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Is the Higher Education Pipeline Shrinking or Just Taking a Nap?

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People have been choosing to have fewer children, and that decline has significant implications for educational institutions worldwide. As birth rates decline and populations age, the effects on enrollment numbers, funding, and institutional sustainability become increasingly pronounced.

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How Data Can Improve Your Nonprofit’s Response Rates

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Below are four simple yet highly effective ways that data can help you increase response rates. Know your target demographic. Before any appeal, ask yourself: What is your target demographic? If you have demographic data appended to your house file, you can use it to segment your best target audience for a given solicitation.

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Direct Mail Donor Acquisition Strategies

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Additionally, retention rates for first-time donors declined from 25.3% Dispelling Common Myths The 3 most common myths about direct mail acquisition are: You should expect a 1% response rate. Mailing to the most affluent zip codes will result in a higher response rate. year over year. in 2016 to 19.3%

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Read This Post If You Want Your Most Successful GivingTuesday

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Sometimes a surprise donation request has value A study of around 6,000 participants from the Journal of Public Economics found that alerting the participants to the upcoming ask for a donation decreased click-through rates. Ask them questions to determine their demographics (age, zip code, marital status, communication preference, etc.)

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Engaging Your Donor Community: 5 School Fundraising Tips

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Along with using data from previous campaigns, analyze your donors’ demographics, such as age group and average income. For example, supporters who are parents often like fundraisers they can participate in with their children. Another helpful factor to keep track of is donors’ preferred communication methods.

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Volunteer Management & Retention Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Having a successful volunteer management strategy will help you increase your volunteer retention rate, which ultimately creates more efficient volunteer staff. The average volunteer retention rate is around 65%. If you have volunteers with children, offer family-friendly volunteer options.

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How to Keep Donors Engaged Using Emerging Technologies

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Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. Web3, the third generation of computing and a new iteration of the World Wide Web, is a rapidly emerging technology poised to help organizations connect, engage, and innovate at a higher rate.