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8 Ways to Improve Your Matching Gift Emails & Drive Results

Neon CRM

In fact, matching gift emails sent in the first 24 hours after a donation result in 2-3 times higher than the average nonprofit email open rate ! It’s what often makes or breaks your outreach, playing a significant role in the recipient’s decision to open or ignore your email.

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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. . So help your colleagues by asking away.

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4 Text Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Take from Big Brands

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. Marketing-related text messages have an incredibly high open rate of about 99%, compared to the average email open rate, which is closer to 30%.

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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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How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results

Get Fully Funded

Email is a powerful marketing tool, but to get results you need to learn how to write fundraising emails that connect emotionally and inspire people to give. It takes careful strategy and deep knowledge of your donor to get the results you’re looking for. Not the subject line (which is critical in getting the email opened).

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Blackbaud Luminate Online® Benchmark Report Highlights

sgEngage

It’s also a valuable tool to help nonprofits evaluate their results by giving them a comparison point for their performance against organizations of similar sizes and issue areas. Unsubscribe rates did not change much. In fact, they actually declined a bit which means fewer people unsubscribed compared to the previous year.

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How to Send a Nonprofit Appeal and Get Results

Get Fully Funded

There is a lot to figure out to ensure you send your appeal as efficiently and cheaply as possible, AND that it gets the results you’re looking for. Do you want a special message on the outside of your envelope to tease people into opening the envelope? You will not qualify for the nonprofit rate and will have to use first class mail.

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