Pamela Grow

MARCH 11, 2021

How did the nonprofit sector’s donors respond? Join us for a few surprises as Steven Shattuck, Chief Engagement Officer of Bloomerang, explores the latest donor retention statistics from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. Download the slides from this presentation by clicking here.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In this week’s MotivateMonday, Jeff Schreifels, Principal of the Veritus Group , shared five tips that as a fundraiser will help you start your new year strong. These tips will help you not only care for your donor, but for yourself as well. Are there some donors you know need to move to a different tier?

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Did you know as many as 81% percent of new donors don’t return to give again? And only 43% of all donors remain loyal? Do you know what your retention rates are or how to increase donor loyalty? Yet too many nonprofits still don’t prioritize donor retention strategies. . And, yes, your donors are consumers.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

With those statistics in mind, let’s take a look at what this reveals about donors. If that’s the case, we’d expect to see a high volume of one-time donations made by donors who never engage with a nonprofit after their initial transaction. What Causes Do Donors Support? Who Is Giving?

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

One of the most important lessons a nonprofit practitioner can learn in their career is that budgets are moral documents. Lastly, factor in your donor retention rate so you can anticipate the number of new donors you’ll need to acquire in order to meet or exceed this year’s revenue total. What does that mean?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 14, 2022

While many nonprofits remain on a curve of continual learning and adaptation, there have been some unanticipated lessons learned throughout this tumultuous time. Hybrid Work Emerged as a Staff Retention and Development Tool. Circumstances Led to Innovations in Fundraising & Retaining Donors.

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Classy

MAY 24, 2021

Collectively, these new data points and recommendations give charitable organizations and leaders across the sector a clear path forward through the fundraising landscape. Key Lessons From a Year Like No Other . Strengthen decision-making with fundraising insights such as: . Supporter retention and recurring giving takeaways.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

If your nonprofit organization hosts a peer-to-peer event with thousands of happy participants and supporters, but you don’t have a plan to convert those bikers, gamers, walkers, golfers, dancers, scavenger hunters, or pub crawlers into monthly donors, you’re missing out on the point of putting on an awesome P2P event.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Few things are as important to successful fundraising teams as clean data around your prospect portfolio and moves management. However, many organizations fail to properly track gift officer portfolios, gift officer actions and donor pipeline management within their donor database management.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Because, as a fundraising professional, I never was one for the small talk of golf outings or galas. Instead, I preferred one-on-one conversations with donors, digging into data, connecting donors to their passions, and writing from my heart. Related Posts: Is Your Nonprofit Storytelling Missing This Key Ingredient?

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Pamela Grow

APRIL 29, 2023

According to the latest data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project , nonprofits continue to face a concerning decline in donors and donations. Their latest report showed the number of donors dropping by full 10% in 2022. And new donor contributions decreased by 8.7% Nonprofits struggled to acquire new donors as well.

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Classy

JUNE 1, 2021

As nonprofits continue to navigate this “new normal” of event fundraising into 2021, a focus on virtual fundraising should be at the top of your priority list. As donor retention and engagement continue to challenge the space, virtual events are a viable tool you can explore to enhance these efforts. Emails (19.9%).

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

Many nonprofits don’t know their donor data. If we don’t know our donor data, how can we effectively plan a fundraising appeal? Build a fundraising strategy? Combat the challenges of donor retention? So, how do we know that nonprofits don’t know their donor data? Data degrades.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Right Shoe Can Change Your Life, and So Can the Right Nonprofit Fundraising Software How It Had “Always Been Done.” When I started my nonprofit fundraising career a decade ago, all I knew were spreadsheets, paper bid sheets, and manually charging sales for each guest at a fundraising event. The short answer to that is no.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What are the nonprofit fundraising and communications books you turn to, time and time again? Creative Deviations, How you can infuse your story-telling, fundraising and direct response with more creativity by John Lepp For years, my go-to bible for direct response was Denny Hatch’s Million Dollar Mailings. What’s your favorite?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2014

I’m a passionate philanthropist, fundraising nerd and former member of the Stock Market Club at Argyle Middle School. I’m Katherine and I’m a small shop fundraiser. As you know, working in fundraising isn’t easy or glamorous. Over a 5 year period, we’ve gone from retaining 29% of our donors to 43%.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you understand the importance of a well-crafted fundraising development plan. Whether you’re creating a new plan or adapting an existing one to address new trends and unprecedented events – a common occurrence in recent years – it’s important to remember that fundraising plans are dynamic.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

We faced a global pandemic, resulting in oftentimes disastrous fundraising. Organizations relying on event-driven fundraising suffered. And one of the biggest event-driven fundraising models shuttered their doors. Then, once nonprofits recovered their wits and resumed asking, fundraising initially rebounded big time.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Tricia Marsherall is the Founder & President of Marsherall Partners, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in nonprofit donor database management & operations support and virtual & traditional fundraising events. The good news is that your data can be cleaned up and leveraged to inform your fundraising strategies.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2020

Whether it be the tragedy of 9/11, a tsunami, an economic recession, an earthquake in Haiti, a country divided by an election or a devastating brushfire, there are many high-profile events of the past that have threatened to push the fundraising landscape to its limit. From each one of these events, a key fundraising lesson has emerged.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

To take advantage of this trend toward recurring giving, your nonprofit will need to look inward at its donor data. Your data can reveal hints about donors’ giving preferences, giving capacity, willingness to give, and the reasons why they support your cause. Understand donors’ giving behaviors.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Now that we are almost a year in, what have we learned and how can we retain the new donors we’ve had give to our organizations? Topics Discussed in This Episode: What Melissa has seen and learned about fundraising over the past few months. Donor engagement factors. Which sample sets are being looked at and compared.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Although it had been in existence for 13 years, the organization had no audited financial statements, had only three board members (including the executive director), was not clear about how donor money was being spent, and had a clear conflict of interest with the executive director promoting personal book sales through the nonprofit.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2020

While it’s still uncertain how overall fundraising revenue in 2020 will look given the challenges presented by COVID-19, reports have shown that charities in the U.K. Your donors may be feeling alone and scared, just like you may be. Start personally calling your monthly donors and simply thank them. Pick Up the Phone.

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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. I did not learn that day’s lesson. What did we do?

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 7, 2015

His experiences range from fundraising and marketing to PR and grant writing (to name a few), so we thought he’d make an excellent interviewee for a follow-up story for our latest Nonprofit Hub Magazine issue focusing on donor retention. For our final lesson, let’s focus on this month (January) and on into February and March.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Nonprofits typically participate by running a fundraising campaign with a specific GivingTuesday goal and leaning on mediums like social media, video, and email to rally support. GivingTuesday is a great opportunity to tap into the generosity of millions of enthusiastic donors. Fundraising How Does GivingTuesday Work?

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

The best way to learn about virtual fundraising events is to hear from those who’ve experienced them. Get to know their top insights and learning moments to accelerate the impact of your nonprofit’s next virtual fundraising event. 13 Virtual Fundraising Event Takeaways from Four Marketing Professionals.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2022

In the first half of 2021, OneCause conducted a survey of 1,026 Social Donors to explore how giving has evolved during the pandemic and what lessons we’ve learned from the virtual fundraising pivot. Younger and more diverse donors are giving. . Younger and more diverse donors are giving.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The story goes that company co-founder, Jay Love, was attending a fundraising conference and caught a session by Adrian Sargeant. For decades, Adrian has been espousing the values of focusing on donor retention as a top-line metric of the health of an organization. Donor retention is about a donor coming back to you.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Today, the school continues to engage her in meaningful ways, not just as a donor, and she looks forward to being one of those visiting alums. He attended various alum lectures and could see the impact that donors made at the university. But that isn’t the lesson here. What was the turning point?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Some organizations use donor perks or benefits to do this. As you create or adapt your donor benefits, you may find the list compiled below helpful.

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NTEN

JUNE 8, 2011

We've been talking a lot about multi-channel fundraising in the last year or two, which begs the question: Are donors really multi-channel? Take some of the key findings: Every year, large proportions of online-acquired donors switch from online giving to offline sources - primarily to direct mail. The lesson?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 13, 2015

Appreciation is key to donor retention,”. Steven Shattuck stated in response to the statistic that nearly 6 out of 10 donors do not give more than once. Shattuck went on to recap the events of The Great Donor Communications Experiment of 2014. Know when to DIY and when to hire and expert,”.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Fundraising and Development: Plans for generating financial resources to support the nonprofit’s activities. The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.​ This also works in the inverse.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 18, 2017

Blackbaud recently released its fifth annual Charitable Giving Report, and it offers major lessons for institutions of higher education looking to increase fundraising capacity over the coming years. Here are 3 major lessons for colleges and universities from this year’s Charitable Giving Report: 1. year over year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

And critics, with a scarcity mindset, talk about slacktivism (“Not everyone who did the challenge donated or even mentioned ALS”) and fundraising cannibalism (“People won’t donate to other charities because they will be tapped out”). And, of course the valid concern of wasting water in a drought.

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