Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Did you know that, on average, 88% of total nonprofit donations comes from just 12% of donors? This small portion of your nonprofit’s supporter base is known as your major donors. To secure the support of these crucial donors, your nonprofit needs to build a robust major gifts fundraising strategy. What is a major gift?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

In other words, you create donor journeys. . If you’ve never done so, developing donor journeys (also known as donor journey mapping) can feel like quite an undertaking. What are my donor personas? Below, I’ll break down the basics and share my four top donor personas that will help get you started. .

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

You may be balancing your final push to reach your fundraising goal with event planning, donor meetings, board meetings, and planning for the new year—and that list doesn’t include all the things you do outside of work, either. That’s why it’s essential to have a donor retention plan in place. Let’s take a look.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Your lapsed donors. This timeline offers a clear road map to prevent lapsed donors: What makes donors lapse? The second thing you must know is what defines a lapsed donor. The simple definition of a lapsed donor is someone who hasn’t given in a certain amount of time. Do donors realize they’ve lapsed?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Donor engagement is an essential component of an optimized nonprofit fundraising strategy. But did you also know that matching gifts can have a significant impact on your donor engagement efforts? But did you also know that matching gifts can have a significant impact on your donor engagement efforts?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Believe it or not, I’ve found that there are parallels between one of the greatest Halloween movies ever made and major gift fundraising. Steward donors and encourage them to become loyal to your organization. . Well, donor loyalty is the biggest factor in determining and stewarding potential major donors.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Faculty engaged her both inside and outside the classroom by providing feedback on assignments, encouraging her to step outside her comfort zone to acquire new skills, recommending extracurricular activities, and checking in on the progress she’s making towards her goals. His university connected with him regularly when he was a student.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Capital campaigns often recruit volunteers to help with various functions. You might have a campaign steering committee, a kick-off committee, a committee to oversee the feasibility study, and a lead gift committee. But sometimes, managing campaign volunteers may seem like more work than it is worth.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

You see, I am a female in my late 20’s-early 30’s, living in an urban area, vegetarian, eco-conscious, middle class, and have been actively seeking plant based alternatives to milk that taste good and are kinder to animals and the planet. Why Do Donor Personas Matter? How to Create a Donor Persona So how do you create a donor persona?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Giving Tuesday is just around the corner , and a great way to make the most of it is to encourage volunteers to raise money for you from their friends on Facebook that day! In 2019, Facebook provided $7 million dollars in matching funds for the first gifts made on Facebook on Giving Tuesday. We rarely get gifts we don’t ask for.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Whether you’re new to the fundraising world or a seasoned veteran, one thing is clear—volunteers are key to a nonprofit’s success. Without the help of volunteers’ donated time, many nonprofits simply couldn’t function. In fact, the value of volunteer hours is at an all-time high, according to a recent report by Independent Sector.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

Volunteers are the backbone of every nonprofit’s workforce, and having a good volunteer staff helps your organization accomplish more for your cause. To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to persuade leadership to get donor thank-you letters out sooner: Dear Charity Clairity, I just took a new job and have discovered they don’t get thank you letters out for two weeks. Especially smaller donors. We then looked at the total gift journey.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It means all of your efforts, research, and cultivation will not be resulting in a gift from this prospect. Often, it means explaining to your boss, or to a referring board member, that no, you were not able to secure a donation, and no, the donor does not want to think about it… they outright declined. That being said, “no’s” happen.

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Connecting with new donors is crucial to growing your nonprofit’s supporter base and ultimately raising more for your cause. New donors invigorate your nonprofit with a fresh wave of funding and engagement. In this guide, we’ll cover 10 strategies for finding and engaging new donors.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Here are practical tips on how to engage your aging donors and encourage planned gtiving. These tips include how to make a planned gift request without making it awkward. Older adults tend to be more actively engaged in charitable giving and are more likely to make substantial donations. What age group should you target?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit leader who needs advice on who the best prospects are to ask for legacy gifts. But we don’t have a lot of major annual donors and don’t know many rich people. Dear No Rockefellers, It’s a myth that legacy gifts must come from rich people. 20% loyal donors = 500 loyal donors .

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Think about Board members, employees, volunteers, donors, and social media followers who can serve as ambassadors. The goal is to get 10 new donors from each ambassador. And if each donor gives $100, that’s $1,000 per ambassador. She asked the volunteer to take the video down, which the volunteer did.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Every visitor of your nonprofit website is a potential donor. A good donor experience provides a great first impression. Delight new donors with embedded giving, and offer a reliable process that long-term supporters are happy to come back to. Empower Donors to Use the Device of Their Choice. Make Payments a Breeze.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

Thanking volunteers for all they do is crucial to keeping your volunteers coming back again and again. Volunteers pour their heart into your nonprofit’s work. Volunteers can Save you money by providing labor so you don’t have to hire staff. which makes volunteer hours add up fast! And that’s a shame.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

What Are Major Gifts? Major gifts are generally the largest donations a nonprofit receives. The exact dollar amount that’s considered a major gift varies from organization to organization. The average nonprofit considers a gift of $5,000 or more a “major gift,” but that’s not a hard and fast rule. major gifts.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2023

When asking for a legacy gift from a donor to your nonprofit, it’s important to approach the conversation with sensitivity and professionalism. Research and identify potential donors Begin by identifying individuals who have demonstrated a strong commitment to your organization.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

It’s easy to focus on fundraising success and forget about donor retention. Retaining your GivingTuesday donors is important, too. GivingTuesday Donor Retention Makes Financial Sense… While you work on your plan to attract new donors on GivingTuesday, spend some time thinking about how you’ll retain them after the big day.

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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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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Without it, your efforts to cultivate and steward donors won’t go very far. A trusting relationship with donors contains shared perceptions and values, openness, transparency, and a willingness to grow the connection. Your Perception of Your Donors I’m sure you can remember an interaction that felt purely transactional.

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Candid

JUNE 28, 2022

Donor retention is the measurement of how many donors continue giving to your nonprofit year after year. You can calculate this metric for your organization by dividing the number of donors who gave again this year by the total number of donors who gave last year. . The donor retention formula. Segmenting donors.

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Qgiv

MARCH 19, 2024

The backbone of sustainability for nonprofits often falls on the generosity of donors! To keep your donors engaged with your mission, it’s important to make them feel appreciated. Donor recognition is one of the best ways to help you retain your donors, but a simple thank-you letter may not always feel like enough.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They had one full-time development director on staff, but everyone – including the staff, the board, the volunteers, even the donors – was constantly worried about fundraising. They were worried about donor communications. Similarly, fundraising systems aren’t much good if they don’t include a calendar of activities.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When you implement donor research in your fundraising strategy, you’ll learn more about your existing donors and spot potential major giving opportunities. There are a few indicators to look out for to find and engage more consistent (and maybe even major) donors. Their volunteer history. Guest Post by: Adam Weinger.

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Candid

MARCH 2, 2022

Capital campaigns are big undertakings, for both you and your donors. They’re the ultimate testing ground for your donor stewardship tactics, as you’ll be asking for quite a lot — extra-large gifts, multi-year commitments, feasibility study interviews, and more. It’s natural to fear donor fatigue during a capital campaign.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Did you know as many as 81% percent of new donors don’t return to give again? And only 43% of all donors remain loyal? Do you know what your retention rates are or how to increase donor loyalty? Yet too many nonprofits still don’t prioritize donor retention strategies. . And, yes, your donors are consumers.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The season of gratitude is upon us and there is nothing more important you can do than thank donors for their support this year. Actually, from a donor’s perspective, it’s annoying. To build a relationship on purpose with a donor, you must communicate with them often without asking for anything. I thought so.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Having solid donor engagement strategies in place is important for any nonprofit that wants to inspire generosity in their community and build a base of lifelong supporters. But the world is a noisy place: Donors are bombarded with constant messaging that can drown out a nonprofit’s attempts to reach them.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2023

The generosity of donors is crucial to your nonprofit organization’s success, which means that you should strategically plan your communications with them. Part of creating great donor communications is personalizing each message to its recipient, making them more engaging. Address donors by their preferred names and pronouns.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 24, 2023

Activity trackers, such as the Apple Watch and Fitbit, have revolutionized the way we approach physical fitness and they’re also dramatically changing the way we approach fundraising events. Peer-to-peer activity-tracking events have emerged as a game-changer for nonprofit organizations seeking to raise funds and promote a healthy lifestyle.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

If you’ve never tried it before, start with these two simple audience segments : active (made one or more donations in the last 12 months) and lapsed (made zero donations in the last 12 months.) Get specific about how a gift today will translate to impact tomorrow—and wherever possible, quantify! Refine (and quantify) your message.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

The explosion of activity is mind-numbing — venture capitalists have been throwing money at AI start-ups, investing over $11 billion in May alone, according to data firm PitchBook , an increase of 86% over the same month last year. To succeed we need to get donors to know, like, and trust us. Ours isn’t a complicated business.

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