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Revenue, Retention and Reactivation: Findings from the 2011 Index of Higher Education Fundraising Report

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Download The 2011 Index of Higher Education Fundraising Performance Report to learn more about the 6% revenue growth and other key performance indicators of annual funds at more than 100 public and private institutions. Can they use social media to entice their peers to give? 2011 Index of Higher Education Fundraising Performance.

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2011 Online Giving Trends and 5 Tactics Your Nonprofit Must Implement Today

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In our 2011 Online Giving Report we’ve combined findings from The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving with additional multi-year giving data, which allows us to pull out a very rich set of insights. Here’s a few of the highlights … Key 2011 Online Giving Trends Include. Online giving up 13% year-over-year *.

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Improve Online Donor Retention with these 5 Proven Follow Up Techniques

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Typically they’re first-time donors who shell out nearly double the amount that offline first-time donors do - to the tune of $62 versus $32 on average, according to our 2011 Multichannel Fundraising Report. Click here to download the free 2011 Multichannel Fundraising Report and learn more about donor retention.

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2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report

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The 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report provides analysis of 28 major nonprofit organizations and transactions for over 15 million donors and more than $1 billion in revenue. Retention rates for online donors continue to lag offline donor trends. This is a recurring theme from previous studies.

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Strategies to Increase Nonprofit Donor Retention Rates

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Unfortunately, many nonprofits don't feel like they have the luxury of focusing on fundraising strategies that will bring in long-term results, which has led to low donor retention rates. According to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project, the commercial business customer retention rate is 94%. That is an attrition rate of 59%.

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Online Giving Potential: How to Bounce Back From Months of Decreased Fundraising

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Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. Our report recommends implementing a solid retention strategy to turn one-time donors into repetitive donors. Ask Carefully.

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Seth Godin on Innovation, Failure and Why Non-profits Should Stop Operating like Businesses

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First Year Donor Retention is 29.3%. Taking into account the post from Godin in 2008, his recent interview and the semi-troublesome statistics above … How can we continue to innovate in 2011? How can we continue to push the limits of the internet, social media, online fundraising, email communication, etc?

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