Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here are 5 strategies to incorporate into your retention plan going into the new year. According to the Corporation for National & Community Service, the average volunteer retention rate in 2019 was 65%. According to our research, the average person has 4 hours of free time available per day or 28 hours per week.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Start with stewardship Research suggests that meaningful donor connections with nonprofit organizations are a key factor in determining their giving patterns. Prioritize prospect research If you’re looking to secure more grants this year, dedicate time now to research prospective funders for the year ahead.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 3, 2022

Developing a training program that exceeds the expectations of volunteers will impact retention, engagement, and referral sources for your nonprofit. Allow volunteers to link theory, teaching, and practice. Research suggests that flexibility lowers stress. Offers supporters the opportunity to collaborate and learn from others.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Do you know what your retention rates are or how to increase donor loyalty? The sorry state of donor retention has been a topic of discussion for at least the past decade, since the Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report began collecting data. Yet too many nonprofits still don’t prioritize donor retention strategies. .

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker. So how can you, in the words of Peter Drucker, “teach people how to learn?” By leaning into your staff members’ desire to learn by implementing virtual training courses, you can see benefits such as: Improved Staff Retention Rates.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 15, 2022

A few lowlights from our past: Letting the donor get too close to the wealth screen, not reading the room to realize who the real decision-makers were, asking for a big gift without the proper cultivation, and not doing our donor research. Did you know that monthly giving boosts donor retention as high as 90% and a whopping 57% of U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. As, incorporating secondary research is part of the process. And, I only had 15 minutes to set it up.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

8 Fiscal Year-End Donor Retention Action Strategies + Practical Tips. There’s nothing more important to your bottom line and long-term sustainability than donor retention. Research shows only 19% of new donors give again, but if you can get them to make a second gift they’ll renew at a rate of 61% — that’s triple!

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

This guide will teach you what you need to know to get your new organization up and running. Conduct initial research Before taking any steps to formally establish your nonprofit, conduct background research into the people and groups who will help you get your new organization off the ground. Look into: Your primary audience.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2013

What donors can teach us about making more money. Penelope Burk | President | Cygnus Applied Research. She has an uncanny ability to articulate what donors want and backs that up with solid and compelling research. Research & Trends direct mail donor retention donor-centric fundraising npNEXT'

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

On one hand, this saves your team the time you’d spend researching products and determining which one is a worthy investment, as well as the money you’d spend making that investment. Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Here is a recap of the presenters and their topics: Penelope Burk | President | Cygnus Applied Research. What donors can teach us about making more money. Director of Research | Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Counter-Intuitive or a New Path to Profit?: Turning Data into Targeted Donor Communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The Learning Pyramid or the Cone of Learning are well-known frameworks to trainers and while not based on research , anyone who has had to design and lead training or answer students questions – knows that the best form of learning retention is teaching others. If you combine that with a discussion group and practice by doing – learning (..)

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Very soon technology will improve donor participation and retention by making it ridiculously easy to give…Technology will allow donors to do what they want to do anyway…We’re two decades into the internet era; why is it still easier to buy a book about hurricanes than help a storm’s victims? Digital Transformation Action Steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If you are a trainer, you are working with the human brain every day and you need to know as much as possible about how humans learn and how to teach a topic well. According to research, they represent 2-12% of the population in the US. The book offers several simple principles to incorporate: Movement is better than sitting.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2013

In this post, How to Get a 2nd Gift from New Donors , Joe Garecht shares his 4 step new donor stewardship process to help nonprofits plan beyond the first contribution and get retention rates up past 22.9%. What donors can teach us about making more money, Penelope shares 3 key research driven insights around donor-centric fundraising.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

NTEN’s Membership Committee helps grow volunteering and engagement opportunities, increase NTEN membership retention, and engage new and returning members and connect them with each other as well as NTEN resources and programming. NTEN Research Committee. Elizabeth Pope, Director of Research and Operations, Idealware.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 21, 2022

Donor retention requires a lot of work, and regardless of how well you do it, has to be offset with donor growth. Create an eBook that teaches the everyday consumer on water filters, when they’re necessary for safety, and how to pick the right one. Research potential partners. 3 Steps to Find and Attract Corporate Partners 1.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 10, 2014

Karen serves on the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation board, and is an adjunct faculty member for Johns Hopkins University’s graduate certificate program, teaching philanthropy to aspiring nonprofit CEOs and board leaders.Connect with Karen on Twitter. . High Net-Worth Individuals. Big Ideas Beget Big Gifts.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

And, unfortunately, the reverse is also true—what seems like a minor drop-off in your mid-level acquisition or retention rates can create enormous drag on your revenue. . What Bill Murray can teach you about email marketing. Goals + strategies. First, let’s be clear about who we’re talking about. Related Links.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2019

The result of my research kept pointing me to one key fact. No one teaches pastors how to talk about money in church. Take any class or read any book on donor stewardship and retention, and there will be at least one section that outlines the importance of saying thank you and showing impact.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

For example, instead of having someone teach volunteers how to handle a task in person and then testing them afterward, you might instead incorporate online quizzes to pivot this process to a virtual format. Prioritize volunteer retention. For online training, the right tools can help facilitate a similar type of engagement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2019

It teaches you how to influence others in an authentic, helpful way – using a program and process that you can begin using today. Ask thoughtful questions based on your research that establish your expertise and interest while building your likeability. Whether you are new to sales or a sales veteran, this book is a must-read.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Fundraising and conducting research. Donor Retention Rate. Your donor retention rate acts as evidence of how your donor engagement and stewardship strategies are performing. Your donor retention rate acts as evidence of how your donor engagement and stewardship strategies are performing.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The problem is that we can only get so far by teaching ourselves through YouTube videos and endlessly searching Google. It takes place in Chicago and teaches organizations how to get more supporters excited about your cause to raise more money. Donor retention. From everything we heard, it was truly game-changing.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 15, 2016

I’m a huge fan of Roger’s book, Retention Fundraising: The Art and Science of Keeping Your Donors for Life and excited for his session on “Rebels with Causes – Fundraising as a Driver of Social Change”. and “You Can Raise Major Gifts at Your Small Shop: Research Proven Methods and Best Practices” with Amy Eisenstein and Jay Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge. What I wasn't able to find was any research that spoke to the pros and cons, in a scientific way, of integrating social media into instruction. I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. Know of any?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2016

And the research backs it up – the 2016 Cone Communications Employee Engagement Study found that nearly 75% of employees say their job is more fulfilling when they are provided opportunities to make a positive impact at work; 51% won’t work for a company that doesn’t have a strong commitment to having a positive social and environmental impact.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2021

You need to prioritize how you can increase your donor lifetime value by using a variety of strategies that increase donor retention and upgrades. There’s no better donor retention or upgrade strategy than a monthly giving program. Sadly, on average, one-time gifts have no monetary value at all. They actually cost you money !

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Bloomerang

APRIL 19, 2021

And you will not ask them to do research, write grant proposals, coordinate events or write annual appeals; otherwise, they’ll have even less time. . Generally you’ll do this through your own research, by asking your board and closest donors what they know, and/or by purchasing donor analytics or predictive modeling. Their only job.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. Lots of research shows that donors don’t want the organization to spend money on free merchandise. Every tactic here is as much about retention and appreciation as it is about perks. Can you adapt the training for donors as a group teaching session?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

Note that there was a research study at Hebrew University published in Curator last year about improving a nature center's tour engagement and content retention through exactly this technique.) Passion, confidence, and personal connections to the content--those are the hard things to teach.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Western Michigan University (WMU) is a large, public research-intensive university that has been helping students reach their potential through a pursuit of purpose since 1903. Around 20K students find that purpose each year across a range of undergraduate and graduate programs at WMU.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

For example, simply saying “we prioritize major gifts” or “we focus on donor retention” isn’t helpful without understanding specifically how you’re doing so and then tracking and measuring your results so you can improve. . It’s common sense, supported by research. . The digital revolution ended business as you knew it.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Your organization uses nonprofit technology to track data, research donors, communicate with volunteers, and market upcoming opportunities. Improved Knowledge Retention: Learners can take e-learning courses at their own pace, revisiting key topics to ensure they understand them. These strategies aren’t uncommon.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

These may seem like little things, but providing aggregated information at their fingertips can enhance the family experience, increase student retention, and boost fundraising. We want students to do things in a structured way, which is how we teach them. “I want to donate to the school’s technology enrichment program.”.

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