Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2016

But from the looks of the data and the declining retention rates for walks and 5Ks, we all need a refresher on what matters when it comes to people coming back year after year. This year’s Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study shows retention rates declining for Walks and 5Ks. Focus on staff retention.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You can show your value by demonstrating the relationship you have to engagement, recruitment, and retention. The following are a few of my favorite sites with great research to get you started: Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. Human Resources. Reducing turnover reduces costs. Cone Research. Communications.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

They also include geo hashtags in their captions, in this case, the neighborhood of #Roxbury in Boston: Also, if you are a location-based nonprofit, don’t be bashful about geotagging yourself. That’s an incredibly high donor retention rate for a set of tools that are still in their early adoption phase.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 5, 2021

These ongoing engagement efforts are a perfect jumping-off point for your donor retention strategy. Also, keep in mind that remarketing, or sending targeted messages to those who have already been in contact with your organization, can increase traffic to your donation form and improve your donor retention rates. Infographics.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

We recently held the fifth annual Blackbaud Target Analytics donorCentrics Sustainer Summit, hosted by WGBH in Boston on March 23 and 24, 2019, the question on everyone’s mind was simple: following significant gains in donors in FY2017, were we able to retain these surge donors in FY2018? This will positively impact first year retention.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2019

That was particularly useful for this setting because we could overlay information such as win-rate and schedule to discuss the impact those variables had on the fundraising trends overall. For example, one participant with fluctuating donor counts and renewal rates explained that reseating hasn’t historically been tied to the fiscal year.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 27, 2018

Over 60 percent of millennials leave their company in under three years,” explains Elizabeth McLeod , a Millennial and cum laude grad of Boston University. They have better customer retention, less employee turnover, and attract more innovative talent. Purpose-driven companies outperform the market by 353%.

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