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Fundraising Best Practices: How To Host A Successful Peer-To-Peer Event

Bloomerang

Are your supporters artistic? It all comes down to your donor retention strategies. Another way to increase your retention rate is by asking the donor to turn their one-time donation into a recurring donation. Be careful with this method, as being too aggressive can lower your retention rates. Do they love music?

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3 Donor Retention Strategies—Compliments of Molly Ringwald, Jessie J and Bruno Mars

NonProfit Hub

His experiences range from fundraising and marketing to PR and grant writing (to name a few), so we thought he’d make an excellent interviewee for a follow-up story for our latest Nonprofit Hub Magazine issue focusing on donor retention. Lesson number two stems from a more recent artist by the name of Jessie J and her radio hit “Price Tag.”

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Six Steps On The Leadership Journey Of Development Professionals

Bloomerang

You’re able to see, for individual donors and for the organization overall, the number of asks made, gifts obtained, average size of major gifts and donor retention rate. You can access this data from year to year, so you can better determine where adjustments should be made. Do you serve K-12 students? The BIPOC or LGBTQ communities?

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Is GivingTuesday Worth It for Nonprofits?

Neon CRM

Perhaps you’re a small nonprofit, and you’re imagining your GivingTuesday experience will be like an unknown music artist trying to sing on stage at the same time as Taylor Swift. Fundraising 7 Steps to Better GivingTuesday Donor Retention 12 min read Read Now If We Don’t Raise A Ton, Is GivingTuesday Worth It At All?

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Or if a certain donation thank-you gift reliably increases donor retention, offer it in campaign after campaign. The ads were hailed as beautiful, artistic, and innovative. For nonprofits, this means focusing on donor participation and retention rather than just total dollars raised or how good something looked.

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The way I learned was through working with peer group of people who were supporting nonprofits in their quest to build capacity and skills using the Internet to realize their missions.

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8 Tried-and-True (Secret) Individual Donor Fundraising Action Tips

Bloomerang

If you don’t want to waste your donor acquisition resources, you need to double up on your donor retention resources. Let me remind you only 2 out of 10 first-time donors renew. Only 6 out of 10 ongoing donors renew. ACTION: Put a system in place to hand sign thank you letters.

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