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Empower donors with a personalized portal

Bloomerang

Create a donor experience that strengthens supporter relationships. According to the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the average donor retention rate in the U.S. As nonprofits work on strengthening donor relationships to improve retention, there has been an increased focus on the donor experience.

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The 5 Rules of Successful Annual Appeal Fundraising Letters

The Fundraising Authority

An organization’s annual fundraising appeal letter is a yearly letter that gets sent out to your current donors asking for general operating funds for your nonprofit organization. When your appeal is the only real live letter your donors get from you, they are more likely to feel you are “selling” to them.

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How to Collect Compelling Stories to Use in Your Fundraising Work

The Fundraising Authority

As fundraisers, we need to be carrying on a constant conversation with our donors. Other times, we talk to our donors through newsletters, e-mails and snail mail letters. We need our donors emotionally involved and excited about our work… not bored. Sometimes this conversation happens in person or on the phone.

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List of Donor Wealth and Lead Tracking Software

Whole Whale

The following is a consolidated summary of the various tools that allow organizations to explore deeper levels of data from their websites. 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.

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Tailor Nonprofit Email Marketing to New and Existing Donors

Qgiv

Segmenting email contacts is a great way to show donors that you know them. Knowing your donors is one of the most important parts of nonprofit email marketing, and it goes a long way in the donor cultivation process ! Why segment by new versus existing donor? New donors won’t have that same relationship yet.

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Supporting Brain Trauma Nonprofits In Their Critical Fundraising Efforts

Bloomerang

Faced with the need to raise more private funds, the association turned to Bloomerang CRM for efficient donor management and payment processing. By consolidating their donor data, they’ve been able to build and nurture stronger relationships with donors and gain clarity into donor preferences, critical for effective fundraising.

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How to report on donors who became donors over time in Salesforce

Judi Sohn

In our organization, all contacts are in Salesforce regardless of whether or not they've ever given us a dime, directly or indirectly. I realized that we didn't have an easy way set up to see how we were doing in converting some of those contacts to donors if they converted months or even years after their initial entry into our CRM.

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