Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

In 2013, Chuck Longfield was on a mission to shed light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. According to Chuck, ten years ago the average retention rates of a newly acquired donor were roughly 33%. If the ten-year trend continues, we’ll eventually end up with donor retention rates under 20%.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2014

The 2014 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report was released last week and one of the more interesting findings was that donor retention remainsa lower priority. As my colleague Frank Barry mentioned, most nonprofits stink at donor retention. Over the past 10 years, donor retention has fallen from 33% to 27%.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2014

In honor of the release of the newest npExperts ebook, Show the Love: Thoughtful Engagement to Retain Donors , this roundup all about retention. I mean, is it just me or is anyone else a little concerned that donor retention remains a lower priority for nonprofits across the industry? Donor retention. Have a look.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Once you’ve identified people who have a history of supporting your organization, seem to have the capacity to make major gifts, and have a pattern of making major gifts to other organizations, you’ll be able to start intentionally cultivating relationships with them. Why Implement It? Why Implement It?

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Gift Strategy Raise Database 52

Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

The six pieces you need in your fundraising strategy How to create your fundraising strategy The six pieces you need in your fundraising strategy While no two nonprofits are alike, they all share common goals, like donor connection and retention , memorable fundraising events, and supportive partnerships.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2014

Nancy helps nonprofits build strong and lasting relationships with the people whom they need to act—to give, volunteer, participate and more. Donor retention is an absolute priority (again) for 2014. Yet the path to retention success remains elusive for many organizations. That’s the formula for team building success. .

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The #GivingTuesday Ultimate Guide eBook has templates, calendars, and tips to help you get organized and make your Giving Tuesday a roaring success! Thanking your donors will help you build strong connections and keep them engaged. Use these tips and tricks to fine-tune your retention strategy for the new year! Final thoughts.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 21, 2022

Finally, another often overlooked benefit of corporate partnerships is that it is much easier to maintain good relationships with a handful of companies than to retain donors. Donor retention requires a lot of work, and regardless of how well you do it, has to be offset with donor growth. Update them on the results.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

Organizational Culture: npEXPERTS – Building a Culture of Philanthropy : Fundraising is critical to the success of your mission. In the newest npEXPERTS eBook, 10 of the brightest minds from across the nonprofit sector share their unique perspectives to help you create a culture of philanthropy. Want some quick donor retention advice?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2023

We’ve put together a handy eBook on choosing the best software for your nonprofit. Donor stewardship is the post-gift relationship-building process nonprofits use to retain and upgrade donors. Establish a recurring donation program An efficient way to grow donations and improve donor retention is through recurring giving.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2014

The subject which I was asked to write about was donor retention and, seemingly, these two things should really have nothing in common. At its core, Wish You Were Here is really just about peoples’ inabilities to engage with one another, which is entirely relatable to the way in which donor retention is often approached.

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Donor Retention Detroit Blackbaud 37

Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2019

Building persona models can help bring your existing supporters into focus, using the information you already have to cultivate even stronger relationships. In the newest Blackbaud Institute eBook, 10 of the brightest minds from across the nonprofit sector share their unique perspectives to help you create a culture of philanthropy.

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Blackbaud Nonprofit Hints eBook 37

Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2017

From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. Study after study shows that lack of consistency in messaging is a principal reason for abysmal first year retention rates and absence of second and third gifts. Use the Same Message Regardless of Channel.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

By focusing on every step of that donor journey and leveraging supporter data to build better relationships with supporters, your nonprofit can stop focusing so much on acquiring new ones and start reaping the rewards of a loyal donor base. After all, this is where the real relationship-building begins. Sound good?

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Donor Management Guide Retention 52

Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Keeping your donor relationships alive is crucial, even when you aren’t meeting face to face. Their solution was a partnership with Transylvania University where they used one of its buildings for housing. Download eBook. Constituent relationship management (CRM) system. General Virtual Fundraising Ideas.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2015

To show your appreciation, discounts can be used as retention incentives for top fundraisers and team captains. 5 off) are excellent for building relationships with team captains and leadership at those corporations. Learn more practical Peer-to-Peer tips and tricks in our latest eBook – download it today!

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Next, EDF created ad copy that was relevant to each audience and their personal relationship with the nonprofit. Content is still a very important factor in educating, informing, and building member/donor trust. Environmental activists divided donors into audiences based on time spent as an activist: 0-6 month activist.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These solutions optimize and expand your fundraising and donor stewardship activities to help form long-lasting relationships. Along with storing donors’ contact and demographic information, this technology helps build relationships with supporters by saving previous engagement data, such as past donations or events attended.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2014

While organizations focus on their development goal and raising money through major gifts, events, direct mail, grants and online, we continue to see a lack of focus on stewardship and retention. Every organization needs to increase their investment in stewardship and retention. This article was originally published on Hilborne.

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Retention eBook Donor Offline 49

Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Prioritize Donor Stewardship Donor stewardship is the practice of building strong, long-lasting relationships with your donors. By building a base of small donors, you will create a revenue stream that is way way way more resilient than one built on a few big donors. Check it out!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2020

You are building strategies for sustainability focused on four key areas: People: Caring about your supporters and those around you. We talked about the tactics that resilient fundraisers should be embracing and they offered advice on how to build new processes and define strategies differently. Download the free eBook.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 27, 2014

Once you have their attention, you begin building your case for support- “LOOK AT WHAT GREAT THINGS WE COULD DO TOGETHER!” About a year ago we were hit with the depressing reality of the state of donor retention across the nonprofit industry. Make sure your donor retention strategy reflects this. Is your work really done?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2014

In my weekly coaching email I wrote about the single biggest donor retention mistake I see new nonprofit leaders making. They think they’re building relationships in a way that retains donors. But this “not-on-the-first-date” attitude actually kills relationships. He had a 60-year plus relationship with the school.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2014

Read more from Marc by downloading the npEXPERTS ebook and by following him on Twitter. Model #2: Spend extravagantly to acquire donors, and then build a culture that revolves around the expectation that you’re going to keep those donors around for a while. Want to hear about what Marc’s got to say on donor retention?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

” Yes, one of my favorite topics, not just peer-to-peer fundraising, but also peer-to-peer retention. And we’ll actually send you after this a copy of an ebook that Steven and some of the Qgiv folks worked on that talks pretty in-depth about retaining peer-to-peer participants and donors.

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Donor Video Fundraising Strategy 111

Connection Cafe

MARCH 27, 2014

You can build support by spreading stories of your mission’s success. Measure your donor retention rates. Then, develop a strategy to better optimize your relationship building tactics. For even more expert advice, check out the latest npEXPERTS ebook! Capitalize on the joy of the internet. .

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So there’s actually an eBook they wrote on donor acquisition. Steven, if we could flag, I see a lot of questions about relationship donors, whether it’s either peer-to-peer or major donor or somebody who is a major donor rep or in that role. That’s a great way to begin to build that relationship.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Follow up, say thank you, and start building the relationship.

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Story Nonprofit Social Media Content 54

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. And we all have likely asked these same questions: How much do I really know about my donor’s relationship with my charity? Data to understand and adjust the donor experience to improve loyalty and retention.

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