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

Bloomerang

But there’s one unsung strategy that can elevate your donor retention rates, while expanding mid-level and major giving: multi-year gift agreements. Studies also show that the best major gift and planned gift prospects are donors that have been retained for multiple years. Does this r eally improve donor retention?

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Lessons from MotivateMonday | Getting comfortable with acknowledging memorial gifts

Pamela Grow

How does your nonprofit acknowledge memorial gifts? Thanking in-memoriam gift donors, and notifying the family of the deceased can be a tricky situation. Should you include gift amounts in the notification to the family? Can you solicit additional gifts from in-memoriam gift donors?

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[VIDEO] 3 Steps To Closing $10K+ Gifts By December 31

Bloomerang

Julie Ordoñez will outline a proven strategy, messaging and action steps you can implement right away to close major gifts faster, ethically. We’re here to talk about 3 steps to closing over $10,000 gifts by December 31st. So I’ll let you pull up your beautiful slides. So let me share my slides with you all.

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5 Digital Fundraising Trends to Watch for in 2019

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As we slide toward the end of 2018, there are five broader digital trends that we see affecting non-profits next year. The benefits of recurring gifts are obvious—more predictability in funds and the ability to plan operations. Don’t show a gift array for $25 to someone worth millions. 1) Marketing Automation/Giving Automation.

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7 Video Conferencing Tips To Get You Through Social Distancing—And Beyond

Global Giving

If you have multiple speakers, make sure you are prepared by having everyone’s slides on one person’s account, to help with the flow, and to minimize the chances of technical difficulties in switch screen sharing constantly. Use more slides than you think you need, and think visually.

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Lessons from MotivateMonday | 5 Things You Can Do to Start the New Year Strong

Pamela Grow

Jeff recommends: Stay vigilant with gift processing. Check gift reports daily If you know a gift was supposed to be received by year-end and you don’t see it posted, follow up with your Data/Donor Ops team Do what you can to support gift processing – and thank your team! Download the slides by clicking here.

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Your End Of Year Fundraising Questions Answered

Bloomerang

. “How do we ask for specific things while transparently keeping the money in an undesignated fund (rather than making the gift specifically for specific line item/fund)?” For example, “Please use my gift now to help endangered polar bears in Antarctica and other imperiled wildlife.”. ” You can say this once or twice.