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Keep Your Donors Coming Back: Effective Strategies for Nonprofit Donor Retention and Recurring Gifts

The Modern Nonprofit

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Keep Your Donors Coming Back: Effective Strategies for Nonprofit Donor Retention and Recurring Gifts Ever wondered how some nonprofits have a dedicated group of repeat donors while others are constantly chasing new ones? The secret lies in mastering donor retention and recurring gifts.

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Your Guide to Year-End Fundraising Best Practices

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. Matching Gifts: Matching gift opportunities can reinforce the importance of a donor’s immediate support and makes them feel like their contribution is more significant.

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What Are You Doing with Your Donor Data?

Greater Giving

Your donor data may include phone numbers, emails, birthdays, donation history, and even meal preferences. Giving history: Better understand donors’ giving patterns and preferences by tracking donation amounts, frequency, dates, and specific campaigns they’ve supported. Donors’ giving history can be an incredibly helpful data point.

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Donor Personas: How to Identify Your Unique Donor Audience

CauseVox

This involves looking at demographics, motivations, and preferences. For instance: Customer Relationship Management systems (CRMs): help us track donor interactions and giving histories. Some ways to segment donors include (but are not limited to): Demographics : This includes age, gender, occupation, and location.

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6 Strategies to Boost Donation Revenue for Your Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

For instance, in-kind donors might want to know how you’re using their gifts to run your programs, while monetary donors would be interested in hearing how you’re using financial donations to further your mission. Allow donors to turn a one-time gift into a recurring donation with just the click of a button. Personalize donor outreach.

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Best Practices for Donor Acquisition and Retention Through Direct Mail

Bloomerang

After you collect the relevant data, look at your school’s fundraising history and donor demographics to better predict the success you could have with direct appeals. Consider both demographic and psychographic characteristics when defining your segments. Define your audience.

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Your ‘’Day After” GivingTuesday Plan

Bloomerang

Less than one in five new donors who donated on GivingTuesday will give a second gift, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. Reflect and analyze Review your results from GivingTuesday , including the total amount raised, donor demographics, and the success of your different approaches and social media channels.

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