Classy

JUNE 2, 2021

A large part of that is examining what actions define fundraising strategies that bring in more online donations and keep donors engaged each year. Below, you’ll find the proactive actions taken by nonprofits who increased their online donations by 84% with 122% more transactions in just 90 days. Our findings are now your roadmap.

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EveryAction

MAY 15, 2017

The annual report details how and why nonprofit fundraising emails end up in spam folders, calculates the damage spam can do on giving days like #GivingTuesday and during end-of-year (EOY) fundraising, and offers actionable advice for improving your deliverability rates. Want to learn how to improve your deliverability rates?

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Neon CRM

JUNE 9, 2023

Membership retention rates for nonprofits vary widely. If you want to improve your membership retention rates, you need to nurture and build your member relationships consistently. What’s Affecting Your Membership Retention Rate? Your membership retention rate is the percentage of people who renew their memberships each year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

By Heather Mansfield , founder and editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good The average growth rate for social media ranges from.64% Nonprofit Tech for Good has an average click-through rate of.4% Another idea is to use QR codes in print campaigns. 64% to 3% per month , depending upon the platform.

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Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

Secret Sauce: Easy-to-implement, practical action steps. One place I worked saw appeals with notes get a 30%+ rate of return vs. a 4% return from appeals without notes! . ACTION: Get board members to review your donor list. ACTION: Put a system in place to hand sign thank you letters. Ready for the secret sauce?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. Let’s move to specific actions based on the developmental stage of your fundraising program.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 23, 2021

For the last 5 or so years, there has been a trend in new donor acquisition : Response rates continue to drop while average gifts continue to rise. Usually, organizations use large compiled files that actually contribute to lower response rates. . For email, the key metric to review is your Open Rate.

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Neon CRM

MAY 26, 2023

The best nonprofit marketing campaigns are designed for awareness and advocacy for your organization. When you build your strategies around community, personalization, adaptability, and automation, you can create a campaign that resonates with your constituents. That is a website marketing campaign making an impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Topics include: Top website call-to-action strategies to prioritize in 2022, such as pop-ups, landing pages, and topbars. How to grow, manage, and segment your email list to maximize click-through rates and avoid spam folders.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 17, 2023

A strong paid search campaign can help your nonprofit reach new audiences and awareness, drive qualified leads for those searching for related keywords and ensure you’re top-of-mind as folks navigate their daily digital lives. adding in new keywords, updating ad copy, etc.) adding in new keywords, updating ad copy, etc.)—more

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 17, 2022

When you combine this higher annual giving level with the fact that monthly donors have much higher retention rates, you can begin to see why monthly donations are important. Of those recurring donors, 51% return to also give through a different campaign type, according to The State of Modern Philanthropy 2020. About the Sponsor.

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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re responsible for member retention, you have your renewal rate committed to memory, right? You are most likely doing everything you should — calculating your retention rate on a regular basis, being consistent in your retention formula and sharing results with key stakeholders. Retention rates aren’t one dimensional.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Maybe a friend shared the link with them, or they found your charity by Googling a topic you’re campaigning about. You’re a charity fighting for action on the climate crisis, and you had two ads on Facebook. How each traffic source is influencing sign ups for your peer-to-peer campaign. Let me give you an example.

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve probably been bombarded lately by expert advice on what to do for GivingTuesday campaign. Use your Candid profile on GuideStar as inspiration for a GivingTuesday social media campaign. Then, add a call to action for a donation or to promote GivingTuesday. Crafting a GivingTuesday campaign can be a lot of work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2023

Big brands know that texts have an incredibly high open rate—that’s why many of our favorite retailers have adopted a text marketing strategy. You can use outbound text messages to inform donors about upcoming fundraising events and campaigns. Did you know that text messages have around a 98% open rate?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

But direct mail isn’t dead —the personal touch, visibility, and open rate that comes with direct mail have made it significant in the digital age. As you plan your direct mail donor acquisition campaign, keep the following tips in mind. Tell stories in your direct mail campaign. Direct mail is too often associated with the past.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 27, 2022

This is an example of an effective call to action (CTA) — a short statement or button that urges audience members to take a certain action. This might mean inspiring individuals to donate , volunteer, advocate, become a peer-to-peer fundraiser, or take any other action that supports your nonprofit’s mission. .

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Email Fundraising Campaign Strategies for Giving Tuesday. Before you start planning your Giving Tuesday email campaign, take a look at your email analytics. Check out past emails you’ve sent your donors and look at emails with high open and click-through rates. Pick a compelling call-to-action. Check your email analytics.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

Sure, you can look at historical or yearly trends on a graph to identify patterns, but by drilling deeper into the analytics you can uncover insights to help put your data into action. As a bonus, many associations find that repeat event attendees also renew at higher rates. ( Let’s take a look at how event data can be put into action.

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Association Analytics

MAY 17, 2021

If you’re responsible for member retention, you have your renewal rate committed to memory, right? You are most likely doing everything you should -- calculating your retention rate on a regular basis, being consistent in your retention formula and sharing results with key stakeholders. Retention rates aren’t one dimensional.

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Classy

JUNE 2, 2021

A large part of that is examining what actions define fundraising strategies that bring in more online donations and keep donors engaged each year. Below, you’ll find the proactive actions taken by nonprofits who increased their online donations by 84% with 122% more transactions in just 90 days. Our findings are now your roadmap.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

8 Fiscal Year-End Donor Retention Action Strategies + Practical Tips. Research shows only 19% of new donors give again, but if you can get them to make a second gift they’ll renew at a rate of 61% — that’s triple! An exclusively online campaign can be executed much faster than a traditional direct mail campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

When you’re able to set the stage with analytics and donor attributes – like their wealth rating, public giving records, and personal interests – you can strengthen your understanding of each donor segment, and position your asks to speak to specific audiences. Tips, Templates, and Best Practices for Your Giving Tuesday Campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

By Christy Smaglio , Instructional Writer at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. To use a drip-email campaign, determine what your end goal is, or your call to action. Using DonorPerfect’s partnership with Constant Contact can make drip campaigns easy and effective.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. Learn about how to run an effective and sustainable campaign by reading from the top or jumping to the sections that most interest you: . Timeline for the campaign.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2012

Most people who’ve been doing email communication for any length of time understand that too many emails equals increased unsubscribes, lower open rates and lower click through rates. But with average nonprofit open rates at 13% and click-through rates at 2.1% That reason … crowded inboxes. So may your second.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 1, 2021

Odds are your emails are going to spam folders and are in violation of email compliance laws that require opt-out information and a mailing address to be prominently featured in all email campaigns. Sending email newsletters with an attachment is an absolute worst practice that is common with BCC email campaigns.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It enables donors to give money from their phones to campaigns. Text-to-give campaigns are simple to set up and donors can give money in less than five minutes. Text messages have an average open rate of 98% , compared to the email open rate of 22%. Text-to-give is the perfect call to action.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Open rate : The success of your email often hinges on the open rate. On the flip side, a poorly crafted subject line can lead to lower open rates and, consequently, reduced chances of achieving your fundraising goals. Encouraging action : An effective subject line can motivate recipients to take action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

We all have bad memories of pop-ups interrupting our flow on websites when we simply wanted to read some content, buy something, or take another action. They also typically include a call-to-action (CTA) to get users to do something we want them to do. For many of us, it’s a dirty word on the web. Follow the KISS rule. Keep it simple.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

By Emily Rose Patz , Senior Copywriter at DonorPerfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. That’s why peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns do so well – people want to give to their friends, or their friends’ friends, and rally around their loved ones. Stay in touch with some facetime.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The term “call to action” (CTA) is used multiple times in the list. A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Is the donor renewal rate low? Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2020

By Josh Kashorek , Director of Marketing at Journity , and advocate for using data to create high-performance nonprofit marketing campaigns. 2) Conversion Rates. The mention of conversion rates often makes nonprofit pros cringe, because it sounds technical, like some jargon a marketer would use. 3) Engagement. 5) Retention.

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NetWits

JUNE 23, 2011

— When creating any fundraising campaign there are two items that should always be on your short list list. In fact, without the two we’ll cover in this post you’re guaranteed to finish your campaign, review the results, and be left wanting. So, what are the 2 key elements of successful fundraising campaigns?

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Email inboxes are often crowded, and major players in the tech sector have made changes in the recent past that affect the way we understand open rates. The click-through rate for mobile fundraising messages was 6.3 percent , and 10 percent for mobile advocacy messages. Volunteering. Membership.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

Its most immediate benefit is that it gives you real-time lists of the individuals who are most likely to take action on your next appeal or stewardship message. But when looking at the bigger picture, even more valuable benefits become clear: Higher conversion rates through better-targeted donor lists. AI for Nonprofits in Action.

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EveryAction

DECEMBER 2, 2022

After 10 years of this special giving event, donors recognize this day as an opportunity to take action for social good and show up for the causes they care about: GivingTuesday 2022 resulted in a very generous $3.1 billion raised by 37 million donors for organizations and causes across the United States.

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