NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 12, 2014

It has become a fairly common factoid that around 60% of new donors only give once to that cause—however, showing love to your donors can be one of the driving factors behind donor retention. Here are five ways to show your donors love to raise donor retention: Thank Donors for the Same Thing You Asked For. Duh, right?

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Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Here are a few actionable strategies to help you create an effective retention plan. According to the Corporation for National & Community Service, the average volunteer retention rate is 65%. Studies have shown a direct correlation between retention and the number of hours a volunteer provides an organization each year.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How This Nonprofit Retains 46% of Their Donors with Amy Gibson Nonprofit Nation The Boys & Girls Clubs of Muncie, increased their donor retention rate from 26% to 46%. Build relationships, focus on cultivation, and practice time-blocking to navigate challenges with confidence and purpose. Listen to this episode. Listen to this episode.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

At this year’s bbcon, the Blackbaud Institute was thrilled to welcome Tim Kachuriak to give a presentation on what he knows best: how to optimize your team with data. Kachuriak and the NextAfter team conducted a survey among 500 nonprofit executives, consultants, managers, and practitioners. Teach people to get better at their craft.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If staff interact more with AI tools than with one another to complete tasks, it reduces the well-documented benefits of informal conversations of building an effective workplace culture, onboarding new staff, and improving staff retention. Putting humans first There is an alternative approach: a human-first AI adoption strategy.

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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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Classy

AUGUST 4, 2021

Working as a team to maximize donations benefits your nonprofit’s mission and overall financial health. . In this post, we’ll look at how to be a high-performing team when multiple stakeholders are confidently using your fundraising software. There are many nonprofit roles that are responsible for fundraising. Database Owners.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the timely and compelling book, Leading With Heart. That’s why companies with the best retention, morale, and productivity are led by leaders with heart.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 15, 2022

Brilliant and hysterically witty, he dazzles nonprofit audiences by teaching them how to apply decision science (aka behavioral economics) to campaigns, communications, and fundraising. . Did you know that monthly giving boosts donor retention as high as 90% and a whopping 57% of U.S. Why Should I Give to You?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the timely and compelling new book, Leading With Heart. That’s why companies with the best retention, morale, and productivity are led by leaders with heart.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Salesforce’s predictive AI capabilities Salesforce’s predictive AI, known as discriminative AI to the data scientists out there, can draw on your data to provide: Predictive analysis of member outcomes – for instance, whether a member is likely to renew their membership for another year, and how likely that is to change if your team intervenes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the timely and compelling new book, Leading With Heart. That’s why companies with the best retention, morale, and productivity are led by leaders with heart.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2024

Nonprofit Fundraising Support One of my favorite pieces of Greater Giving is that they have a robust Help section with a plethora of articles, instructions, and tutorial videos to teach new and experienced users alike the correct way to set up each of the elements in the software to best support your unique event.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the compelling book, Leading With Heart. That’s why companies with the best retention, morale, and productivity are led by leaders with heart.

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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. Their team found its solution in Bloomerang.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the timely and compelling book, Leading With Heart. That’s why companies with the best retention, morale, and productivity are led by leaders with heart.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Twenty-two years later, I’m proud to be captain of the greatest sporting team on earth as Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy and a foundation that brings Mandela’s words to life every day. It wasn’t long after their civil war, and the program was working with child combatants, using sports to teach new skills.

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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. So, I had participants do a share pair with another person or team and discuss their target audiences.

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2022

Komen, Event 360, Peerworks Consulting, and our own Cathexis Partners team as part of the virtual conference, It’s a Peer-to-Peer World. My team from work (or school or church) is riding, so I’m riding, too.” . Team captain . Team affiliation (captain, member, or none) . Start a team . Will you start a team?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Erika Atkins, Director of Operations at Opening Act , a theatre program that teaches theatre skills to students from New York City’s most underserved schools to help them succeed in life. Their program includes about teaching artists. She knows self-care is important to avoiding burn out and keeping a high staff retention. “.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

These opportunities teach students valuable skills while allowing them to contribute their time and energy to help worthy causes. You may need a larger team for these types of events. Teaching volunteers valuable life skills. School based Schools often rely on volunteer support to care for their students.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Team DNL provides Digital Nonprofit Leadership to mid-sized and large nonprofit organizations. If you read through this guide and feel like you could use some assistance making the most of your nonprofit’s data, reach out to our team at DNL OmniMedia. To learn more about these types of services, reach out to Team DNL today !

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2013

What donors can teach us about making more money. Penelope first came to the attention of senior fundraisers with her revolutionary, best-selling book, Donor-Centered Fundraising , which remains the only statistically-based philosophy ever published on the effect of meaningful communication on donor retention and gift value.

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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. For example, you might seek board members who have former leadership experience, work well within a team, and are impeccably organized and punctual. Since your nonprofit is just starting, you don’t need to worry about building a huge team.

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Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

If you don’t want to waste your donor acquisition resources, you need to double up on your donor retention resources. Either ask the gift processor to do this or have someone else, preferably on the development team, take on this assignment. ACTION: Put a system in place to hand sign thank you letters.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

He explains the power of this daily practice at successfully agile companies: “In a daily standup, teams hold brief daily meetings to share progress and identify impediments for removal. Standups help the members of the team “swarm” to solve a problem rather than have individual struggle on their own.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 30, 2023

It’s a great time of the year for some hot donor retention strategies! I teach my clients that offering warm touches – the little things that warm a donor’s heart and make them feel good – are THE BEST donor retention strategies to keep people giving. And the good news is that increasing donor retention isn’t that hard.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With virtual volunteering being the current norm, technology can help keep track of key data points, facilitate volunteer communications, and organize volunteer opportunities— all while both your team and volunteers stay socially distant! Consider solutions with automation capabilities to help ease the load off your own team members.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

Improved staff and volunteer retention rates, fundraising and donor stewardship outcomes, and training engagement come to mind. Assembling the right team for your project is one of the best ways to set your course up for success. . The partner develops the course and provides it to your team to review and provide feedback. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Nonprofit insiders are watching and debating how ALS will use the money and the donor retention strategy. And, of course the valid concern of wasting water in a drought. Jasmine Hall Ratliff from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation challenged fellow staff members on the RWJF baseball team.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Moving from a transaction-based strategy to a transformational one is a process, one requiring dedicated and systematic focus and a team approach. Claire runs “Clairification School” online, teaches the CFRE course that certifies professional fundraisers, and is a regular contributor to Guidestar, NonProfit PRO and Maximize Social Business.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. The key to an effective donor retention strategy is to make sure your donors feel appreciated and like they’ve made an impact.

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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. I don’t recommend starting here because it’s not quick and easy.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Steven Shattuck, Bloomerang’s Chief Engagement Officer , found that when donors give a recurring gift their retention rate increases to 90%. A trivia night fundraiser can pit individuals or teams against one another in friendly competition. You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee. Rummage sales.

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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. Whether you are new to sales or a sales veteran, this book is a must-read. It’s practical, concise and clear. And one that you’ll learn to enjoy.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The following steps will help your learners not only obtain more from their learning but also make them more impactful members of your organizational team. Our brains, while capable of accomplishing a lot of tasks at the same time, are not too great with knowledge retention in scenarios where multi-tasking is taking place. Conclusion.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, to know the true value of volunteers to your unique organization, you should work with your team to identify how they’ve helped your nonprofit power its programs and services in the past. Though they go hand in hand, volunteer recruitment shouldn’t be confused with volunteer retention. However, some people do.

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