Expert insights. Personalized for you.
If there is any perception that newcomers to Canada are more likely to be beneficiaries of charitable services rather than donors, it would be a mistake to overlook these groups in your fundraising efforts. Like any donor group, multicultural Canadians give for a range of personal reasons. MORE
Using this process to identify different types of donors in your universe is extremely useful in guiding your efforts to segment your list and fine tune the messaging that you use for each group. Oscar One-Off Donor 2. Luna Lapsed Donor. Oscar One-Off Donor. MORE
“The next generation of donors” is not just the latest fundraising trend or catchphrase for development teams. Nonprofit organizations have always tried to understand how to shift and modify their fundraising strategies to appeal to and resonate with the future generation of donors. MORE
Sustaining donors represent a critical segment for any annual fund program. Reminder: Sustaining donors are transformational donors who have committed to support your organization using any regular frequency (monthly, quarterly, or annually). It’s easy to see why nonprofits love sustainer donors : they have great long-term value (LTV). In fact, data shows that sustainers have an LTV that is exponentially greater than that of a typical annual giving donor. MORE
The giving spirit is high, and donors want to know how they can contribute to the causes that they care about. Your organization needs to do more than simply ask your donors for contributions. You need to create personal, targeted appeals that show donors how they fit into your fundraising and how their gifts impact the recipients of your aid. Retain more donors. Your data, after all, provides insight into your donors. MORE
Monthly donor or sustainer programs are a relatively low-effort and high-impact way to increase donor retention and donor lifetime value, while also providing a steady and predictable stream of revenue that can help your nonprofit better budget and plan for the future. If you’re ready to start growing your sustaining donor base, here are a few tips to get you started. As with any type of donor, thank them right away with an automatic email. MORE
Do you know why your donors give? Unless you ask your donors directly, your gut instincts are merely opinions. A well-crafted donor survey delivered in a savvy way can provide the facts you need to make smarter fundraising and marketing decisions going forward. older donors). MORE
Here are the four most effective ways prospect researchers can contribute more donors and dollars: 1. Make more accurate gift capacity estimates. Gift capacity is a sensitive subject—you can’t work with major donors without having a few missed estimates. Prospect research takes a lot of time, but software that aggregates donor wealth and affinity information will free up your time for in-depth research. These are known, generous donors. MORE
The Conference itself includes philanthropy classes ranging from individual donors, planned giving, and marketing/social media subjects. Annual Conference for Donor Relations Professionals. Annual Conference for Donor Relations Professionals. It's finally here! MORE
These pressures include economic ups and downs, millennials jumping into the giving mix, and more and more funders, donors, and contributors demanding proof that the good intent of mission translates to a tangible impact in the world. The “Donors are Customers” Premise. I believe that donors are customers of your organization. They are customers because there is an exchange between the donor and your organization. Donors are no different. MORE
We’ve rounded up six ways to reach out to millennial donors to help boost your fundraising efforts. If they are, then they’re hearing your asks there, and like other donors they don’t want to feel bombarded. Additionally, if a donor keeps giving online, despite your repeated mail asks, consider dropping them from the mail list or include a mail opt-out button. fundraising donors donor management millennials MORE
When nonprofits want to pinpoint where their donors are leaving, they often look at the last thing that happened to their donor as the tipping point that got them to stop donating. Understanding Donor Behavior. Let’s look at: What motivates donors to give to your charity? MORE
Donor acquisition is all the rage, but did you know nearly 3 out of 4 new donors leave and never come back. Blackbaud’s latest Charitable Giving Report sheds light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. According to the latest research from Blackbaud’s Charitable Giving Report : The average donor retention rates for first-year offline-only donors is 29%. Great donor service. Don’t treat your donors like gumballs. MORE
As a general rule, retaining existing donors costs less than acquiring new ones. Current donors are a curated universe who have already demonstrated a belief in your organization’s mission, and willingness to take action toward it. As such, for most nonprofit organizations, pursuing strategies to reducing donor losses is the most affordable strategy for increasing net fundraising gains. Start with a donor stewardship program. retention donor management MORE
Attract more sustaining donors The influx of donations on Giving Tuesday is exhilarating for nonprofits, but it’s even better when the experience is repeated every month. Keep donors around for the long haul. givingtuesday donors#GivingTuesday is right around the corner! MORE
Many nonprofits forget that their volunteers and donors are also customers. Using Data to Better Understand Your Donors and Volunteers. Your nonprofit’s data can provide useful information about donor and volunteer motivations. Data can also help your nonprofit develop strategic ways to convert volunteers to donors and vice versa. Your nonprofit can segment volunteers and donors based on their interactions with the brand. MORE
How do I get more out of my event donors ? However, it also seems that most have yet to put a real strategy behind engaging event donors. Some add event donors to their newsletter list. From my experience, nonprofits mostly toss event donors into their regular communication cycle and hope for the best. The challenge is greater with event donors because you know next to nothing about them. Want to hear two more ways to turn event donors into annual donors? MORE
In short, our participants and donors have been telling us things we didn’t want to hear. Retention is terrible for darn near everything – peer-to-peer participants and donors alike. The problem is that our donors and participants don’t love us enough. What do donors and participants need? Nonprofit Nonprofit Fundraising donor communications Donor Engagement donor retention nonprofit fundraising strategyMother Nature just ripped our shorts off. MORE
But what you know may not know is that promoting matching gifts can also help cultivate donors into major donors. If you’ve honed your matching gift promotion strategy and are looking for additional ways to maximize your fundraising potential, follow along as we list 5 ways matching gifts can help you retain supporters and steward them into major donors: Matching gift maximums can encourage donors to give more. Matching gift maximums can encourage donors to give more. MORE
New data from Target Analytics , a division of Blackbaud, reveals key insights into online and offline donors. million donors. The giving data examines demographic and donation data for donors that only gave online, donors that only gave offline, and donors that made both online and offline gifts in 2016. Here are 4 facts your organization should know about online donors, according to the data: 1. donor in 2016 was 62 years old. MORE
As nonprofits know well, preserving relationships with donors is imperative to an organization’s success. In philanthropy, the donor stewardship process begins with a donor’s first gift—the end point of the cultivation stage—and is a vital component of your donor retention strategy. However, many nonprofits are still struggling to build a donor stewardship plan that nurtures donors beyond the first gift— 3 out of 4 new donors leave and never come back. MORE
donor retention rate in 2017. In other words, of all the donors who made a gift to a particular nonprofit in 2016, only 45.5% This unimpressive donor retention rate—one that hasn’t snuck north of 50% in more than a decade—hounds most nonprofits. TACTIC 1: AUDIT YOUR DONOR DATA. MORE
One of the biggest challenges for a donor relations and stewardship program, as an indirect revenue generator, is success metrics. Now more than ever, we have the opportunity to demonstrate how a strong donor relations effort contributes to fundraising. MORE
One of the data points that is often most difficult to access is the long term performance of donors from various acquisition sources, allowing a more holistic evaluation of a donor's lifetime value to the organization. Long Term Donor Value Report. What is your 5-year value of a donor? Which acquisition sources produce your best donors? For each fiscal year, you will see helpful metrics like the donor count, the average gift, and the net revenue. MORE
This is the overall state of donor engagement these days among many social good organizations. It looks at the consideration process that the donor goes through and tries to consider how to engage rather than solicit. It’s not about moving donors – it’s about donors moving themselves forward in the consideration process. It aligns offers that provide value to that particular donor based on their life story, interests and desires. MORE
You’re also getting used to Zoom and other video conferencing technologies , but you know that using it for a morning check-in with your team is very different than using it for a donor call. But I hadn’t used it for very many donor calls… until I was told not to travel anymore. I decided that day I would throw myself into using Zoom to connect to my donors. The first week I had six donor visits and got $2.7 How is using Zoom for donor meetings different? MORE
Economic and personal insecurity can present unique challenges for your monthly giving program but there is plenty you can do to combat loss with simple, feel-good donor retention strategies. Your donors may be feeling alone and scared, just like you may be. Start personally calling your monthly donors and simply thank them. Even if you leave a voicemail, your oxytocin levels will skyrocket, and the sentiment of gratitude will be treasured by your donor. MORE
In the social good world, storytelling is vital for success, and arguably one of the most important stories to tell is the journey of your donor’s funds. This is where the idea of donor statements comes in. Donor statements can help you inform donors about the breadth of impact their donations have made, leading them to feel good about their choice to donate to your organization, and trust that any possible future gift will be handled the same. MORE
To that end, there has been a great focus on communication and stewardship of donors to further increase giving. These things have forced our awareness, not only of the external factors at play but the value of retaining an organization’s best donors. Our latest report, Vital Signs: Monitoring Giving Patterns in the Donor Marketplace , shares our findings. MORE
However, during these discussions, many organizations ask the same question: “How do we attract more donors?” Start boosting your donor retention rate by focusing on those who are just giving to your nonprofit for the first time. We’ll start this guide by explaining why these new donors are so important to this strategic approach. . Why First-Time Donor Retention is Important. New donor retention plays a major role in your overall retention rate. MORE
Making a donor profile might be something that sounds reserved for larger nonprofit institutions with thousands of donors and prospects, a team of analysists, and a budget with room to spare. Truth is – you can absolutely make a useful and insightful donor profile with data from a few donors and a couple hours of your time. Before we go through the steps of making a donor profile, let’s talk a little bit about what they are and how they can be used. MORE
Every nonprofit needs a data management plan, especially for their donor data. To help with your donor data management planning, we have created a Donor Data Management Dictionary to help you make sense of all the data jargon as it applies to the nonprofit organization’s business needs. Please consider bookmarking the Donor Data Management Dictionary. Donor data quality is critically important to the success of nonprofit fundraising and communications. MORE
Donor retention is undeniably critical to meet your nonprofit’s revenue goals , but it can be tough to know which efforts result in higher retention levels or upward movement of donors. The 5 retention metrics fundraisers should know are: Donor Attrition Rate. Donor Level Moves. MORE
When you see increasing donor attrition rates or decreasing event participants, try walking in their shoes. Peace Arch Hospital Foundation was losing more donors than it was gaining. When they put themselves in their donors’ shoes, they realized their online transaction system was frustrating prospective patients and patient family donors – and donations were being lost because of it. If you had a choice, would you walk a mile uphill in snow in uncomfortable shoes? MORE
We have a huge problem facing our sustainability in nonprofits and that is donor retention. With first-time donor retention rates hovering below 30% and overall donor retention less than 50%, we are in danger of losing our donor bases. Donor Retention Featured MORE
T ransactional nature of the gift: A patient-donor might envision their first gift as a unique gift, a gift to be made only when they use the hospital, rather than multiple gifts to be made regardless of whether they use the hospital again; . Donors are more engaged and giving more. . MORE
Email is many donors’ primary mode of engagement with your organization, meaning that it is also your primary means of communicating information about the organization’s work and mission. Don’t JUST fundraise Engaging your donors beyond fundraising shouldn’t stop with the welcome series. MORE
Working in major gifts means tracking relationships, points of contact, and data with multiple high-level donors. Moves Management helps you organize all this information from the stage of your ask, the point person on the prospect, to the projected gift, all with a focus on the donors. For example, we see there are eight potential donors still in the qualification stage. Good reporting is just one way to keep your major donors prospects organized. MORE
Not only do they allow you to land big donors in person, they also provide a chance to make an impression on important members of your community, enabling you to grow your brand along with your dollars. Choose the range based on the giving capacity of your donor base. MORE
By focusing a little extra energy on your mid-level donors, you can raise more money and create a quality pipeline for your major gifts officers. How can we cultivate new donors while continuing to steward the supporters that we already have? So, who are these donors? MORE
In fact, I might be currently trapped in your LYBUNT donor query (“last year but unfortunately not this year”). Every donor, volunteer, newsletter subscriber, and web dweller should know about your program. Teach your donors how easy it is to join. MORE
Prospective donors may be excited about your platform or programming, but your most compelling selling point is why you’re doing what you’re doing. Whatever your CTAs are, be bold with your asks, so that your donors know how to support you. MORE
When asked by organizations whether their online fundraising programs should focus on donor acquisition or donor retention, I say, “Yes.”. As fundraisers, we don’t have the option of choosing; we must solicit from existing donors while simultaneously growing prospect lists and converting new leads into first-time donors. For greater clarity, we must examine the differences and change in giving between first-time donors and repeat donors. MORE
Once you have sustaining or monthly givers, how does your nonprofit currently thank monthly donors? Stewardship Sustained Giving donor recognition Online Fundraising MORE
Donor Related Topics 
EveryAction
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Using this process to identify different types of donors in your universe is extremely useful in guiding your efforts to segment your list and fine tune the messaging that you use for each group. Oscar One-Off Donor 2. Luna Lapsed Donor. Oscar One-Off Donor.
EveryAction
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
By focusing a little extra energy on your mid-level donors, you can raise more money and create a quality pipeline for your major gifts officers. How can we cultivate new donors while continuing to steward the supporters that we already have? So, who are these donors?
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
EveryAction
MARCH 5, 2019
As a general rule, retaining existing donors costs less than acquiring new ones. Current donors are a curated universe who have already demonstrated a belief in your organization’s mission, and willingness to take action toward it. As such, for most nonprofit organizations, pursuing strategies to reducing donor losses is the most affordable strategy for increasing net fundraising gains. Start with a donor stewardship program. retention donor management
Connection Cafe
MAY 27, 2020
One of the biggest challenges for a donor relations and stewardship program, as an indirect revenue generator, is success metrics. Now more than ever, we have the opportunity to demonstrate how a strong donor relations effort contributes to fundraising.
EveryAction
JANUARY 18, 2018
We’ve rounded up six ways to reach out to millennial donors to help boost your fundraising efforts. If they are, then they’re hearing your asks there, and like other donors they don’t want to feel bombarded. Additionally, if a donor keeps giving online, despite your repeated mail asks, consider dropping them from the mail list or include a mail opt-out button. fundraising donors donor management millennials
Connection Cafe
DECEMBER 5, 2019
When nonprofits want to pinpoint where their donors are leaving, they often look at the last thing that happened to their donor as the tipping point that got them to stop donating. Understanding Donor Behavior. Let’s look at: What motivates donors to give to your charity?
Connection Cafe
JULY 17, 2018
donor retention rate in 2017. In other words, of all the donors who made a gift to a particular nonprofit in 2016, only 45.5% This unimpressive donor retention rate—one that hasn’t snuck north of 50% in more than a decade—hounds most nonprofits. TACTIC 1: AUDIT YOUR DONOR DATA.
Connection Cafe
JULY 26, 2017
As nonprofits know well, preserving relationships with donors is imperative to an organization’s success. In philanthropy, the donor stewardship process begins with a donor’s first gift—the end point of the cultivation stage—and is a vital component of your donor retention strategy. However, many nonprofits are still struggling to build a donor stewardship plan that nurtures donors beyond the first gift— 3 out of 4 new donors leave and never come back.
Connection Cafe
APRIL 20, 2020
In short, our participants and donors have been telling us things we didn’t want to hear. Retention is terrible for darn near everything – peer-to-peer participants and donors alike. The problem is that our donors and participants don’t love us enough. What do donors and participants need? Nonprofit Nonprofit Fundraising donor communications Donor Engagement donor retention nonprofit fundraising strategyMother Nature just ripped our shorts off.
Connection Cafe
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Donor retention is undeniably critical to meet your nonprofit’s revenue goals , but it can be tough to know which efforts result in higher retention levels or upward movement of donors. The 5 retention metrics fundraisers should know are: Donor Attrition Rate. Donor Level Moves.
Connection Cafe
APRIL 23, 2020
You’re also getting used to Zoom and other video conferencing technologies , but you know that using it for a morning check-in with your team is very different than using it for a donor call. But I hadn’t used it for very many donor calls… until I was told not to travel anymore. I decided that day I would throw myself into using Zoom to connect to my donors. The first week I had six donor visits and got $2.7 How is using Zoom for donor meetings different?
EveryAction
APRIL 18, 2018
Monthly donor or sustainer programs are a relatively low-effort and high-impact way to increase donor retention and donor lifetime value, while also providing a steady and predictable stream of revenue that can help your nonprofit better budget and plan for the future. If you’re ready to start growing your sustaining donor base, here are a few tips to get you started. As with any type of donor, thank them right away with an automatic email.
Connection Cafe
APRIL 24, 2020
Economic and personal insecurity can present unique challenges for your monthly giving program but there is plenty you can do to combat loss with simple, feel-good donor retention strategies. Your donors may be feeling alone and scared, just like you may be. Start personally calling your monthly donors and simply thank them. Even if you leave a voicemail, your oxytocin levels will skyrocket, and the sentiment of gratitude will be treasured by your donor.
Connection Cafe
MAY 6, 2020
Sustaining donors represent a critical segment for any annual fund program. Reminder: Sustaining donors are transformational donors who have committed to support your organization using any regular frequency (monthly, quarterly, or annually). It’s easy to see why nonprofits love sustainer donors : they have great long-term value (LTV). In fact, data shows that sustainers have an LTV that is exponentially greater than that of a typical annual giving donor.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 26, 2018
Do you know why your donors give? Unless you ask your donors directly, your gut instincts are merely opinions. A well-crafted donor survey delivered in a savvy way can provide the facts you need to make smarter fundraising and marketing decisions going forward. older donors).
EveryAction
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
One of the data points that is often most difficult to access is the long term performance of donors from various acquisition sources, allowing a more holistic evaluation of a donor's lifetime value to the organization. Long Term Donor Value Report. What is your 5-year value of a donor? Which acquisition sources produce your best donors? For each fiscal year, you will see helpful metrics like the donor count, the average gift, and the net revenue.
Connection Cafe
DECEMBER 18, 2019
“The next generation of donors” is not just the latest fundraising trend or catchphrase for development teams. Nonprofit organizations have always tried to understand how to shift and modify their fundraising strategies to appeal to and resonate with the future generation of donors.
EveryAction
JULY 25, 2018
Prospective donors may be excited about your platform or programming, but your most compelling selling point is why you’re doing what you’re doing. Whatever your CTAs are, be bold with your asks, so that your donors know how to support you.
EveryAction
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Working in major gifts means tracking relationships, points of contact, and data with multiple high-level donors. Moves Management helps you organize all this information from the stage of your ask, the point person on the prospect, to the projected gift, all with a focus on the donors. For example, we see there are eight potential donors still in the qualification stage. Good reporting is just one way to keep your major donors prospects organized.
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 3, 2020
When you see increasing donor attrition rates or decreasing event participants, try walking in their shoes. Peace Arch Hospital Foundation was losing more donors than it was gaining. When they put themselves in their donors’ shoes, they realized their online transaction system was frustrating prospective patients and patient family donors – and donations were being lost because of it. If you had a choice, would you walk a mile uphill in snow in uncomfortable shoes?
Connection Cafe
JULY 16, 2019
In the social good world, storytelling is vital for success, and arguably one of the most important stories to tell is the journey of your donor’s funds. This is where the idea of donor statements comes in. Donor statements can help you inform donors about the breadth of impact their donations have made, leading them to feel good about their choice to donate to your organization, and trust that any possible future gift will be handled the same.
EveryAction
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Attract more sustaining donors The influx of donations on Giving Tuesday is exhilarating for nonprofits, but it’s even better when the experience is repeated every month. Keep donors around for the long haul. givingtuesday donors#GivingTuesday is right around the corner!
3rd Sector Labs
JUNE 1, 2015
Every nonprofit needs a data management plan, especially for their donor data. To help with your donor data management planning, we have created a Donor Data Management Dictionary to help you make sense of all the data jargon as it applies to the nonprofit organization’s business needs. Please consider bookmarking the Donor Data Management Dictionary. Donor data quality is critically important to the success of nonprofit fundraising and communications.
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 24, 2017
To that end, there has been a great focus on communication and stewardship of donors to further increase giving. These things have forced our awareness, not only of the external factors at play but the value of retaining an organization’s best donors. Our latest report, Vital Signs: Monitoring Giving Patterns in the Donor Marketplace , shares our findings.
Connection Cafe
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
Making a donor profile might be something that sounds reserved for larger nonprofit institutions with thousands of donors and prospects, a team of analysists, and a budget with room to spare. Truth is – you can absolutely make a useful and insightful donor profile with data from a few donors and a couple hours of your time. Before we go through the steps of making a donor profile, let’s talk a little bit about what they are and how they can be used.
EveryAction
DECEMBER 7, 2016
The giving spirit is high, and donors want to know how they can contribute to the causes that they care about. Your organization needs to do more than simply ask your donors for contributions. You need to create personal, targeted appeals that show donors how they fit into your fundraising and how their gifts impact the recipients of your aid. Retain more donors. Your data, after all, provides insight into your donors.
Connection Cafe
MARCH 20, 2019
Here are the four most effective ways prospect researchers can contribute more donors and dollars: 1. Make more accurate gift capacity estimates. Gift capacity is a sensitive subject—you can’t work with major donors without having a few missed estimates. Prospect research takes a lot of time, but software that aggregates donor wealth and affinity information will free up your time for in-depth research. These are known, generous donors.
Connection Cafe
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
In fact, I might be currently trapped in your LYBUNT donor query (“last year but unfortunately not this year”). Every donor, volunteer, newsletter subscriber, and web dweller should know about your program. Teach your donors how easy it is to join.
Connection Cafe
JULY 6, 2017
New data from Target Analytics , a division of Blackbaud, reveals key insights into online and offline donors. million donors. The giving data examines demographic and donation data for donors that only gave online, donors that only gave offline, and donors that made both online and offline gifts in 2016. Here are 4 facts your organization should know about online donors, according to the data: 1. donor in 2016 was 62 years old.
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
When asked by organizations whether their online fundraising programs should focus on donor acquisition or donor retention, I say, “Yes.”. As fundraisers, we don’t have the option of choosing; we must solicit from existing donors while simultaneously growing prospect lists and converting new leads into first-time donors. For greater clarity, we must examine the differences and change in giving between first-time donors and repeat donors.
NonProfit Hub
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
We have a huge problem facing our sustainability in nonprofits and that is donor retention. With first-time donor retention rates hovering below 30% and overall donor retention less than 50%, we are in danger of losing our donor bases. Donor Retention Featured
Connection Cafe
MARCH 21, 2018
But what you know may not know is that promoting matching gifts can also help cultivate donors into major donors. If you’ve honed your matching gift promotion strategy and are looking for additional ways to maximize your fundraising potential, follow along as we list 5 ways matching gifts can help you retain supporters and steward them into major donors: Matching gift maximums can encourage donors to give more. Matching gift maximums can encourage donors to give more.
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 11, 2013
Once you have sustaining or monthly givers, how does your nonprofit currently thank monthly donors? Stewardship Sustained Giving donor recognition Online Fundraising
Connection Cafe
APRIL 19, 2019
Donor acquisition is all the rage, but did you know nearly 3 out of 4 new donors leave and never come back. Blackbaud’s latest Charitable Giving Report sheds light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. According to the latest research from Blackbaud’s Charitable Giving Report : The average donor retention rates for first-year offline-only donors is 29%. Great donor service. Don’t treat your donors like gumballs.
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 2, 2018
T ransactional nature of the gift: A patient-donor might envision their first gift as a unique gift, a gift to be made only when they use the hospital, rather than multiple gifts to be made regardless of whether they use the hospital again; . Donors are more engaged and giving more. .
Connection Cafe
MAY 18, 2015
How do I get more out of my event donors ? However, it also seems that most have yet to put a real strategy behind engaging event donors. Some add event donors to their newsletter list. From my experience, nonprofits mostly toss event donors into their regular communication cycle and hope for the best. The challenge is greater with event donors because you know next to nothing about them. Want to hear two more ways to turn event donors into annual donors?
NonProfit Hub
JUNE 12, 2020
However, during these discussions, many organizations ask the same question: “How do we attract more donors?” Start boosting your donor retention rate by focusing on those who are just giving to your nonprofit for the first time. We’ll start this guide by explaining why these new donors are so important to this strategic approach. . Why First-Time Donor Retention is Important. New donor retention plays a major role in your overall retention rate.
EveryAction
AUGUST 28, 2018
Not only do they allow you to land big donors in person, they also provide a chance to make an impression on important members of your community, enabling you to grow your brand along with your dollars. Choose the range based on the giving capacity of your donor base.
EveryAction
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
The Conference itself includes philanthropy classes ranging from individual donors, planned giving, and marketing/social media subjects. Annual Conference for Donor Relations Professionals. Annual Conference for Donor Relations Professionals. It's finally here!
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
This is the overall state of donor engagement these days among many social good organizations. It looks at the consideration process that the donor goes through and tries to consider how to engage rather than solicit. It’s not about moving donors – it’s about donors moving themselves forward in the consideration process. It aligns offers that provide value to that particular donor based on their life story, interests and desires.
EveryAction
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
Email is many donors’ primary mode of engagement with your organization, meaning that it is also your primary means of communicating information about the organization’s work and mission. Don’t JUST fundraise Engaging your donors beyond fundraising shouldn’t stop with the welcome series.
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 13, 2014
These pressures include economic ups and downs, millennials jumping into the giving mix, and more and more funders, donors, and contributors demanding proof that the good intent of mission translates to a tangible impact in the world. The “Donors are Customers” Premise. I believe that donors are customers of your organization. They are customers because there is an exchange between the donor and your organization. Donors are no different.
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Many nonprofits forget that their volunteers and donors are also customers. Using Data to Better Understand Your Donors and Volunteers. Your nonprofit’s data can provide useful information about donor and volunteer motivations. Data can also help your nonprofit develop strategic ways to convert volunteers to donors and vice versa. Your nonprofit can segment volunteers and donors based on their interactions with the brand.
152 
Let's personalize your content