ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The answers stem from how volunteer management and key organizational leadership view volunteer retention - the ability to keep volunteers long-term. Difficult times, such as COVID-19, can intensify those challenges if an adequate retention plan is not in place with the ability to properly implemented it.

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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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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. With concrete retention strategies, you can make the most of increases in new donors. Here are the essentials to keep in mind when building or updating your nonprofit’s donor retention strategy.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 15, 2020

But membership retention is a challenge for many associations. It’s about preventing the lapsed memberships in the first place. Here are two highly effective ways to improve retention before members get away: Use artificial intelligence and predictive analytics. The question is: How will your organization address it?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. Let’s move to specific actions based on the developmental stage of your fundraising program.

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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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Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

Secret Sauce: Easy-to-implement, practical action steps. One place I worked saw appeals with notes get a 30%+ rate of return vs. a 4% return from appeals without notes! . ACTION: Get board members to review your donor list. ACTION: Put a system in place to hand sign thank you letters. Ready for the secret sauce?

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Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

Sure, you can look at historical or yearly trends on a graph to identify patterns, but by drilling deeper into the analytics you can uncover insights to help put your data into action. In our previous blog posts on retention and product value , we illustrated how data isn’t one dimensional. Perhaps it’s remaining steady.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

8 Fiscal Year-End Donor Retention Action Strategies + Practical Tips. There’s nothing more important to your bottom line and long-term sustainability than donor retention. This reassures donors they’ve landed in the right place. And this is the time of year you risk having donors fall off a cliff. Don’t let them!

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Nimble AMS

MAY 16, 2024

You can also use Artificial Intelligence to help your association be more intentional in hitting your member-marketing goals, ensuring you drive membership, increase engagement, and boost retention. AI can create recommended actions, helping your staff make smarter decisions, ensuring you reach out to members prior to a lapse.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

The original question: My organization is working on a data retention policy and wondering if others have insights to share. There seems to be a feeling we should remove any records that have not had an action in 7 years. If it’s a record with no financial giving and no actions, is there another reason that it is in the database?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Development audit after development audit of small- to mid-sized organizations reveals that while donor retention remains a critical issue there is also another issue that is equally important. They are not places where individuals go first to seek out information about a cause or to make a donation.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 25, 2023

Association leaders should consider your organization’s mission and define specific actions to amplify your impact. To meet this goal, your association could consider adopting innovative association management software (AMS) to enhance member engagement and boost retention. K eep ing up with emerging trends. Advance your mission.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

Preparation is key To effectively retain emergency donors, you must have a solid foundation in place. Having these elements in place not only positions you to capitalize on the increased attention during emergencies but also provides a clear pathway for donors to continue their support.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 6, 2024

Celebrating contributions: How recognition fuels donor retention Recognition matters. So, a well-placed thank you or a shout-out can make all the difference in converting members to repeat donors. Other studies show that personalized calls to action can improve conversion rates by more than 200%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

This is one of the reasons that nonprofits who create a monthly giving program with DonorPerfect see a whopping 90% retention rate. In fact, you can immediately acknowledge each gift through your fundraising CRM. Crowdfunding. Related Resources: How to Find and Engage Major Donors. End-of-Year Fundraising Dashboard. About the Author.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

The goal is then to turn those data insights into actionable tasks. It) has helped me identify the correct constituents to place into gift officer portfolios,” she said. Each donor action in response to your outreach produces additional data to inform your next interaction.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In this article, we’ll look at three important steps to take as you start planning your year-end fundraising campaign, including: Setting your year-end fundraising goals Identifying your campaign’s story Planning for donor retention Let’s take a look! Past data is an excellent place to start when setting contemporary fundraising goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

3) Creatively Segmenting Donors and Drafting Custom Communications ChatGPT can be helpful not only for creating segmented communications but also for identifying your segments in the first place. Type it in to ChatGPT and let it help you generate new ideas that will excite and motivate your supporters to take action.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 15, 2023

With that, email marketing can be used to provide more tailored information and announcements bringing awareness to your organization and helping to nurture subscribers toward taking action on your cause, initiatives, or events to the right audience. These are all ways to show your subscribers that you care about them and their needs.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Understanding the tipping points and which behaviors lead to them allows you to take deliberate actions to encourage more engagement and build customer loyalty. Keep in mind that the journey takes place in a particular order, but not necessarily in a defined sequence of time.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

Once you know what worked and what didn’t, you can start looking at the current trends in fundraising to create the best GivingTuesday campaign to maximize your donor acquisition and retention. higher than the rest of the year and leads to higher donor retention as well. Use these 10 tips to kickstart your GivingTuesday prep!

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2024

The past two years have seen a dip in overall giving, placing even more emphasis on the need for nonprofits to strategically boost both short and long-term funding. DRMs can directly address industry challenges by offering tools for personalized communication and targeted outreach to support relationship building and retention.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 10, 2021

How do you connect with members when their attention is divided among so many places and activities? At this stage, members are exploring or researching options, but haven’t decided yet if they want to take an action or make a purchase. Member experience directly impacts member retention and loyalty. Enter the micro-moment.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2017

Blackbaud’s 2016 Charitable Giving Report shows us that donor retention for first time donors is still remarkably low – 29% for offline donors and 21% for online donors. But if donors are retained passed that first year, the retention rate jumps significantly to 60% for offline donors and 58% for online donors. Thank You Letters.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. Unless you understand the concept of lifetime donor value and put in place strategies to maximize that, you’ll spin your wheels and potentially leave a lot of money on the table. After tracking your actions, track your donors’ resulting behavior.

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sgEngage

JULY 15, 2023

Donor management centers around proactively fostering relationships with donors and leveraging donor data to cultivate donor interest, maximize retention, and utilize donor resources effectively. Donor context allows organizations to develop customized action plans for different donors.

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Association Analytics

JULY 27, 2021

This will ultimately save you time and money, and provide members with more value that leads to increased engagement and retention. If you don’t have a taxonomy in place, we suggest you implement one that is association-wide. Take action with your data. Ask and observe your members. This is essentially data collection.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By looking at the outcomes of previous work, those on the board of directors or committees can propose actions that continue a positive trend or shift a negative trend. This type of analytics is invaluable in creating action plans to prevent future problems at your association. . Visualize and analyze data connections .

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

But, if you don’t have a membership engagement strategy in place to engage and retain them, you’ll end up losing members just as fast as you can acquire them. Today, we’re going to be discussing steps you can take to put these strategies in place. Ultimately, the goal of a membership engagement strategy is to improve member retention.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

Small nonprofits face even more challenges when it comes to securing funding in comparison to larger organizations—from low donor retention rates to limited resources to an overall lack of unrestricted funding. This led to better retention rates among supporters, doubling annual fund revenue and increasing monthly recurring givers tenfold.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2024

Donor retention is important. All that is true, but the fact remains that donor retention is a struggle. Can Tech Tools Solve Donor Retention? Donor retention is, at its heart, about building relationships. But how can a single fundraiser communicate effectively with an entire donor base? The short answer is “no.”

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Include your employees and enable frontline action when identifying and prioritizing your goals. Ask yourself what information is relevant, timely, and actionable. However, there are infinite metrics you could consider that may be about something other than employee retention or fundraising.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 19, 2022

Retention of online donors is low in the sector. Retention of online donors is low in the sector. However, retention requires communication. Let’s look at three simple actions every organisation can take to maximise online giving, boost subscriber numbers, and enhance the supporter experience. Source: NextAfter.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Do you know what your retention rates are or how to increase donor loyalty? The sorry state of donor retention has been a topic of discussion for at least the past decade, since the Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report began collecting data. Yet too many nonprofits still don’t prioritize donor retention strategies. .

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, many organizations fail to properly track gift officer portfolios, gift officer actions and donor pipeline management within their donor database management. Increase Donor Retention: Creating an intentional, documented plan outlines next steps to be taken with a donor. are clearly documented within the database.

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