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An Insider’s Guide to Growing Your Nonprofit’s Gifts and Wills Program

Bloomerang

Legacy gifts are an area of revenue in the nonprofit sector that few can afford to overlook. The hardest part is measuring the effectiveness of a particular campaign and trying to predict gifts in wills’ income for the future. How have you seen nonprofits getting their gifts and wills program wrong? Stay motivated.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] How Do You Calculate Your Nonprofit’s Average Dollar Retention Rate?

Bloomerang

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Dear Charity Clairity, When you write “the average dollar retention is just 47%,” I’m not sure what that means. Purpose of gift. What to measure. Because you’ll likely see a difference based on gift size or other factors.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Make a “ stretch gift ” that is very generous and is outside your normal giving pattern. Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). It doesn’t have to be a gift. Then help implement these tools.

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3 Ways to Manage & Grow Major Donor Relationships

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When you solicit a prospective supporter, you need to be prepared with data, compelling testimonials, personal knowledge of what motivates the donor as an individual, and a concrete plan of how their major gift will help you make major changes. Collectively, they hold more than $110 billion, all of which is destined for charities.

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13 Innovative Online Fundraising Ideas For Nonprofits & Charities

CauseVox

Donors love to know that their money was leveraged, and with matching gifts, they’re essentially giving two gifts for the price of one. In fact, one of the main reasons why Millennials donate is because they know their gift will be matched. Matching gifts are also a great way to boost donations mid-campaign. Then share!

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Digital Analytics Tools?

Bloomerang

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. Dear Charity Clairity, We have some high-tech folks on our board, and some think we’re not doing enough digitally. They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us.

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Nonprofit Donor Retention 101: Always Do This

Bloomerang

When respected researcher Penelope Burk asked donors why they stopped giving, or why they gave less than they could, here are some of their responses : I didn’t receive any information at all after making a gift to a not-for-profit last year. What my friends and I talk about is how donors who make smaller gift are dismissed as unimportant.

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