The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 11, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Keep Your Donors Coming Back: Effective Strategies for Nonprofit Donor Retention and Recurring Gifts Ever wondered how some nonprofits have a dedicated group of repeat donors while others are constantly chasing new ones? The secret lies in mastering donor retention and recurring gifts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 20, 2024

DonorDirect ] 48% of donors cite email as their preferred method of hearing updates and appeals from the organization. Double the Donation ] The current donor retention rate is 41.9%. M+R Benchmarks ] Online Giving The average gift made on desktop devices is $194; for mobile users, the average gift is $94. [

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2022

One of the best methods to increase your donor retention is to leverage your overall communication strategies. But first, let’s compare how the major communication channels of direct mail versus digital communications play a role in donor retention. Emails with personalized subject lines are 26% more likely to be opened.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

To secure the support of these crucial donors, your nonprofit needs to build a robust major gifts fundraising strategy. Because major gifts are so large, it requires time and dedication to cultivate and acquire more of these donations. Why are major gifts so important for nonprofits? What is a major gift? billion in 2022.

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Achieve

MAY 24, 2024

However, with the average donor retention rate sitting around 45%, many nonprofits struggle to sustain newly acquired donors’ support. In this guide, we’ll cover four best practices to increase your donor retention rate with text messaging. Donor retention is a key piece of any successful fundraising strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 17, 2022

Even though monthly donors generally give smaller amounts on a per gift basis, the aggregate amount that they give over the course of a year almost always adds up to more. Revenue from recurring donations is far more predictable than revenue from one-off gifts. There’s no need for repeat solicitation with recurring gifts.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 17, 2024

Now is the time to build and refine your donor retention strategies to ensure that these year-end donors remain engaged and committed to your cause. Donor retention is a core component of a responsive fundraising strategy. That’s why tailoring your retention strategies to the different types of donors is essential.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

Having a successful volunteer management strategy will help you increase your volunteer retention rate, which ultimately creates more efficient volunteer staff. Use social media, email blasts, and even donation forms to let your community know you could use some extra hands to help your cause. Why is volunteer retention important?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to attract corporate matching gifts: Dear Charity Clairity, I have a question about how to attract corporate matching gifts. Matching gifts are truly the social benefit sector BOGO. Raise one gift, get the second gift free!

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 7, 2024

Closeup Woman hand using Laptop pc with email icon, Email concept Creating your nonprofit’s digital strategy comes with its own set of challenges, from creating engaging campaigns to standing out in donors’ inboxes. But the good news is that nonprofits benefit from higher open rates compared to regular marketing emails.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Donor retention is the second-highest concern for nonprofits, according to the 2022 CCS Philanthropy Pulse survey. What is donor retention? Donor retention measures how many donors continue to give to your organization. Understanding what may have encouraged the first and subsequent donations is key to understanding retention.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

With 12% of all gifts made during the last few days of the year , fundraising emails are a powerful tool to encourage year-end generosity among your donors. But how many year-end giving emails should you send? Emails are a valuable, low-cost option for organizations, and the number of emails sent is increasing year over year.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 3, 2021

Studies show that donor retention is one of the best ways to boost your nonprofit’s bottom line because it’s easier to satisfy a supporter who has already given and who is already interested in your organization than to try to recruit brand new donors from scratch. . What is a welcome email series? Email #1: Thank the donor.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2022

Best Practices for Donor Acquisition and Retention Through Direct Mail. You should look for statistics and studies that show that some donors respond to direct mail appeals more often than they do to email appeals. A 2020 study by Ballantine found that direct mail response rates ranged from 5-9% compared to 1% for email.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

But your staff members can’t always afford to spend time writing emails to donors on top of their other responsibilities. That’s where email automation comes in. By automating your basic email needs, you can engage donors more efficiently. What is Email Automation? Then, sit back and let your automatic emails do the work.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 26, 2023

Coming in highest was email campaigns, with 88.6% of respondents stating they planned to use email marketing in 2023. In this article, we break down the reasons why email campaigns are a perfect place to begin engaging your donors and how your nonprofit can use email to your advantage starting today.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 26, 2021

Whether developing fundraising strategies, creating donor retention programs, launching humanitarian outreaches on the other side of the world, or implementing marketing and assimilation strategies to grow a local church, Darrell’s passion is to help clients achieve their goals and fulfill their mission. . What Is Donor Retention Rate?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

When launching the Sustainable Giving Report , Qgiv aimed to find solutions to some of the largest challenges fundraisers are facing today, such as the economy’s impact on philanthropy, overall donor numbers and donor retention declining, the Great Resignation, and more! switch up their retention strategies for recurring donors.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Giving your volunteers appreciation gifts is a great way to show gratitude and goes a long way toward creating an environment that your volunteers want to continue being a part of. Showing your gratitude to your volunteers is key to boosting volunteer engagement and retention. Let’s dive in to learn more!

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Your nonprofit’s donor retention rate is the percentage of donors who give from year to year, or over any other specific time period. Your ability to retain donors and keep them engaged can directly impact your nonprofit for a few reasons: Retained donors can be more easily guided towards making larger gifts in the future.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 12, 2020

Start boosting your donor retention rate by focusing on those who are just giving to your nonprofit for the first time. Why First-Time Donor Retention is Important. New donor retention plays a major role in your overall retention rate. This has a lot to do with the power behind a second donation. Call your new donors. .

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to have a donor retention plan in place. Having a donor retention strategy in place to retain year-end donors is the best way to get a good return on the investment you put into acquiring them. 114 ÷ 367) x 100 = 31, so they had a 31% donor retention rate. Let’s take a look.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Learn what it takes to build successful email communications for your peer-to-peer fundraising. Read the workbook, Building Powerful Email Communications for Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns and Events. For example, offer email templates that they can use as a starting point to ask for donations from friends and family.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2023

It’s the reason so many donor programs have retention rates representing three steps forward, two steps back. And it’s why the way we’re used to categorizing gifts as small, medium, and large (or “new,” “mid-level,” and “major”) may not be the most fruitful strategy. Let’s stop giving gifts, and donors, these outdated labels.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Employer matching gifts offer ample benefits to each stakeholder, including the company matching the gift, the employee making the initial donation, and the nonprofit receiving the funds. . Some of the most notable advantages to nonprofits from employer matching gifts include: Added fundraising revenue. Improved donor retention.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Community Brands recently shared donor retention data that reinforced alarming trends that the nonprofit sector has been monitoring for a while. In their survey, they asked nonprofits what their current donor retention rate was: about 60% said they didn’t know and the rest had an average donor retention rate of 45%.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Email marketing. With more than 4 billion users, email empowers you to reach a vast audience while targeting your messaging to particular constituents. Let’s dive into the basics of nonprofit emails so you can improve your fundraising results in any economy. A key tool in overcoming these challenges?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

To purchase the recording, please email your request to Heather Mansfield. Quarterly Impact Reports enhance your website, email, and social media content strategy. Prominently feature a call-to-give, an email newsletter opt-in, and a call-to-follow on social media on your landing page. 3) Prioritize your email campaigns. .

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Email marketing. With more than 4 billion users, email empowers you to reach a vast audience while targeting your messaging to particular constituents. Let’s dive into the basics of nonprofit emails so you can improve your fundraising results in any economy. A key tool in overcoming these challenges?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 26, 2022

High levels of engagement lead to effective stewardship plans , increasing retention rates over time, and overall successful supporter relations. But did you also know that matching gifts can have a significant impact on your donor engagement efforts? What are matching gifts? Let’s begin with the basics.

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Roundtree

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

6 Ways to Improve Your Donor Emails. Email remains one of the most important channels of communication. How can your organization send donor emails that improve open and click rates? #1: Focus every email around one topic: pick one program, event, or need. In your emails, be as specific as possible. 1: Say less.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

At Qgiv, we’ve used AI and machine learning to help detect fraud, suggest dynamic giving amounts, automate thank you emails, and more. Keeping donors connected with the mission ensures the best possible donor retention rate for an organization. Peer-to-Peer fundraising can build a major gift pipeline for your organization as well!

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CauseVox

JULY 14, 2021

Here’s a look at how your nonprofit can benefit from the new Auto-Pledge forms on CauseVox: Auto-Pledges Help You Increase Gift Size. With Auto-Pledges, any donor can become a major donor for your nonprofit, because donors are able to break out larger gifts into installed payments over a period of time.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It’s no secret that email is one of the most effective ways to communicate with donors and fundraise. Email has the highest return on investment of any marketing channel ($40 for every dollar spent!), Email Fundraising Campaign Strategies for Giving Tuesday. Check your email analytics. Segment your donors.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

Third Sector Labs recently co-hosted a donor retention webinar with Caity Craver , CEO of DonorTrends. The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results.

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Qgiv

JUNE 16, 2021

Why segment email lists? 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 ! They’re still learning about your nonprofit after the first gift.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Likely a sign of best practices to come, their donation pages simply ask for credit card information and an email address (not a mailing address) and have an extensive offering of different ways to donate. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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