EveryAction

OCTOBER 26, 2022

According to a 2019 article from Forbes , 90% of text messages are read within 3 minutes of being sent. TechJury has reported that SMS open rates average 98%. It could be as simple as “I thought you’d like to see what your support made possible.” Two weeks later, you get their end-of-year appeal in the mail.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

These include direct mail, phone calls and messages, and in-person solicitations. In this article, we’ll explore how AI is reshaping fundraising. These messages deeply connect with supporters. Improved Donor Retention Additionally, smart donation asks contribute to improved donor retention rates.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Designing your emails to be mobile responsive or mobile first will help them make the most impact when opened by your supporters. In addition to emailing your supporters when promoting a campaign, email them with helpful tips, industry-related updates, inspiring stories, and recaps of successful events and volunteering efforts.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 13, 2023

The average nonprofit email open rate is 23%. Your loyal supporters love to hear from you. Provided you’re offering up content that’s relevant, useful, hopeful, and inspiring , mail as often as you can afford to do so (taking into account both human and financial resources). Share articles like this one with them.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

While acquisition is definitely a worthwhile goal, a sensible fundraising specialist will tell you that another top priority of any given fundraising project should be retaining the dedicated supporters that you already have. . Direct Mail versus Digital Communications .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Included in this article you’ll find: The results of our flash polls we conducted on year-end fundraising. Year-end Appeal Creative (inclusive of email and direct mail): 96% were writing their own appeals and not using a copywriter. 34% were only sending out 2-3 appeals (direct mail and email). Let’s dive into the poll data.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

Meeting your GivingTuesday fundraising goal means you’ve run a successful campaign; meeting your GivingTuesday fundraising goal and adding new donors to your base of loyal supporters is even better. A large community of supporters helps you mitigate that risk. Through direct mail?) After reading a Facebook post?

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Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

My last article of this two-part series, “ Nonprofit Giving Trends and Future Fundraising Strategy ,” began a discussion of smart fundraising strategies to take advantage of best practices and current trends. One place I worked saw appeals with notes get a 30%+ rate of return vs. a 4% return from appeals without notes! .

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Do you wait for the mail to arrive? Where does the mail go first? Because if they keep losing supporters along the way, pretty soon they won’t have time — or resources — for anything, including their mission. We then looked at the total gift journey. Where do checks go first? Where do credit card payments go first?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Starting during the weekend of Black Friday, Cyber Monday and #GivingTuesday in 2016, Gmail introduced a new method for measuring the quality of engagement when it comes to email deliverability from the email sender to determine if an email should be delivered to an inbox, known as the inbox placement rate.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2023

This article will cover the following strategies for donor communications for small nonprofits: Tailor communications to donor preferences. As a small nonprofit, you have limited resources to connect with donors but adding a few personal touches to messages is a low-cost and easy way to strengthen your supporter relationships.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Direct mail is a major workhorse for all nonprofits. And regardless of what you hear or think about online giving, most gifts still come via the mail. This week guest blogger Gail Perry is back with her top tips to help us all raise more money by mail. 112 Tips to Raise More Money by Mail. Thanks Gail!

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

The work you do wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of your donors, so it’s vital that you work to build genuine relationships that inspire them to continue giving. In this article, we’ll explain what email automation is and explore three strategies you can use to leverage it. Let’s dive in! What is Email Automation?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 13, 2023

The average nonprofit email open rate is 23%. Your loyal supporters love to hear from you. Provided you’re offering up content that’s relevant, useful, hopeful, and inspiring , mail as often as you can afford to do so (taking into account both human and financial resources). Share articles like this one with them.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 19, 2018

As 2018 draws to a close, I was curious to see which of the 160+ articles we’ve published to date this year have been the most read. Without further ado, here is the countdown of the most popular articles published on npENGAGE in 2018: . Donor retention rates haven’t snuck north of 50% in more than a decade.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nonprofit advocacy campaigns give your supporters a new way to get involved while furthering your mission through grassroots action. Plus, your nonprofit can attract new supporters interested in advocacy to your cause, growing your supporter network of donors and volunteers. Use your CRM to track relationships with supporters.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

To help you get started, this article will explore four ways you can plan ahead now, including: Create a research-based fundraising strategy. For example, if you discover your donor retention rate is falling, you can focus on donor stewardship in the months leading up to Giving Tuesday to boost retention. Your social media pages.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 12, 2021

Communication: Text is a great medium for sending confirmation messages, reminders, and quick alerts to your supporters. While mobile giving may be trendy, it’s still a good idea to utilize a multi-channel fundraising approach to best engage with your network of support. So how do you target them to contribute to your organization?

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NetWits

JUNE 13, 2011

If we are to tackle this situation (and improve the retention rates of all supporters) we need to look again at our websites and ask ourselves if they give donors what they want? There are not just pure “online donors” and “direct mail” donors – there are donors who choose to mix it up. In MultiChannel Donors: Real?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

Your nonprofit needs you working in your strengths , not setting up your newsletter in Mail Chimp or scheduling your next Facebook post. You can peruse the listings of hundreds of VAs, check out the types of services they offer, and see the ratings and reviews from previous employers. Nor should you. Remember, you get what you pay for.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

The process of analyzing a nonprofit’s data can improve a number of nonprofit functions, including: Recruiting and retaining supporters. Are users from Google spending more time on your website than those who found it via a recent news article? Are certain pages seeing a high bounce rate? Website Conversion Rate.

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 14, 2014

Data analytics enables us to understand our donors much better – their needs, their interests, and their willingness to support our missions. And we wonder why retention rates are falling, and why donor acquisition efforts fail too often. And today’s nonprofits must do this in order to survive and grow. What do to?

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2022

Because matching gifts will not only increase your revenue, but they’ll also help you increase your donor retention rate. Include this on your website, promote it on social media, and tell supporters about it in your email newsletters and direct mail appeals. The nonprofit pitch is a powerful tool.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Kate is passionate about supporting mission-driven organizations. These new supporters may have been inspired by the holiday spirit, a social media post from a friend or family member, or even a post or email from your organization. The average annual donor retention rate for the nonprofit sector hovers around 40-45%.

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Achieve

APRIL 28, 2022

Ask supporters open-ended questions. Your supporters have their individual engagement preferences, and it generally takes numerous interactions across channels before a follower is ready to donate. Sharing functions for users to post articles and fundraisers on social media. Ask supporters open-ended questions.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 26, 2021

There are many nonprofits out there that champion worthwhile causes, and standing out from the crowd at every point along your supporters’ path to becoming donors is key for building long lasting relationships. Create a consistent experience for your supporters. Have increased shareability. Have increased shareability.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 29, 2020

By showing off your strengths, forming a groundbreaking board, drafting brand strategies , and drawing more support, your organization will be more prepared to further your cause. Without strong leadership, it’s hard to build community support or create change. In short, it attracts support and trust. Author Bio.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Do you know what your retention rates are or how to increase donor loyalty? You may know I love applying lessons from other disciplines to nonprofit fundraising and marketing; recently an article from Merkle inspired me to consider how the social benefit sector might use commercial business insights to increase donor loyalty.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Result: 63% more donations, 55% higher conversion rate and a 2X ROI. Had a 55% increased conversion rate. Result: 119%-203% higher conversion rates. The process looks something like this: The research supporting remarketing is compelling: 70% of website visitors who are remarketed to are more like to convert on your website.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

The more you can understand who’s supported your organization in the past, the more you can understand who is likely to support you in the future. Personalization alongside a donor’s individual case for support can entirely change conversations around year-end giving.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 3, 2022

You know, the kind where you get mind-blowing results like higher than average email open rates, more donations than ever on Giving Tuesday, and surprise donation after surprise donation the last week of the year. Consistency will help people remember your message and your cause, which will increase your response rate and your revenue.

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

In my experience, the biggest difference in the varying payback on a Care2 multi-channel donor acquisition campaign (or any online acquisition) tends to be the total number of fundraising appeals that an organization sends to its supporters. In short, more good emails = more revenue. Email marketing is mainly a numbers game.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Developing a digital donor acquisition strategy takes a similar approach as direct mail, starting with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift, retention rates, average gift, and if you have done previous online fundraising campaigns, cost per acquired donor. Use social media to drive traffic to your website.

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Care2

AUGUST 5, 2014

I recently wrote an article for The Nonprofit Times outlining exactly what makes up a fruitful digital fundraising program. Because the average yearly churn rate for most nonprofits is about 16%. The best channels to raise money are still direct mail, telemarketing, and email for most nonprofits. Online Fundraising Trends'

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2021

Declining email open rates. In June 2021, Apple announced that their next software release this fall will include further privacy features, including a feature called Mail Privacy Protection , which is likely to have the largest impact to date on mission-driven organizations. An overdue correction.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

for likes, follows and retweets from your supporters. If none of these are feasible, boost SEO yourself: use keywords in your titles, make posts and articles over 500 words, maintain a fast load time on your site and keep URLs simple. They’ll then provide data on your impressions, open rates, click-through rates and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

I have been in trainings where if I even hint that perhaps Facebook is a little over-rated, then eyes glare, people shift in their seats, and I have recollections of a few people even walking out. Nonprofits throughout the world have sent millions upon millions of e-mails, Tweets, bulletins, updates, etc. 2) From my e-mail newsletter.

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