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Top Nonprofit Payment Processing Tools

Qgiv

Donors choose to give in a multitude of ways, and Qgiv is prepared to accept their gifts. Additionally, Qgiv connects with other payment processors like Apple Pay, PayPal, and Venmo to offer donors even more ways to complete their gifts. Bloomerang is a great choice because it blends payment processing and a CRM all on one platform.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Show how gifts further the outcomes step-by-step. For example, if a mailed appeal with a matching gift incentive consistently outperforms others, keep using that format. Or if a certain donation thank-you gift reliably increases donor retention, offer it in campaign after campaign. Helping real people should be the star.

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Concurrent Fundraising Events: 3 Ideas to Boost Revenue

Get Fully Funded

You might consider finding a reputable restaurant willing to offer their services for a discounted rate in exchange for sponsorship promotion. Mystery gift: Keep things exciting by offering a mystery gift as the raffle prize! Professional catering: Find a catering team to cook, deliver, and serve the food.

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Your Ultimate Guide to 2024 Year-End Fundraising Campaign: 5 Principles for Success

Allegiance Group

For instance, donors who regularly give to your organization will often make an additional gift in December if they’re asked. We recommend extending a personal invitation to sustainers, inviting them to give an additional gift. Offer a match to donors, as this form of giving often has the highest response rate. #3

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Giving Tuesday #Inspo: 14 Donation Pages That Know What They’re Doing

Everyaction

There are plenty of best practices that, if implemented, make it pretty straightforward to improve conversion rates and ultimately raise more money. Small details like a simple check box for transforming one-time donations into a monthly gift, take this donation page from good to great. The good news? Union of Concerned Scientists.

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3 Reasons Why Your Year-End Appeal is Not Over

NonProfit Hub

Retention Rates Stink. According to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project’s 2015 Survey , only 19 percent of new donors to nonprofits give again after their first gift. In other words, if 100 donors made gifts via your year-end appeal in 2015, only 19 of them will donate again in 2016. It’s actually never over.

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3 Principles Fundraisers Should Adopt from Service Providers

Connection Cafe

Steep billing rates, adversarial positions, and dense subject matter hindered my ability to be really great at my job, so I turned to more mission-driven work in the nonprofit sector. Great service providers blend relationship building with unparalleled client service, because they understand that their customers have plenty of other choices.

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