Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2013

These events create new and exciting opportunities for organizations to not only raise more money, but engage constituents in deeper, more meaningful relationships. Returning Participants : Returning participants continue to raise more than new participants. Do you have a program to recruit and cultivate Team Captains?

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 15, 2018

His 2013 TED Talk entitled “The way we think about charity is dead wrong” is one of the 100 most viewed of all time. . Her blog teaches fundraising strategy, donor retention practices, motivational stories and so much more. . In her 30-year career, she’s helped raise over 500 million dollars! Dan Pallotta ( @danpallotta ).

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2015

With regards to donor retention , check out these numbers: The donor retention rate was 43 percent in 2014 (Median). That is, only 43 percent of 2013 donors made repeat gifts to nonprofits in 2014. The gift retention rate was 47 percent in 2014 (Median). Organizations raising $100,000 to $500,000 had an average 3.1

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2013

It’s preached that in order to successfully raise funds you must truly know your supporters- your people. There’s been a lot of talk about the results of the 2013 Fundraising Effectiveness Project Survey. Donor retention rates are depressing. People give to people. They give because they’ve formed a connection.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

billion in 2013 and are expected to reach 5.07 The Humane Society uses text-to-give and social media campaigns together to raise funds for their causes. Text messaging can help nonprofits meet their fundraising goals and raise awareness of the causes they support. How Text Messaging Has Revolutionized Giving. billion by 2019.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

L3Cs were specifically designed to help social entrepreneurs raise capital from a much broader range of investors. The B Lab “promotes socially aware business practices by providing an opportunity for a business to voluntarily adopt responsible standards of decision making” (Hiller, 2013, p.

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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. It is completely free to launch a campaign and Teespring does not take a percentage of your campaign's donations.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Some of the most significant disruptors to the sector over the last decade include: While the value of individual giving in the United States increased about 3.4% (adjusted for inflation) in the decade from 2003 to 2013, the number of public nonprofits increased 23.4% or almost 5 times the rate at which individual giving increased.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Auctions, casino nights, galas, golf tournaments, fish fries, 5ks, raffles, and walks—whatever type of event your organization uses to raise funds—require a lot of planning, coordination, attention to detail, and time to bring to life. Fall 2013 was the last time your organization’s event will go down in ho-hum history.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

There is perhaps no more telling data point than this: online donors 65-years and older have the highest retention rate. And donors that are 55-years and older have the highest retention rates for both online and offline giving. This online versus offline wall is mostly in our own heads. It’s in our org charts.

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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. Every organization needs to increase their investment in stewardship and retention. This article was originally published on Hilborne.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Structurally, we now know multi-message, multichannel campaigns raise more money. Since staff turnover and a lack time and expertise can make it difficult to send emails that cut through the clutter, here are some tips to designing an appeal that will raise more money this year-end: Include multiple messages. Check out the eBook!

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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). Charles Klein of Crowdvance offers up Six Ways Buddy The Elf Can Help You Reach Millennials.

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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. According to statistics, 40% of your organization’s donations could be raised during the last six weeks of the year.

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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. Website traffic is down and website conversion rates are stagnant – yet online fundraising continues double-digit growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

534 is the average total amount raised by an individual. 9237 is the average amount raised when groups are working on a team to fundraise. Habitat for Humanity raised a total of more than $5 million the money raised at Share.Humanity.org (which is powered by crowdfunding site Fundly). 28% of donors are repeat donors.

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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.). So, I wanted to focus on the market trends and influences that will inform how nonprofits implement and leverage this technology.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2017

During World War I, the American Red Cross raised more than $114 million (over $2 billion in today’s dollars) to help support the American Expeditionary Force. The Ice Bucket Challenge in 2015 helped the ALS Association in the United States and several international organizations raise more than $100 million.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 23, 2014

Here are this week’s nonprofit highlights: In 2013, an estimated $5.1 Billion was raised through peer-to-peer fundraising. Retention rates are 27%.Donors Interactive donor retention fundraising ideas fundraising tips Gail Perry Kivi Leroux Miller Lyndsey Hrabik Mazarine Treyz Nancy Schwartz' Yours truly, Madeline.

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