EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

To take it a step further, consider partnering with an influencer. Influencers come in all shapes and sizes; they can be board members, celebrities, or even politicians. Having an influencer advocate on behalf of your organization provides a stamp of credibility and allows you to catch on with their audience.

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sgEngage

JULY 6, 2022

Social media is no longer a novel concept, so you’ve probably seen firsthand the impact influencers can have. Believe it or not, your organization already has access to potential influencers who can help support your mission and further your cause. Discover the Influencers in Your Industry. Industry experts.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Is there something you can do now to influence their end of year gift? Something that makes you stand out and lets your donors feel like the heroes that they are? Warm your donors up with some thoughtful stewardship through a channel that will help you get through: mobile. Why text donors?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Sponsored by C ollidescope – an online platform that connects influencers, nonprofits, and socially responsible companies to create positive change and amplify impact. It not only helps raise awareness about your cause but also enables you to connect with a wider audience and attract potential donors and volunteers.

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M+R

JUNE 5, 2023

Vigurie started by getting a list of top donors to Conservative House candidates (through less than legal means ). Enter: influencers. Influencer campaigns are the spiritual successor to the pioneering direct mail efforts, with massive potential to help movement organizations win. Then interest groups followed suit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

How much time do you spend thinking about where your donors are coming from ? It is super important to understand where your donors are coming from and how you could be acquiring more! How to keep growing your donor acquisition. While acquiring (and keeping) new donors can often feel like a game of chance, it really shouldn’t.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In today’s online world, self-made influencers have become bonafide celebrities. If you think scoring a household name for your event is out of reach or your budget, don’t fret—there are many nonprofit influencers that have a loyal follower base that may be a good option to advocate for your mission and event.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 31, 2023

One of the most significant shifts is corporations’ power and influence over what donors can and cannot do with the nonprofits they support. We know that we're living at a time of great shapeshifting, and the changes affect the nonprofit sector as well.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This feedback influences how they implement tipping and other features, but they don’t share that data publicly; it’s proprietary to the specific platform. In this blog post, I share general findings I’ve gleaned from talking to about 100 donors and nonprofits, a decent sample size of participants spread throughout the U.S.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Fundraising events have always been a cornerstone of nonprofit organizations’ efforts to engage donors and garner financial support. But these events are not only about maintaining existing relationships; they also provide a unique opportunity to tap into the extended networks of your donors—by attracting their friends to your cause.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Exciting fundraising trends on the horizon for 2024 include peer-to-peer fundraising, giving flexibility, digital wallets, unconventional and emerging donors, and AI being used in fundraising. When a fundraiser receives a notification that a donor is close to lapsing, they can reach out and reconnect with that donor.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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? . Donor attrition has gotten worse over time. Donors tell us this all the time, both with words and actions. Donors tell us this all the time, both with words and actions. Donor Negative WORDS.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Have you developed nonprofit donor personas? If so, I recommend moving away from those donor personas and toward donor identities instead. . Think about it: Those personas may have been carefully crafted—Soccer Mom, Busy Businessman, Widow, Millennial—but those personas only touch on a small part of your donor’s identity.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 30, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to credit and acknowledge donor advised fund gifts in their donor database: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m unsure how to enter donor advised fund gifts in our database so they’re credited and acknowledged appropriately.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on when it’s a good idea to give gifts to donors. . Dear Charity Clairity, I know public broadcasting offers donors gifts in exchange for their donations at various levels. Do you think these gifts are meaningful to donors? — To gift or not to gift.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As she talked with Randy, she discussed a few reservations donors might have to set up planned giving. . She said donors tend to be hesitant when talking about planned giving because no one really wants to think about where their money will go when they’re gone. We know we won’t be able to personally speak for what we leave behind.

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Qgiv

APRIL 11, 2023

Reading donor signals is a key step in deciding who to invite to your events! At Virtuous, we believe that the Responsive Fundraising Framework is foundational in helping fundraisers cultivate meaningful relationships with donors that increase generosity. What are Donor Signals? What is the Responsive Framework?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

What is Donor Engagement? Not all donors are created equal. Imagine you have two donors who each give $100. Will you communicate to both donors the same way? If you aren’t measuring donor engagement, you might have to. Donor Engagement Factors. Cash/check donor. Years given. Events attended.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

Fortunately, research is weighing in with some great information that gives us insight into our social donors and potentials. With a new concept called Social Scoring, we now have a way to indentify and categorize the social media constituents in our databases by their reach or influence across their networks. Four Social Media Types.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2022

Best Practices for Donor Acquisition and Retention Through Direct Mail. For those new to direct mail , it’s “the process of writing, designing, printing, and distributing hard copy requests for funds to your donors and/or prospective donors.”. But what about people who say that direct mail isn’t worth the investment?

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Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

How do you thank your nonprofit’s monthly donors? Monthly donors are a special breed of supporter. Here’s an example of monthly donor stewardship from Wikipedia that I liked. Some pretty stellar donor stewardship immediately followed prior to this email landing in my inbox. Should you send a monthly thank you?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Donor plants jump up at your gala’s auction , raise their hand high, and start, or advance, the bidding. A seasoned fundraiser in Jewish philanthropy taught me about donor plants years ago and, celebrating the best of fundraising’s oral tradition, a hallmark of our field, I am passing it on to you. Carefully comb your donor records.

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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. Why are first-time donors such a big deal?

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Developing a digital donor acquisition strategy takes a similar approach as direct mail, starting with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift, retention rates, average gift, and if you have done previous online fundraising campaigns, cost per acquired donor. Use paid media to target your ideal donor.

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Major donors can sometimes feel like an elusive prize that only few will ever receive. The key to understanding where major donors are concerned is learning more about them and how to communicate with them effectively. Session I: Effective Major Donor Development with Charles Burge. Are you tired of fundraising? Frustrated?

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Our expert discussion will shed light on the power of integrated data and share dynamic strategies, based on real life donor and fundraising perspectives and best practices. Learn how your planned giving pool is actually bigger than you probably think and deeper into your donor pyramid.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

When launching the Sustainable Giving Report , Qgiv aimed to find solutions to some of the largest challenges fundraisers are facing today, such as the economy’s impact on philanthropy, overall donor numbers and donor retention declining, the Great Resignation, and more! Fundraisers want to spend more time on donor retention.

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Classy

MAY 5, 2021

This donor behavior post is written by UNICEF’s senior coordinator and featured speaker at the 2021 Collaborative: Virtual Sessions , Francesco Ambrogetti. It’s directly correlated to the neuroscience of modern donor behavior. . For instance, fear now influences social interactions.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In the realm of human services nonprofits , evolving to meet the needs of those served means also adapting to the changing dynamics of donor behavior. This decline is further underscored by the fact that only 23% of donors used cash for contributions in 2022 , marking a substantial 35% decrease from 2017.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 17, 2022

How the Next Generation Influences Fundraising and Workplace Giving According to charitable giving research, overall giving revenue was reportedly elevated in 2021. However, the number of individual donors giving had dropped.

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Roundtree

APRIL 19, 2022

What is donor communication? Every nonprofit organization is engaged in donor communications. Donor communication is the activity of informing, influencing, and inspiring donors to engage with the mission of your organization. Donors have more to provide than money. People feel valued when they are heard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2019

As a member of a nonprofit fundraising team, you always have your eyes on a fundraising goal and are working to improve your online donor engagement strategy. . Fundraising, however, can take many different forms, so it can be difficult to know which is best to improve your online donor engagement. Hold a fundraising event.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 11, 2020

The Future of Fundraising: Influencer Marketing for Nonprofits. Influencer marketing leverages the power of popular figures to engage new supporters and lend authority to your nonprofit. Influencers: global word of mouth marketing. What is an influencer? have a significant ‘influence’) than a brand advocate.

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Bloomerang

MAY 13, 2021

The most effective type of donor cultivation is a donor-centered approach. In this donor-centered approach, nonprofits seek to discover as much as they can about the potential donor. There are certain things that must take place: Donors talk more than the nonprofit leader. So, be patient! to complete the gift?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2022

The sustainability of the nonprofit sector relies on cultivating the next generation of donors. Luckily, there are several ways nonprofits can go about engaging young people, strengthening relationships between them and an organization, and eventually send them through the donor pipeline. Illustration generated by DALL·E. Conclusion.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 8, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Inspire a New Generation of Donors: Text-to-Give for Nonprofits Shh, can you hear that? Your donors are at an event, phones in hand, sharing the experience, live-tweeting your powerful speech, or simply engrossed in a captivating presentation. Imagine this. This includes philanthropic giving!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2022

Those who commit to the organization’s mission – clients, donors, board members, and staff – all have opinions about the optimal spending levels to execute the mission. Perceptions of spending levels – from donors, the board, or other stakeholders – can influence campaign and fundraising management.

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