5 Takeaways From M+R’s Online Fundraising ‘Benchmarks’
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 30, 2024
M+R's annual “Benchmarks” report revealed five key takeaways on nonprofits' digital fundraising strategies.
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NonProfit PRO
APRIL 30, 2024
M+R's annual “Benchmarks” report revealed five key takeaways on nonprofits' digital fundraising strategies.
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 12, 2023
With data from nearly 1,500 nonprofits, nonprofit software provider Neon One has evaluated more than 37,000 email campaigns totaling more than 157 million individual emails for “The Nonprofit Email Report.” The new report provides a look at nonprofit email benchmarks for both large and small organizations.
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M+R
APRIL 16, 2024
Hey data friends, it’s our favorite time of the year, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, you can sip your iced coffee outside and read Benchmarks ! TLDR: What’s going on with website data in Benchmarks The transition from UA to GA4 happened mid-year in 2023 (and with it, all of the changes to tracking between the two systems).
Nonprofit Tech for Good
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
What Metrics to Review When Analyzing Your Campaign Your campaign(s) up and running, it’s time to assess whether your campaign is performing up to par. We recommend running your campaign for at least a week to get sufficient data before analyzing performance. If it’s well under 4%, you may want to tweak your ad copy!
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 7, 2024
Rival IQ Social Media Industry Benchmark Report ] Nonprofits have an average engagement rate of 0.066% on Facebook. Rival IQ Social Media Industry Benchmark Report ] 53% of nonprofits spend on social media advertising. M+R Benchmarks Report ] Facebook/Meta results in an average return on ad spend (ROAS) of $0.48 on TikTok. [
M+R
FEBRUARY 11, 2024
Others found success by creating self-contained, time-limited campaigns earlier in the month — a flash match, 72-hour member drive, or another way to create a deadline in mid-December, reducing reliance on a big 12/31. For a more robust data set and many, many, many charts, stay tuned for the upcoming 2024 M+R Benchmarks Study!
Neon CRM
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
For many organizations, year-end fundraising campaigns represent a significant portion of their annual revenue. How to Set a Year-End Fundraising Goal How much would you like to raise during your year-end campaign? Take a look at past fundraising campaigns and use your successes to inform your plan. How much did you raise?
Classy
JUNE 23, 2021
Fundraising benchmarks help you elevate where your current strategy shines compared to peers in the sector. Step 2: Know Which Fundraising Benchmarks to Share With Your Nonprofit Board. Top Fundraising Benchmarks to Share With Your Nonprofit Board from Classy. Step 3: Present Compelling Recommendations to Your Nonprofit Board .
Amy Sample Ward
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Advocacy Online and Fairsay are jointly producing a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures. The benchmark data is derived from the activity of over 2 million supporters from 50 campaigning organisations in the UK, Canada, and several other countries. If you are in London, you can join me!
sgEngage
AUGUST 8, 2022
Or how about your capital campaign? Dataro has written a clear and effective post on calculating ROI for fundraising campaigns. Capital Campaigns and ROI. How do you determine your capital campaign’s ROI? Let’s say your organization raises $5 million through a campaign. to be $500,000 or 10% of your campaign goal.
Achieve
MARCH 31, 2021
Capital campaigns are game-changing undertakings for growing nonprofits. These intensive campaigns are all about scaling up your operations by funding major investments that will help you better pursue your mission. Are capital campaigns still viable? Are major donors still contributing to large campaigns? Let’s dive in.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 6, 2023
Here are important factors that nonprofits should consider when developing year-end campaigns, which, if executed successfully, will further their missions and make a profound impact on the communities they serve. 1) Multi-Channel Strategy Employing a multi-channel strategy helps nonprofits reach a wider audience with their year-end campaign.
Achieve
JUNE 8, 2023
It might be time for a capital campaign. Capital campaigns are among the biggest fundraising undertakings that nonprofit organizations tackle, and they only come around roughly once a decade. What are the key pitfalls to avoid when planning a capital campaign , especially if it’s your organization’s first?
Wild Apricot
APRIL 25, 2016
This year's Benchmarks report is the most comprehensive yet and lets you know how nonprofits are stacking up on everything from email marketing to social media to donation campaigns.
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. The big sound bite from this year’s Benchmarks Report is that total online revenue grew by only 1% in 2018. Online revenue growth has plateaued. Email fundraising response rates are down 13%.
Whole Whale
APRIL 5, 2024
Leveraging ad libraries can provide valuable insights into competitors’ strategies, industry trends, and best practices, helping nonprofits refine their own ad campaigns and messaging. This information can help inform their own ad campaigns and identify opportunities for differentiation.
Top Nonprofits
AUGUST 17, 2021
All for very good reason: Check Out Campaigns have been a big help to charities by raising funds and awareness. Interested in finding out more about the largest check out campaigns? America’s Checkout Charity Champions is a benchmark study conducted by Cause Marketing Forum. But how are they perceived by consumers?
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 21, 2019
Email messaging drives 13% of all online revenue ( M+R Benchmarks Report ). For every 1,000 fundraising messages delivered via email, nonprofits raise $45 USD ( M+R Benchmarks Report ). Nonprofits sent an average of 59 email messages per subscriber in 2018 ( M+R Benchmarks Report ). M+R Benchmarks Report ). GivingTuesday.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 23, 2011
I remember thinking to myself at the time, well if one networked nonprofit can do this, couldn’t a network of networked nonprofits use real-time collaborative benchmarking data sharing for learning? Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 5, 2022
Perceptions of spending levels – from donors, the board, or other stakeholders – can influence campaign and fundraising management. Sharing this information with your board and other supporters can instill confidence in your nonprofit’s ROI, regardless of that benchmark. ? Fundraising expense is one place where this manifests.
M+R
MAY 31, 2023
Here’s where you can find M+R people this summer: PMDMC Benchmarks Webinar June 7, 1–2pm ET Thought Benchmarks season was over? Get the low-down on how the public media sector fared in this year’s Benchmarks in this virtual webinar co-hosted with PMDMC. digital strategies you can try for your next campaign.
Tech Soup
AUGUST 29, 2013
So when I saw that The Millennial Impact released benchmarks. The benchmarks are based off results from the Millennial Impact Survey , which was conducted by Achieve, a creative services agency that works with organizations to understand how Millennials get involved in causes. How the Benchmarks Work. The Benefit of Benchmarks.
EveryAction
JANUARY 11, 2023
He likely didn’t have grassroots campaigns in mind when he uttered those words, but Twain’s advice is spot-on for grassroots advocacy practitioners as they make a plan to engage the new Congress. Meeting these three milestones before the end of the month will get your grassroots team back on track just in time to launch your 2023 campaigns.
EveryAction
AUGUST 3, 2023
Consider hosting a capital campaign. Many major giving campaigns involve predetermined giving levels tied to unique and exclusive benefits that encourage participation. Consider hosting a capital campaign. A capital campaign is a fundraising effort that aims to collect significant revenue, or capital, for a key initiative.
Everyaction
MAY 24, 2018
The annual M+R Benchmarks Report has arrived again, shining a light on trends that are shaping nonprofits’ digital programs. Having shared and discussed this year’s Benchmarks Report with many of our partners, here’s twelve key trends that have resonated strongly within the EveryAction community.
NTEN
JULY 13, 2011
The 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study is a joint project of M+R Strategic Services and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). The 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study (available at www.e-benchmarksstudy.com Now, with Benchmarks Extra , we’re diving in deeper to reveal some interesting – and unexpected – relationships in the data.
Care2
MAY 24, 2013
Last month we reported that online fundraising response rates declined 27% between 2011-2012, according to the eNonprofit Benchmark study. The latest Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits that analyzed data from 500 organizations using the Luminate platform also indicated a steep decline in fundraising response rates.
CauseVox
APRIL 6, 2023
With limited resources and staff, it can be challenging for small nonprofits to execute successful fundraising campaigns. We will cover topics such as setting fundraising goals, recruiting and engaging fundraisers, leveraging the power of AI to create a fundraising plan, campaign content and donor communications, and how to set up a campaign.
Care2
JANUARY 21, 2013
These are the types of questions we hope to see answered in the upcoming video benchmark study for nonprofits being conducted by Edelman, See3 Communications, and YouTube. About 2M people visited the organization’s donation page and the organization said the average donation from the campaign was $20.
NTEN
JUNE 14, 2012
Last summer, we pulled together data from some of the country’s leading nonprofits to bring you the 2011 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook report, laying out basic benchmarks for nonprofit pages on Facebook. To download the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook, simply “like” M+R's page on Facebook.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Promote your quarterly Impact Reports in your print campaigns. 3) Prioritize your email campaigns. . M+R Benchmarks Report. Every Saturday or Sunday send a one-topic re-engagement email (event, blog post, fundraising campaign, etc.) 6) Launch a traditional crowdfunding campaign. For example: yourwebsite.org/impact.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising campaigns. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and then add them to your 2020 editorial calendar.
M+R
JUNE 5, 2023
It grew from there: more campaigns hired him, and his lists grew. The postcard and the stamp from direct mail campaigns are replaced with a TikTok video and an ads budget. Influencer campaigns are the spiritual successor to the pioneering direct mail efforts, with massive potential to help movement organizations win.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
For nonprofits looking to expand their crowdfunding campaigns in 2020, here are four key features of the new GoFundMe Charity : 1) Customizable campaigns to reflect your nonprofit’s brand. Today, GoFundMe has expanded their platform to nonprofits in the United States and Canada with the launch of GoFundMe Charity.
sgEngage
JANUARY 16, 2024
The stakes are always high when you’re launching a fundraising campaign. Nonprofit leaders managing both types of fundraisers need to equip and motivate everybody throughout the campaign. Choose one, a few, or all to spread your campaign messaging. Professional fundraisers need to cover all the details to meet their targets.
EveryAction
JULY 12, 2023
updates were expected to have on the amount of granular data available from digital ad clicks, nonprofits that adapt metrics and goals to meet the moment may find ads are still a useful part of omni-channel campaigns.
Care2
JUNE 21, 2013
Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success.
Connection Cafe
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Tis the time of year when end-of-year campaigns are in full swing and metrics, measurement, and benchmarks are top of mind. There are A LOT of ways to measure a campaign's success, let's look at a few.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
So, what makes an effective storytelling campaign? It is not enough for your storytelling campaign to evoke feelings of sympathy. Elements your nonprofit should include in your storytelling campaigns include: Show impact. By creating a sense of urgency in your storytelling campaigns. How do you overcome inertia?
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 7, 2010
I like to think of group text messaging campaigns as the e-newsletter of the Mobile Web – just much shorter. Text messaging campaigns help keep supporters engaged and informed, and can significantly increase traffic to nonprofit mobile websites and smartphone Apps. Related Links: 10 Nonprofit Group Text Messaging Campaigns.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 1, 2021
Odds are your emails are going to spam folders and are in violation of email compliance laws that require opt-out information and a mailing address to be prominently featured in all email campaigns. Sending email newsletters with an attachment is an absolute worst practice that is common with BCC email campaigns.
Classy
JUNE 30, 2021
We created a free Benchmark Assessment to surface actionable fundraising takeaways based on your organization’s current metrics. Benchmark Your Fundraising Performance. . You can now get instant access to new opportunities for growth based on the success of Classy’s most innovative and passionate nonprofit customers.
Bloomerang
AUGUST 16, 2021
Start with benchmark data. Luckily, there are a number of great reports available to help you set a benchmark against industry averages. These are some places to begin: M+R Benchmarks ; Fundraising Effectiveness Project Reports ; Fundraising Report Card Benchmarks. . . — Kevin Shulman for the Agitator-DonorVoice.
sgEngage
MARCH 22, 2024
In a three-year comparison, the 2022 Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Benchmark Report found that organizations hosted 15% fewer events in 2022 than they did in 2020. This new-era approach ensures that your fundraising campaign is not confined to a specific physical location but can reach a global audience.
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