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Multi-Year Gift Agreements: Your Donor Retention ‘Ace-In-The-Hole’

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Nonprofits who care about donor retention employ numerous strategies to keep their donors coming back year after year. Personal acknowledgments, impact reporting, and a strong monthly giving program are some of the cornerstones to a high donor retention rate. Savvy fundraisers have always kept donor retention top of mind.

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4 Habits to Retain Donors

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Never assume they know the impact their gift is having. If you want donors to remain as excited as they were when they first gave, then tell them stories of how their gift is making a real difference in the world. Impact updates make donors feel connected to the work and the value of their gift. This is also true with donors.

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Key End of Year Giving Trends: Giving Tuesday vs. December 31

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Number of donors vs. average gift size One reason December 31 earns more than Giving Tuesday involves the average gift size for individual donations on each day. This makes December a great time to promote matching gift options to your donors. This season is a great opportunity for themed events.

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6 Ways to Improve Donor Emails

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But you can boost retention by reducing the number of topics in your email. #2: If your organization has donors who give monthly, time a monthly email to arrive the day after their gift is drafted from their bank account or charged to their credit card. Instead, focus on an issue in the email: “How Your Gift Changed Katie’s Life.”

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3 Tips to Start A Donor Acquisition Program

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Once you have their first gift, make sure you work extra hard to bond them to your organization—otherwise retention can be a problem moving forward. It shows that this is a concerted effort on the part of the organization and not just a spam email or junk mail.

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Nonprofit Email Basics: Master Effective Fundraising Communications

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To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. Williams suggests classifying donors by tiers, rather than by “major” or “minor” gifts. When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors.

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12 Key Digital Engagement Trends from the 2018 M+R Benchmarks Report

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Monthly giving has continued its rapid growth as nonprofits received 40% more revenue from monthly gifts in 2017 than 2016. The average size of a monthly gift received from an email appeal is now $18. Monthly sustainer gifts are clearly a win-win for nonprofits and donors. Using an out of date email list. High Complaints.