, where perfection is table stakes. And we take that same mentality to the direct mail side of the equation—everything you need done is done, and everything you need sent is sent to the right person.
But it’s not simply accuracy, you get timeliness. From significant projects sent once to trigger-based mail sent when a buyer hits a certain threshold, we pride ourselves on meeting the exact timelines set in our service level agreement (SLA).
Whether that’s same day, 24-Hour, 36-Hour, and 72-Hour SLA workflows, we’re ready, willing, and able to help.
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Save money, get mail into boxes faster, and reduce the work it takes to get mail from idea to delivery. Postal optimization is one of the most important parts of any direct mail campaign.
And we’re here to help. Postal optimization and logistics is a service that exists to make your life easier. It ties into many of our services. It saves you money. And there are many things that go into it.
• Our experts can help you plan campaigns around USPS promotions calendars that can save you money for different papers, textures, or processes.
• Data accuracy helps us work faster and helps you qualify for automation discounts.
• Structural design ensures that your mail piece’s physical specs fit those required by the USPS for optimal pricing.
• Seamless acceptance gets mail into the USPS system faster, and virtual sorting helps us choose the right transit methods and delivery system entry points.
• Comingling and co-palletization can help you benefit from volume discounts that others may not be able to provide.
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How can you be sure that your direct mail is working? By getting the information you need from your mail partner. Transparency is our calling card. It’s how we help you determine goals, set expectations, get results, and improve.
From something as simple as A/B testing one of many variables in your message to using response rate data to test out different formats, the right data matters.
Easy to access using our CompliChain™ technology, you can easily set timelines for sending, receive transparent details throughout the print and mail process, and connect reports back to internal systems.
Ready to Talk? Let's Get to Work
Your Goals, Our Expertise.
Getting the most out of your nonprofit marketing initiatives is a challenge. But with the right plan, the right process, and the right partner, you can.
There’s more to discuss than we could ever write here. But if you’re as passionate about results as we are about direct mail, we’d love to talk.
How might we help you?