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Rethinking Recruitment and Retention Goals

VQ Strategies

For decades, volunteer engagement was summed up in 3 Rs: “Recruitment, Retention, and Recognition.” Traditionally, recruitment focused on looking outward to find and attract people to engage in activities in support of the organization’s cause. While recruitment efforts have evolved, so have perspectives on retention.

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Donor Retention: Reasons to Keep Your Supporters Giving Year Round

Greater Giving

But as we kick off 2023 and look back at what worked well in 2022, an excellent tool for evaluating donor retention is to look at the donors that gave last year but unfortunately not this year (LYBUNT) and work on engaging them with new opportunities to give. ” TIP: How do you Calculate Donor Retention Rate?

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Nonprofit Cause Marketing: A Guide to Impactful Partnerships

Qgiv

Cause marketing is a great way to build a relationship with a business to make your fundraising more sustainable. A cause marketing campaign benefits both you and the business you work with while developing connections with your community. What is cause marketing? Purchase-triggered donation.

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Why is Donor Retention Rate So Important?

Qgiv

Whether developing fundraising strategies, creating donor retention programs, launching humanitarian outreaches on the other side of the world, or implementing marketing and assimilation strategies to grow a local church, Darrell’s passion is to help clients achieve their goals and fulfill their mission. . What Is Donor Retention Rate?

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3 Essential Social Media Fundraising Metrics for Nonprofits

Achieve

Social media is an indispensable tool for raising awareness for your nonprofit’s cause, reaching new audiences, and strengthening your relationships with donors. Stories, such as those featuring a specific beneficiary or volunteer, can bring users closer to your cause and give them a more tangible, urgent reason to get involved.

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Engagement Analytics 101: Setting Your Association Up for Success

Association Analytics

Doing so could cause issues with understanding what’s most important to your members in the current moment. Do you want to improve retention numbers? Start discussing what metrics will help you make overarching decisions. Start discussing what metrics will help you make overarching decisions.

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“Donor retention by the numbers”: Q&A with Caity Craver and Gary Carr

3rd Sector Labs

Third Sector Labs recently co-hosted a donor retention webinar with Caity Craver , CEO of DonorTrends. The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results.

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