Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Everyone wants new donors, right? In reality, paying to interrupt complete strangers with an uninvited ask and thinking they’ll go from stranger to a donor can amount to magical thinking. A wise friend in fundraising once told me, “Finding new donors is like going fishing. So where can you find donor prospects ?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2014

I work as the Donor Relations Coordinator at Lena Pope , an agency that serves children and families through counseling and education. We impact over 10,000 lives each year, and in 2013 we had a donor retention rate of 43% ( compared to 27% ). Over a 5 year period, we’ve gone from retaining 29% of our donors to 43%.

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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. For example, a fall in renewal rates or average gift size. If you had a choice, would you walk a mile uphill in snow in uncomfortable shoes?

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Care2

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Your donors are likely your organization''s lifeline, and it''s important to acquire donors, keep them egaged, and move them further up the ladder of engagement. But you need to treat your donors with love, and cultivate a real realtionship. What are other ways you like to thank your donors? Double yikes. Get creative.

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Bloomerang

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofit professionals, donors and volunteers put themselves on the front lines of service to others with their gifts of time, talent and treasure. Donors also show courage in making their gifts of time and money. Even the wealthiest of donors have finite resources and cannot respond to all the requests received.

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Qgiv

MAY 4, 2021

Because many donors like doing it, it’s attractive to younger donors, recurring donors tend to give 42% more in a year than one-time donors, and monthly donors renew at a MUCH higher rate than one-time donors. Keep and manage the growth of monthly donors: Manage the back end in your systems.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your passion and drive demonstrate why donors should give to your cause, but finding new donors and keeping existing ones takes something more: a solid fundraising strategy. It’s the story you tell potential and current donors. Donor stewardship What is the average donor’s experience with your nonprofit?

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Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

Donors are more likely to give when they know the person who’s doing the asking. Peer-to-peer fundraising is a great way to raise money and build your donor base, but the type of platform you use also has a major impact on your campaign’s performance, and your ability to retain new donors and fundraisers from year to year. .

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Platform Fundraising Nonprofit Gift 98

Neon CRM

JUNE 8, 2023

When it comes to receiving communication from nonprofits, donors have a clear favorite: Email! Our latest research uncovered that 48% of donors cite email as their preferred method of communication from nonprofit organizations. Direct mail can be a great way to let donors and potential supporters know that you have an email list.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2014

In our latest installment of npEXPERTS – “ Cupids Arrow: Targeted Strategies to Acquire Supporters “ - you’ll find 36-pages of thoughtful advice on donor acquisition strategies, written collaboratively by a cross-section of nonprofit fundraising experts. Find Steve On Twitter. We’d love to hear your feedback!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2023

We’ve put together a handy eBook on choosing the best software for your nonprofit. For best results, you have to tell the stories that your donors want to hear. Your stories should answer these questions for donors and inspire them to give. What is donor stewardship? Read on to learn more!

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Since its conception, Giving Tuesday has turned into a worldwide movement championing radical generosity and encouraging donors to give in ways big and small in pursuit of making the world a better place. Kick things off with a great Giving Tuesday campaign that will wow your donors and get them excited about donating.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2022

As digital wallets have become more commonplace, the number of donors making gifts via check has decreased. Many donors will prefer to give right on your website via their digital wallet as opposed to mailing in a physical check. It’s not enough to only include a donors’ name in your email communications. Personalization.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Result: 63% more donations, 55% higher conversion rate and a 2X ROI. Had a 55% increased conversion rate. Each group was then further segmented into 3 separate audiences: Giving history divided donors into: Current donors : Members who have donated in the past year. Result: 119%-203% higher conversion rates.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

Donor acquisition is all the rage, but did you know nearly 3 out of 4 new donors leave and never come back. In 2013, Chuck Longfield was on a mission to shed light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. If the ten-year trend continues, we’ll eventually end up with donor retention rates under 20%.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2014

Her second book is The Wild Woman’s Guide to Social Media, published 2012, given a 5 star rating by About.com. Our donors don’t give year after year. Donors staying loyal is the exception, not the rule. Make a donor retention calendar to keep your donors loyal! Once a year thank-a-thon for all donors.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Almost 50% of Boomer donors prefer to give with a physical check. Almost 50% of Boomer donors prefer to give with a physical check. 33% of donors in this age group prefer to give in response to social media channels, and 29% prefer to give via text messages. You want your conversion rate to be as high as possible.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 20, 2020

At Twenti, we help nonprofits understand and access the grant (see our ultimate ebook guide and free eligibility check ), but what happens once you’ve got the grant? Building your email list increases your chances of having loyal and consistent donors, rather than one time donors. Have a targeted landing page for each ad group.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2014

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. Donor stewardship is a great place to begin making changes that can impact your donor retention rates. I think this is especially true for donors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e., This represents a 10x growth over the past 6 years, and a 20% and 25% growth, respectively, over less than a year: growth rates associated more with successful commercial services, and unheard of in our field.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

How Are Major Donors Identified? To identify major donors, you need to analyze a prospect’s financial capacity to contribute and their philanthropic interest in doing so. Most donors only make major gifts to a nonprofit after multiple interactions with that organization—very few people will make a $5,000 gift right away!

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Achieve

AUGUST 6, 2021

Completed fundraising pages are more compelling to potential donors than non-personalized ones. of donors cited friends’ and family’s input as an important factor in their decision to give, and a whopping 40% of donors ask their loved ones’ opinions about a nonprofit before giving (psst: this statistic came from our.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 21, 2022

The vast majority of financial support for the vast majority of nonprofit organizations comes from individual donors. Here are 6 significant ways companies can support your organization: Credibility: when individual donors see companies supporting you, that raises your credibility and connection to the community.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2014

The subject which I was asked to write about was donor retention and, seemingly, these two things should really have nothing in common. At its core, Wish You Were Here is really just about peoples’ inabilities to engage with one another, which is entirely relatable to the way in which donor retention is often approached.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2014

Donor retention is an absolute priority (again) for 2014. Please join me in thanking Frank Barry and the Blackbaud team for sharing donor retention guidance from some of the smartest fundraising experts out there. Here’s my #1 donor retention guidance for you—R-E-S-P-E-C-T your way to strong and long-lasting donor relationships.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

You work for a nonprofit that is totally stuck in the donor acquisition cycle from hell. 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. What is Donor Management? What is Donor Management? Sound good?

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Care2

APRIL 25, 2010

Whether people became your fans, or, in the new Facebook parlance, "like" you, you invest in your presence on Facebook to build relationships with current or potential donors, volunteers, and activists to move them to take action that support your mission. Our findings and recommendations are documented in a free ebook, available here.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A donor database is much more than a glorified phonebook for nonprofits. When nonprofits invest in the right donor management tools and use them properly, they can become an incredible asset. These solutions optimize and expand your fundraising and donor stewardship activities to help form long-lasting relationships.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

These virtual ideas have already been successful for many of our clients here at Qgiv, helping to fill the gaps in their fundraising revenue and sustain donor engagement during the pandemic and post-pandemic. Without a dedicated online strategy or a social media presence, many potential donors will view your organization as out of touch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

As more and more donors are being exposed to crowdfunding for products and services, they’ll expect your fundraising to shift towards those approaches as well. The Yale researchers George Newman and Jeremy Shen, found that contrary to expectations, rewarding donors cut donations in most situations. Fundraising'

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

Make it easy for donors to support you. Your donors want to support your peer-to-peer fundraising events, but if your peer-to-peer fundraising software is hard to use or they can’t easily see their progress, they may get discouraged. Thermometers help donors visualize their progress toward your goal. People are visual by nature.

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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. Here’s how silos negatively impact donors. Again, put yourself in the donors’ place.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

The larger the donor file, the greater the number of dollars raised. The size of an organization’s email housefile is not a predictor to success, just as open rates are not a predictor to constituent engagement. As I had written for the Donor Acquisition eBook , Engage Your Housefile: Why Size Doesn’t Matter , these are vanity metrics.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Lauren Hunter has written a series of free eBooks. That’s the highest adoption rate in the nonprofit sector. I found her communications content. particularly interesting like her piece 4 Technology Options that Might Kill the Church Bulletin. Church Tech Blogs is exactly what it sounds like: a blog aggregator site.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 2, 2017

From eBooks to webinars, there’s a heaping handful of other ways to raise money online. 6 Email Marketing Hacks to Increase Open Rates. If you take the time to offer value and form a relationship, then you’ll raise committed donors that’ll stick around. Don’t just stop there, though. Let’s take a look. How to Win at Email.

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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. Here are five tips for thanking your year-end donors that will increase the likelihood of them being retained in the following year: 1.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

PCL began circulating the 4G mobile hotspots to patrons from their Mount Pleasant location to enable Internet access in neighborhoods with low rates of home broadband service. Offer a subscription to an eBook program for kids so that librarians can use iPads to hold story times. Internet Lending Project.

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