Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

Online channels (email, social media, website, donation forms, and texting) encourage real-time interactions, personalized messaging, and taps into tech-savvy younger donors. Traditional methods, like direct mail, are still important for reaching older or less tech-oriented supporters. However, this is not a universal rule.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 15, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. per month – or $425 a year, according to the Blackbaud Luminate Online Benchmarks Report. According to MobileCause , 90% of text messages are read within three minutes of being sent while only 24% of emails are being read at all.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The same is true with your holiday email appeals. While nonprofits often deliver highly relevant content in direct mail appeals – based on giving history, interests and past actions – that approach isn’t always carried over to their email appeals. Ask for interests during the email signup process. When making a hard ask.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Build anticipation: Plan some email reminders leading to the event, so everyone has a chance to mark their calendars. Upgrade Your Email Marketing Outreach Email marketing offers a fast (and cheap!) After all, 91% of all US consumers check their email daily. A good CRM will allow you to easily plan this out ahead of time.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2011

The 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report provides analysis of 28 major nonprofit organizations and transactions for over 15 million donors and more than $1 billion in revenue. Retention rates for online donors continue to lag offline donor trends. This is a recurring theme from previous studies.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 26, 2022

TechJury has reported that SMS open rates average 98%. You are 8 times more likely to get a response from a text message than a voicemail or email. Two weeks later, you get their end-of-year appeal in the mail. According to a 2019 article from Forbes , 90% of text messages are read within 3 minutes of being sent.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 25, 2021

Mail stats. Direct mail response rate (to house): 4% Postage per letter: $0.49. Mail stats. Direct mail response rate: (to house): 5% Postage per letter: $0.47. Mail stats. Direct mail response rate: (to house): 5% Postage per letter: $0.49. Mail stats. Mail stats.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Mobile messaging is a useful part of a multi-channel fundraising and engagement strategy , given the state of email and direct mail. Email inboxes are often crowded, and major players in the tech sector have made changes in the recent past that affect the way we understand open rates. Volunteering.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

I shared results from the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R Strategic Services. Below are my slides and a round-up of tips for getting started with a more engaged membership responding to your emails! Email Campaigns: Know Your Audience and Get Results. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Highlights.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. Start with benchmark data. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. For example, retention rates tend to be higher for mid-level and major donors. Same as above.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

30 cents per email address when asking your supporter based for money through an email appeal? With 10,000 people in your email list you’d make $3,000.00 in revenue from one mailing. Subtract the money it cost you to send the email and you’re looking at a pretty good RIO. Would you be happy with a return of.30

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Care2

MAY 24, 2013

Last month we reported that online fundraising response rates declined 27% between 2011-2012, according to the eNonprofit Benchmark study. According to the report, response rates on appeals declined by more than 18%. “This is present in direct mail, telemarketing, and face-to-face solicitation.”

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

Social media strategists (ok, not all) love to discount email in favor of, you guessed it - social media. They have deemed email a dying communications channel, which is absurd. You can leverage your email list to drive further action on other platforms. Email raises money. Monthly giving revenue grew 25% in 2013.

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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.

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Care2

AUGUST 28, 2013

After working on over 400 nonprofit email recruitment campaigns, and helping clients plan successful recruitment strategies, I’ve realized that most nonprofits don''t send nearly enough standalone fundraising appeals. In short, more good emails = more revenue. Email marketing is mainly a numbers game.

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

Social media strategists (ok, not all) love to discount email in favor of, you guessed it - social media. They have deemed email a dying communications channel, which is absurd. You can leverage your email list to drive further action on other platforms. Email raises money. Monthly giving revenue grew 25% in 2013.

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NTEN

APRIL 29, 2010

The new 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R was just released today! The new report might look slim and slick, but this scrappy guide is thick with valuable insights and key industry benchmarks for online messaging, fundraising and advocacy, based on a full year's worth of results from 31 of your nonprofit peers. >

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Likely a sign of best practices to come, their donation pages simply ask for credit card information and an email address (not a mailing address) and have an extensive offering of different ways to donate.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2011

Every e-mail marketer worth her salt knows how to calculate an overall messaging open rate: messages opened ÷ messages delivered. That's why I was a little confounded when we first started using our new e-mail system, and it would spit out a report like this: An overall open rate of almost 33%? True Open Rate.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

A fundraising strategy helps keep you on track by offering deadlines and benchmarks to hit throughout the year. That’s because all nonprofits have similar goals, including connecting with more donors, boosting their donor retention rates, and developing strategic, sustainable partnerships with other organizations. Major gifts.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2012

You can now download the 2012 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , just released at the 2012 NTC by M+R and NTEN. New this year and particularly interesting to me is what we learned from the study participants with mobile programs: roughly a third had optimized their emails for display on smart phones. a third had not. You should, too. >

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Email Strategy Only 68% of nonprofits utilize email marketing. Nonprofit Tech for Good Report ] Nonprofits sent an average of 60 email messages per subscriber in 2022, a 15% increase in volume from the previous year. [ Classy.org] 63% of nonprofits use personalization in their email marketing.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

Nonprofits can learn from email campaigns corporate marketers are sending. Corporate email programs have focused on delivering value—they test offers, messaging and more. As a result, email expectations have changed. Your constituents now expect to receive relevant and interesting information in every email.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 25, 2024

While email newsletters have been around almost since the dawn of email itself, they’re currently seeing a resurgence in popularity. A member newsletter or club newsletter is a great tool to share important information with members in a place they likely visit every day, multiple times a day: their email inbox.

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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. Reference data from past email marketing, social media, and direct mail campaigns to see what percentage of donors responded to and/or converted because of your communications. Engagement level.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

First and foremost, determine which existing audiences you wish to engage (board members, major donors, past event fundraisers or attendees, all donors, volunteers, etc) in your fundraising and how you will reach out to them (email, social networks, mail, phone, on-site events, etc). 2) Educate. Saying Thanks.

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NetWits

JUNE 13, 2011

Although the findings of the recently released 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report haven’t changed much since the last edition three years ago, its release has (re)fueled the conversation fire in the #nptech community. flickr.com/photos/mikebaird. In MultiChannel Donors: Real? Where to go from here.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

One of the best ways to stay in touch with your donors on a consistent basis is through a nonprofit email newsletter. When done well, email newsletters can be fast and cheap for you and heartwarming for your donor, basically meeting everyone’s needs. The right nonprofit email newsletter format. Your regular email (e.g.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The report either gave a big "F" or a mediocre rating to most of the nonprofits in the report. The study looked at the flow of donation pages on each of the nonprofits websites as well as email appeals, follow up emails, etc. 63% offered no action opportunities on their thank you page or emails. How welcoming!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

sure also to include the overhead rate of staffing and running your nonprofit. Many institutional funders will, in their applications, cap your allowable overhead rate, usually around 10%, even when your actual costs are higher! But when setting your total fundraising goal, you can include the actual overhead rate.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

The Value of an Email. What’s an email worth? selecting the number of addresses you can use a subset, such as all email gathered from a particular source or in a given year, or your entire file. Calculating the average one year value of an email. Number of mailings (enter the number of appeals sent per year).

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The 2017 Luminate Online Benchmark Report , just released by Blackbaud, shows donation and email trends based on online fundraising and email campaigns by 707 Luminate Online customers. Email still works really well. We saw healthy performance by email lists in 2017, along with solid growth in online fundraising.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

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) More benchmark articles can be found here.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The top driver of online donations to email to current donors, followed by direct mail promotion of online giving.&#. 43% rated their website as very effective in meeting their strategic internet goals. 69% use email to drive donations. 53% indicated that email to current donors is the top driver of online donations.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Read time: 8 minutes Just this month, Google and Yahoo coordinated announcements of new requirements for email senders. Google and Yahoo are the two biggest providers of free email inboxes in the US. Now here’s the bad news: if you don’t get on board with the new requirements, you’re likely to see your emails going to spam.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We can see from the 2016 Luminate Online Benchmark Report that nonprofits are having success in both areas, but that between the two, efforts are skewed toward donor retention. As a whole, the value of an e-mail address is $12.30, down 7% from last year’s $13.36.

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Care2

JANUARY 7, 2011

As organizations continue to plan for 2011, it’s important to examine 2010 benchmarks such as the Membership Marketing Benchmark report that surveyed over 400 association executives. Check out these Stats: In 2009, 31% of associations reported that membership renewal rates decreased in the previous year.

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