sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

In fact, setting your sights on major gifts this year may be more important than ever. Understanding the role of major donors, in tandem with an informed development plan, are the foundations of a securing a major gift in 2023. raise $100,000 via major gifts; volume-based—e.g., Step 2: Identify specific, realistic goals.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Giving preferences have changed in the last few years since the COVID-19 pandemic, and fundraisers are facing challenges, like overall donor numbers being down and donor retention rates also being at a low. Double the Donation reports that 65% of Fortune 500 companies provide a matching gift program as a benefit to their employers!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

A lot of time, effort, and preparation goes into ensuring end-of-year campaigns produce all the funds needed for organizations to sustain their important missions. Keeping donors connected with the mission ensures the best possible donor retention rate for an organization. In return, donors may provide larger gifts.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Despite increasing commercialism, the holidays traditionally get people thinking about ways they can give—whether they’re wrapping gifts for loved ones or donating time and money to a cause they care about. Explore this definitive guide to learn more about Giving Tuesday, get great campaign ideas, and soak up some best practices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

Match their energy by providing volunteer opportunities, hosting giving challenges, offering peer-to-peer fundraising opportunities, and encouraging community chatter. In fact, you can immediately acknowledge each gift through your fundraising CRM. Tips, Templates, and Best Practices for Your Giving Tuesday Campaign.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2024

It’s been a challenging past couple of years for nonprofit fundraising. Bloomerang was designed by fundraising experts who understand the importance of donor retention for sustainable organizational growth. Incorporate your nonprofit’s unique branding into your online fundraising forms and campaign pages.

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Candid

MAY 22, 2024

The Q4 2023 Quarterly Fundraising Report , released in April, found significant year-over-year declines across all metrics for 2023, including the number of donors, total dollars raised, and retention rates. of donors making only one gift, which amounted to 41.8% The retention rate, by contrast, fell 2.5% from the previous year.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 16, 2024

First Challenge: Clearly Define the Audience We tend to make ourselves the audience, as well as our closest stakeholders, like board members. Use Your Story as a Retention Tool To improve donor engagement with your annual report, make sure you speak to all levels and types of donors. This is vital to donor retention and stewardship.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

From planning peer-to-peer fundraisers to properly marketing your online campaigns, there’s an endless number of items on your to-do lists. Plus, there’s many challenges you have to overcome, such as limited staff capacity, rising costs, and inadequate finances. Managing a nonprofit takes patience, hard work, and a lot of organization.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In order to attract fundraisers to participate in your campaign, you first need to come up with an exciting theme to build your fundraising event around. Keep your fundraisers engaged with your peer-to-peer campaign by gamifying your event. that you created for the campaign. Come up with an exciting fundraising event idea.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

By Greg Fine – a marketing consultant that works to elevate nonprofit marketing impact, revitalize giving campaigns, and bring energy and awareness to nonprofit brands and their mission. Starting with a general research prompt, “Highlight the top four to five giving campaigns nonprofits have created in the past three to five years.

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Pamela Grow

JULY 24, 2024

However, you quickly realize there are several obstacles to starting a new fundraising campaign, including team time, resource availability, and donor fatigue. So, you ask yourself, “What if there was a solution that overcame these challenges and could turn into a steady revenue stream for my nonprofit?” Let’s dive in!

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Navigating the complexities of year-end fundraising for nonprofits can often feel like threading through a maze of challenges. If you’re ready to find out how your nonprofit can buck trends and create a winning year-end campaign, this blog post is for you. Want to know how a year-end campaign will fare?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Recurring donations are gifts to a nonprofit organization made by a donor on an ongoing basis, typically monthly. The trend leans heavily toward a monthly gift cadence, with 94% of recurring donors preferring to give monthly. Clear Goals: Every recurring donation program should start by identifying the goals of the campaign.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 23, 2024

Matching gifts Workplace Giving Program Overview: Matching gift programs are a type of workplace giving where companies match the charitable contributions made by their employees to eligible nonprofits. Learn more about matching gifts as a workplace giving strategy here.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

Because of Giving Tuesday’s major fundraising potential, it’s never too early to start planning your campaign. Of course, as one of your most important annual fundraisers, it can be challenging to know where to begin when it comes to planning a Giving Tuesday campaign. Giving Tuesday takes place the Tuesday after the U.S.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

You know better than anyone that planning a university fundraising campaign can feel a bit overwhelming. 360MatchPro by Double the Donation , the leading provider of matching gift automation software, integrates with the best school and university fundraising platforms. GiveCampus & Matching Gifts. Let’s jump in!

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you know that raising major gifts is one of the most strategic efforts your organization will complete. Major gifts are not only a highly-strategic effort, but also a high-stakes one— for many nonprofits, over 80% of their total fundraising dollars come from major contributions alone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The constant grind to find new funds is the challenge of every nonprofit. Kindful allows users to create visually engaging peer-to-peer campaigns that integrate with your website, social media, and email marketing. Individual pledge commitments or reports on pledged revenue by date, campaign, or program can be tracked easily.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2024

Particularly for peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising, mobile capabilities have become crucial in meeting donors where they are, providing a simple, fun donor experience that results in higher turnout, increased revenue, and better year-over-year retention of event participants, donors, and P2P fundraisers. That means more donors and more dollars.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 28, 2024

Say you receive a meaningful planned gift from someone who isn’t in your donor file and hadn’t previously shown up on your radar as a prospect. You need to recognize the gift and thank the family. Have your attorney send an official letter acknowledging the gift and consider it a stroke of fortuitous generosity.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 15, 2022

A few lowlights from our past: Letting the donor get too close to the wealth screen, not reading the room to realize who the real decision-makers were, asking for a big gift without the proper cultivation, and not doing our donor research. Winning Fundraising Campaigns that Hit the Fundraising Jackpot.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

But due to many common challenges to constantly reach new donors, retain existing donors, and increase operational efficiency the amount of effort to impact lives doesn’t always result in the high return it should. Does it allow donor wealth screening to assist Major Gift Officers? How much awareness campaigns were created?

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 7, 2024

Closeup Woman hand using Laptop pc with email icon, Email concept Creating your nonprofit’s digital strategy comes with its own set of challenges, from creating engaging campaigns to standing out in donors’ inboxes. Your Welcome Email According to Campaign Monitor, Welcome emails have a whopping 91.43% open rate.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

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. Donor stewardship helps you boost your donor retention rate , helping you earn much more over time. Major gifts.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Jeff recommends: Stay vigilant with gift processing. Check gift reports daily If you know a gift was supposed to be received by year-end and you don’t see it posted, follow up with your Data/Donor Ops team Do what you can to support gift processing – and thank your team! There you have it! View the presentation below.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 9, 2023

It’s undoubtedly a challenging time for new donor acquisition, underscoring the constant importance of retention. It also lets your nonprofit hear from an outside perspective that can help you optimize your efforts and improve your projects, campaigns, stewardship efforts, and programs.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

For example, the report highlights the growing importance of digital fundraising, so investing more resources in online campaigns and social media outreach would be a smart move. Craft personalized thank-you messages and updates to strengthen relationships with donors and enhance donor retention.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 14, 2023

When you deliver an experience that makes donors feel good about contributing to your cause, you could see a significant increase in retention rates. Prioritizing donor retention will ultimately build a dedicated pool of supporters who will lend support any time you need it. This refers to any gift given to your organization.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2024

However, the real challenge begins when the initial urgency subsides and public attention shifts away. Don’t just make an ask, but keep new donors closely informed during the crucial period after a first gift. Compared to one-time emergency donors, monthly donors have much higher retention rates and lifetime value.

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Achieve

JUNE 28, 2024

Prospect Research Data Modeling If your nonprofit has solicited major gifts or established a planned giving program , you’ve likely conducted prospect research. Once you’ve narrowed down your top donor appreciation ideas, use AI to generate a matrix that you can reuse and revise for various campaigns.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Both outright (annual and major gifts) and deferred (legacy gifts). It costs from 5 to 25 cents on the dollar to renew current donors and/or generate major, capital and legacy gifts from individuals. Stop doing so many one-off campaigns, events and auctions that raise money short-term, but really are one-time transactions.

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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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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As nonprofits continue to navigate a challenging economic climate, GivingTuesday continues to play a unique role that is special to the nonprofit sector. But healthy donor retention numbers within Neon CRM users show that donors are more than happy to support organizations they’ve previously been involved with. Where Do Donors Give?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

The six pieces you need in your fundraising strategy How to create your fundraising strategy The six pieces you need in your fundraising strategy While no two nonprofits are alike, they all share common goals, like donor connection and retention , memorable fundraising events, and supportive partnerships.

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Volunteer Hub

JANUARY 16, 2023

Here are 7 ways to make your fundraising campaigns more effective. If you want to increase the impact of your organizations fundraising campaigns, it is key to ask the right question, at the right time, in the right way. Prioritize donor retention. Prioritize finding a healthy balance between donor acquisition and retention.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The fundraising landscape often becomes crowded, adding another challenge to the mix. Over time, this boosts donor loyalty, satisfaction, and retention. Pledges can be based on a participant’s performance in some kind of event or challenge. As a result, year-end fundraising can feel hectic. Make giving convenient.

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