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 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. Nearly 3 out of 4 new donors never make a second gift.

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Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

With Bloomerang , a powerful CRM system, you can start to get to know your donors more and communicate more effectively. Using an interactive dashboard, review your donor retention rate and suggestions from Bloomerang to improvement it. Double the Donation | Matching Gift Software. Let’s break down each platform!

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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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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Bottom line: gifts are the result of effective engagement. According to Roger Craver in his book Retention Fundraising , “The average nonprofit has a 60-70% chance of getting additional gifts from current donors, a 20-40% chance from a lapsed donor and a 2% chance from a prospect.”. Their customer retention rates dwarf ours.

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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. For example, Qgiv provides AI to help your organization write peer-to-peer emails, as well as other donor communications. What is AI?

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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! In fact, over half of donors who watch nonprofit videos go on to make a gift! Giving Tuesday Communications. Learn how to create your own Giving Tuesday video with our guide.

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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. Sending updates to the donor on what their gift accomplished is key to showing the impact their donation had on your nonprofit organization.

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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. And according to findings from the 2014 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report that was released last week, this is right on time. Donor retention. Wonder what caught his eye?

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Even though the calls were simply to check in with donors and see how they were doing during a trying time, it also resulted in gifts. Focus on how their past gifts are still making a difference and give them opportunities to ask questions about your organization. This is any type of gift that isn’t financial!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2014

Guest post by Vanessa Chase : Fundraising & Communications Strategist, Storytelling Enthusiast and Philanthropy Advocate. Donor retention is an on-going conversation in our sector and any time it comes up, people start to panic. We all know what we have donor retention troubles. Take a Cue from Major Gifts.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2016

We all know that donor retention is a year-long process, right? The good news is December can be the “cherry on top” of a yearlong stewardship or donor retention program if you’ve paid attention to your communication. The right ways to inspire your donors to stick around: Talk about the impact their gifts helped you make.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2017

From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. The ‘old rule’ that donors who come in via one channel should be communicated with through that same channel. 7 steps to integrated marketing success at your nonprofit : 1. Breakdown the Silos. Pure nonsense.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

That’s exactly what WorldHelp had in mind when they used a live chat to lift conversions by 45% : Here is why live chats are so effective at maximizing donations: It replaces phone or email communication with real-time support directly on the website. Validates the entire experience and improves credibility of the organization.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 30, 2015

It’s true, donor retention is still at an all-time low and every organization should spend more time on the stewardship and cultivation of donors (steward all levels of donors, don’t neglect the bread & butter of your annual fund), but there is this very valuable group of individuals that are waiting for a reason to give.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 20, 2022

For retention-minded fundraisers with a strong donor cultivation plan in place, the early days of a new calendar year might even be busier than any day in November and December. They may have made their first gift or their 20th. Was it above or below your average gift size? Reason for Giving: What do they care about?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2017

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think strategy should ONLY be about numbers (because that would be boring), but it is a necessary and REQUIRED component of our development, communications, marketing, and programmatic efforts. I am excited to present on the topic of retention, repeat gifts, and stewardship. Google for Nonprofits .

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

You work long hours and spend a ton of resources getting new donors in the door, only to then see them never make a second gift, leaving you right back where you started. Understanding the Donor Journey Donor Acquisition Donor Retention Donor Stewardship How to Communicate With Your Donors Donor Data Management 1. Sound good?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bloomerang’s segmentation eBook can provide more insight into smart ways to segment your database if you’re just getting started. When it comes to requesting a donation, your donor database should keep track of potential major gift opportunities. A communications audit tool. Scalability. Your dashboard.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Social media and email marketing resources and templates can help you transform your mass communications into personalized donor engagements. With expert knowledge in crafting compelling posts, tweets, and pins, your team can better promote your mission and interact with your community on new levels. Enhanced outreach. Qgiv Resources.

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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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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2020

Empowering Technology + Data: Leveraging the new normal of remote technology, online communications, and automation. Embrace remote technology and meetings, online communication as a focus, and automation that will make tasks easier. When you believe that, the gifts will come. How are you doing on multi-year donor retention?

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Be sure to share impact stories, campaign progress, and program updates to keep your community in the know. Creating organic channels of communication versus a one-sided slew of asks is how you turn a first-time donor into a long-term supporter. For large gifts, you should add another form of outreach like a phone call or direct mail.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Kari Trent Stageberg, MBA and Jackie Smith will equip you with easy, practical, and actionable steps to help you win back your lapsed donors, including learning how to identify, qualify, and communicate with them. So there’s actually an eBook they wrote on donor acquisition. Full Transcript: Steven: All right.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Email is one of the most important communication channels for your nonprofit. It also happens to be the top driver of online donations , generating 35% of gifts. If your list is 14,000 people, you could expect 10 gifts per email. So you can send one email and get 10 gifts, or you can send four emails and expect 40 gifts.

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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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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2014

Read more from Marc by downloading the npEXPERTS ebook and by following him on Twitter. Once a donor commits to monthly giving, they often enter into a kind of donor communications wasteland, rarely hearing from the very organization they’ve just pledged to support. Want to hear about what Marc’s got to say on donor retention?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2014

For gifts of significance send handwritten thank you notes. For major gifts, set up face to face visits. Check out our newest eBook! ). We decided to contact companies that gave major gifts or ran giving campaigns and offer to come out and say thank you. You can engage the local offices in this project. Photo Cred.

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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). Your blog is your gift to them, as well as to yourself.

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