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How to Make a Gift Chart to Reach Your Annual Giving Goals

NonProfit PRO

One of the most critical tools in an annual giving director’s toolkit is a gift chart. This chart should be based on accurate target ask amounts for each potential donor in your database. Follow this four-step process to create your own gift chart.

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When and How to Follow Up With Giving Tuesday Donors

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Stephanie Kanak , Content Strategist at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Did you know that 63% of Giving Tuesday donors only give on Giving Tuesday ? What if you could convert those one-time donors into engaged supporters that give again?

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How Reaching Fundraising Goals Could Be a Text Away

NonProfit PRO

Simple SMS communication solutions allow donors to give at any time without needing a checkbook or cash, plus they can set up one-time or recurring donations, meaning higher fundraising to reach long-term goals. Organizations are increasingly depending on touchless technology so they can collect donations quickly.

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Grapevine Enables Like-Minded Donors to Join Giving Circles

NonProfit PRO

Anyone can easily join or start their own giving circle on Grapevine. Grapevine helps like-minded people connect through the common goal of giving back by making it easy for them to find and join one of the hundreds of giving circles across the country supporting specific communities or broader cause areas.

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Thursday Thoughts: transforming mid-level donors into major donors

EveryAction

One way to meet new major donors is to steward existing donors into upgrading their gifts to your nonprofit organization. We all know it’s generally more efficient to retain an existing donor than to acquire a net new one, but how can busy fundraisers upgrade mid-level donors effectively and efficiently?

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4 Types of Donor Personas for Effective Nonprofit Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The answer is in understanding your goal and audience, and then matching your pitch to the prospect. In other words, you create donor journeys. . If you’ve never done so, developing donor journeys (also known as donor journey mapping) can feel like quite an undertaking. What are my donor personas? Ask yourself: .

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Is Your Nonprofit Half Way to Your 2020 Fundraising Goal$?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Christy Smaglio , Instructional Writer at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. this year for major donors.

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