Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. Let’s move to specific actions based on the developmental stage of your fundraising program.

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Association Analytics

MAY 20, 2024

Read on to discover new ways to generate non-dues revenue, including actionable case studies. This involves identifying different audience segments and understanding any overlaps. By addressing these needs, your association can not only enhance member satisfaction but also attract sponsors who want to engage with your audience.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 7, 2024

Do: Understand your audience Tailor your data visualizations to meet your audience’s specific needs and preferences so that the insights resonate with them. Use surveys, interviews, audience data, and other research methods to learn more about your target audience and their data visualization needs and expectations.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

The annual M+R Benchmarks Report has arrived again, shining a light on trends that are shaping nonprofits’ digital programs. Having shared and discussed this year’s Benchmarks Report with many of our partners, here’s twelve key trends that have resonated strongly within the EveryAction community. But only 6% took three or more actions.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

There is undeniable momentum in online fundraising as highlighted by data in the Blackbaud Luminate Online® Benchmark Report 2020. There are a few data points from the Benchmark Report that offer a glimpse into the future of online fundraising: 42.4% So, the real question is: what will online fundraising look like moving forward?

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

By interacting with your content, a segment of the audience shows you they care about what you have to say. Some engagements are more valuable than others because they show a deeper level of audience interaction. Measuring your organization’s engagement rate is a more accurate reflection of your content’s relevance to the audience.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 24, 2024

The agency collected responses from fundraisers at 216 nonprofits for its Benchmarks report. The big spike in online revenue since 2020 stabilized,” said Will Valverde, lead writer of Benchmarks and senior creative director at M+R. About half of 225 M+R Benchmarks participants reported working with social media influencers during 2023.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

If your nonprofit is looking for more reasons to dial in on mobile messaging, M+R’s Benchmarks report has found that texting is growing in the nonprofit sphere—these are just a few key points from 2021’s report : SMS audience sizes grew by 26 percent over the previous year—much faster growth than email audience sizes.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Sustainer programs are growing in popularity—M+R’s Benchmarks for the year 2021 found that recurring giving grew by 24 percent over 2020. With testing, nonprofits can experiment and improve on what communications work best for their sustainer audience. Check out our last installment here ! Raise the Roots.

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fusionSpan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

According to the 2024 Membership Marketing Benchmark Report , 49% of individual membership organizations use paid digital advertising, with 21% considering it highly effective for recruitment. Search engine ads have advanced targeting capabilities, making them particularly powerful for reaching your target audience. Use clear CTAs.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While Giving Tuesday is a standout global event, there are numerous other giving days—both international and region-specific—that nonprofits can leverage to boost their fundraising efforts and engage diverse audiences. Use branded visuals, thematic language, and clear calls-to-action to resonate with your audience and reinforce your message.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 5, 2024

They can analyze the ad copy, visuals, calls-to-action, and other elements to identify best practices and adapt them to their own context. Nonprofits can use this information to benchmark their own ad performance and identify areas for improvement. This can help them refine their ad strategy and target new opportunities for impact.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2015

M+R and NTEN’s 2015 Nonprofit Benchmarks Report returns for the ninth year, the ultimate guide to nonprofit industry standards for online fundraising, advocacy, and list building. Forty bucks and 29 actions. Audiences on social media are growing faster than email – but email still reaches a lot more supporters.

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Bloomerang

JULY 30, 2021

An M+R benchmarks study found that nonprofit text messaging audiences grew by 26% in 2020, outpacing growth for other popular channels like Facebook and email. With this rapidly growing audience , there comes the need for nonprofits to learn and adapt to using texts for fundraising and supporter engagement. of the time, with 1.24

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M+R

JUNE 5, 2023

Receptive and swayable audiences are becoming harder and harder to reach. Collaborating with influencers — working with them on messaging in a two-way dialogue — helps your campaign reach these audiences authentically. Looking for benchmarks? We’ve got some Benchmarks. “Taxpayer” groups. Gold standard advocates.

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Media Cause

MAY 8, 2023

Set Your Paid Advertising Budgets When it comes to running a successful campaign, ensuring you have the right budget in place can help you get a strong return on your investment, reach your audience the right way, and achieve your goals. These benchmarks can help you plan your budgets for each channel you’re going to run ads on.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 30, 2023

Benefits of a Brand Awareness Strategy Soften the Market Increasing awareness, trust, and affinity for your brand among your target audience improves the performance of subsequent lead generation campaigns by helping to move users down the conversion funnel. This is referred to as “banner blindness”.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

However, many organizations aren’t even sure where to get started, how to benchmark, or how to tie DEI strategies to fundraising success. Johnson , CEO, Founder Allies in Action Membership Network; CEO & Founder, Women of Color in Fundraising; Founder & President, YFJ Consulting, LLC. – Yolanda F.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

To truly understand the value of a tweet or Facebook post, you have to determine ahead of time exactly what sort of action you hope someone will take when they see it - click, share, sign up, donate, retweet, etc. If your goal is to engage + build relationships with your audience (hopefully it is!), Measuring beyond "likes".

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The upcoming iOS15 update will create some changes in how email marketers use opens to track success and retarget their audiences — but as we all know, adapting to change is part of operating in the digital landscape. Benchmark Data Now. Here is what you can do to prepare for the impacts of iOS15 on email marketing. Use your UTMs.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Custom photo stock This is a fun excuse for an intern to run around the office and any physical sites to take good pictures of work in action. Or, let the intern become an expert that can offer help to members in your community fundraising network (like super customer support for your audience). Visit Campus 15.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For nonprofits, it’s essential to have an effective website that engages your audience and drives them to take action, whether that’s donating, volunteering, raising awareness, or other forms of support. Provides access to a large audience looking for nonprofit services. Don’t over-optimize.

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Classy

JULY 19, 2021

Brief and educational videos have shown to engage larger audiences as well. . Use a script to communicate with your audience . Engagement rates for a 30-second video will naturally surpass those of a 30-minute video, so make sure to map your long-form video engagement benchmarks accordingly.

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M+R

AUGUST 7, 2023

All free, one hour each, and jam-packed with information and ideas and actionable steps. More Answers When you don’t really know your audiences and what motivates them, you start making assumptions. Join us for one, or all: August 16: Fewer Guesses. And everyone knows what happens when you make an assumption.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Tweets with links have an 86% higher retweet rate and higher engagement overall because people are hesitant to retweet or engage with tweets that do not have a source or a call-to-action. Create custom graphics for powerful quotes, statistics, and call-to-actions. Be more generous and strategic in your follow back strategy.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Free video services like Instagram and Vine that feature short videos now attract millions of users, offering nonprofits, charities, and libraries an opportunity to connect with new audiences. Aaron Bramley: Teeny Tiny Stop Action Video. Benchmarks for nonprofit video and guide for creators. Diabetes UK: Thank You.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2013

It’s easy to host a benchmarking session and just present data. The audience is able to take notes on numbers and try and gauge their organization’s success, but it’s more difficult to make those data points actionable or to provide insight that people can leverage. Why benchmark? Are you using benchmarks?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

While nonprofits often deliver highly relevant content in direct mail appeals – based on giving history, interests and past actions – that approach isn’t always carried over to their email appeals. Delivering relevant content to your audiences, though, can significantly increase email click-through rates. *.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Right now, participants from the fall round of our data co-op, Scout Quest, are getting their hands on a bunch of sweet, sweet data, including neat things like which donors and prospects are giving to other nonprofits, how frequently they are giving, and who is taking action for other organizations. and our annual Benchmarks study.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

The Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation came to us with the goal of rethinking its digital ecosystem from the ground up and optimizing how they attract, engage, and grow their target audiences, including donors and supporters.

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M+R

MAY 31, 2022

We saw some of the impacts of these changes in this year’s Benchmarks. Which means, combined opens went UP ( for Benchmarks participants , they’d already risen by 17% between September and November 2021 — and they’ve kept rising since). Make strategic adjustments? Burn down email and move into a bunker?). Now, let’s dig deeper.

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Neon CRM

MAY 17, 2023

While these benchmarks are a useful place to begin evaluating your email fundraising performance, they aren’t the be-all-end-all. That’s a high-level benchmark; results for nonprofits will vary based on their size. But setting and tracking your own benchmarks will be even more useful. per email campaign. Here’s how to do it.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Additionally, the 2021 M+R Benchmark Report cites “The increase in overall giving was largely driven by more people giving rather than people giving more.” Segment your target audience. Define individual ways for your volunteers, P2P fundraisers, board members, and sustaining donors to get involved.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 4, 2024

Break your campaign results down by audience. These insights will enable you to tweak your next campaign to be more relevant for each audience. Then, develop an action plan and figure out what tactics you need to use. Are you in line with benchmarks and averages, or are you falling short? What about the revenue per donor?

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M+R

JULY 27, 2023

That assumption was also backed by years of UCS’s email fundraising metrics consistently beating M+R benchmarks. If too little cultivation was a real problem, we’d have seen it show up in fundraising metrics, right?

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sgEngage

JUNE 30, 2023

According to our Annual Luminate Online® 2021 Benchmark Report , more than 770 social good organizations collectively raised over $1.8 Digital Marketing Nonprofits use digital marketing to reach a wider audience online to communicate to specific demographics with targeted messaging. billion emails in that year alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2013

2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. Key Finding: Online nonprofit fundraising is on the rise, with explosive growth in sustaining gifts and a larger audience of supporters reached through social media networks like Facebook! million advocacy actions, and more than $438 million online donations from over 6.5 RESEARCH STUDIES.

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