NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 27, 2020

Many of your supporters are likely facing hardships of their own and might not be in the best financial position to even make a gift. While making your donation forms as easy to fill out as possible is convenient and motivates supporters to complete their gift. Fundraising and building relationships from home are now the new norm.

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2023

When researching text fundraising , you may see it referred to by many different names, including text to donate, text to give, SMS fundraising, text giving, mobile giving, or text to pledge. How to Use Text Fundraising Text donations can be used side-by-side with peer-to-peer events, pledge drives, other events, or on its own.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Despite increasing commercialism, the holidays traditionally get people thinking about ways they can give—whether they’re wrapping gifts for loved ones or donating time and money to a cause they care about. Many local news organizations like to host an annual food or gift drive around the holidays. Team up with local news.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 98

Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

Matching gift grants or a matching gift integration. This can be accomplished through a private matching gift grant from major donors or a corporate partner. A matching gift grant ensures all donations up to the pledged matching donation amount are matched. Recurring gift support. We’ve got you covered!

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Software Tips Fundraising Virtual 52

NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2017

To get started with Batchbook, take a test drive with their 30-day free trial. Salsa understands that in order to be successful, your nonprofit has to prioritize donor retention. With their database, your donor retention rates are up front and center on the dashboard so you know exactly how your organization is doing.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

You can test the success of your social media presence. ● You might even judge your pledge fulfillment track record. A year-over-year decrease in donors comes from a lack of both acquisition and retention. For instance, try targeting retention first. 3) Average Gift Size. Do you know your average gift size?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Test all Software Beforehand. Focus on Increasing Donor Retention. Matching Gifts. Accept Pledges. In addition to soliciting gifts, why not take the day to recognize those who support your mission, like donors, volunteers, sponsors, grantees and vendors? Ask for a specific gift amount from supporters.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 102

Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2022

I’ll take Giving Tuesday as my test case. From Alice Ferris, CFRE, ACFRE, Founding Partner of GoalBusters , consultant, speaker, trainer and recognized nation-wide for her on-air presence on public television and radio pledge drives. Vary Gift Amounts. Test, see what’s working, and do more of that. Start earlier.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

After a year of significant growth, online fundraising grew by a more modest 3% in 2021 , and the number of gifts increased by 5%. Share the gifts they’ve made. Launch and promote fundraisers Before you launch your fundraisers, test your donation buttons by donating to the campaign yourself.

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Ideas Online Fundraising Tips 79

Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

So if you look at the fact that if you’re sending out appeals, you might get on average $58, on average, the gifts were $58 from appeal donors. But if you get them online, typically that gift is a little bit higher, between $96 and $111, depending upon which study you look at. The other thing is the retention rates go up.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

You are running your annual campaign, you may be running a capital campaign, and/or you may be running like an endowment campaign, or maybe even some kind of restricted gift campaign. And to me, that’s how you solicited the gift, so what prompted this gift? What prompted that gift? So make sure you have that clear.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

So I tested the ideas, tweaking, fine-tuning, kept playing with them, and then seeing more results, even better results. And if you can’t articulate that, if you can’t really speak to that, then maybe you’re not bringing much value for them and maybe your retention rates are not going to be great. We can do better.

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