EveryAction

JANUARY 13, 2023

It’s also important to note that this time period often sees high levels of mailed-in gifts, so while online giving is an important piece of the puzzle, there’s still more to come on the total cross-channel impact of the last week of the year.) More than 487,000 donors gave over 506,000 online donations during the last week of the year.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 24, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit leader who needs advice on identifying planned giving prospects through predictions and analytics. . Dear Charity Clairity, My board wants us to develop more planned gifts and I’m wondering about purchasing planned giving analytics so we can better identify likely prospects.

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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. General guidance for fundraisers Here is general guidance on actions fundraisers can take based on fundraising trends and best practices drawn from the report.

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EveryAction

DECEMBER 2, 2022

These donations came from over 133,000 donors, who gave a median gift of $35 and an average gift of just over $99. Keep an eye out for our full report coming soon, and get a demo of EveryAction to see how the right technology can support your goals on important days. . million in donations. Key takeaways.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As a fundraising coordinator who prepares these reports, you work with this data every day. The last thing you want to do is waste their time and bog their donor reports down with unnecessary metrics. . Donor data to exclude from your report. Information to include in your donor report. Additional information to share.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

The tool can draft stewardship emails, create impactful copy for annual reports, and even generate speeches for stewardship events. A few places to make sure you have boiler plate language are your website, annual and impact reports, one-on-one donor communications, and newsletters or publications distributed by your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Some focus primarily on traditional fundraising like monthly gifts, planned giving, online fundraising, and special events like galas. Almost all organizations produce some sort of annual financial reporting, but it’s may not always be public information. Many receive a combination of both. has a different meaning?in

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

This technology has helped Cassie Chilcutt, prospect research manager for the Conservancy, reduce major gift officer portfolios by more than one-third after removing low-likelihood prospects. “(It) It) has helped me identify the correct constituents to place into gift officer portfolios,” she said.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

360MatchPro by Double the Donation , the leading provider of matching gift automation software, integrates with the best school and university fundraising platforms. This allows your institution to raise more and take advantage of the $4-7 billion in matching gift revenue left unclaimed each year. GiveCampus & Matching Gifts.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Your CRM is a key tool for engagement and can drive your fundraising strategy, moves management, campaign analytics, and operational reporting. A data warehouse is a structured database that supports reporting, segmenting, and analytics needs. When a Nonprofit Should Use a Datawarehouse.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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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Media Cause

JUNE 9, 2022

We all know it can get tricky to work with outside vendors; setting up pixels correctly, getting reports, and ensuring that leads are attributed properly. After a bit of searching, I found the answer in a very familiar place, Analytics Mania. How to Use Sticky UTMs to Attribute More Gifts appeared first on Media Cause.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In our recent Nonprofit Trends Report , we found that over three-fourths of nonprofits need to develop a data strategy for their organization, while 66% of nonprofits find data sharing across departments difficult. In our recent Nonprofit Trends Report , 85% of nonprofits noted that donor retention is becoming more difficult.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2011

Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company, has released the third edition of it’s groundbreaking research into multichannel giving trends among nonprofit organizations. This report continues to be the most significant analysis of online/offline giving trends based on actual data from nonprofits.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

If you’re a nonprofit professional you know what it’s like to drown in excel spreadsheets tracking your supporters, donations, major gifts prospects, and almost anything else. Here are some key tools your nonprofit should have to meet your reporting needs: Customizable reports that allow you to get roll up data and detailed data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

Nonprofits use CRMs to manage their donor relationships, to segment supporters by interest areas, streamline donor communication, automate fundraising, and report on outcomes to the board, donors, and community. Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Donor intelligence offers significant advantages, especially if you have a major gift program. Then, they could pull a report showing the percentage of donors and other funders who are a great match and correlate that with the amount of income produced. unsecured) major gift/grant/corporate sponsorship opportunities.

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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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 13, 2020

Many nonprofits fear that asking a donor for additional support, after they’ve already made a donation, will turn them off from making future gifts. Now you want to know, is it appropriate to ask your supporters to take further action?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Many organizations are embracing these coming-of-age fundraising strategies, but it may be to the detriment of what we’ve traditionally called “major gifts”. Benchmarking Major Gifts. Released in September, the 2017 Major Gifts Fundraising Benchmark Study (MGFBS), asked more than 600 organizations in the U.S.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2019

Sometimes we all get so caught up in reporting that it’s easy to forget about the people behind those numbers. Make data analytics work for your organization – download the Blackbaud Institute’s free Analytics Toolkit. The thing with these analytics though is they focus predominantly on what’s happened in the past.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Make a “ stretch gift ” that is very generous and is outside your normal giving pattern. Be familiar with the organization’s case for support, annual reports, theory of change, and other collateral materials. For example, could people who donate every year be cultivated for a larger or monthly gift? It doesn’t have to be a gift.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Less than one in five new donors who donated on GivingTuesday will give a second gift, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. GivingTuesday’s “ Data Commons ” says something similar in their report “ Rethinking Resilience: Insights from the Giving Ecosystem.” Use those analytics and donor feedback to refine your strategy.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Last month, the Blackbaud Institute released a report entitled “ Share of the American Wallet ,” which uses the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Expenditure Survey data to explore how demographic attributes and discretionary spending patterns relate to philanthropy. Does that mean that you don’t have any major gift prospects ?

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Forum One

AUGUST 12, 2021

Nearly one-third of annual gifts are made in December, and the last three days of the year alone account for 12% of all gifts. Review existing analytics and donor research to make sure your end-of-year fundraising is based on insights about your particular donors, not generalizations. Know and grow your audience.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

The 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report shows that, regardless of generation, online is now the preferred channel for donations. AI analytics. AI analytics is a description of a type of machine learning that mines insights within a dataset. AI analytics automates much of what a data analyst would do. AI fundraising.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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. That’s why retaining top officers is so important.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

So much of a fundraiser’s day is tracking, reporting, researching, and analyzing. Bennington College 300+ annual work hours saved automating gift notifications and documentation Preble Street 500+ annual work hours saved automating gift reporting and documentation Make Room for Collaboration Fundraisers are collaborative by nature.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 10, 2023

More specifically, these best practices include: Your CRM Incentives Predictive Analytics Enhancing Events Personalized Outreach When you take a closer look at your supporter data and past campaigns, these can better inform your future decisions. Analyze gift sizes. Use predictive analysis. So how does this apply to P2P?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Useful analytics come from a comprehensive data set, typically from a donor management software, that can be manipulated into an intuitive report that anyone can digest. Reports generated around donor engagement can measure campaign involvement, giving history, and other trends that can help guide your strategic processes.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Understanding how organizations can leverage analytics and data is critical to fundraising success. . In this blog post, we will cover the ways that advanced healthcare analytics can be used to: Understand constituents. Develop an analytics-driven strategy. Ask for the right donation. Determine one’s interest to give.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If you have access to analytics , this is the time to reexamine the results! Knowing the prospects with both the capacity and likelihood to make a major gift to your organization is gold. I like to combine this with a three-year giving history to see if there are prospects who are trending up or down in terms of their gift size. .

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

CSR software is a technology solution designed to help businesses manage, measure, and report on their CSR and sustainability initiatives. These platforms serve as centralized platforms to streamline the collection, analysis, and reporting of data related to a company’s social, environmental, and ethical performance.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Ask, thank, report, and repeat—it’s a simple but powerful way to manage your relationships. Once a donor’s initial gift is made, you can’t simply ignore them afterwards and expect them to give again. " After "Report," there is an arrow pointing to "Repeat," which then leads back to "Ask."

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M+R

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But for nonprofit fundraisers like me, it’s a day for the time-honored traditions of repeatedly refreshing Google Analytics, double-checking that all of the 12/31 emails launched, and applying final optimizations to make sure our fundraising ads shine. For ads tracking and more, we highly recommend Google Analytics.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

There is undeniable momentum in online fundraising as highlighted by data in the Blackbaud Luminate Online® Benchmark Report 2020. There are a few data points from the Benchmark Report that offer a glimpse into the future of online fundraising: 42.4% Use analytics to identify the donors most likely to become sustainers and target asks.

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