Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A solid donor relationship is the backbone of successful fundraising. When donors feel like they’re making a difference and that they’re valued for their contribution, they stick around and keep giving. Just like any other relationship in life, your relationships with your donors should be mutually beneficial and enjoyable.

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The Fundraising Authority

MARCH 28, 2021

Storytelling is one of the most challenging aspects of donor cultivation. This is especially true when engaging prospective donors who are new to your cause. While some of your volunteers may have never made a monetary gift to your organization, they certainly already understand your mission and the cause you serve.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 2, 2023

Dear Charity Clairity, I know calling donors to thank them is a good idea. If you’re a small charity If you’re a small charity, and receive just a few gifts a day, you could reasonably call every donor. Make it easy to accept donations wherever your donors are. You probably can’t call all those donors.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Without it, your efforts to cultivate and steward donors won’t go very far. A trusting relationship with donors contains shared perceptions and values, openness, transparency, and a willingness to grow the connection. Your Perception of Your Donors I’m sure you can remember an interaction that felt purely transactional.

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Bloomerang

JULY 12, 2021

I took my teenager there last weekend to test the magic, and it was pure delight. . It tells us that the opportunity to surprise and delight your donors is closer than you think. . Be honest: What kind of memorable and meaningful experiences are you creating for your donors right now? Give them the gift of being known by you. .

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Candid

MARCH 2, 2022

Capital campaigns are big undertakings, for both you and your donors. They’re the ultimate testing ground for your donor stewardship tactics, as you’ll be asking for quite a lot — extra-large gifts, multi-year commitments, feasibility study interviews, and more. Start by understanding the root causes of donor fatigue.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

When asking for a legacy gift from a donor to your nonprofit, it’s important to approach the conversation with sensitivity and professionalism. Research and identify potential donors Begin by identifying individuals who have demonstrated a strong commitment to your organization.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

If you’re like every nonprofit on the planet, you’ve got one thing on your mind: acquiring new donors! No matter what your mission is, you’re probably dedicating significant resources to finding potential supporters and getting that first gift. We can’t just wish mission-driven donors out of thin air. You have heaps of data.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This isn’t the only data point backing up this finding, either: our friends over at National Audubon Society actually ran a sustainer-first GivingTuesday campaign in 2020 and grew their recurring donor base by an incredible 900 percent! Use your technology to your advantage, even if it is a simple A/B test.

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Candid

JUNE 28, 2022

Donor retention is the measurement of how many donors continue giving to your nonprofit year after year. You can calculate this metric for your organization by dividing the number of donors who gave again this year by the total number of donors who gave last year. . The donor retention formula. Segmenting donors.

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Greater Giving

JULY 18, 2023

Donor Data Management How To Supercharge Relationships You’ve spent weeks, months, or even years collecting every bit of data your donors produce. Your donor data may include phone numbers, emails, birthdays, donation history, and even meal preferences. Here’s what you can expect in this guide: Gather relevant donor data.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 12, 2021

Do you know your organization’s donor retention rate? of the donors who made a gift in 2019 made another gift in 2020. That means more than half of donors who made a gift in 2019 didn’t make another one in the following year! The Donor Retention Crisis—and Why It Matters. I’d bet not. .

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

As you incorporate these tips, work at fostering genuine supporter relationships, and strategize ways to improve the donor experience, you can generate more reliable revenue streams over time. Boosting revenue starts with forming stronger ties with the people who support your mission: your donors. Personalize donor outreach.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

According to DonorBox nearly one-third of all annual gifts come in December, and nearly half of all online donations come in the last week of the year. Online channels (email, social media, website, donation forms, and texting) encourage real-time interactions, personalized messaging, and taps into tech-savvy younger donors.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you’re always thinking of ways to encourage your donors to increase their donation amounts. Some donors upgrade their giving without being asked, but most donors need some prompting. This makes it easier for your donors to choose how much to give to your nonprofit.

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

Nonprofit marketing leaders are always thinking about how to best communicate with their donors. Personalized and valuable communication is what builds relationships, and long-lasting donor relationships are what set the foundation for nonprofit growth. You’ll be exploring: What type of donor data should you collect?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Donors who gave to you once will slip away. Even if your donor loves your cause, if your email hits on a day that they don’t have much time, the subject line is the key to getting your email opened. How do you let your donor know in a short subject line that the email is urgent? So take the time to get this right. Make sense?

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Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

But along with fundraising comes the responsibility of engaging donors. After all, your fundraising efforts won’t be successful if you don’t turn community members, social media followers, and website visitors into donors. Only ask for the most important information, such as the donor’s name and email address. Let’s get started!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

A large part of that is examining what actions define fundraising strategies that bring in more online donations and keep donors engaged each year. Reviewing their activity wall of donations to personally thank donors. Finding new opportunities to build donor relationships. Adding donor support contacts to each campaign.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We aren’t tempted by the glamour and glitz of major gifts , the gold-lettered names on a wall or building. No, we prefer to build relationships en masse, using data-driven insights to tell us what our donors really want. Do your monthly donors expect your newsletter? Keep them out of it for now (we can always test that later.)

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

From there you can create two versions of your appeal: 1) thanking active donors for their previous contributions and asking for a final end-of-year gift to maximize their support, and 2) reminding lapsed donors about your organization’s important work while also letting them know they still have time to make a donation.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Across the fundraising landscape, there is broad interest in reaching prospects and donors with more inclusive, equitable, and responsible messages. Strength-Based Messaging: A Powerful Tool Thankfully, in recent years, new and long overdue attention has been focused on changing the way we build our donor relationships.

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2022

Magic happens when you build those kinds of relationships with your prospects and donors. This is where donor stewardship comes into play. What is donor stewardship? Donor stewardship—also known as stewarding your donors—is the act of building relationships with supporters after they make a donation to your nonprofit.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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. templates, including appeals, gift proposals, thank-you letters, and much more. Write professional drafts with A.I. Start using Fundwriter.ai for free. #1

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

There is no doubt that you’ve worked hard on new donor acquisition for your organization. The good news is that there are two things you can do to help the donors you’ve acquired become long-term givers and shorten the time it takes to make up the investment of acquiring them. Understanding what donors want and expect.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For these reasons and more, direct mail donor acquisition works. The Benefits of Direct Mail for Donor Acquisition What’s so appealing about direct mail? There are many reasons why direct mail donor acquisition can be a compelling fundraising tool that produces results that digital methods simply cannot. Here’s why!

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 23, 2023

All nonprofits experience various amounts of donor attrition, making it essential to re-engage with lapsed donors. And, like new donor acquisition and donor retention, donor re-engagement after a lapse takes effort. Most organizations define lapsed donors as those who haven’t donated in the past 18-36 months.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2023

The donor journey is a lengthy process, ending with a donation, joining a membership program, volunteering, or getting involved in some other way before restarting again. The longer a donor stays with your nonprofit, the more times they’ll be able to complete this cycle, deepening their engagement with your nonprofit.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Donors are your nonprofit’s greatest resource. From January to June 2022, the number of donors declined by 7%, and overall donor retention decreased by 4.2% Additionally, retention rates for first-time donors declined from 25.3% Additionally, retention rates for first-time donors declined from 25.3% year over year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

As a general rule, donations pages should be simple, optimized for mobile giving, and ask for the minimal amount of information required to make a donation and to capture a donor’s contact information. It’s also worth sending a postcard campaign to your one-time donors asking them to become monthly donors.

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Your nonprofit likely has plenty of strategies for gathering direct donor feedback. But donors can reveal just as much information about their motivations and interests through their unspoken actions. Review your donor demographics. Certain times of the year put donors in a charitable mood, leading them to give more.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . To understand where we are, including fundraisers and nonprofits, with donor data protection, we have to take a look at what happened in souring the public on the idea that privacy was dead.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

You might have a campaign steering committee, a kick-off committee, a committee to oversee the feasibility study, and a lead gift committee. Of particular importance is the Lead Gift Committee. The Lead Gift Committee – A Key to Success. Lead Gift Committee Member Responsibilities. They think the big task is asking.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

If your nonprofit organization hosts a peer-to-peer event with thousands of happy participants and supporters, but you don’t have a plan to convert those bikers, gamers, walkers, golfers, dancers, scavenger hunters, or pub crawlers into monthly donors, you’re missing out on the point of putting on an awesome P2P event.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

#sorrynotsorry Nonprofit jokes: Matching gifts Why did Duracell donate batteries for their matching gift program? >> Why did the Mars matching gift program fail? >> Why did the matching gift program at the sushi restaurant fail? >> It was fishy. >> They were free of charge.

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Whole Whale

MAY 10, 2021

Donor Reports present a great opportunity to share organizational wins and losses throughout the year. An annual cadence of reporting is not great for keeping donors engaged throughout the year which is where donor impact reporting comes in. What should be included in a quarterly Donor Report? The Ask or Challenge.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to ask donors to pay associated credit card fees with purchases and donations. . It’s not donor or customer-centered anymore than a retailer is when they tell potential customers they’ll have to pay extra if they pay with credit cards.

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