Allegiance Group

MAY 16, 2024

Nearly all new reports and benchmarks show a decline in both donors and dollars, and the Fundraising Effectiveness Project’s (FEP) latest Quarterly Fundraising Report is no exception. High-Level Takeaways from the FEP Report FEP tracks three key metrics: donors, dollars, and retention. That brings a glimmer of good news.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2024

This evolution has been driven by several factors: The need for increased engagement A more personalized approach to connecting with donors The popularity of activity trackers, such as Fitbit and Apple Watch And you cannot underestimate the importance of mobile fundraising. What Activity Will Appeal to Your Donors?

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Sustainer programs are growing in popularity—M+R’s Benchmarks for the year 2021 found that recurring giving grew by 24 percent over 2020. Given this trend, we asked some of our partners, what are some messaging and communications best practices to help nonprofit fundraising and engagement staff recruit and retain more recurring donors?

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Communication Practice Program Instruction 130

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

According to the latest M+R Benchmarks Study , monthly giving increased by 11% in 2022, making up 28% of all online revenue. To take advantage of this trend toward recurring giving, your nonprofit will need to look inward at its donor data. Understand donors’ giving behaviors. Time-Bound: Give your team a deadline.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Being able to benchmark performance against what other nonprofits are doing is an important starting point to understanding your own data. Research can also shine a light on where your nonprofit may need to focus more energy in its engagement with donors. How to use it : Define what you want to get out of the report itself.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

What this means for nonprofit fundraisers is that a successful email campaign now requires more effort from creative teams to craft messaging that drives subscribers to not only open your message , but also to click through and convert. This makes mobile messaging a useful addition to your other fundraising and engagement efforts.

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Socialbrite

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Donors are still eager to support the organizations and causes they care about, yet they expect to be engaged differently — often through digital channels. As noted in the 2021 M+R Benchmarks Study , nonprofits enjoyed a 32% bump in revenue from online sources from 2019 to 2020. Make donating effortless.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 4, 2021

It’s been especially awkward in the past year, as the pandemic triggered more and more nonprofits to reach out to donors for help, and those donors began to feel fatigued. Nonprofit work is passionate work, and who knows your cause, your mission, and your work better than you do? And never interrupt! Open That Door!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The 2019 M+R Benchmarks Report observed that for certain nonprofit sectors the impact has been “dramatic,” and for health nonprofits, in particular, it appeared “nothing short of transformative.”. The exact criteria will depend on your organization but will probably include larger donors and repeat donors.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Commit to eliminating departmental silos so that everyone is on the same page and all team members contribute their unique skills to help you succeed. A well-developed fundraising strategy will accomplish the following: Gives your team a guiding blueprint for decision-making. Donor stewardship. Donor stewardship.

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Classy

AUGUST 19, 2021

Eric joins the Classy team from Medallia, a Saas-based customer experience management platform. Still, it is key to attracting and retaining the donors that will help our customers better meet the needs of the communities that they are serving. User experience is sometimes overlooked when making decisions on a tight non-profit budget.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

At DNL OmniMedia, we help nonprofit organizations use their technology for more effective fundraising and donor stewardship. Moves are the various connections and steps a nonprofit takes to usher a donor toward giving. Effective moves management is built on the donor and gift lifecycle. What is moves management?

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. Choosing your team. Clearly stated and specific goals will help your team craft a thoughtful approach to achieving them (more on this later). Choosing your team.

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CauseVox

JULY 11, 2022

If participants hit the minimum, they received a benchmark prize but if they raised more, they could win bigger prizes. They also let donors know why they were raising money and translating the impact of gifts in terms of programming: (Invest In Kids’ impact statement featured on their Jane-A-Thon campaign). Corporate Prize Donations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

alone, over £20m was donated to good causes for Giving Tuesday, a 43% increase in giving from 2019 — that’s more than £14k every minute! This will help you measure whether or not your campaign has been a success and will give you a benchmark for the year following if it’s your first time getting involved. Last year , in the U.K.

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sgEngage

JUNE 25, 2021

Because “necessity is the mother of invention,” we all found new ways to engage- grandparents facetimed for bedtime stories, neighbors had afternoon drinks in the cul-de-sac, and organizations found digital ways to engage with their donors and volunteers. Rooney, Ph.D. Stewardship.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

According to the M+R Benchmarks 2023 report , 62% of nonprofits used text messaging for fundraising purposes in 2022. Text-to-give (also known as text-to-donate, text-to-pledge, or text fundraising) is a form of mobile fundraising that asks donors to send a keyword to a text fundraising phone number.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Segment your donor base : Use the information from the report to segment your donor base effectively. Diversify fundraising channel s: The report documents shifts in donor behavior and preferences.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Or could your next event benefit from a bigger team? Create a leadership team. With enough volunteers, you might even have the team necessary to expand your work to new locations and better serve your community. Create a leadership team. Has your nonprofit identified an unaddressed need within your community?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The movement is growing every year around the globe, with more organizations joining in, raising awareness for their cause, and providing an opportunity for us all to give back in the season of Goodwill. Their online store and the opportunity to contribute to the cause remain open until the end of the year. Feeling inspired?

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Businesses, nonprofits, and charities who normally host a holiday fundraiser have been forced to move online, and finding ways to connect to once generous donors is tough. . Donors can donate to individuals or teams via email or social media. . But there is hope. Participants must register to sign up.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

According to the latest M+R Benchmarks study , online giving increased 10% in 2019 and has been steadily on the rise, while monthly online giving has increased by 22%. Either way, it’s time to brush up on your peer-to-peer fundraising chops and check out some online fundraising ideas that you can use to attract donors to your nonprofit.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

2020 has put a spotlight on the changing ways in which individuals are engaging in cause work. Join members of the Blackbaud Target Analytics Consulting Team for a discussion on the role of data during times of crisis and economic stagnation. How to Love Your Donors During the Aftermath of Covid-19.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

By amplifying content on Google Search, participating organizations can connect with motivated prospects searching for their causes online. If outsourcing the work sounds like an offer you can’t refuse, take the time to find an agency that offers the exact services and expertise your team needs. How do I manage Google Grants?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

While beautiful charity galas and creative offline campaigns still gather support for nonprofits’ causes, they slowly slip away from donors’ focus. With these experiments you can establish your own benchmarks. Creating strategies for online fundraising, with a little of effort, will transform your donors into online supporters.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 9, 2023

The right consulting team can help you outline a technology plan and put it into action while providing your team with continuous support. Make sure your Salesforce consultant can empower your team long-term. What benchmarks do they set along the way to keep your project on track? If not, what caused the delay?

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

Those are pretty significant numbers, and by ignoring them you could be leaving serious support from potential donors and advocates on the table. An example of how a Forum One nonprofit client is organizing its teams to effectively manage digital operations across the organization.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Second, year-end giving gives nonprofits an opportunity to use a big chunk of their resources to meet their annual fundraising goals, and it gives donors a last chance to get a tax-deductible gift out the door. At CauseVox, we’re all about helping everyone to meet their goals – donors and the causes they support.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The investment in a good defense wins championships, or at least it did for the Seattle Seahawks, and I’d argue a similar level investment should be made to retain your monthly donors. Acquisition is sexy, I get it, and your executive team loves to see the growth but that may be shortsighted. How did this happen?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Those are pretty significant numbers, and by ignoring them you could be leaving serious support from potential donors and advocates on the table. An example of how a Forum One nonprofit client is organizing its teams to effectively manage digital operations across the organization. The importance of a change management plan.

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Websites Strategy Change Management Digital 58

AccelEvents

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Businesses, nonprofits, and charities who normally host a holiday fundraiser have been forced to move online, and finding ways to connect to once generous donors is tough. . Donors can donate to individuals or teams via email or social media. . But there is hope. Participants must register to sign up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water , a nonprofit that brings clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations, is leading the way when it comes to redefining nonprofit marketing; they are exceptional at inbound marketing, focusing on creating powerful content to inspire people to join their cause. We want our donors to be advocates.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

You work for a nonprofit that is totally stuck in the donor acquisition cycle from hell. You work long hours and spend a ton of resources getting new donors in the door, only to then see them never make a second gift, leaving you right back where you started. What is Donor Management? What is Donor Management? Sound good?

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Donor Management Guide Retention 52

Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Donors hate feeling like cash machines.”

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Online giving is growing exponentially year-over-year as younger donors become supporters and older donors adopt the easy-to-make-a-donation strategy. Committed monthly donors , also known as “sustainers”, are on the rise as well. Benchmarking Major Gifts. Benchmarking Major Gifts. The term “major gift” isn’t new.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Our Leadership Council incorporates a diverse array of expertise and cause affiliations with representation from nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, academic institutions, and many more. Leads a team of over 200 to advance Dr. Jane Goodall’s vision and the mission of JGI. Team Rubicon Inc. Anna Rathmann.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Sometimes it’s just as simple as getting your team in a room and having a brainstorming session is all that it takes. Without an engaging website and e-newsletter, even the best social networking campaign won’t generate more donors or clients. Which channels have the highest engagement?)

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