Bloomerang

MAY 22, 2021

Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who needs advice on how donor-advised funds should be recognized in their annual reports. . Dear Charity Clairity, I appreciated reading your guidance re: donor-advised funds (DAFs) and would like to have additional clarity re: listing DAFs in an annual report.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Soon, we’ll spend our days purchasing holiday gifts for loved ones, baking, and gearing up for visits from family and friends. The same goes for your major donors, long-time volunteers, and others who’ve shown commitment to your cause over the years. These are your most vulnerable donor segments that need nurturing.

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Campaign Giving Strategy Donor 105

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Unlike other forms of fundraising (most notably broad annual fundraising , which naturally gets more attention at year-end), building a consistent promotion strategy for planned gifts may pose a bigger challenge. When you send appeals for planned gifts later, supporters will be better primed to engage.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Some individual board members may want to start with “easier” tasks like thanking donors, but eventually, they should be directly helping raise thousands of dollars annually. Make a “ stretch gift ” that is very generous and is outside your normal giving pattern. Offer to help write short updates to keep donors informed.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 11, 2024

When donors give, they want a meaningful connectionto clearly see where their gift is going and understand the difference it will make. Many organizations attempt to provide this through a dropdown menu on the donation form, offering donors a list of programs, funds, or departments to choose from.

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CauseVox

MARCH 9, 2021

Recurring donors are a fundraiser’s dream. They tend to give 2x more over their lifetimes than those who repeatedly give one-time gifts. That means your recurring donors deserve more of your time. Yes, we all love our recurring donors. But how do you get recurring donors? Boom: beautiful donation tiers.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 8, 2025

As fundraisers, were also storytellers and every donor has a story. When we can identify what those stories are and understand the kind of path our donors follow at each stage of the giving process, we can gently guide their journey, connect with them at a deeper level, build strong relationships, and improve fundraising results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

25% YELLOW: Emotional Storytelling Emotional appeals were crucial for tapping donor heartstrings. 20% GREEN: Urgency & Specificity Creating a sense of urgency through one-day campaigns or crisis-based appeals drove immediate donor action. Multi-channel strategies were crucial for broad outreach, frequency and engagement.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 24, 2014

Kirsten Williams , Associate Director, Gift Services. University of Oregon Foundation. The credit card scam/fraud attempt that many nonprofits have experiences starts with a very large online gift from an unknown donor. For example, if you tend to get 40 gifts overnight, you may see 400 or even 4000.). AOL, Yahoo!,

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Bloomerang

APRIL 10, 2021

Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who needs advice on best practices around acknowledging and recognizing major gifts. . We’ve received the largest ever single gift to our organization, over $800,000. As in, Mr. Smith’s gift of $800,000 will create an endowment to provide X every year. The amount?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

Regardless of what you call it, mobile giving is one of the most popular ways for nonprofits to raise moneyand retain more donors on the go. Donors can text a unique keyword or donation amount to your nonprofits dedicated phone number. Alternatively, you can use an app that allows donors to give with just a few clicks.

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Mobile Giving Guide Nonprofit 105

sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Your Database Has Outgrown Your Current System An expanding database of donors and prospects, multiplied by an ever-increasing set of associated activities and transactions, can overwhelm a CRM thats not built for that level of data growth. The team is conducting proper analyses to determine which donors have the capacity to give.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 24, 2022

You just landed a ten million dollar mega gift for your organization. For those of us who have accomplished this, exhilaration hardly describes all the emotion that comes with raising a multimillion dollar gift from one donor. Here are a few ways a gift of this size can significantly bolster your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

According to DonorBox nearly one-third of all annual gifts come in December, and nearly half of all online donations come in the last week of the year. Online channels (email, social media, website, donation forms, and texting) encourage real-time interactions, personalized messaging, and taps into tech-savvy younger donors.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As a sector, we must commit to understanding the full spectrum of generosity At Blackbaud, we’ve seen how leveraging advanced analytics can uncover critical insights into donor behavior. Our solutions are designed to facilitate these connections, helping nonprofits engage with donors in meaningful ways.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

Giving USA 2021 , produced by Giving USA Foundation and Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy , reports total giving grew 5.1% Here are a few 2021 key findings from the report to help us retain and upgrade nonprofit donors: . Giving was unevenly directed; donor perceptions of greatest need had an impact.

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Bloomerang

MAY 4, 2023

Donor Cultivation. Are your donors also your customers? For many of us, the problem answering the question “Are your donors also your customers?” Donor cultivation is other- centered too; we even have a name for the best way to practice it–donor-centered. Customer Service. Are they the same, similar, or unrelated?

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sgEngage

APRIL 30, 2021

W e saw healthcare become universally top-of-mind, influencing individuals to shif t to more intentional giving and adopt online fundraising. . These trends offer h ealthcare organizations t he opportunity to grow this donor support th rough stewardship and retention. . . Trend: Fewer Donors, Larger Gifts.

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Retention Philanthropy Trend Donor 123

NetWits

JUNE 7, 2012

Even though December is a universally-accepted annual benchmark that signifies conclusion, certain sectors have their own benchmarks that they count on for donation surges. During those months, healthcare’s online earnings increased from around seven percent to roughly 11 percent of their total online gifts. Non-December Surges.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As you work to implement your fundraising vision, its likely gift officers play a vital role. In this dynamic work environment, how are you keeping gift officers motivated and connected to their outcomes? I have worked with a lot of leaders to develop plans for keeping gift officers excited and on track. It isn’t a one-time fix.

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Gift Tips Metrics Fundraising 105

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 22, 2021

As advancement leaders at higher education institutions consider their options in the age of COVID-19, they’re rethinking conventional wisdom by choosing Salesforce to build lifelong alumni and donor relationships. Morehouse University , the only historically Black liberal arts college in the U.S. Purdue Increases Productivity.

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ROI University Education Fundraising 101

sgEngage

JANUARY 9, 2025

However, this is not a universal benchmark. Find the Right Number for Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves The Nonprofit Operating Reserves Initiative (NORI) Workgroup suggests that the minimum operating reserve ratio at the lowest point during the year should be 25 percent, or about three months of the annual operating expense budget.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Bank of America Private Bank and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University released the "2023 Bank of America Study of Philanthropy." The study found that affluent households gave an average of $34,917 to charity in 2022, up from $29,269 in 2017, though less than the $43,195 they gave in 2020.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 4, 2023

By Michelle Kocin , Digital Marketing Manager at Sylogist Mission CRM – a donor management, fundraising, and volunteer management platform build for nonprofits and NGOs in the Microsoft Dataverse. Silent Generation donors value personal connections and traditional forms of communication. organizations** 11.8%

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Your donors fuel your organization’s work, so it’s crucial to maintain a healthy, thriving base of supporters. Luckily, ongoing advancements in fundraising software mean the vast majority of your engagement touchpoints are online, allowing you to seamlessly collect the donor data you need. Donor data to exclude from your report.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

A few months ago I wrote a post on the topic of whether nonprofits should delete old donor records. Is it a criteria which is temporary – “they’ve not given to us ever” doesn’t mean they may not wish they had, and upon decease urge gifts “in their memory” to your organization. no contact or gifts in the last 7 years).

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Retention Discussion Donor Data 100

Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 27, 2022

With Salesforce and Cloud for Good, Indiana University Advancement is: Enabling donors and alumni to complete giving transactions in under 30 seconds. Indiana University Advancement (IUA) has partnered with Cloud for Good to completely overhaul its online giving experience utilizing Salesforce technology.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to accept a real estate gift for the first time: Dear Charity Clairity, We have a board member who wants to donate a gift of real estate. This is laudable, and I would never suggest saying “no” to a board member or other donor without exploring your options.

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Gift Charity Law Local 98

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The largest percentage decline was the smallest donors, those who gave $100 or less,” the article notes. For these donors, the drop was a hefty 13 percent. By and large, the wealthy give a greater proportion of their gifts from assets, while the less well-off give from income, as the Nonprofit Times article notes.

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Tips Nonprofit Philanthropy Government 86

Bloomerang

JUNE 23, 2021

For the last 5 or so years, there has been a trend in new donor acquisition : Response rates continue to drop while average gifts continue to rise. Most of the time, people think of acquisition as casting a big net and trying to get as many fish (donors) into it as possible. M = Mail to proven donors.

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Rate Donor Mail email 111

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to handle gift solicitation when more cultivation is needed first. . I ask because this happened once when I thought the donor wasn’t really well enough cultivated for an ask. How do you slow a donor down to get them where you want them to go?

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Gift Donor Charity Fundraising 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Some focus primarily on traditional fundraising like monthly gifts, planned giving, online fundraising, and special events like galas. Unlike a business’s revenue, these assets either have donor restrictions or are considered unrestricted funds. by donors, grantors, governing boards, or by law.???. What is Fund Accounting?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

Donor Experience . Pillar #2—No More Silos: Your Donor Experience Strategy in 2021 and Beyond. Improving the donor experience should no longer be seen as something modest in ambition. . If you want to keep your donors, you need to pay significant attention to the donor experience. Donors don’t make distinctions.

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Donor Experiment Strategy Nonprofit 120

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Do you think a donor wants to be asked for a capital gift in April, a bequest gift in July, and an annual gift in November – all in the same calendar year? That kind of asking pattern can feel like “nickel and diming” to donors, which is why blended asks are so important. . This approach is not donor-centered.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Today, we are able to offer four different payment methods online and we’re working with different providers to offer the best success rate possible to our donors (>90%). Older people are still doubtful about making a donation via credit card online, but donors below 40 years old are predominately giving online.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 27, 2022

October 27, 2022 [Asheville, NC]: Indiana University Advancement (IUA), in partnership with Cloud for Good , has launched a new online giving platform to support Indiana University’s (IU) advancement efforts. IU received nearly $3.9B said Jordan Sites, the Senior Director of Advancement supporting both IUF and IUAA .

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Indiana University Platform Giving 76

sgEngage

MAY 24, 2021

Many people may think of successful fundraising as simply getting donations, but that definition leaves out another important element: engaging smaller or future donors. Some may not be able to give large gifts, but they can still become an important source of support for an organization. Long-term impact on donor retention.

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