Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Thanking donors well is an essential aspect of fundraising that is often done just once—when the donor makes a gift, or, worse, it’s overlooked entirely. Manager, Direct Marketing Fundraising Services, long-time staff of the national nonprofit Feeding America , knows better. Aaron LaMonica-Weier , Sr.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

Today’s question come from a fundraiser and donor who wants advice on how to handle poor donor engagement: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m a fundraiser, but also a donor. Because when a nonprofit doesn’t treat me as if I matter, as I carefully and consciously treat donors to my organization, I get a little peeved.

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Pamela Grow

AUGUST 2, 2023

Do your supporters even know they can leave you a gift in their will? Regularly include a paragraph or a story about legacy giving in your print donor newsletter. Share stories of your legacy donors. This email, from Mother Jones , asks prospective legacy donors to raise their hands. Click to download.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2023

The high ROI of planned gifts and their accessibility to wider groups of donors has always made them a smart investment of your time and development resources. You should instead focus on explaining the different types of gifts that your nonprofit can accept and what their positive impacts would be on your mission.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 15, 2021

He has worked in capital campaigns, major and planned giving (including charitable gift annuities) grant writing and donor research. This phenomenon demonstrates a long-term concern regarding the loss of donors fundraising professionals have seen across the country. So, who will be the future donors to nonprofits?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 12, 2021

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! The Donor Retention Crisis—and Why It Matters. I’d bet not. .

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Your online giving form is the primary instrument you use to process a donation, and it’s also the key tool you use for collecting valuable information about your donors. On the giving side, donors also are expecting a lot from your donation form. This also led to a 25% higher average gift amount.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 25, 2021

A Donor Advised Fund (DAF) is a giving vehicle established at a public charity. It allows donors to make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax deduction and then recommend grants from the fund over time. Today, they are philanthropy’s fastest growing vehicle, accounting for 3% of all giving. Share This Post!

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

A Guide to Donor Retention. What is Donor Retention? If you’re a fundraiser or nonprofit development professional, you’ve likely heard the term “donor retention.” But what is donor retention? Quite simply, donor retention is a measure of how many donors continue to donate to your organization.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

If you aren’t segmenting, these four unique recipients would all get the same exact appeal: Can you imagine making a gift and then immediately receiving another ask? Step 1: Use actual names At the most basic level, start by using a donor’s first name in the email or letter. That’s why I’m writing to you today.

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Pamela Grow

APRIL 10, 2024

Email or print donor newsletter? Smart nonprofits utilize both to keep their donors close. But only print donor newsletters have the “sticky” quality that leads to greater donor loyalty — and the greatest gift of all, the bequest gift. appeared first on Pamela Grow.

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Top Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A Donor Advised Fund (DAF) is a giving vehicle established at a public charity. It allows donors to make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax deduction and then recommend grants from the fund over time. Today, they are philanthropy’s fastest growing vehicle, accounting for 3% of all giving. Share This Post!

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Donors are your nonprofit’s greatest resource. From January to June 2022, the number of donors declined by 7%, and overall donor retention decreased by 4.2% Additionally, retention rates for first-time donors declined from 25.3% Additionally, retention rates for first-time donors declined from 25.3% year over year.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

To kick off 2023, we asked our partners, what are some new habits nonprofit practitioners should build with their donors, volunteers, and other supporters to help them meet their long-term organizational goals? If you add one habit this year, it should be thanking your donors. Here’s what they said. Send regular newsletters.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This isn’t the only data point backing up this finding, either: our friends over at National Audubon Society actually ran a sustainer-first GivingTuesday campaign in 2020 and grew their recurring donor base by an incredible 900 percent! Use this as an opportunity to retain and upsell existing donors! Alras Digital.

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CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

But aside from thinking about this season as just a time to raise money, also stop to consider how you can truly enhance relationships with these current donors while you’re making the big “ask.”. Speaking of that, if you’re looking for a way to effectively track donor relationships, take a look at our digital fundraising CRM ).

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Top Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

A Donor Advised Fund (DAF) is a giving vehicle established at a public charity. It allows donors to make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax deduction and then recommend grants from the fund over time. Today, they are philanthropy’s fastest growing vehicle, accounting for 3% of all giving. Share This Post!

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Across the fundraising landscape, there is broad interest in reaching prospects and donors with more inclusive, equitable, and responsible messages. Strength-Based Messaging: A Powerful Tool Thankfully, in recent years, new and long overdue attention has been focused on changing the way we build our donor relationships.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

“I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

As a general rule, donations pages should be simple, optimized for mobile giving, and ask for the minimal amount of information required to make a donation and to capture a donor’s contact information. It’s also worth sending a postcard campaign to your one-time donors asking them to become monthly donors.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2023

Did you know that August is National Make-A-Will Month? It’s a significant opportunity to increase your nonprofit’s planned gifts by making your donors aware of this. The easiest planned gift for your supporters to make is to leave a portion of their estate to your nonprofit as a bequest in their Will.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

The average online gift in 2018 was $96.40 54% of donors worldwide prefer to give via credit or debit card. The average online gift in 2018 was $96.40 54% of donors worldwide prefer to give via credit or debit card. The number of new donors giving to charity declined by 7.3% Monthly donors give $35.46

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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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sgEngage

JANUARY 16, 2024

Put together a list of friends, family, co-workers, workout buddies—anyone who might be a potential donor. Professional fundraisers already know the power of handwriting a thank-you note; that personal touch is just as effective when you reach out ahead of your campaign to current major donors and planned givers. Hit them up.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Do you think a donor wants to be asked for a capital gift in April, a bequest gift in July, and an annual gift in November – all in the same calendar year? That kind of asking pattern can feel like “nickel and diming” to donors, which is why blended asks are so important. . This approach is not donor-centered.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The ability to track and monitor those relationships should be the #1 priority for organizations seeking to expand their donor base or increase their revenue. How do you get the most functionality and return on investment while meeting the baseline needs of your donor constituency? . 1) Kindful :: kindful.com. 5) Neon :: neoncrm.com.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2024

This evolution has been driven by several factors: The need for increased engagement A more personalized approach to connecting with donors The popularity of activity trackers, such as Fitbit and Apple Watch And you cannot underestimate the importance of mobile fundraising. What Activity Will Appeal to Your Donors?

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OneCause

JULY 7, 2022

Also consider that for many nonprofits, GivingTuesday marks the launch of their end-of-year fundraising campaign as they specifically target their mid-size and smaller dollar donors with online asks. The Many Risks of Poor Donor Privacy Policies. Great Reward, Great Responsibility.

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Kindful

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

There was a time not too long ago when digital channels like email, social media, and text messaging were seen as complementary to direct mail: the cornerstone of any robust donor communications strategy. Why make building donor relationships a goal? Here are a few ideas to use direct mail to help you build your donor relationships.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

According to the 2020 Benchmarks Data from M+R , overall online giving revenue increased by 10% in 2019, and revenue from monthly gifts increased by 22%. RoundUp App is the nation’s largest tool for rounded up donations. That’s where RoundUp App comes in. The appeal of rounded up donations. Create a unique game-plan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The past 18+ months have been challenging for the nonprofit sector, but golf tournaments have provided and continue to provide an opportunity to gather safely, raise crucial dollars, attract corporate support, and steward donors and sponsors. 5) Offer Attractive & Relevant Sponsorships. 6) Live-Score the Tournament.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 15, 2022

A few lowlights from our past: Letting the donor get too close to the wealth screen, not reading the room to realize who the real decision-makers were, asking for a big gift without the proper cultivation, and not doing our donor research. Accidentally letting a donor eat potpourri (ouch!).

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2023

decline in gifts’ impact. Note that the majority of donations to individuals are in-kind gifts of medication to patients in need made through patient assistance programs of pharmaceutical companies’ operating foundations. One strategy to help with this is to convert one-time donors to recurring donors.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2023

The pressures to maintain and increase gift income mount as the need for programs, services, and benefits escalate during times of inflation and challenging economic realities when more people are struggling. How well do you understand the motivations of your donors? Communications and fundraising are seamless.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 13, 2018

April is National Volunteer Month! Donors will see that you’re making real moves to cause change in your community, and volunteers will get excited about their 15 minutes of fame. Give them a gift. Give them tickets to a show they can go to with their partner, or a gift card to a restaurant their family will love.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Target Analytics , a Blackbaud company, announced last week the latest Index of National Fundraising Performance for the second quarter of 2009. The index compares trends in key fundraising indicators from 77 organizations, including over 36 million donors and more than 68 million gifts totaling almost $2 billion in revenue.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

According to Independent Sector , the national average value of a volunteer hour is $29.95 National Volunteer Week Even if you HAVE been thanking volunteers well, you have a great opportunity coming up to thank your volunteers. Get to know your volunteers and build relationships, just like you do with donors.

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