Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Having solid donor engagement strategies in place is important for any nonprofit that wants to inspire generosity in their community and build a base of lifelong supporters. But the world is a noisy place: Donors are bombarded with constant messaging that can drown out a nonprofit’s attempts to reach them.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to persuade leadership to get donor thank-you letters out sooner: Dear Charity Clairity, I just took a new job and have discovered they don’t get thank you letters out for two weeks. Especially smaller donors. To me, this is unacceptable. He thinks I’m nuts.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 21, 2023

This allows a full view of how a given company is interacting with your site and layers in the contact information of key people. Discover your ideal accounts and leads with complete contact info. Note that these aren’t donor CRMs, which take another massive article to cover… WeDidIt Website : WeDid.It

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Achieve

JANUARY 22, 2024

Because mid-level donations play an essential role in your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy, cultivating and stewarding strong mid-level donor relationships is vital. This way, you can carefully tailor donation appeals and donor recognition activities to your mid-level donors’ involvement, preferences, and interests in your organization.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

A common misconception among newer nonprofit professionals is that every campaign or event is meant to attract new donors and donations. The longer a donor gives to your organization, the more time you have to build meaningful relationships that will reinforce their long-lasting support. . Ensure communication is a two-way street

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While one particular organization may get greater traction with their in-person events , another makes better use of their donor relationships. In this article I hone in on two critical factors for fast tracking end-of-year fundraising strategies. How to keep your relationships with your donors healthy and authentic.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

For fundraisers, the clarity of each donor contact record matters. A clean and complete contact record saves time and provides fundraisers with the full picture. Development teams need to know how the relationship with each donor has evolved over the years. The body of the email will be recorded as a note.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In Mastering Online Fundraising , our class for non-profit fundraisers, we talk a lot about how small changes to your online fundraising strategy can result in major returns, including new prospects, new event attendees, and of course, new donors. What are you doing with your current e-mail contact list? Ask for (Just a Little) Action.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

If you’ve migrated donor data from one CRM to another, no doubt you have dealt with a lot of difficult decisions. In fact, our donor data migration clients often express surprise at the number of decisions they have to make. In this post, we discuss our list of Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions.

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Achieve

APRIL 28, 2022

If you’re looking for your donors, they’re probably on the internet. With so much time on the world wide web, bombarded by advertisements, most people have become increasingly immune to and skeptical of even the most innocent donor outreach campaign. Keep track of your online donors. . Incentivize donors to give more.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

Many nonprofits don’t know their donor data. If we don’t know our donor data, how can we effectively plan a fundraising appeal? Combat the challenges of donor retention? So, how do we know that nonprofits don’t know their donor data? Because donors are people, and people’s lives change.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

And forming those relationships requires thought-out strategies and a will to succeed with engaging your donors, especially when you can’t interact face-to-face. No matter who your nonprofit serves, there are plenty of ways to connect with remote donors and help them see the value of investing in your mission. Ramp up communications.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2021

When you’re determining who to cultivate for your major donor portfolio, do you simply look at everyone who gave more than $1,000 (or whatever your major gift amount is) and dump them all into your portfolio for the year? Who Gets an Individual Major Donor Portfolio Cultivation Plan? . Tier your donors. I didn’t know any better.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Discover our step-by-step guide to connecting with donors who truly care about your mission, and watch your fundraising efforts thrive. conduct research Gather data on your current supporters Review your nonprofit’s existing data, such as donor records , volunteer information, and past survey results.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The difference between Contacts/Accounts and Person Accounts data models. The Salesforce Contacts/Accounts data model aligns with the way most companies work – where activity is related to organizations, not individuals. the Contacts/Accounts model is not an ideal choice for associations. It facilitates more unified reporting.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

If your organization uses separate tools for sending email and for managing donors, you know the kind of problems you can run into: finding potential donors in your email system that aren't in your donor management system, or sending duplicate messages to contacts you have listed in both systems.

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

Ultimately, this helps major gift teams focus on what matters most—building relationships with donors and helping their organization make an impact. AI tools help minimize those tasks by prioritizing and identifying donors, drafting email communications, and syncing data to your CRM. It’s a necessity.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

These are good places to start, but there’s more you can do to appeal to prospective donors while they decide whether or not to give. In this article, we’ll discuss one of the most impactful tactics for improving your donation page: adding more giving options. Monthly gifts are highly convenient for donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Some nonprofits may only require basic contact and background information, while others may require extensive background checks due to sensitive work. As shared earlier in this article, create an online application that collects more than just basic identifying and contact information.

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Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Your donors will like the sound of that!) Click here for that full article. For further questions, feel free to contact our team of nonprofit financial gurus. The auditor’s findings will in fact provide actionable insights on how to improve your back office and financial management practices.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Wouldn’t it be great if new donors sought you out? Approaching a new prospect with clips of newspaper articles about your non-profit, or a short video from the local news with an interview of your Executive Director, can go a long way toward overcoming objections and moving a prospect towards a gift.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2023

Major giving is often the largest revenue source for nonprofits, so being able to identify and build relationships with large-gift donors is crucial to successful fundraising efforts. In this article, we will go into more detail about major gifts, major donors, and how software can help identify prospects. What are Major Donors?

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Candid

MAY 19, 2022

You can read more about how to research individual donors here. . Contact information. The 990 might be the only reliable go-to resource for contact information if the nonprofit does not have a website—and 90% of them don't. . Read the full article on Form 990s and how to use them. . Whether the charity makes grants

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 18, 2013

This post is part 2 in a series of articles aimed at organizations on Common Ground who need to get excited about what’s next if they decide to stay on the Salesforce platform. The feature I’ve chosen to highlight is how Click & Pledge handles reconciling donors to Salesforce. So much better than Common Ground.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 6, 2014

You website is your portal to current and potential constituents, and often times, it is your one chance to entice donors. With our ever shrinking time spent on webpages, it is important to make your web surfers, and potential donors, feel safe immediately. Simple and interactive contact page. Image Courtesy of eSeller.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2024

Nonprofit Fundraising Support One of my favorite pieces of Greater Giving is that they have a robust Help section with a plethora of articles, instructions, and tutorial videos to teach new and experienced users alike the correct way to set up each of the elements in the software to best support your unique event.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2017

Consider this—7 out of every 10 donors only donate once. 77 percent of donors leave due to a lack of communication. Now, we’ll walk through our favorite donor management tools to help you find one that can organize and centralize all the donor data you’re collecting! Donor Databases for Medium-Sized Nonprofits.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There are zillions of articles about how to build the best nonprofit donation form. Read on for explanations of each form element and why your donors will love it. When a donor first lands on this donation page, they’ll only see an impact statement, a compelling image, and options for choosing your donation amount and frequency.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 1, 2023

And they’re the ones regularly reporting amazing wins (one brought back a 20-year lapsed donor). If you’re torn, you’ll definitely want to read these before -and- after LinkedIn articles about a young fundraiser named Kathleen. So make sure to let your trusted contacts know how they can reach you after you’ve left.

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Qgiv

MAY 23, 2022

That’s why we updated Qgiv’s dashboards to be customizable, with drag-and-drop insights to help you build a dashboard packed with data that tells a story about your campaigns, events, and donors! You can easily opt in to the beta by clicking the “update my dashboard” button, or you can refer to our help desk article as a guide.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As more and more of our lives move online, nonprofits need an optimized, well-designed website in order to stand out and engage donors—and to justify the expense of maintaining one! In this article, we’ll catalog ten nonprofit website best practices your organization can use to maximize your investment. Others do, too!

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 8, 2012

The following is a compilation of online discussions of faux donors trying to scam colleges, schools, and nonprofits. The donor promised his patent would completely fund the university, wipe out the national debt, and make America the happiest place on Earth. BTW beware potential donors who only correspond using cap lock.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 25, 2021

Don’t assume your potential donor understands concepts or jargon that you do. Check out our previous article about How to Nail the Perfect Elevator Pitch to learn more about discovering your core mission and conveying it in a way that’s easy to digest.). As you talk about your work, leave space for the donor’s thoughts and opinions.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

But for fundraisers, numbers can reveal a lot of insights that help you understand donors, demographics, and more. This fundraising metric shows us that, while digital appeals are a great way to reach donors, direct mail should still have a place in your fundraising strategy. You’ve likely heard the phrase, “Numbers aren’t everything.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2022

And here’s the most exciting part: Smart nonprofits create a “dividend of time,” a gift of new time that can be spent with clients and donors, preventing crises, thinking, learning, and even dreaming! We are thrilled with the initial reception for the book, here’s a few links to different articles we’ve written and interviews.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 23, 2024

Blackbaud is a nonprofit-focused software provider that offers several solutions your organization can use to manage donors, enhance fundraising, and streamline operations. Better donor management. How-To Documentation : Use this library of resources to read articles, watch videos, and get the latest news about your Blackbaud tools.

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Candid

JULY 7, 2022

Meta and TikTok have made donations even easier, giving potential donors the opportunity to donate without leaving the platform. Is the contact information accurate? . Meta uses your data from GuideStar, so you’ll want to make sure that profile has an updated logo, mission statement, and contact information.

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