Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To that end, there has been a great focus on communication and stewardship of donors to further increase giving. These things have forced our awareness, not only of the external factors at play but the value of retaining an organization’s best donors. What are the behavior and consequence of new gift giving?

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 15, 2018

Shanon has a unique focus: along with usual fundraising efforts, she places an especially high importance on donor appreciation after they decide to give. “ Put simply: If you’ve got donors dropping like flies? His 2013 TED Talk entitled “The way we think about charity is dead wrong” is one of the 100 most viewed of all time. .

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Here are a few findings that I just have to share: For every 100 donors gained in 2014, 103 were lost thru attrition. Every $100 gained in 2014 was offset by $95 thru gift attrition! With regards to donor retention , check out these numbers: The donor retention rate was 43 percent in 2014 (Median).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2014

Since the fall of 2013 when Microsoft made its product donations available to 501(c)(3) faith-based organizations including churches, synagogues, and mosques lots of faith-based organizations have been discovering TechSoup. Blackbaud eTapestry is web-based donor contact management and fundraising software.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. The core mission is thereby freed from total dependence upon the decisions of donors. By meeting the levels of social responsibility set by B Lab, any entity can become a B Corp (Hiller, 2013).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

In 1999, Blackbaud pioneered the nonprofit technology market by introducing reliable, secure, and donor-friendly online donation forms. Let’s continue to focus on delivering multichannel giving experiences for donors. Donor behavior is keeping pace with consumer behavior. Hint: Donor behavior is consumer behavior.).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2014

same expectations around subscriber renewals, same expectations around membership retention, same expectations of conversion of ticket buyers to donors, same, same, same. How many members, donors, ticket buyers, subscribers, etc. It costs 5 times more to obtain a new donor than keep an existing one. Know Your Data.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2014

While organizations focus on their development goal and raising money through major gifts, events, direct mail, grants and online, we continue to see a lack of focus on stewardship and retention. Consider that for every 100 new donors gained, 105 donors were lost through attrition.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Your blog is your gift to them, as well as to yourself. Yes, even your older donors!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Committed to empowering small shop fundraisers everywhere with the tools for sustainable funding, Pamela Grow has collaborated on fundraising systems like 100 Donors in 90 Days and The Donor Retention Project. They’re going with the intent to make a gift. Have you tested making a gift? Supercharge your Home page.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

It also happens to be the top driver of online donations , generating 35% of gifts. You already know that your donors inboxes are going to be filled to the brim this December. If your list is 14,000 people, you could expect 10 gifts per email. can boost retention rates on your next campaign).

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2017

For more than a decade now, there has been much debate about whether online activists would ever turn their clicks into gifts. And this next phase brings together the powerful sentiments of activists with the much needed support of donors. Over time, donors would continue to respond to both domestic and international relief efforts.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 27, 2013

So Chas Offut told us back in April when he and Dennis McCarthy presented a sneak peek of the Blackbaud 2013 Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. Sustainers and repeat gifts. And it’s way, way easier to retain a sustainer than to retain a single-gift-giver.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

I’ll be talking about the role of hyper-connected donors based on my experience and some recent research that shows how valuable these champions are for crowdfunding and social fundraising. 28% of donors are repeat donors. 28% of donors are repeat donors. I love serendipity! Brand the fundraising page.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

For a refresher, my 2013 piece Non-Technology Trends for the CIO and a 2011 white paper for the Association of Fundraising Professionals on similar topics may be good places to start and worth a read as well.). New relationships will be grown out of current ones, and your best major donor candidates are likely already in your database.

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