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Stewarding #GivingTuesday: Increase Your Retention Rate

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million gifts. Assuring you have a successful retention rate starts with these four steps: Inform: Your community needs to know about your involvement. Acknowledgement: Thanking your donors, within 48 hours of their gift, is imperative to sustaining your relationship. GivingTuesday is full of excitement and many goals.

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A Small Organization with Mighty Retention Rates: Their (Not-So) Secrets

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This article originally ran in our Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a free bi-monthly magazine dedicated to providing focused content on a particular topic. And the Food Bank of Lincoln , a small-time organization with big-time retention rates, has donors coming in from across the country. People need to eat,” he said.

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Admitting the Problem: Your Donor Retention Needs Work

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This article originally ran in our Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a free bi-monthly magazine dedicated to providing focused content on a particular topic. The biggest issue with donor retention is that most people don’t even realize it’s an issue. The more ways you interact with donors increases the retention rate.

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3 Donor Retention Strategies—Compliments of Molly Ringwald, Jessie J and Bruno Mars

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His experiences range from fundraising and marketing to PR and grant writing (to name a few), so we thought he’d make an excellent interviewee for a follow-up story for our latest Nonprofit Hub Magazine issue focusing on donor retention. Pay close attention—here are the key takeaways I got out of my phone call with Paul Strawhecker.

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The 7 Keys to a Donor Retention Strategy Full of Thanks

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loses 70% of donors after the first gift. And to make matters worse, the probability that a donor will make five consecutive gifts is only 10-15%.These Frankly, I believe developing a robust gratitude program is the most important thing you can do if you want repeat gifts. It communicates that the gift will be used immediately.

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Why “Segmentation” Isn’t as Scary as It Sounds (And You NEED It In Marketing)

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This article originally appeared in our Nonprofit Hub Magazine, a free bi-monthly magazine dedicated to providing focused content on a particular topic. To reserve your free copy of our January/February issue on donor retention, sign up today. ————————————————. New donors at or below your average gift amount.

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Let the Donor Decide: Don’t Assume Giving is Off the Table During a Crisis

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White in a TIME Magazine article in 2018. Select the top 25 donors for each gift officer. Segment the principle, major, and annual gift officers’ portfolio. Each gift officer on the team should start with no more than 25 current donors with whom to work virtually over the next six months. Give them reason to do that.

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