Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Last year I had one of the most positive experiences ever after donating to a relief agency that was intervening in a disaster that had affected our out-of-state friends. For as long as the Fundraising Effectiveness Project has measured nonprofit donor retention it has been abysmal. Your Nonprofit’s Ameliorating WORDS + ACTIONS.

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Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

Built entirely with you and your participants in mind, Qgiv’s comprehensive peer-to-peer platform empowers nonprofit, faith-based, and political organizations to raise more with custom donation pages. . Peer-to-peer pages can be customized to your nonprofit, as well as to each of your volunteers.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 8, 2023

When it comes to receiving communication from nonprofits, donors have a clear favorite: Email! Our latest research uncovered that 48% of donors cite email as their preferred method of communication from nonprofit organizations. If your nonprofit’s email list growth has been stagnant, check out the tips below.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This strategy encourages your supporters to engage with each other and their friends and creates further awareness for your nonprofit by spreading your mission to new audiences. Help everyone keep track of where they stand by adding fundraising thermometers and live donation updates to your website. Use branded donation pages.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2023

To make fundraising a little easier for nonprofits, we put together this list of nonprofit fundraising best practices. Each of the items below is a best practice your nonprofit can use to raise crucial funds for your mission. How can you ensure you’ve found the right tools for your nonprofit? Read on to learn more!

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For many nonprofits, Giving Tuesday is the most important giving day in their yearly fundraising calendar, and it takes time and careful planning to execute a successful Giving Tuesday campaign. For many nonprofits, Giving Tuesday is an important giving day that marks the beginning of the year-end fundraising season.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It also minimizes the risk that the email gets lost in another inbox that your staff doesn’t check often; should a recipient hit “reply” and not receive a reasonably prompt response, they’re likely to forget about making the donation. Did you know the average nonprofit email open rate for nonprofits is 25%?

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Bloomerang

MAY 25, 2023

And so do the unsung heroes who power the nonprofit sector. Philanthropy is Fueled by Daily Acts of Heroism As a fundraising trainer and consultant who’s had the privilege of working with hundreds of nonprofit leaders and their supporters, I can strongly make the case that the philanthropic sector is full of heroes.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 21, 2022

The vast majority of financial support for the vast majority of nonprofit organizations comes from individual donors. In 2020, individual donations totaled $324 billion – whereas corporate giving was only 4% of this total. So why should nonprofit spend time attracting corporate partners?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

As crowdfunding practices mature and become an valuable part of the nonprofit fundraising toolkit, there is a need to set standards and expectations. Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding by Robert Wu. Nonprofit crowdfunding is changing the landscape in online fundraising. Rethink Rewards and Donation Tiers.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

Medical nonprofits are vital to the health and well-being of the communities they serve. Whether you’re a major medical research nonprofit or a local nonprofit community clinic, the work you do matters. That’s why it’s important for your nonprofit to make the most of your peer-to-peer fundraising events.

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Qgiv

MAY 4, 2021

Though recurring giving isn’t perhaps as magical as that title sounds, it really is an incredible tool that is widely underutilized in nonprofit fundraising. Make sure your donation page is easy to understand with a clear and obvious recurring gift option. Download Your eBook! Problems recurring giving solves.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2020

When you see increasing donor attrition rates or decreasing event participants, try walking in their shoes. hjc has worked with dozens of nonprofits to ‘stand in the shoes’ of their constituents, a process known as Constituent Experience (CX) journey mapping. For example, a fall in renewal rates or average gift size.

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Achieve

AUGUST 6, 2021

of donors cited friends’ and family’s input as an important factor in their decision to give, and a whopping 40% of donors ask their loved ones’ opinions about a nonprofit before giving (psst: this statistic came from our. How inspired would you be to donate? How inspired would you be to donate? willing to donate.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Your ideal audience is unique to your nonprofit and your peer-to-peer fundraising event. You’re looking for people who care about and will support your nonprofit’s mission and are interested in the event you’re hosting. Your audience is as unique as your nonprofit. You want your conversion rate to be as high as possible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

donations), but we focus exclusively on return to humanity. This represents a 10x growth over the past 6 years, and a 20% and 25% growth, respectively, over less than a year: growth rates associated more with successful commercial services, and unheard of in our field. At Benetech, we are harnessing these new rules of innovation.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Every time you ask your site visitor for something – whether it’s a donation or just an email signup – you are entering a mental conversation. Let’s look at a couple of experiments we conducted with nonprofit organizations to help re-order the conversation in order to create a more logical flow, and increase conversions.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 2, 2017

Nonprofit marketing is a tough thing to wrap your head around. In order to pick and choose strategies that are right for your nonprofit, it’s easiest to start by looking at the big picture. Often, the first place people go to learn about your nonprofit is your website. How to Launch Your Nonprofit Website .

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Major gifts are generally the largest donations a nonprofit receives. The average nonprofit considers a gift of $5,000 or more a “major gift,” but that’s not a hard and fast rule. They’re substantial funding for a nonprofit. One major gift-size donation can be the difference between meeting your fundraising goal and not.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2017

For 5 years the Blackbaud Institute has brought together experts in the nonprofit sector to speak on a wide variety of topics. From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. In this post we’ll focus on must-haves for your nonprofit marketing plan.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

In 2013, Chuck Longfield was on a mission to shed light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. According to Chuck, ten years ago the average retention rates of a newly acquired donor were roughly 33%. If the ten-year trend continues, we’ll eventually end up with donor retention rates under 20%.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Lauren Hunter has written a series of free eBooks. TechSoup Donations for Faith-Based Organizations. That’s the highest adoption rate in the nonprofit sector. discounted online services to collect donations and communicate with members via mobile devices and the mobile web. I found her communications content.

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Care2

APRIL 25, 2010

Whether you're a large organization with brand awareness through the roof and a budget to match or a small nonprofit makeing do on a shoe string budget, you can't afford to waste resources. Our findings and recommendations are documented in a free ebook, available here. Not even on your Facebook page.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Now that we’re entering a new post-COVID era, nonprofit leaders need to think about what virtual fundraising will look like in the future. In our 2020 Navigating the Unknown Report , we found that over 50% of nonprofits pivoted to virtual events last year. It looks like virtual fundraising is here to stay! Let’s get started.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When someone visits your nonprofit’s website and is wowed, inspired, brought the brink of tears by all the awesome work your team does in service to your community (this happens all the time, right?), you want to make it as easy as possible for them to find your donate button, click it, and make a gift.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

A diverse and holistic fundraising strategy is crucial to a nonprofit’s success. Whether you are fully dependent on donations or utilize a variety of revenue sources like government grants, corporate partnerships, major contributions, or membership fees, successful fundraising is key to maximizing your impact on your mission.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2015

In my chapter of the new Blackbaud ebook, Drab to Fab: Peer-to-Peer Event Makeover , I explore the important “clues” to look for in your “archaeological” data. Individual participant and team captain retention rates. Average donation amount. What can you learn from other nonprofits’ performance?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2014

Guest post by Mazarine Treyz, author of The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising , called one of the Top 10 books of 2010 by Beth Kanter, and author of the Networked Nonprofit. Her second book is The Wild Woman’s Guide to Social Media, published 2012, given a 5 star rating by About.com. Do you have a donations policy?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

PCL is a nonprofit network of nine neighborhood libraries that provide free, accessible library services and serve as vibrant neighborhood hubs. PCL recognized an opportunity to reduce those barriers to access by creating a way to “loan out the Internet” via Mobile Beacon’s 4G device donation program on TechSoup.org.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Images of abandoned, starving, and abused animals are flashed on the screen as Sarah implores us for a donation which will, we’re to assume, help alleviate the suffering of the animals shown in these gripping images. The focus here is on empirically proven outcomes that you, as an organization, believe that donations will lead to.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But one thing that tends to fall through the cracks amidst all the hoopla surrounding this last quarter is your website, more importantly, your donation landing pages. It may be in great shape and fully prepared for all the donations that will pour in during November and December. Have you looked at it lately? Is it painless?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2014

Donor stewardship is a great place to begin making changes that can impact your donor retention rates. Conceptually, when making a donation, you expect nothing in return. Donors and prospective donors are accessing non-profit websites at increasing rates each year. We all know what we have donor retention troubles.

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Qgiv

APRIL 8, 2024

But Giving Tuesday doesn’t have to be the only nonprofit giving day on your organization’s fundraising calendar. With the right fundraising software to design effective donation pages and a solid marketing plan, you can host a special giving day for your organization that’ll inspire your supporters to give.

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

Effective nonprofit newsletters are all about building your community. By following best practices like repurposing compelling content, focusing on progress and impact, and creating new connections, you can build a newsletter that your nonprofit’s supporters will look forward to. A good way to do this is through visual aids.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2014

Nancy helps nonprofits build strong and lasting relationships with the people whom they need to act—to give, volunteer, participate and more. I have to save my asking for donations. Get agile to satisfy supporter expectations that your nonprofit is constantly adapting to fit their wants, schedules and lives. Give it a try!

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Qgiv

MAY 11, 2021

Google Ad Grants for nonprofits can be a great and versatile marketing tool. Google will even give your nonprofit free ad money to help you out, but many nonprofits have yet to take the plunge. Nonprofits see it as a poor investment of time because they haven’t been able to succeed in the past. The Basics.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Because nonprofits depend on donations, they’re often stretched thin for resources. Luckily, there are plenty of free nonprofit resources online for your organization to take advantage of. These resources often offer great advice so you can create a first-rate fundraising strategy. Enriched knowledge. Enhanced outreach.

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