sgEngage

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Whether you are seeing these for the first time or this is a refresher for articles you’ve read and loved, we hope this list helps you to continue to navigate the current social good challenges successfully. A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be by Kayla Barnes, Blackbaud. Interested in contributing to sgENGAGE in 2022?

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 13, 2021

This change would leave many of our donors (without email addresses) in the dark when it comes to news and feel-good stories about the organization. We continue to solicit donors using direct mail and emails. Here’s why: Donor retention continues to be the biggest problem in nonprofit fundraising.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2022

By involving your most loyal supporters in peer-to-peer fundraising, you’re more likely to increase brand awareness of your organization, securing new donors, and extending the reach of your campaign. If not, look into a platform such as JustGiving® from Blackbaud®, which is free and easy to publish a branded campaign to start raising money!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Further, with 64% of total giving coming from individual donors in 2022, ensuring you have a well thought out strategy to attract these dollars is critical. Lauren Henderson, IT database administrator, Dexter Southfield This clean-up process is a great opportunity to take stock of who is in your donor base. Is there drop off?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In fact, in 2021, we saw 13% growth in online crowdfunding globally through JustGiving from Blackbaud. All prospects and donors can get involved, despite age, race, location, gender, disposable income, or affiliation. All prospects and donors can get involved, despite age, race, location, gender, disposable income, or affiliation.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

For-profit companies have relied on these strategies for years to serve up relevant content and personalized experiences to deepen engagement with their brand, and donors now expect that in their interactions with nonprofits. . This helps make it possible for you to nurture fruitful, intentional relationships with your constituents.

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2022

If you didn’t have to manually update giving records or click five buttons to move an approval forward only to click the same five buttons for the next one, you would be able to focus on more important projects, such as reaching out to donors, identifying community needs, and growing your mission. Someone opens the mail. Automation.

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TechImpact

JULY 29, 2014

Image courtesy of Blackbaud. All of these are great idea s that will help you get the most out of your investment. But if someone were to ask: “How will your new CRM help your nonprofit accomplish its mission?” My CRM will change the way we communicate with donors and constituents. would you have an immediate answer?

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Constituent relationship management (CRM) refers to the various processes that nonprofits use to steward and build relationships with donors, volunteers, advocates, members, and other constituents to secure ongoing support. CRM software equips nonprofits with a plethora of tools to help them better connect with supporters of all kinds.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Tis the season of snail mail! As we are preparing for end-of-year appeals and gift acknowledgment notifications to be sent out in mass, Salesforce.org has enabled a helpful feature to mark an address as undeliverable. returned mail). returned mail). Manage Undeliverable Addresses. Enter Soft Credits with Gift Entry.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2022

Held during the first week of April, Tartan Tuesday invites all members of the Maryville College community to support the programs and causes that are important to them and help the College earn challenge gifts. A participation goal (either trying to achieve a specific number of donors or gifts) seems to work best.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

ADD VALUE Value doesn’t have to be a giveaway or a freebie offer for donors, according to the Forbes Nonprofit Council , “but rather information that they can utilize on a daily basis to help benefit and stimulate their lives.” When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. Newsletters.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 21, 2021

And 2020 didn’t help. This is because fundraisers — up and down the pyramid — miss out on fundamental information that can help them better build relationships, effect the best possible messaging, and elicit support to further the mission. When supporter information remains segregated, fundraising initiatives can be crippled.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2019

As stewardship professionals know well, strengthening and preserving relationships with the donors is essential to an institution’s success. In fact, over 50% of higher education institutions are focused on creating more impactful donor stewardship practices in 2019. No longer do you need to reach back out to edit their notes.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Whether you’re implementing a new CRM or looking to refamiliarize your staff with an existing system, these insights will help you pursue your data-driven endeavors. For example, a fundraiser will need to focus on donor management , while a program manager will need to learn how to track program outcomes.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2017

Relationship building with donors is an art. But we also know that there is a science to donor segmentation and the use of analytics. These insights can be surfaced and used to help your nonprofit make better decisions. These insights can be surfaced and used to help your nonprofit make better decisions.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The most effective nonprofit consulting projects will address immediate problems and provide long-term strategic value that helps you grow. Rather, they partner with specific consultants that specialize in and can help them overcome key pain points for their organization. What do you need a consultant’s help to accomplish?

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NetWits

JULY 9, 2012

Turn One-Time Donors Into Regulars. Our report recommends implementing a solid retention strategy to turn one-time donors into repetitive donors. This communication can be done via email, newsletter, direct mail or social media. You might not have trouble browsing through its pages, but do new potential donors?

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 2, 2022

Campaign Services helps our clients lighten complex data loads and assist in ongoing integrations for vital fundraising operations through direct marketing campaigns. The two most common forms of direct marketing are direct mail and telemarketing. The sky is the limit, and we can’t wait to get started with you.

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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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NetWits

JULY 28, 2011

potential donors). Having something to aim for always helps. Most supporters will set their personal fundraising goal very high to inspire themselves and their donors (i.e. It goes without saying, but using an online tool will help you manage your fundraising efforts. Think creatively here. Make sure you set a goal.

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NTEN

JUNE 8, 2011

We've been talking a lot about multi-channel fundraising in the last year or two, which begs the question: Are donors really multi-channel? Take some of the key findings: Every year, large proportions of online-acquired donors switch from online giving to offline sources - primarily to direct mail. The lesson?

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

You’d probably agree that, along with looking to increase the lifetime value of donors, many nonprofits (possibly yours) are striving to do more with less while also looking for new ways to secure consistent funding. Here’s why … Recurring Giving helps Increase Donations. The concept of recurring gifts is simple.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

This guest post was authored by Dennis McCarthy, director of enterprise sales at Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company. A tool to influence elected officials’ opinions has been the petition, initially door to door, then in direct mail packages, and now online. Convert to Donor. It originally appeared on npENGAGE.com.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Essentially, social media represents channels that organizations can tap to help meet many of their objectives: Acquire new supporters, especially the next generation of donors. Foster an ongoing relationship with existing supporters. Better serve their constituents. The idea that social media works is intuitive, but not widely proven.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2014

In his prior career he managed direct response programs for a variety of nonprofits, resulting in countless donors and dollars going to fund some incredible missions. . Peer to peer donors are a good group of warm prospects, but the question remains will peer to peer donors become organizations’ donors?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Each donor has a shared interest in your mission — or you would assume they share an interest if they send you hard-earned money — however, otherwise, your donor base can be a varied selection of the general population. Know Your Donors and Tailor Your Strategy. Mostly older donors?

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NetWits

JANUARY 3, 2011

Direct mail may use different friendly URLs to test response rates. Now that they’re one step closer to becoming a donor, event participant, or email subscriber, do you stop testing? It helps you get smarter over time. If you’re using Blackbaud NetCommunity , the Content Comparison part will run the test for you.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you were unable to attend the conference, we hope you can use the summary below to inspire thoughtful conversations at your institution and help in your planning for the new year. . . Recent data shows that total commitments and donor retention are both down in 2020. Fundraising during a global pandemic .

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 4, 2018

What are some of your strategies for acquiring new donors? We have had a loyal group of donors that generously support to our annual appeal every year, and a couple of hundred that we now consider part of our Donnan Society or our Friends of the Foundation program for lifetime gifts over $100,000. We have a very active St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The exact opposite is more likely especially for wealthier donors. The potential for tax code changes are more likely to encourage these donors to give now instead of waiting. The data shows a troubling trend in the nonprofit sector: Donor populations have been shrinking for the past five years and revenue per donor has been flat.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Online fundraising has also proven to be an extremely effective donors acquisition vehicle. Let’s take a look at some fundraising ideas – the fifteen most effective donor acquisition and online fundraising techniques used by top nonprofits. Expert Tip : Brand your donation form like @BFAS so donors know it’s you!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 10, 2020

The potential health and economic repercussions resulting from COVID-19 are worrisome for many, but your mission stands strong and your donors believe in you. GivingTuesday has created a #GivingTuesdayNow tool kit that includes logos, graphics, banners and other images to help develop your campaign.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 14, 2017

The latest figures from the Blackbaud Index for Canadian giving and U.S. The latest figures from the Blackbaud Index for Canadian giving and U.S. Have charities been able to learn from e-commerce sites like Amazon and Zappos to improve their online donor journey? Direct mail and other traditional fundraising channels are.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Here are some ideas for how your organization can come alongside and connect with supporters (and prospects) who are parents—and who could probably use a little extra help right now. Adding in some questions for kids or funny facts can help keep their attention. It will still mean a lot that you’re thinking of them and helping.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2014

Marketing Manager at Blackbaud – follow Clare @clareinatx. . After college, I was determined to find a career that would help me avoid numbers, measurements and calculations at all cost. If you’re in the business of encouraging donors to hand over dollars to support a mission, you likely get it.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

While we know that it’s significantly more beneficial to retain a donor than acquire a new one, we also know that the first-time donor retention rate is less than 20%. If your current and prospective donors were as informed as you are, your fundraising efforts would be significantly more effective. Retention Campaigns.

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