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How to Drive High Donor Retention Rates with Text Messaging

Achieve

However, with the average donor retention rate sitting around 45%, many nonprofits struggle to sustain newly acquired donors’ support. In this guide, we’ll cover four best practices to increase your donor retention rate with text messaging. Establishing a predictable donation pipeline is critical to your nonprofit’s longevity.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What’s A Good New Donor Acquisition Rate?

Bloomerang

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on what would be considered a good new donor acquisition rate. I know about donor retention rates, goals, etc., but I’m not finding much data on what is a good new donor acquisition rate or goal annually. . per dollar raised. How much can you invest?

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4 Text Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Take from Big Brands

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Shay Lessman , Content Writer and Editor for Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. Big brands know that texts have an incredibly high open rate—that’s why many of our favorite retailers have adopted a text marketing strategy.

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Raise More, Worry Less: How to Safeguard Your Nonprofit’s Funds

Bloomerang

As a nonprofit, you work tirelessly to raise funds, and it’s important to ensure that every dollar raised goes towards your mission. We understand that nonprofits work tirelessly to raise funds for their cause, and it’s important to protect those funds from all potential risks.

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Solving the Donor Retention Rate Issue: The Case for Creating a Board-level Donor Thank You Committee

Bloomerang

Do you know your organization’s donor retention rate? In 2019, Dr. Adrian Sargent bemoaned the fact that first-time donor retention rates were below thirty percent: “The USA still holds the record for the most shockingly poor pattern of results. Because according to the FEP, the 2020 repeat donor retention rate was 59.6%—whereas

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Go MICRO And Improve Your Response Rates in New Donor Acquisition

Bloomerang

For the last 5 or so years, there has been a trend in new donor acquisition : Response rates continue to drop while average gifts continue to rise. Usually, organizations use large compiled files that actually contribute to lower response rates. . For email, the key metric to review is your Open Rate.

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Fundraising Ideas to Reverse the Trend of Declining Email Response Rates

NetWits

Fundraising email click-through rates dropped 27 percent and response rates were down 21 percent from 2011. This follows a recent trend that email click-through rates have declined across all industries. Epsilon and The Email Institute’s Q3 2012 report indicated overall click-through rates have fallen from 5.5

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