Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. For example, retention rates tend to be higher for mid-level and major donors. In this post, I’ll explore the fifth strategy. .

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Analytics Strategy Fundraising Benchmark 122

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. Meanwhile, you may assign another person to call new donors to thank them and increase your new donor retention.

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Use charts and diagrams to help them visualize your organization’s impact. 5 – Donor retention. Improving your donor retention metrics even a few percentage points can make a world of difference in your long term fundraising success … and stability. Tweet the numbers, not just the call to action.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Or if a certain donation thank-you gift reliably increases donor retention, offer it in campaign after campaign. Lean into what works.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. While retention rates have been lower, there are opportunities and questions we still need to address. Get the report and read it. It points to some great momentum in online giving.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change? I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics.

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