sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

Employee retention is critical for the health of any organization, particularly for nonprofits. High retention leads to better outcomes all around as the organization saves money and develops stronger performers internally. Plus, as a manager in a nonprofit, retention is a key component of your job.

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Retention Management Tips Nonprofit 110

M+R

APRIL 16, 2024

Hey data friends, it’s our favorite time of the year, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, you can sip your iced coffee outside and read Benchmarks ! And, finally, update your GA4 Explorations data retention settings from the default (2 months) to 14 months so this critical data isn’t being lost.

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Benchmark Analytics Google Comparison 75

NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The "2025 Nonprofit Compensation Practices and Benchmarking Report" identified current salary ranges at nonprofits, hiring trends and more.

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Report Nonprofit Impact Benchmark 162

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

The Index looks at trends on a rolling three-month basis to smooth out seasonal or episodic spikes in the data and is the largest and most timely study being done in the industry. . The Index shows that online giving remained positive during most of 2009 and the trends for 2010 have been very encouraging. Size Matters in Online Giving.

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Trend Online Fundraising Offline 86

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

The accepted best practice is to post to Instagram once to three times daily, but for most nonprofits posting more than once daily is a ridiculous benchmark. A growing trend is to use a service, such as Linktree , which allows you to create a link in bio landing page that features multiple links.

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Practice Nonprofit Social Media Facebook 363

sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Key Trends in Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on March 7th, 2011 Blackbaud has released two new groundbreaking research studies that reveal insights about peer-to-peer event fundraising.

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Trend Fundraising Blackbaud Nonprofit 78

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.

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Benchmark Digital Trend Report 62

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

MAY 15, 2019

Every year, nonprofit consultants M+R release their annual Benchmarks report , which provides an overview of digital trends in the sector. The big sound bite from this year’s Benchmarks Report is that total online revenue grew by only 1% in 2018. Compare that to 2017, when It grew by 23%, and 15% growth in the year before.

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Benchmark Digital Report Advocacy 81

Care2

JULY 6, 2023

Many charitable organizations experienced a worrying trend in 2022: A 10% dip in individual donations and a declining donor retention rate. Read on for new research from M+R Benchmarks, Care2, NEON One, Tatango, and more! What can fundraising professionals do to put 2023 back on track?

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Trend Research Help Benchmark 69

M+R

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This year, a record 27 regional food banks participated in M+R’s annual Benchmarks Study covering mostly digital fundraising, marketing, advertising, and advocacy metrics (and here’s another plug…if you haven’t dug into this year’s study, do it now!). This year for the first time, we’re sharing the Food Bank Edition of Benchmarks publicly!

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Benchmark Hunger Advocacy Channel 64

NetWits

MAY 30, 2012

At the $50 contribution mark and above, the higher retention rates in mail-acquired donors tend to result in higher cumulative revenue per donor than those acquired online. Below the $25 contributions mark, online donors — once converted to direct mail giving — outperform donors that were acquired via direct mail. A Simple Approach.

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Online Fundraising Offline Mail 234

Gyrus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

How to Leverage LMS Data Analytics for Better Decision-Making in Corporate Training GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - In today’s competitive business landscape, Learning and Development (L&D) programs are key drivers of employee growth, retention, and overall business success.

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Analytics Train Training Data 64

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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Statistics North America Nonprofit Benchmark 55

CauseVox

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Download Your Fundraising Planning Guide and Calendar Template: Fundraising calendars are designed to outline donor correspondence, campaign timelines, special events , benchmark dates, and other noteworthy occurrences that your fundraising team will be engaged in over the course of the year. Remember that this will be a living document.

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Calendar Template Fundraising Develop 85

TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

HR Signal wants to make retention easier by using algorithms to predict which employees are most likely to seek another job. The worker analysis startup, which has benchmarked 50,000 job positions, announced today it has raised $1.6 After that, HR Signal’s team decided to focus on boosting employee retention instead of recruitment.

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Companies Help Retention Job 94

Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

According to Marketing General Incorporated’s 2021 Marketing Benchmarking Report, 50% of associations surveyed believe lack of engagement is the top reason members didn’t renew. This will help you Identify trends and see when your members move through their journey from initially joining to being fully connected.

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Associations Aggregator Volunteer Tips 169

Neon CRM

JULY 19, 2023

Here are 10 year-end giving statistics that show just how important the final month of the year can be—and how your nonprofit can leverage these trends to make your end-of-year campaign a success. Even as all giving declined in 2022 according to the M+R Benchmarks, the same study found an 11% increase in monthly giving.

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Statistics Fundraising Giving Benchmark 98

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

bbcon 2020 is just around the corner, and I’m excited to be presenting on the critical role of benchmarking and analytics in shaping your fundraising strategy. Average gifts, retention rates, channel giving, big data, small data…the sheer volume of information involved with fundraising can be daunting.

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Benchmark Analytics Strategy Fundraising 43

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change? Obviously, to determine trends over time, you will need to obtain this information for multiple years. Donor Retention Rate. So why is donor retention such a big deal?

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Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

Candid

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

When you hear directly from clients, you can better tailor services to their needs and preferences, which, in turn, helps increase client retention and impact. Compare your data and look for trends One of the challenges of opinion data is that it’s hard to know what’s a good average overall rating or result.

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Nonprofit Rate Survey Sample 128

Bloomerang

MAY 20, 2024

Imagine harnessing the power of unified data to streamline operations, boost engagement, and drive retention. Pro tip: Take advantage of Bloomerang data analytics to spot key trends and fine-tune your membership programs. But what if you could simplify this? Unlock insights and drive decisions using integrated data analytics.

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Management Donor Analytics Profile 116

Bloomerang

AUGUST 18, 2023

There are two alarming trends in the current nonprofit world, and they are profoundly and demonstrably linked. Across the nonprofit sector, the average donor retention rate is about 40% to 45%. So what can nonprofit leaders do to combat staff turnover and improve donor retention rates at the same time? Let’s take a look!

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Fundraising Nonprofit Retention Gift 96

Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

All member-based organizations are focused on membership: attracting new members, boosting member retention, enhancing member engagement, and more. TECH TIP: Choose YM Careers to cultivate your members’ careers, offer valuable career advancement resources, and ultimately increase member retention and recruitment.

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Associations Culture Measure Professional 142

Tableau

DECEMBER 10, 2020

And they’re not alone in finding success in a digital-forward approach: In our 3rd edition of the Nonprofit Trends Report , we saw 27% of organizations with high digital maturity exceed their fundraising goals during the pandemic, compared to organizations with low digital maturity exceeding only 7% of their goals. .

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Fundraising Malawi Campaign Donor 98

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

When asked by organizations whether their online fundraising programs should focus on donor acquisition or donor retention, I say, “Yes.”. We can see from the 2016 Luminate Online Benchmark Report that nonprofits are having success in both areas, but that between the two, efforts are skewed toward donor retention.

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Retention Donor Online Research 37

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2013

It’s easy to host a benchmarking session and just present data. Why benchmark? Jay Odell, Vice President of Altru at Blackbaud, discussed why benchmarking data is important. Most organizations aren’t lacking in opinions on where to focus, but benchmarking data tells you where you need to focus. So what data was discussed?

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Benchmark Data Blackbaud Arts 35

sgEngage

APRIL 29, 2021

The seventh annual donorCentrics® Sustainer Summit brought together, via webinar, 31 of the nation’s largest national fundraising organizations to share results and discuss sustainer growth and retention strategies against the backdrop of the pandemic and other significant events that impacted donors and giving in 2020. Sustainer Retention.

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Retention Gift Donor Conversation 68

Qgiv

OCTOBER 3, 2023

End of year giving trends Giving Tuesday vs December 31 Maximizing both Giving Tuesday and Decemeber 31 End of year giving trends Giving has been declining since 2022, so year-end fundraising can be a great opportunity to raise more for your organization and hopefully recover some lapsed donors! billion for nonprofits alone.

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Giving Trend Donor Social Media 52

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2011

This 1, 3, 5 year plan will serve as your road map, illustrating your course and outlining goals and benchmarks to hit. Most plans offer a benchmark against which actual performance can be measured and reviewed (more on this later.) It is important to establish a baseline and set benchmarks and goals to strive to achieve.

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Communication Effective Impact Mail 93

Tableau

JUNE 3, 2021

They provide important context for what the data represents—whether that’s customer engagement, revenue, or employee retention. Communicate the benchmarks. Outline how success will be measured and who is responsible for driving and meeting each benchmark. A data leadership committee doesn’t just set benchmarks for everyone else.

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Leadership Data Create Metrics 111

Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

A fundraising strategy helps keep you on track by offering deadlines and benchmarks to hit throughout the year. That’s because all nonprofits have similar goals, including connecting with more donors, boosting their donor retention rates, and developing strategic, sustainable partnerships with other organizations. Major gifts.

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Strategy Fundraising Develop Nonprofit 132

Qgiv

JULY 12, 2021

The retention rate for peer-to-peer fundraisers was 25.1% Giving USA 2020 Charitable Giving Trends. M+R Benchmarks 2020 Social Media Data and M+R Benchmarks 2021. Hotmail users give an average of $128 per donation. Fundraising Event Statistics. The mean donation on our peer-to-peer platform increased from $87.46

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Statistics Fundraising Raise Social Media 116

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2014

There were a number of interesting findings from the new Luminate Online Benchmark Report , released at BBCON. This is actually the second consecutive year fundraising email conversion rates have declined sharply , continuing a somewhat worrisome trend. 9 Underutilized Retention Emails. 10 Ways to Sabotage Your Year-End Emails.

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Conversation Rate email Fundraising 55

Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Being able to benchmark performance against what other nonprofits are doing is an important starting point to understanding your own data. Trends Reports First, let’s look at reports that focus on large scale trends impacting the entire sector. This is where the increasing amount of nonprofit sector research reports can help.

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Hype Research Marketing Nonprofit 52

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Retention saves money by reducing recruiting and training costs and increases income by eliminating relationship disruptions, thus shortening the time between first solicitation and first gift. Sharing peer trends and results quarterly with the whole team can also drive performance throughout the year.

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Develop Management Gift Fundraising 98

Allegiance Group

JUNE 4, 2024

To truly understand the health of your organization, there are seven key metrics you should track in your database: Year-on-year revenue Donor file growth Donor retention Gifts per donor Average gift Revenue per donor Cost to acquire Data can be overwhelming. Then, go one level deeper to look at trends.

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Metrics Data Track Question 52

Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

This is the Sustainer Summit, after all, a group of sophisticated nonprofits committed to growing and strengthening their sustaining donor programs and nothing has been proven to improve retention better than that. Trends for International Relief and Public Broadcasting are mixed but trending upward since FY2014.

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Trend Giving Retention Gift 30