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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering an Analytical Approach to Strategy and Planning

Bloomerang

Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. Master an analytic approach to strategy and planning. One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. That’s why you need an analytic, numbers-based perspective to strategy and planning. Start with benchmark data.

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Maximize Monthly Giving with Nonprofit Data Analytics

Pamela Grow

According to the latest M+R Benchmarks Study , monthly giving increased by 11% in 2022, making up 28% of all online revenue. Here’s how you can learn from data about these donors: Average gift size. Determine how much donors contribute via recurring gifts, on average. Organize them into groups based on their gift sizes.

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“Donor retention by the numbers”: Q&A with Caity Craver and Gary Carr

3rd Sector Labs

Third Sector Labs recently co-hosted a donor retention webinar with Caity Craver , CEO of DonorTrends. The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results.

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2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report

NetWits

Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company, has released the third edition of it’s groundbreaking research into multichannel giving trends among nonprofit organizations. Retention rates for online donors continue to lag offline donor trends. Retention rates for both new online and offline donors are bad.

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What Are Recurring Donations?

sgEngage

Recurring donations are gifts to a nonprofit organization made by a donor on an ongoing basis, typically monthly. The trend leans heavily toward a monthly gift cadence, with 94% of recurring donors preferring to give monthly. Nonprofits should promote the message that making a recurring gift is easy and it creates a lasting impact.

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Major Gift Metrics: What You Need to Know

DNL OmniMedia

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you know that raising major gifts is one of the most strategic efforts your organization will complete. Major gifts are not only a highly-strategic effort, but also a high-stakes one— for many nonprofits, over 80% of their total fundraising dollars come from major contributions alone.

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Four Critical Elements of Managing Development Officers

sgEngage

There are many factors in fundraising, from early engagement to a donor’s ultimate or legacy gift. Blackbaud’s research, however, shows the average time from the first solicitation to a donor’s first gift is four years, yet the average development officer’s term is only 18–24 months. Officer Training and Retention Lead to Big Results.

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