Bloomerang

JUNE 6, 2024

Understanding what flips the switch for your members to transform them from participants to passionate donors is the key to boosting your fundraising efforts. Celebrating contributions: How recognition fuels donor retention Recognition matters. Social proof is a formidable force in philanthropy.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Thanking donors is THE most important step in fundraising. Mess it up, and you’ll eventually lose the donor. Unfortunately, most nonprofits view thanking donors as an afterthought instead of treating it with the importance it deserves. And that can kill your ability to keep good donors who love the work your nonprofit is doing.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This is her real donor story. She’s a perfect example of the importance of year-end donor segmentation. To gain a deep understanding of the donor experience and how to build a loyal and passionate donor base, check out this Humane Society Donor Experience Report. Sarah is a real person.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Your lapsed donors. By thanking them quickly and personally, communicating impact, and sharing success stories. This timeline offers a clear road map to prevent lapsed donors: What makes donors lapse? The second thing you must know is what defines a lapsed donor. Do donors realize they’ve lapsed?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

By Stasia Hural , Digital Marketing Lead at Keela – a complete software solution for nonprofits looking to grow revenue, centralize and manage data, and deepen donor engagement. They can now analyze lots of data, understand donor behavior, and tailor their strategies. Predictive analytics helps organizations expect donor behavior.

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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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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Having solid donor engagement strategies in place is important for any nonprofit that wants to inspire generosity in their community and build a base of lifelong supporters. But the world is a noisy place: Donors are bombarded with constant messaging that can drown out a nonprofit’s attempts to reach them.

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Achieve

MAY 24, 2024

However, with the average donor retention rate sitting around 45%, many nonprofits struggle to sustain newly acquired donors’ support. So, how can your organization beat the odds and develop a loyal donor base that you can count on year after year? In no time at all, you’ll have a loyal donor pool you can count on year-round!

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 31, 2024

As 2023 has drawn to a close, tax season looms on the horizon, and we nonprofits gear up for a unique opportunity—issuing tax summaries to our donors. Bloomerang refers to them as tax summaries—which they are—but they also summarize each donor’s cumulative giving. Allow me to explain. What are tax summaries?

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 11, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Keep Your Donors Coming Back: Effective Strategies for Nonprofit Donor Retention and Recurring Gifts Ever wondered how some nonprofits have a dedicated group of repeat donors while others are constantly chasing new ones? The secret lies in mastering donor retention and recurring gifts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

A well-crafted year-end fundraising plan helps nonprofits define clear and specific fundraising goals, identify potential donors, and tailor their messaging better to resonate with their supporters. One-time and non-donors might receive compelling stories and testimonials that inspire them to get involved.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“I don’t give to people who can’t even tell if they’re boys or girls,” an irate long-time donor said before slamming down the phone. To do that, we need to contextualize trends in ways that match donors’ values without kowtowing around those values in a way that prevents modernizing our mission. Pearls are not purse strings.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 17, 2024

The year-end giving season is rife with opportunities for new donor acquisition and for bringing in different types of donors. Now is the time to build and refine your donor retention strategies to ensure that these year-end donors remain engaged and committed to your cause.

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DipJar

MARCH 17, 2022

It is a great example of a storied institution finding new ways to support the community it serves and provide new ways – including DipJar – for the community to support its good work. From March to June of 2020, the building was closed to the public – a rarity in its long history. Patrick’s every year. The post St.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2021

Consistently attracting new potential donors is vital for you to expand your mission and, more importantly, to have the funding needed to make it through unexpected times. Unfortunately, if you can’t have in-person events or if you don’t have a big marketing budget, finding new donors can be difficult. . demographics.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Engaging donors is no simple task. Building long-lasting fruitful relationships with your donors requires diligence, hard work, and careful planning. But if you follow the principles of the donor engagement cycle, you can use them as a framework around which to build the rest of your donor stewardship plan.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

The way you tell your story and engage people in your message can make or break your fundraising efforts. And how do you tell a good story? At its most basic level, storytelling is a way to convey facts, information, history and experience from one person, the teller, to another, the listener, but it goes deeper than that.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 23, 2023

All nonprofits experience various amounts of donor attrition, making it essential to re-engage with lapsed donors. And, like new donor acquisition and donor retention, donor re-engagement after a lapse takes effort. Most organizations define lapsed donors as those who haven’t donated in the past 18-36 months.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 23, 2021

For the last 5 or so years, there has been a trend in new donor acquisition : Response rates continue to drop while average gifts continue to rise. As we look specifically at direct mail or email strategies for new donor acquisition, the way to improve this global trend is to mail fewer people with a focus on connecting with the right people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2023

By Meredith Gray , Head of Marketing at Keela – a complete software solution for nonprofits looking to grow revenue, centralize and manage data, and deepen donor engagement. Online giving can provide numerous benefits for nonprofits, from increasing donation amounts to improving donor engagement.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2023

The donor journey is a lengthy process, ending with a donation, joining a membership program, volunteering, or getting involved in some other way before restarting again. The longer a donor stays with your nonprofit, the more times they’ll be able to complete this cycle, deepening their engagement with your nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 27, 2024

Did you know that each year, millions of dollars by women donors may be left unclaimed, due to the lack of understanding around the way that women give ? Right at the fingertips of so many organizations moving the good work forward, and yet there is still not a greater prioritization of engaging women donors. Women’s History Month).

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) recently released its Second Quarter Fundraising Report, which is full of insights and giving trends that can help you and your team with your donor acquisition and retention efforts. There was a much larger decline comparatively when looking at donors who gave less than $500. By how much?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Every nonprofit website visitor is a potential donor. And we all want more donors, right? By telling the right stories in the right way, you can lure visitors to your donation page and inspire them to give. To get this reaction from more visitors to your site, you first need to tell the right stories in the right way.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Educational nonprofits today are navigating a complex environment where integrating donor management and fundraising strategies is essential. This is because forging solid relationships with donors is as crucial as the educational programs you support. The Education Foundation of Lake County’s story begins here.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 2, 2021

It’s a question many fundraisers ask themselves when they see donors silently drop off their radar. To find out why try researching the dates when those past donors last contributed to your nonprofit and look for changes that occurred within that time span. Why donors leave? Was there a change in leadership at your nonprofit?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 9, 2022

As a nonprofit fundraiser, you’ve probably heard some variation of the phrase, “treat every donor like a major donor.” If you treat every donor like a major donor, you’d probably run out of team member time. Plus, not all of your supporters want to be wined and dined like a major donor. Who are your major donors?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Healthcare nonprofits today face a challenging landscape where balancing donor management and fundraising is critical—because the journey of nurturing relationships with donors is as critical as the healthcare services you provide. This is where the story of healthcare nonprofits like Altru Health Foundation begins.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Less than one in five new donors who donated on GivingTuesday will give a second gift, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. Rachel Muir’s terrific post, Four Strategies to Retain Your #GivingTuesday Donors , shares her thoughts on this vital subject. We must do better. Here’s how you can beat the odds.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Discover our step-by-step guide to connecting with donors who truly care about your mission, and watch your fundraising efforts thrive. conduct research Gather data on your current supporters Review your nonprofit’s existing data, such as donor records , volunteer information, and past survey results.

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Pamela Grow

AUGUST 2, 2023

We’re about to witness the largest wealth transfer in human history as the Baby Boomer generation passes its wealth on to the next generation. Regularly include a paragraph or a story about legacy giving in your print donor newsletter. Incorporate planned giving stories into your marketing mix.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2021

While lapsed donors are inevitable, there are strategies you can use to both reacquire them and prevent attrition in the first place. Listen in to hear them talk about how to identify those donors most likely to re-engage and the steps to take to create a successful win-back strategy. How to calculate donor attrition.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. The good news is that great stories are all around you. EVERY nonprofit has stories to tell! Inspires potential donors to give. What Makes a Good Story?

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Achieve

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Your donors made the decision to contribute their hard-earned money to your cause because they believe in it and want to support your organization. Showing your donors that you. When you never meet a donor face-to-face, it gets a little more complicated. . Your donor may not be aware of volunteer opportunities.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

You carefully analyze and map your legacy data, populating your new system until it’s full of your organization’s history. More detailed change tracking can be supported via Change Data Capture, allowing you to construct a history of crucial data points for more longitudinal analysis. Donor Giving Summaries.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Here are the 7 key concepts which need to be included in every case: #1: An Emotional Opening – Donors and prospects will use the first paragraph or two of your case statement to decide whether or not the rest of the document is worth reading. You can always pare back the amount of information that is included in donor materials.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But, the question that will ultimately get more prospective donors in the door is: how are you changing the world? No matter the details of your story, you can leverage that sense of empathy to solicit a response from your audience. Your story goes far beyond simply telling the tale of how you got started.

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