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15 Donor Appreciation Event Ideas for Every Budget

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Donor retention. Donor appreciation events help foster your relationship with your donors, keeping them engaged with your mission, leading to higher donor retention rates. Having an event to celebrate their contributions can help motivate donors with the financial capacity to make major gifts.

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One Thing Most Nonprofits Stink at (Donor Retention) and How You Can Change It in 2014

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In 2013, Chuck Longfield was on a mission to shed light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. According to Chuck, ten years ago the average retention rates of a newly acquired donor were roughly 33%. Today it’s 27%, and even lower in some industries. That’s shocking (and pretty scary).

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Lessons from a Fundraising Insider: How our Donor Retention Rates grew to 43%

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We impact over 10,000 lives each year, and in 2013 we had a donor retention rate of 43% ( compared to 27% ). I’m not writing this post to tell you the ‘5 Sure Fire Ways to Increase Your Donor Retention’. So, what led to our above industry average donor retention rates? Not asking for a second gift unless asked.

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The Nonprofit Weekly Roundup: Secrets, Emails, and Tips for Better Donor Retention in 2014

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In honor of the release of the newest npExperts ebook, Show the Love: Thoughtful Engagement to Retain Donors , this roundup all about retention. I mean, is it just me or is anyone else a little concerned that donor retention remains a lower priority for nonprofits across the industry? Donor retention.

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25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas | A Guide for 2021

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Even though the calls were simply to check in with donors and see how they were doing during a trying time, it also resulted in gifts. Focus on how their past gifts are still making a difference and give them opportunities to ask questions about your organization. This is any type of gift that isn’t financial!

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A Message from Your Donors: Wish You Were Here

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The subject which I was asked to write about was donor retention and, seemingly, these two things should really have nothing in common. At its core, Wish You Were Here is really just about peoples’ inabilities to engage with one another, which is entirely relatable to the way in which donor retention is often approached.

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Online Fundraising Ideas (7 Strategies & 63% More Donations)

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Here’s how one website uses an exit-intent popup to increase email subscriptions by 100% : ManyBooks , which provides free online eBooks, wanted to implement a solution that would grow their email list. According to industry research, 10%-15% of lost visitors can be “saved” by using exit-intent popups.

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