Greater Giving

JULY 18, 2023

Donor Data Management How To Supercharge Relationships You’ve spent weeks, months, or even years collecting every bit of data your donors produce. Your donor data may include phone numbers, emails, birthdays, donation history, and even meal preferences. Here’s what you can expect in this guide: Gather relevant donor data.

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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. . Consumers want a relationship with a brand.

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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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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. Training your team and developing their communication skills will be essential. A donor can name your nonprofit as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy.

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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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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2024

This research method has the innate ability to uncover valuable information about prospective major donors, helping your organization better understand and cultivate relationships with prospects. Once you identify prospects with these indicators, note every relevant data point you’ve found in each prospect’s donor profile.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

At one of the first auction events she worked, she was reprimanded for showing a donor a seat a the far end of the room. Another coworker quickly took over and showed that donor to another seat right up front. Nonprofits use donor management software or a donor database to organize their donor data and ensure its accuracy.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, many organizations fail to properly track gift officer portfolios, gift officer actions and donor pipeline management within their donor database management. Donor Database Management Essentials. It will establish rules, expectations for gift officer interactions, and coordinates activities amongst staff.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In her previous role as Foundation Manager for the VRMC Foundation, she managed the annual giving programs, assisted and oversaw the annual budget and marketing plans, and managed a major gift donor portfolio of over 150 donors. If not, it’s time to strategize how you’ll retain year-end donors for the long term.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Julie Ordoñez will outline a proven strategy, messaging and action steps you can implement right away to close major gifts faster, ethically. We’re here to talk about 3 steps to closing over $10,000 gifts by December 31st. It is not too late to raise major gifts this year. Julie: Let’s do it. That’s right.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2024

One of my favorite colleagues and co-host of our Eskin Fundraising Training Non-Profit Empowerment webinar series, Rhanda Luna, has been hired as Director of Corporate Giving and Special Events for SAFE, based in Austin, Texas. Each solicitation and interaction with donor prospects provides the opportunity to learn and improve.

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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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Classy

JULY 26, 2021

Thank existing donors for their loyal support. Here are five ways to motivate new and existing donors to show support with a one-time gift or a recurring donation. . Here are five ways to motivate new and existing donors to show support with a one-time gift or a recurring donation. .

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Qgiv

MAY 23, 2022

At Kennari Consulting, we believe strongly that nonprofits should build relationships with donors – you are doing important work in a community they care about, and they are partnering to provide resources to ensure that work can happen. For many nonprofits, there are a lot of barriers to doing that effectively with their donors.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to encourage their Development Director to take meetings with major donors. . Dear Charity Clairity, Every time I attend a conference or webinar on the subject of major donor development I learn about the importance of meeting with major donors in person.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 16, 2021

For the last three years, I’ve devoted virtually every day to the challenge of training professionals and especially volunteer fundraisers to overcome the fear of asking for gifts for their favorite nonprofits. My specialty is addressing the solicitation of major gifts, particularly from individuals. Blunder No. Blunder No.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2021

When you’re determining who to cultivate for your major donor portfolio, do you simply look at everyone who gave more than $1,000 (or whatever your major gift amount is) and dump them all into your portfolio for the year? Who Gets an Individual Major Donor Portfolio Cultivation Plan? . Tier your donors. No one taught me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Onboard and Train Volunteers. Each completed application automatically creates a volunteer profile stored in the CRM or constituent relationship management within Givefffect. Onboard and Train Volunteers: The next step is onboarding volunteers, which usually includes training and meeting other volunteers and nonprofit staff.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

If we’ve learned anything during the pandemic and similar past crisis fundraising , it’s that relationships matter. And forming those relationships requires thought-out strategies and a will to succeed with engaging your donors, especially when you can’t interact face-to-face. Ramp up communications. Let’s dive in.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

There are many factors in fundraising, from early engagement to a donor’s ultimate or legacy gift. Professional development officers are relationship builders. They spend time cultivating and engaging donors. On the first visit, the donor should understand that the meeting is for fundraising purposes.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 18, 2023

Across the nonprofit sector, the average donor retention rate is about 40% to 45%. That sadly means that out of 100 donors who contributed last year, only 40% to 45% will likely do so again this year. Unfortunately, it’s also several times more expensive to acquire new donors than retain old ones. Let’s take a look!

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

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. Successful mid-level donor programs are all about providing donors with a personal touch while maintaining the analytic discipline that allows you to scale your programming.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Start with stewardship Research suggests that meaningful donor connections with nonprofit organizations are a key factor in determining their giving patterns. So think about how you can use this time of year to focus on donor stewardship and relationship-building.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

donors at every level (not just major donors), and potential new supporters expressing interest in your cause. . The giving season is a time when donors are feeling extra generous, but nonprofits should be too. Consider matching gifts ?. of potential donors. have a year-end gift for you.?Organizations

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Phonathons are a tried-and-true resource for all sorts of nonprofits and higher education institutions to engage donors and raise money effectively. One thing that phonathons have historically struggled with has been identifying donors who may be eligible for a matching gift from their employer?—and Prepare for donor questions.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

Small nonprofits face even more challenges when it comes to securing funding in comparison to larger organizations—from low donor retention rates to limited resources to an overall lack of unrestricted funding. More funds mean your nonprofit can bring on skilled staff and provide better training and experiences to volunteers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

But due to many common challenges to constantly reach new donors, retain existing donors, and increase operational efficiency the amount of effort to impact lives doesn’t always result in the high return it should. So what is at the core of reaching new donors, retain existing donors, increase efficiency to support a cause?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

Your nonprofit is quickly growing, bringing in more donations than ever before and fostering a strong donor base. Types of fundraising software to consider When you think about fundraising software, you probably first think of online donation platforms that allow nonprofits to facilitate online gifts. Peer-to-peer fundraising pages.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 8, 2022

Capital campaigns are laser focused on the top-level gifts. In most campaigns, the top ten gifts account for half or more of the campaign goal. That laser focus has several consequences because major gift fundraising is relatively inexpensive. Capital campaigns build stronger relationships with major donors.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . However, Page and Brin believed that they could create a better system to rank the relationships between websites. Technology Goes Mainstream. 21 st Century Data Breaches.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

By Stephanie Kanak , Content Strategist at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. They depend on the quality of the data collected in their donor management system. The bottom line: if you can’t reach your donors, you can’t solicit them. What would you do differently?

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It’s part graphic design, part design-thinking, part storytelling, part strategic thinking and part love note to you amazing humans who work so hard for your causes, your donors, your mission, and your desire to contribute and make positive change in our world.” See John talking about Creative Deviations in his MotivateMonday book launch.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 15, 2021

I’ve heard that to be a major gift officer you have to have access to people with money, be comfortable socializing with them, and speak their language. But consider that with inclusion comes new relationships, new perspectives, perhaps new ways of doing things that are just as effective. Focus on Professional Development.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For example, let’s say you’re building a CRM to track relationships with your donors. If you plan to include search functionality, you’ll need to set up rules such as, “When a user enters a donor name in the search, return all possible matches from the CRM.” Some examples: What should you include in your training data?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

When it comes to donor data, there’s a lot to keep track of. Giving histories, gift amounts, and frequencies can reveal a lot about future willingness to give. A nonprofit CRM (also referred to as a donor management system ) is a software platform that allows nonprofits to store, update, and report on supporter data.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Planning events is one of the best ways to raise money for your mission, and donors love participating in them. In fact, 81% of nonprofit donors attend fundraising events. Silent auctions are a great fundraising event format if you want a unique way to engage your donors. Reach new donors. Donation page. Merchandise.

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Qgiv

MARCH 15, 2022

Then you’re likely working on growing your donor base. How do you attract donors to your nonprofit when you don’t already have a strong base to draw from? If you need tips on where to begin, read on for our advice for creating and growing your donor base from scratch. First, assess what you know about your current donors.

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