Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

In business, customer retention is “big business.” ” High customer retention rates can help a company spend less on marketing, improve the overall lifetime value of a customer, and earn more referrals. Calculate your churn rate as Total # of Partner by Total Value of Partners. 3) Reporting Is Everything!

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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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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Let’s dive into how learning analytics can drive engagement, improve course completion rates, identify gaps in learning programs, and optimize the learning experience. Example: Through a learner sentiment analysis, one association discovered that one of their courses consistently received low ratings due to challenging content delivery.

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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. This is why focusing on impact is one of the best ways to increase donor retention.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2020

2) Conversion Rates. The mention of conversion rates often makes nonprofit pros cringe, because it sounds technical, like some jargon a marketer would use. At the end of the day though, making small changes to your forms or calls-to-action can drive big gains. By increasing your conversion rate to 1.5% 5) Retention.

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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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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

MARCH 5, 2019

Current donors are a curated universe who have already demonstrated a belief in your organization’s mission, and willingness to take action toward it. Unfortunately, across the nonprofit sector, donor retention rates are low and getting worse. in 2017, slightly lower than the rates in 2014–2016.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

The goal is then to turn those data insights into actionable tasks. Each donor action in response to your outreach produces additional data to inform your next interaction. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to measuring performance, but every successful fundraising team should have the ability to assess and refine its data.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When you hear directly from clients, you can better tailor services to their needs and preferences, which, in turn, helps increase client retention and impact. If you can trust the data to be representative, you can trust it to yield actionable insights. If your response rates are below 30%, interpret the responses with caution.

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Candid

MAY 14, 2021

percent on a year-over-year basis in 2020, even as the typical nonprofit saw a drop in fundraising revenue, a report from the GivingTuesday Data Commons finds. Based on aggregated data from seventy-four giving platforms and issue- and action-specific apps and tools, the report, Giving in Unprecedented Times: A Lookback at 2020 U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

Imagine what your organization could accomplish in 2022 if you began each initiative with clean, streamlined donor records that record donations from your online forms and update automatically , an arsenal of canned reports to track key metrics, and a solid plan to prioritize each donor segment individually. Crowdfunding. About the Author.

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Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What’s the difference between analytics and reporting? First: Reporting vs. Analytics. Reports share information on what has already happened in your business in an organized, straightforward format. You need reports to help run your business. Some examples to consider: What are the main drivers of member retention?

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Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

This blog provides an overview of how to establish your scoring model, establish a team of data champions, and adopt a regular reporting routine so that your association is set up for success. Once you’ve decided on how you’ll base your score, it’s time to put it into action. Do you want to improve retention numbers?

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 15, 2022

People often confuse reporting and analytics. Reporting is rear-facing, looking back on what happened: It’s about organizing information using past data. Reports help you understand what has happened. Data analytics are future-focused, giving you information in near-real time, to help you take action. Visual Reporting.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2022

During COVID-19 and in the wake of early teacher retirements, Matt Walker, Director of IT, explained that MSTA’s retention rate was declining. Thankfully, with the help of auto-renewing memberships, the retention rate is back on the rise. Customer success story: Increasing member retention with IACP.

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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. Send year-end reports reminding donors how they helped. . And this is the time of year you risk having donors fall off a cliff. Don’t let them!

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M+R

APRIL 16, 2024

We have a couple of points of note around the transition from Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to Universal Analytics (UA) and how that impacted the website data in Benchmarks this year, but first, for fun, an action item! So, this year’s Benchmarks only reports on GA4 data collected at the end of 2023 (November and December).

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Include your employees and enable frontline action when identifying and prioritizing your goals. As the First Republic Bank reported, 90% of nonprofits are already collecting data ! Ask yourself what information is relevant, timely, and actionable. What kind of performance matters to your organization?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

According to the #GivingTuesday Insight Report , the month of November will witness a spike in charitable giving for many years to come. Assuring you have a successful retention rate starts with these four steps: Inform: Your community needs to know about your involvement. GivingTuesday is full of excitement and many goals.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

MAY 15, 2019

Every year, nonprofit consultants M+R release their annual Benchmarks report , which provides an overview of digital trends in the sector. This year's report addressed issues such as email list growth and churn, the rise of monthly giving, and the impact of social media's peer-to-peer fundraising for nonprofits.

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Pamela Grow

APRIL 29, 2023

Their latest report showed the number of donors dropping by full 10% in 2022. And the retention of those new donors was a leading cause of the decline. The sharp decline in new donor retention, which decreased by 21.8%, represents a significant challenge to the industry. Monitor your donor retention.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. If you don’t use analytic tools, it’s impossible to know how many people are engaging with your content and what, if any, action they’re taking after that engagement. After tracking your actions, track your donors’ resulting behavior.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Email inboxes are often crowded, and major players in the tech sector have made changes in the recent past that affect the way we understand open rates. The click-through rate for mobile fundraising messages was 6.3 percent , and 10 percent for mobile advocacy messages. Volunteering. Membership.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

Giving USA 2021 , produced by Giving USA Foundation and Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy , reports total giving grew 5.1% Here are a few 2021 key findings from the report to help us retain and upgrade nonprofit donors: . Per the FEP’s report, in 2020: The overall number of donors grew by 7.3%.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

Put simply, email automation is a feature of marketing software that allows your organization to set up emails that are automatically triggered by supporters’ actions. You create one or more emails for a specific purpose, such as thanking donors for taking action. Then, sit back and let your automatic emails do the work.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

By using cause-specific language that clearly conveys the urgency of needs on the ground, you can compel donors to take immediate action through their communications across channels. Tracking open and click-through rates for each segment provides data to refine messaging.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Lastly, factor in your donor retention rate so you can anticipate the number of new donors you’ll need to acquire in order to meet or exceed this year’s revenue total. Growth Rate: The expected percentage increase in revenue. Retention Rate: The percentage of donors who gave last year and this year.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2014

We impact over 10,000 lives each year, and in 2013 we had a donor retention rate of 43% ( compared to 27% ). I’m not writing this post to tell you the ‘5 Sure Fire Ways to Increase Your Donor Retention’. So, what led to our above industry average donor retention rates? Our database is healthy . Sound like you?

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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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Qgiv

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Donor intelligence can best be described as “accurate, comprehensive, and actionable data [about donors and prospects] to help nonprofits of all types achieve better fundraising and outreach results.” Has your donor retention rate increased, decreased, or remained flat? Nonprofits just don’t have enough of it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

Tailoring your messaging for each segment can result in increased engagement and higher email open rates, ultimately leading to more significant impact for your nonprofit. 4) Stewarding and Engaging Donors One of the best things about ChatGPT is its ability to assist with donor stewardship, which is critical to boost donor retention.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

The annual M+R Benchmarks Report has arrived again, shining a light on trends that are shaping nonprofits’ digital programs. It’s clear to us from this year’s report, that digital engagement has taken some important leaps forward for nonprofits of all shapes and sizes. per dollar in online revenue.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We love hearing about nonprofits’ successful fundraising strategies in action, and sharing these stories allows nonprofits to learn from each other. Then, you can increase your retention rate and create a stronger base of support. . Learn More Paige and the team at United Way of Midland, Inc.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Increases Retention Rates and Donor Life Cycle With each recurring donation, your organization may send thank-you notes with suggestions to stay engaged beyond financial support. Donor Management: All donation platforms should provide reports and real-time tracking information for every gift, including recurring donations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2013

Until recently the nonprofit pioneers of the Social Web had to mostly rely on their intuition that their social media campaigns were resulting in more dollars raised online, an increase in brand and cause awareness, and higher rates of volunteer recruitment and retention. take further action. Source: Waggener Edstrom.

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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.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. What is the difference between donor acquisition and retention? Donor retention is how many donors continue to support your organization year over year. Launch your campaign.

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