Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., They love me, but I’m not sure our donors feel quite the same way. — How to Be Loveable Dear How to Be Loveable, Actually, you’d be surprised how many of your donors do love your organization! This makes it about the donor.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From navigating donor data to finding the most effective ways to communicate, AI for fundraising can be applied to many aspects of your organization to help lift some of the burden of changing the world. This is to ensure the privacy of both your and your donors’ information. You can also use AI to automate your database organization!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

That means you need to make sure you don’t lose any of those donors you took such pains to acquire last year. For those of you on a different fiscal year, skip down to “Cleaning up your Prospect Database” and save this checklist for whenever the time is right for you. Most donors are well-intentioned; they’re just busy.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s a burning question so many nonprofits have, and to be honest, I can’t say that I blame them! So if you’re reading this article thinking “We’ll just go get a grant for what we need,” I highly encourage you to question that intention. “Where do I look to find grants for my nonprofit?” Getting grant funds is REALLY exciting!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your passion and drive demonstrate why donors should give to your cause, but finding new donors and keeping existing ones takes something more: a solid fundraising strategy. It’s the story you tell potential and current donors. Donor stewardship What is the average donor’s experience with your nonprofit?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. Is it worth it to spend the money?

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a donor relations manager who needs advice on how to best organize, prioritize, and stay on top of tasks. . I log everything in the database, so I leave a good paper trail/report. — I’m all ears!

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Let’s answer a few frequently asked questions about how this process works: What are the steps of the volunteer management process? This software often includes tools for volunteer recruitment, scheduling, management, and communication and acts as a database for all of an organization’s volunteer information.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Some of the most meaningful gifts to your organization likely come from the same small percentage of donors. In nonprofit terms, this means 80% of donations are given by 20% of donors. More than ever before, properly engaging donors of major gifts is vital to accelerating nonprofit growth. What Are Major Gifts?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As a busy fundraiser or nonprofit data professional, your calendar is already packed, so wouldn’t it be great to have a cheat sheet to plan your schedule for bbcon, Blackbaud’s Tech Conference for Good ? EDT, asks the question: Which data should be driving decisions for your “data-driven” strategy? We’ve got you covered.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

Donor acquisition is all the rage, but did you know nearly 3 out of 4 new donors leave and never come back. Blackbaud’s latest Charitable Giving Report sheds light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. The average donor retention rates for first-year online-only donors is 22%.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

How are those fundraising organizations going to thank and steward those new donors? How will they re-engage these donors after the crisis? According to research : An average organization with a database of 50,000 records could be wasting up to $3,200 per mailing due to inaccurate addresses and deceased records.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 1, 2021

Matching Gift Databases. Business and nonprofits both use CRMs, but while businesses use their software to primarily make and track sales, nonprofit CRMs are optimized for managing donor data. The information gathered by your CRM allows your nonprofit to create personalized experiences for each donor. Grant Management Software.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Ask yourself several key questions to develop a plan for the event. This question can also help inform the previous question. Questions like these are designed to help you get a head start when planning your virtual fundraiser. The same goes when trying to reach donors via email. Start with a plan.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Cabral, MA, CFRE will lead you through the why and how of creating your own database standards manual and processes to ensure that you are not leading your organization down the path of “Garbage In=Garbage Out.” We are here to talk about keeping your donor database healthy, wealthy, I should say wealthy and wise.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 24, 2018

I often cringe at the thought of going through old mailing lists, donor banks and other databases, and I would venture to guess you do, too. The Nonprofit Hub staff just finished cleaning out outdated lists, donor addresses, program users and more. Lists of potential donors or prospective volunteers can become outdated quickly.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Members-as-Donors Organizations following the members-as-donors membership model reap the many benefits of recurring donations. As the most traditional membership model of all, the members-as-donors model aims to provide supporters with an avenue to regularly donate to a cause they believe in.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. Harvey McKinnon and Andy Robinson will discuss how to build stronger donor relationships and how you can use this strategy to improve every kind of fundraising. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.”

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

Donor acquisition is all the rage, but did you know nearly 3 out of 4 new donors leave and never come back. In 2013, Chuck Longfield was on a mission to shed light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. If the ten-year trend continues, we’ll eventually end up with donor retention rates under 20%.

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Achieve

JULY 21, 2022

Between the dozens of responsibilities that crop up within the course of running a nonprofit organization—from cultivating donors to event planning—filing tax returns probably isn’t at the top of your list of priorities. Moreover, you also have a duty to show donors that you are honoring their wishes and using their gifts responsibly.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

To help you build your content plan, Neon One has created a 2024 Nonprofit Calendar that you can download as a PDF or add to your existing personal calendar. To download the calendar or learn more about nonprofit content planning, here’s a quick overview of this article: What’s in Neon One’s 2024 Nonprofit Calendar?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. Aplos is built for nonprofit accounting and has donor management tools built in. With a scheduler, you can plan and execute your social media calendar and use the product’s analytics tools to track engagement.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 24, 2020

Similar to how nonprofit organizations implement donor retention strategies , associations work to keep members renewing each year. . Similar to how donors seek an online donation form, think about the end targets of users on your website. Make sure that your member database is a core component of your AMS. it’s about belonging.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 22, 2019

Once you answer questions like these, focus on the why. To hold yourself accountable, create a calendar that documents your target numbers for fundraising, donor outreach, social media and anything else you’d like to measure in the next 12 months. 31, we should have acquired 150 new donors who are middle-class women.”

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

However, there is one component of soliciting your donors which should be considered for any and every communication you generate via email. We are breaking the audience and database into manageable groups for the purpose of communicating with them. Your database system should allow you to build a profile for your top segments.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinar series, we are also a provider of donor management software. And then we’ll have some time for question and answers to make sure that we can do our best to address some of the things that you and your teams and your boards are facing today. So 21%, 46%, or 62%?

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OneCause

MARCH 14, 2023

Once the foundational pieces of the event are secured, it’s time to build out a marketing calendar. Part of the early development of an event marketing plan includes determining the target audience and considering how to best engage your donors with relevant information. What marketing channels should we use?

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

We are here to talk about where to find potential donors to support your cause. We’ve got a good old-fashioned donor acquisition webinar for you today. But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments that you have along the way. We’ve all seen this, the donor pyramid, right?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2021

And SO many questions that need answering before you start. Planning Your Nonprofit Appeal Ok, to get started planning a nonprofit appeal, answer these four key questions: 1. The best time to send a nonprofit appeal is when you have an urgent need that you know your donors will want to fund. It seems like it should be simple.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

While you found a way to pivot to virtual in 2020, the events you hosted probably left something to be desired in the donor stewardship department. Did you know that Facebook Messenger can serve as a powerful donor acquisition and retention tool to capture donors’ attention and keep them around for the long run?

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While there are plenty of options available for different purposes, nonprofit tools help organizations do things like connect with their donors, plan events, run campaigns, collect donations, and cultivate strong donor relationships. Once you’ve organized your donor data, you can use marketing tools to connect with your donors.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So leaning on that background, as well as my more recent decade in nonprofit technology, I offer the following interview questions that an interviewee can ask of a hiring organization, to determine whether a given group is where you should place a career bet. The Seven Questions. ” Follow-up questions might be.

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

Your organization may have a lot of contacts in its database, but the reliability of that data is more important. By committing resources to making sure that the data you take in is accurate and that your existing data is current, your donor database will be more reliable and save you money in the long term. Data Health.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Donor Database It doesn’t matter if you have just two donors, you need a database. Donor databases like Little Green Light , Bloomerang , and Kindful do so much more than just track donations. The more you work on fundraising, the more names and data you’ll add into your donor software. You may ask.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

For most nonprofits, colleges and universities, giving significantly increases around the end of the calendar year in conjunction with the late fall and early winter holiday season. And, for reasons that now seem questionable, at that time you decided to remove the assigned prospects from the normal annual giving or membership solicitations.

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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. Here are some questions to answer when looking at forming a personalization plan: Why are you personalizing? Who are the audiences you are looking to target?

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