NetWits

JUNE 24, 2011

I spend a couple of days a month on the road, mostly presenting at conferences and user forums on email best practices. Often, I am the only presenter on good old email in a conference packed with sessions about social media and mobile. million donors and more than $1.16 million donors and more than $1.16

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NetWits

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Back in January of 2008 he told us (the non-profit sector) that we should be looking to use the internet in new and innovative ways to build community and engage our supporters because direct mail, although still a huge revenue source, was beginning to show signs of fatigue. First Year Donor Retention is 29.3%.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 2, 2024

Perhaps your charity auctions sell fewer tickets because many donors can’t attend in person. Empowering donors to give instantly ensures they follow through with the donation while giving is still top-of-mind. When donors know your organization values them and their involvement, they’ll be even more willing to donate.

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NetWits

JULY 9, 2012

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. Turn One-Time Donors Into Regulars. This communication can be done via email, newsletter, direct mail or social media.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Your marketing specialists get the word out about your gala to your supporters through email, social media, direct mail, and any other communication channels your nonprofit uses. AccuData’s guide to digital marketing recommends focusing on the following platforms to reach as many supporters as possible: Email. Direct mail.

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Achieve

JULY 26, 2021

build a passionate donor base. ? And which donors should you even ask? . Your ask is a great way to show donors that you value their individual contributions and their continued passion for your cause. How do my donors prefer to interact with my nonprofit? What’s the best way to. Track your donations. .

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

Nonprofits can learn from email campaigns corporate marketers are sending. Corporate email programs have focused on delivering value—they test offers, messaging and more. A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. As a result, email expectations have changed.

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NetWits

JUNE 13, 2011

Although the findings of the recently released 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report haven’t changed much since the last edition three years ago, its release has (re)fueled the conversation fire in the #nptech community. It shows that where we fail to engage donors, we also fail to raise funds.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

While all nonprofits recognize the value of cultivating donors over the long-term, they feel an incredible amount of pressure to implement short-term strategies that will raise money today. Guess what the nonprofit donor retention rate is? Between 2006 and 2011 donor retention rates decreased about 10%. Donors want more.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Designed specifically for nonprofits, GiftWorks lets you manage your donor contacts and organize your email outreach by geography, interests, and giving history. It features multiple, matching, and honoraria donation tracking, SmartLists, mail merging, and QuickBooks compatibility.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Nonprofit statistics covering fundraising, charitable giving, online giving, social media, mobile, donor retention, email marketing, stewardship, donor research, charitable organizations, donor trends, direct mail, giving, and other key not-for-profit charitable giving metrics and benchmarks.

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Care2

MAY 24, 2013

Last month we reported that online fundraising response rates declined 27% between 2011-2012, according to the eNonprofit Benchmark study. “This is present in direct mail, telemarketing, and face-to-face solicitation.” “This is present in direct mail, telemarketing, and face-to-face solicitation.”

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Care2

JUNE 2, 2011

Blackbaud just released the 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report. and includes transactions for over 15 million donors and $1 billion in revenue. about online donors and online acquisition. Online-acquired donors are younger. Online donors tend to have higher household incomes.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2012

Will 2012 be pretty much like 2011? It replied: Based on that, plus 27 years in the field, I foresee that 2012 will be pretty much like 2011. It replied: Based on that, plus 27 years in the field, I foresee that 2012 will be pretty much like 2011. Weiner Consulting. it’s not cloud-based. it’s the cheapest. it’s the “best”.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2011

2011 - it's a new year and a new Congress! Lobby visits, town hall meetings, phone calls, handwritten letters, grass-tops meetings, tweets, and yes, even emails to Representatives and Senators are all important pieces of grassroots activity that can help to make change. Happy 2011. Author: Sally Heaven. DO go local.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

VIP event access for long-time donors and volunteers, allowing them to access prime seating, a free buffet, and other VIP perks. You can send them free merchandise through the mail or connect them with virtual networking opportunities to help them feel more connected to your organization. Free food — because who doesn’t love free food?

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Care2

JANUARY 21, 2012

Nonprofits receive up to 40% of their online donations at the end of the year since the holidays have people feeling generous, and donors also want to maximize those tax deductions before year’s end. So how did you do in 2011? Make sure you’re capturing email addresses whenever and wherever you can. Build Your List.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

If you’re like 90+% of the nonprofits reading this blog, direct mail gifts still make up the overwhelming majority of your fundraising revenue. So it makes sense that your direct mail initiatives receive the lion’s share of your fundraising focus and resources.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

You invest heavily in the planning phase, often (err, hopefully) as early as August, but by the time January arrives you want to count the dollars, share the stories, and congratulate donors on another successful year. And, as a fundraiser, you seize the opportunity to build donor loyalty. Determine the ask. Choose your channels.

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2015

According to the 2015 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report , by NonprofitMarketingGuide.com, nonprofits are becoming more confident and more intentional about reaching out to target audiences, raising money, and retaining donors through engagement. 62% will send an email newsletter at least monthly, up from 59% in 2014.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 10, 2014

There is no perfect answer, but we all know there are two basic ways to raise more money: Ask your existing donors to give more. Find new donors (while keeping the ones you have). Since donors everywhere are still a bit skeptical about the state of the economy, asking all of them to give substantially more may be a tough row to hoe.

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Care2

MARCH 27, 2012

Did you know that in 2011, 16% of new donors gave via online gifts up from 9% in 2007? Or that the median revenue per donor for multi-channel supporters was $228 compared to $89 for offline and $113 for online donors? million and how their fundraising increased 40% by using multiple channels to reach their donors.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of a case study in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. With that in mind, we tested Oxfam’s standard donation page – with its seven-level ask string – against a donation page that replaced the ask string with an empty box for donors to type in their gift amount. We all know we should do it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, April 1, 2011 Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving? As a charitable donor, Ive become so fickle its almost embarrassing. I like to be informed of what the organization is doing, but I dont want mail solicitations. So, should we send them more e-mails? posted by Stephanie La Loggia, M.A.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

Forward this to all the girls online” By 2011 the meme evolved a couple of times. On January 8, 2011 the meme ranked number 11 on Google Trends search queries and the Susan G Komen Foundation said that their Facebook page grew by over 100K “likes” in 24 hours. In 2011 he was diagnosed with ALS.

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Care2

JANUARY 20, 2011

A new study called, 2011 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report: And What it All Means for Your Good Cause shows that small and mid-sized nonprofits are clearly moving online when it comes to organizational communication and fundraising. What’s in those emails? I.e., How do they find new folks to market to?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Email is still winning in the online donor department, and in terms of traditional communications we receive a shocking number of donations through direct mail. What is on your To Do List for 2011? For 2011, I’d like to explore more into geo-location sites, mobile apps and question-and-answer sites.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

From hosting special member events to fulfilling membership cards to all related marketing, mailings, and collateral, everything adds up fast! Traditional membership programs issue paper/plastic cards and use a combination of direct mail and email marketing to reach their constituents. Competition for Loyalty.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 5, 2014

Online fundraising platforms are making it easier than ever for donors to contribute when and how they want to, and they eliminate some of the costs of direct mail solicitations and in-person events. In other words: they assume they have persuaded a potential donor, and they abandon their messaging. in the same period.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, June 10, 2011 Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has been Revoked? Thats a delicious mystery, but Ill let the Arkansas people, or the organizations donors, worry about it. June 10, 2011 10:10 AM xicoarteycultura said. June 10, 2011 10:36 AM Rudnick said. June 10, 2011 2:35 PM Mark Hager said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m at the Innogive 2011 Conference today. How do you combine mobile with the grassroots power of social media to successfully engage donors. Allyson Kapin shared some stats about the use of email on mobile devices. Text Poll App from MobileCause. The focus is on Mobile Giving.

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NTEN

JULY 13, 2011

The 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study is a joint project of M+R Strategic Services and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). The 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study (available at www.e-benchmarksstudy.com But do organizations that send out more fundraising email get slapped on the wrist with lower response rates? Our theory?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. This session focuses on Millennial Donors, with Angela White from JGA presenting. What did they find out in the Millennial Donor Report? Last year, we did research on Millennial donors and it spurred us to do it again. Engagement.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

We re-visted this topic this summer for the 2011 Nonprofit Data Ecosystems survey, and are happy to release the report today (free for NTEN members). > Unique about that report was that we also asked survey participants to grade their data ecosystems , which is what we call that network of tools organizations use to carry out their work.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

From word processing to managing email and spreadsheets, these programs are the standard in office productivity software. Outlook integrates your email with calendars and contact information. The latest version of QuickBooks, Intuit QuickBooks 2011 , is in stock at TechSoup. Keep Files Safe. Build and Manage Databases.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

We re-visted this topic this summer for the 2011 Nonprofit Data Ecosystems survey, and are happy to release the report today (free for NTEN members). > Unique about that report was that we also asked survey participants to grade their data ecosystems , which is what we call that network of tools organizations use to carry out their work.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2013

in 2012 compared to 2011”. It is important to be perseverant and leave a visual mark to your potential donors. They reduce the amount of time and effort which your donor has to dedicate in order to complete the process. Don’t make the name and email fields required, maybe you will have donors who wish to remain anonymous.

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