Qgiv

MAY 4, 2021

Because many donors like doing it, it’s attractive to younger donors, recurring donors tend to give 42% more in a year than one-time donors, and monthly donors renew at a MUCH higher rate than one-time donors. Monthly giving can do more than help you attract new donors, it can help you renew donors and cultivate them to higher gifts too!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

There are many great online solutions that help you plan and manage in-person, virtual, or hybrid events. Do they receive an inspiring receipt after their gift, or do they get something stale and generic? Making your donors feel appreciated is important and often leads to recurring gifts from dedicated supporters.

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Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

Peer-to-peer fundraising is an incredible opportunity to leverage your supporters’ personal networks and increase the reach of your campaign. Donors are more likely to give when they know the person who’s doing the asking. Qgiv’s custom walkthroughs train supporters to create a unique, beautiful page that tells their personal story.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2022

As digital wallets have become more commonplace, the number of donors making gifts via check has decreased. Personalization. Another trend that shouldn’t be new to your nonprofit is personalization. That said, it’s become more important than ever to personalize your donor experience for those who give to your nonprofit.

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Qgiv

MARCH 19, 2024

Donor appreciation events allow you to personally express your gratitude to your supporters while providing a fun and memorable event for them to attend. Donor appreciation events help foster your relationship with your donors, keeping them engaged with your mission, leading to higher donor retention rates. Donor retention.

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Ideas Donor Movie Retention 52

Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2014

We impact over 10,000 lives each year, and in 2013 we had a donor retention rate of 43% ( compared to 27% ). So, what led to our above industry average donor retention rates? I used to take it so personally if someone didn’t respond to an email, phone call, or appeal (that I wrote a personal note on!). Sound like you?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Bottom line: gifts are the result of effective engagement. According to Roger Craver in his book Retention Fundraising , “The average nonprofit has a 60-70% chance of getting additional gifts from current donors, a 20-40% chance from a lapsed donor and a 2% chance from a prospect.”. Their customer retention rates dwarf ours.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2020

When you see increasing donor attrition rates or decreasing event participants, try walking in their shoes. With the implementation of new fundraising and email software , they improved the experience of grateful giving online resulting in a lower donor attrition rate. For example, a fall in renewal rates or average gift size.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

Give supporters PPE (Personal Philanthropy Equipment). Part of a personal fundraising page for the Cannonball Kids’ Cancer Foundation ‘s Gold Gala 2021. It shows their personal fundraising goal, why they give, and even has a link to donate to their fundraiser. Thermometers are for more than fevers.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Result: 63% more donations, 55% higher conversion rate and a 2X ROI. Had a 55% increased conversion rate. Next, EDF created ad copy that was relevant to each audience and their personal relationship with the nonprofit. Result: 119%-203% higher conversion rates. Average click-through rate (CTR) of 3.4%.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

That doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate a personal touch; the next most popular method of receiving updates was through personal phone calls. According to our Navigating the Unknown report, Facebook was the number one channel that motivated donors to make gifts. You want your conversion rate to be as high as possible.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Several even reported that virtual events helped them reach new donors and raise more donations than their previous in-person events did! While face-to-face fundraising can lead to more personal engagements, virtual fundraising comes with many of its own benefits: Provides a simple donation process for donors. Let’s get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

In a nutshell, donors that received a gift, felt selfish, which in turn reduced the motivation for giving. An example of impact-driven fundraising gifts are hand-sewn scarves from a family who started a local business as a result of your donor’s micro-finance loan or a personal letter from a child who you sponsored for her education.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 21, 2022

Financial support: whether sponsorships, a matching gift program, or a workplace giving program (automatic deduction from paychecks), corporate partners can obviously bring a lot of financial support to your nonprofit. If you are connected to the person on a social media platform, you can instead send them a direct message.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

According to Chuck, ten years ago the average retention rates of a newly acquired donor were roughly 33%. If the ten-year trend continues, we’ll eventually end up with donor retention rates under 20%. There’s no time like the present to improving your donor retention rates. That’s shocking (and pretty scary).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2014

Donor stewardship is a great place to begin making changes that can impact your donor retention rates. For instance, it would be unreasonable to expect that you could personally call 7,000 donors to thank them and provide them with an organization update. Take a Cue from Major Gifts. Let’s give them more of what they want.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Ebook The Annual Fund Giving Guide: Planning an Annual Campaign Learn More Setting Goals for Your Annual Appeal Your annual appeal’s send date might depend on your individual nonprofit’s mission. Can you inspire them to make another gift by proactively telling them about how their previous gift made a difference? Are you sure?

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Common examples of nonprofit KPIs include average donation size, number of recurring or repeat donors, new donor acquisition rate, and donor attrition rate. Take a good long look at your staff’s bandwidth and see where you can work in some extra time to add a personal touch. Surprisingly, no!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 20, 2022

They may have made their first gift or their 20th. Using your donor management software to create sub-segments within your year-end donor segment will allow you to craft messaging that is much more likely to resonate with each recipient, increasing your chances of receiving gifts from them in the future.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It’s not too late, you can download our latest eBook to help you prepare. With newer payment options like mobile wallets, ACH, PayPal, and Venmo, organizations across the board see higher conversion rates on their online fundraising campaigns. If you haven’t started yet, don’t worry!

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

From emails to events to personal phone calls—your donors have multiple ways to engage with your organization as you introduce them to your mission. The ability to personalize donor outreach. In that case, you might decide to send a personalized invitation to your next event opportunity. Segmentation. Scalability.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

You work long hours and spend a ton of resources getting new donors in the door, only to then see them never make a second gift, leaving you right back where you started. It begins with identifying and engaging potential donors, but it really kicks into gear after the donor has made their first gift.

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

Spotlight Staff to Create an Emotional Connection It’s been found that having a personal connection within a nonprofit is a key motivator for giving. Using a spotlight section in your newsletters can help create an emotional connection between your readers and the person it highlights. Recurring donors are a good example.

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Qgiv

APRIL 8, 2024

If every organization is asking for gifts on the same day, it’s easy for donors to get overwhelmed. When you only have 24 hours to fundraise, you need to maximize the gifts you’ll receive. For example, challenge donors to give a certain amount before noon to secure an additional matching gift. Donors only have so much capacity.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Most midsize and large organizations reach their current capacity with the support of one or more significant gifts from a generous individual, foundation, or corporate partner. Successful fundraisers and major gift officers know that individual major donors are the most efficient, most direct way to raise substantial amounts of money.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

If I’m a donor heading to your site to make a year-end gift, here’s what I’m thinking: Don’t Make Me Give You My First-Born to Donate. The more information you require, the more you kill your conversion rate. You probably would give this person a weird look, and think, “No way, I don’t know you! Can I have your business card?

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

These resources often offer great advice so you can create a first-rate fundraising strategy. Social media and email marketing resources and templates can help you transform your mass communications into personalized donor engagements. This blog can keep you up to date on matching gift best practices. Enhanced outreach.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

can guests still participate if they don’t want to attend in-person?)? Check out our eBook on awesome seasonal fundraising events for inspiration. Text messages have a 98% open rate, so send teasers to last year’s attendees or prior donors via text. Flowers are a very popular Mother’s Day gift. Want ideas?

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Because COVID-19 paused in-person engagements and thus traditional fundraising events, many organizations had to quickly scramble and pivot their operations to virtual. Even as events become in-person again, incorporating virtual elements to make them hybrid will likely be the norm. 100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try Out.

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Ideas Fundraising Virtual Fun 59

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And that means that your organization’s communications are not dependent on your executive director, on your founder, or on that really smart person in the communications team who seems to know how to do all the things. For instance, when somebody makes a gift, they might get a phone call from a board member thanking them for the gift.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So there’s actually an eBook they wrote on donor acquisition. So their last gift could have been, you know, last year, but unfortunately, not this year, right? So that’s going to be the very first way to identify them in your database is to look at when was their last gift. We got connected last year.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

And if you’re a grocery store person, especially a Trader Joe’s person, if you caught that pre-chat, send us in your favorite Trader Joe’s item because I’m always looking for some good stuff there. And Abby is probably the most tapped-in person when it comes to best practices for peer-to-peer.

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Donor Video Fundraising Strategy 111

Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

To bring your virtual event to life and provide an experience that’s just as enriching as an in-person one, you need the right fundraising event software. Investing in top-quality solutions now also makes it easy to pivot future in-person events to virtual or to incorporate hybrid elements. Download eBook. Download PDF.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

If you’re attending in-person, you’ll have access to a workshop on April 7th where you can better your nonprofit organization through hands-on learning. Our conference is offered both in-person in Lincoln, Neb. Hitting It Out of the Park—Learn the Art of Major Gift Relationship Building. and streamed online. Alyssa Conrardy.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Your blog is your gift to them, as well as to yourself. Checklists.

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Story Nonprofit Social Media Content 54

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Supporters want to know that their gift is making an impact, and a newsletter is a great way to help them feel more involved and keep them up to date on the projects their donation helped make possible. Check out this Fundraising Fundamentals eBook we made with our friends at Donorly to keep learning and honing your fundraising skills!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. Donor retention rates across lifecycles. The study provided insights, such as low customer service ratings from donors who called our 800 number—especially donors who called outside of East Cost business hours.

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