The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

inflation rate meant real-dollar giving declined by 2.1%. The first full year of the pandemic, 2021, saw the highest amount of inflation-adjusted dollars donated. The point is that nonprofit donations are not keeping up with inflation, and that trend cuts across nearly all funding sources. billion in 2023, up from $499.3

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 20, 2024

Neon One ] 72% of individuals say that the presence of a charity rating badge increases their likelihood of giving. Great Nonprofits ] 84% of online donors are more likely to give if their donations are matched by their employer. Double the Donation ] The current donor retention rate is 41.9%. increase in revenue.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

The most important thing you must do when you receive a donation of any size is immediately thank your donor warmly and provide a donation receipt. And it can’t be just any boring donation receipt. Let’s take a look at what an awesome donation receipt looks like so you can nail yours. The nonprofit receives the gift.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Did you know that, on average, 88% of total nonprofit donations comes from just 12% of donors? To secure the support of these crucial donors, your nonprofit needs to build a robust major gifts fundraising strategy. Because major gifts are so large, it requires time and dedication to cultivate and acquire more of these donations.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Your GivingTuesday donation form is one of the most important pieces of your campaign. A great donation form will make people more likely to give—and make the donation process an easy one—but what does a good donation form look like? And how can you build a GivingTuesday donation form your supporters will love?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Personal acknowledgments, impact reporting, and a strong monthly giving program are some of the cornerstones to a high donor retention rate. But there’s one unsung strategy that can elevate your donor retention rates, while expanding mid-level and major giving: multi-year gift agreements. Q3 itself saw a YOY drop of 7.6%.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Nonprofits across the board are generally seeing fewer overall gifts but higher average gift amounts, leading some to increasingly shift resources toward major or midlevel giving programs. Below are four simple yet highly effective ways that data can help you increase response rates. Vary your frequency.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 3, 2021

For organizations that picked those strategies back up again in late 2020, the good news is the number of sustainers is up and retention rates are also up. . Face-to-face/door-to-door fundraising, also known as canvassing, came to a screeching halt during COVID-19.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

In difficult circumstances, it’s helpful to return to the fundraising basics to ensure you’re making the most of tried and true strategies to boost your nonprofit’s donation revenue. This guide will review these tips for bringing in more donations: Prioritize building strong supporter relationships. Explain the impact of donations.

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Double the Donation

JUNE 15, 2021

Double the Donation and FlexFormz are thrilled to debut their technical integration partnership. This duo has come together to provide an automated matching gift solution to their nonprofit clients – helping these organizations target the 18 million individuals who qualify for employer matching gift programs.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Nonprofit organizations, higher education institutions, and healthcare foundations are embracing stock gifting to diversify and grow funding as the rebound begins from two challenging years for charitable organizations. Why Stock Donations? Gifts of stock offer benefits to both the recipient organization and the donor.

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sgEngage

MAY 1, 2024

It should encompass friction-free and on-brand donation forms, personalized and automated communications, and integration of internal systems. Here are some proven tips to streamline the donor journey, from first gift to lifelong engagement. What should you look for in an optimized online donation ?

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sgEngage

JULY 5, 2022

Employer matching gifts offer key advantages to nonprofit organizations that strategize for and receive the source of funding. Said benefits often encompass increased individual donations, opportunities for additional corporate funding, improved supporter engagement, and more. The Correlation Between Matching Gifts and Retention Rates.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A nonprofit CEO, Dorethea, asks, “ Should I send holidays gifts to donors ?” Well, Dorethea, it depends on what type of gift and which donor segment (small, mid-size, or major givers) you have in mind. A gift can work to your advantage, but it can also work against you. You make the donation, you get a small token gift.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 6, 2023

You may have heard the buzz in the nonprofit sector around matching gifts, the corporate philanthropy program in which companies match donations that their employees make to nonprofits. In other words, do donors actually care about matching gifts enough to request them? Knowing this, Annel donates immediately!

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Neon CRM

MAY 22, 2023

By extension, it’s also one of the most impactful ways that an organization can promote matching gift opportunities to its audience. Send In the First 24 Hours Post Donation According to recent email marketing research , the timing with which an email is sent is one of the most essential criteria regarding its likelihood of success.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Do you know your donor retention rate? On top of helping you understand how well you engage donors after their first gift, your donor retention rate can guide you as you plan future fundraising campaigns, messaging, and community outreach. Let’s take a look at how (and why) to track your donor retention rate.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

If you’re looking to drive additional fundraising revenue through corporate gift-matching programs , making the most of matching gift upsells is the way to go. Picture this: A donor is in the process of making a gift to your organization. The Value of Matching Gift Upsells. Matching Gift Basics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

By Julia Campbell, host of the Nonprofit Nation podcast and founder of the Nonprofit Social Media Summit , a free all-virtual event created to help nonprofits navigate the fast-changing social media landscape to drive more donations. But when you DO ask for a gift, make it incredibly easy to complete. 2) Make it urgent. They don’t!

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Year-end can be understandably very focused on fundraising, but given the importance of strong donor stewardship and high inflation that may place donating out of reach for some supporters, many nonprofits are curious about how to engage their donors without asking for gifts. Here’s what they said.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There are zillions of articles about how to build the best nonprofit donation form. But sometimes seeing a donation form example can be more effective than simply learning about how to create one. What do the best practices for building a donation form look like in real life? But it also includes recurring donation options!

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Achieve

MAY 24, 2024

Establishing a predictable donation pipeline is critical to your nonprofit’s longevity. However, with the average donor retention rate sitting around 45%, many nonprofits struggle to sustain newly acquired donors’ support. In this guide, we’ll cover four best practices to increase your donor retention rate with text messaging.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to calculate an accurate nonprofit dollar retention rate. You can also break this data down into segments to hone in on where there are opportunities to deepen your relationships with donors and increase your donor retention and dollar retention rates.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Double the Donation and SimplyFundraisingCRM are proud to unveil their new integration partnership, opening the door for nonprofit organizations to identify more matching gift opportunities for their donors with every donation. Activate in Seconds and Start Raising More from Matching Gifts?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Except, there aren’t many donations coming through. Donation page conversion rate: This data point represents the total number of donations you received divided by the number of donation pages, multiplied by 100. The obvious place to go when we look at open rates is the subject line.

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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. Nonprofit organizations benefit from recurring donations because they provide consistent revenue streams and help organizations maintain long-term relationships with supporters. And donors like it.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 26, 2021

Research consistently shows that it almost always costs more to acquire a new donor than it does to retain an existing donor, making your donor retention rate a very important metric to track. What Is Donor Retention Rate? Your donor retention rate is an indicator of how well you’re handling donor relationships. 876/2,000 =.438]

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2024

Double the Donation | Best software for gift matching Double the Donation is a leading provider of matching gift and volunteer grant solutions. Incorporating a matching gift tool into your auction allows guests who make additional donations during your event to submit their donations for a match through their companies.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 12, 2021

Do you know your organization’s donor retention rate? of the donors who made a gift in 2019 made another gift in 2020. That means more than half of donors who made a gift in 2019 didn’t make another one in the following year! Because according to the FEP, the 2020 repeat donor retention rate was 59.6%—whereas

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 26, 2022

High levels of engagement lead to effective stewardship plans , increasing retention rates over time, and overall successful supporter relations. But did you also know that matching gifts can have a significant impact on your donor engagement efforts? What are matching gifts? Let’s begin with the basics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

By Christy Smaglio , Instructional Writer at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Chances are, you’ve already made a good one with your donor because they’ve made their first gift to your organization. Examples: Make a second gift. List of major gifts given today.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Your organization must have the tools to efficiently collect donations, manage transactions, and ensure the security of donor information. Its payment platform processed donations from millions of generous supporters in 44 countries who flooded the foundation with critically needed gifts.

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M+R

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Today we’re chatting more about the all important donation form! There’s never too much optimization of the donation form in our humble opinion, so let’s dive in with two hot tests about optimizing monthly ask strings. The post Tests: Even MOAR donation form tests! first appeared on M+R.

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Double the Donation

JUNE 1, 2021

Double the Donation and Fundraise Up have enhanced their matching gift integration to include a matching gift upsell, which is an exciting new feature that drives matching gift requests and increases initial base donations. This enhancement will ensure no matching gift opportunities fall through the cracks.”.

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

The only sure-fire way to capitalize on your website views is to create a successful donation page. Donation pages are an essential component of every organization’s fundraising effort. In today’s world, these pages are responsible for the vast majority of donations that an organization will receive. Be Branded (Storied).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Also, a s mobile traffic increases , embedded giving is an incredible tool to help simplify the mobile donation experience and urge supporters to complete their donations. Embedded giving experiences provide website visitors with a complete donation form without having to leave your website for a separate donation page.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

However, we all need donations, and corporate giving is a reliable way to generate those funds. Let’s break down two of the most popular forms of corporate philanthropy: sponsorships and donations. Compared to donations, sponsorships require less intensive record-keeping for your nonprofit. billion in just one year.

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