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How to Drive High Donor Retention Rates with Text Messaging

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However, with the average donor retention rate sitting around 45%, many nonprofits struggle to sustain newly acquired donors’ support. In this guide, we’ll cover four best practices to increase your donor retention rate with text messaging. Establishing a predictable donation pipeline is critical to your nonprofit’s longevity.

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Mastering Major Gifts: The Ultimate Guide to Raise More

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To secure the support of these crucial donors, your nonprofit needs to build a robust major gifts fundraising strategy. Because major gifts are so large, it requires time and dedication to cultivate and acquire more of these donations. Why are major gifts so important for nonprofits? What is a major gift? billion in 2022.

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Solving the Donor Retention Rate Issue: The Case for Creating a Board-level Donor Thank You Committee

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Do you know your organization’s donor retention rate? of the donors who made a gift in 2019 made another gift in 2020. That means more than half of donors who made a gift in 2019 didn’t make another one in the following year! Because according to the FEP, the 2020 repeat donor retention rate was 59.6%—whereas

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Volunteer Management & Retention Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Volunteers are the backbone of every nonprofit’s workforce, and having a good volunteer staff helps your organization accomplish more for your cause. To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization.

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GivingTuesday: Tips to Reach Donors and Volunteers

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GivingTuesday offers nonprofits an opportunity to capitalize on reaching both donors and volunteers, setting their organization up for success moving into the new year. Giving Tuesday provides organizations with a time to attract and convert new volunteers and donors who are actively seeking end-of-year involvement in the greater good.

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How to Start a Volunteer Program: 12 Steps for Success

Bloomerang

Has your nonprofit identified an unaddressed need within your community? If so, you may be interested in starting a volunteer program. To help you build a sustainable volunteer program, in this guide, we’ll cover the essential steps for starting a volunteer program: Conduct a community needs assessment.

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Your Guide to Year-End Fundraising Best Practices

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According to DonorBox nearly one-third of all annual gifts come in December, and nearly half of all online donations come in the last week of the year. Sending emails between Tuesday and Thursday and between 9 AM and 12 PM or 6 PM and 9 PM can also increase open and response rates. However, this is not a universal rule.

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