Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2014

The 2014 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report was released last week and one of the more interesting findings was that donor retention remainsa lower priority. As my colleague Frank Barry mentioned, most nonprofits stink at donor retention. Over the past 10 years, donor retention has fallen from 33% to 27%.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2014

We impact over 10,000 lives each year, and in 2013 we had a donor retention rate of 43% ( compared to 27% ). I’m not writing this post to tell you the ‘5 Sure Fire Ways to Increase Your Donor Retention’. So, what led to our above industry average donor retention rates? Want to improve your donor retention rates?

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Care2

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Blackbaud brought together 14 nonprofit experts in an eBook to share tried-and-true donor retention strategies, tips, and ideas. Create a retention calendar. Healthy relationships are never one-sided. This eBook is thorough and filled to the brim with great tips. But first, why should you care?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2014

In honor of the release of the newest npExperts ebook, Show the Love: Thoughtful Engagement to Retain Donors , this roundup all about retention. I mean, is it just me or is anyone else a little concerned that donor retention remains a lower priority for nonprofits across the industry? Donor retention. Have a look.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Other content ideas we have helped create for Doing Good Digital clients: checklists, coloring pages, eBooks, videos, activity books, and stationery. Partnering with sponsors or businesses can be a win-win relationship. One client created a cookbook published in partnership with local restaurants.

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Qgiv

MARCH 4, 2024

Our latest eBook, the Digital Fundraising Guide: Ideas & Steps to Reach Your Goals , is a complete guide to help you choose the right digital fundraising solution that works for your specific nonprofit’s needs. Our eBook will take you through how to create a memorable, simple, and inspiring donation form! Donor retention.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 20, 2022

For retention-minded fundraisers with a strong donor cultivation plan in place, the early days of a new calendar year might even be busier than any day in November and December. With first-time donor retention rates hovering around 20%, securing a second gift from new donors may be more important than securing a first gift.

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Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

When volunteer fundraisers reach out to their friends and family members, they’re building on established relationships. Bloomerang | Constituent Relationship Manager. Using an interactive dashboard, review your donor retention rate and suggestions from Bloomerang to improvement it. Platform Overview. Platform Overview.

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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. Donor retention is an absolute priority (again) for 2014. Yet the path to retention success remains elusive for many organizations. Guest Post by Nancy Schwartz. How about yours?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2014

In my weekly coaching email I wrote about the single biggest donor retention mistake I see new nonprofit leaders making. They think they’re building relationships in a way that retains donors. But this “not-on-the-first-date” attitude actually kills relationships. He had a 60-year plus relationship with the school.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2014

Now, it’s much more broadly recognized that there needs to be absolutely integrated, holistic marketing… Marketing is everything you do between the asks, everything you do to connect with prospects and supporters, because you have to keep the relationship alive between the times you’re asking for money.- Nancy Schwartz.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 27, 2014

Measure your donor retention rates. Then, develop a strategy to better optimize your relationship building tactics. Keeping your supporters happy is about building meaningful relationships and ensuring they understand their value to your organization. For even more expert advice, check out the latest npEXPERTS ebook!

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These solutions optimize and expand your fundraising and donor stewardship activities to help form long-lasting relationships. Along with storing donors’ contact and demographic information, this technology helps build relationships with supporters by saving previous engagement data, such as past donations or events attended.

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Neon CRM

MARCH 20, 2025

But thank-you letters for donations that arrive late or contain incorrect information could sever your relationships with those donors. Your letter is an ideal opportunity to invite your donor to continue their relationship with you through non-financial interactions. If you have an event happening soon, invite them to attend.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Ebook Website Optimization Action Plan Learn More 4. This is a fantastic opportunity to start building a relationship with your donors, especially if they’re donating to you for the first time. Psst: Looking for other tips for designing a great online donation form? You might like our Website Optimization Action Plan !

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

In the newest npEXPERTS eBook, 10 of the brightest minds from across the nonprofit sector share their unique perspectives to help you create a culture of philanthropy. Want some quick donor retention advice? Read Erica Waasdorp’s 4 Ways to Improve Donor Retention and Recruit Sustainers blog post.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2014

The subject which I was asked to write about was donor retention and, seemingly, these two things should really have nothing in common. At its core, Wish You Were Here is really just about peoples’ inabilities to engage with one another, which is entirely relatable to the way in which donor retention is often approached.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2020

Continue connecting with donors knowing you can solidify the relationship face-to-face soon. You want to look at these questions: How are you doing on first year donor retention? How are you doing on multi-year donor retention? Download the free eBook. That is valuable. What is revenue per donor?

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

By focusing on every step of that donor journey and leveraging supporter data to build better relationships with supporters, your nonprofit can stop focusing so much on acquiring new ones and start reaping the rewards of a loyal donor base. After all, this is where the real relationship-building begins. Sound good?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 21, 2022

Finally, another often overlooked benefit of corporate partnerships is that it is much easier to maintain good relationships with a handful of companies than to retain donors. Donor retention requires a lot of work, and regardless of how well you do it, has to be offset with donor growth. Update them on the results.

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Qgiv

MARCH 19, 2024

By stewarding your donors, you can nurture your relationships to create long-lasting connections Benefits for donors There are a few benefits of donor recognition events for your donor that help them feel more connected to your cause: Recognition. Donor retention. Cultivating Donor Retention to Grow Your Giving Garden.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2014

In this npEngage post, One Thing Most Nonprofits Stink at (Donor Retention) and How You Can Change It in 2014 , Frank Barry has rallied some of the industry’s brightest minds to weigh-in on the #1 key to a successful donor retention strategy. Don’t miss the Free eBook written by 14 nonprofit experts. Take a look.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Next, EDF created ad copy that was relevant to each audience and their personal relationship with the nonprofit. Here’s how one website uses an exit-intent popup to increase email subscriptions by 100% : ManyBooks , which provides free online eBooks, wanted to implement a solution that would grow their email list.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2014

Read more from Marc by downloading the npEXPERTS ebook and by following him on Twitter. Instead, it takes a total perspective shift, to a model where everything revolves around relationship-building. Want to hear about what Marc’s got to say on donor retention? Marc digs telling better stories, creating art and changing people.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Once you’ve identified people who have a history of supporting your organization, seem to have the capacity to make major gifts, and have a pattern of making major gifts to other organizations, you’ll be able to start intentionally cultivating relationships with them. Why Implement It? Why Implement It?

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Prioritize Donor Stewardship Donor stewardship is the practice of building strong, long-lasting relationships with your donors. You’re not only tapping into a new revenue stream, but you’re also building relationships with movers and shakers in your community who can introduce you to other philanthropists in their networks.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The #GivingTuesday Ultimate Guide eBook has templates, calendars, and tips to help you get organized and make your Giving Tuesday a roaring success! However, once Giving Tuesday has come and gone, focusing on building long-term relationships with donors both new and old should be top of mind! Final thoughts.

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DataRobot

JUNE 23, 2022

This might predict something new that can be used to make a better decision such as the predicted most profitable/highest likelihood of acceptance of retention offers for clients predicted to churn in the next 90 days. 10 Keys to AI Success in 2022. How to Thrive in the Age of Data Dominance. Download Now.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2023

We’ve put together a handy eBook on choosing the best software for your nonprofit. Donor stewardship is the post-gift relationship-building process nonprofits use to retain and upgrade donors. Establish a recurring donation program An efficient way to grow donations and improve donor retention is through recurring giving.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2019

Building persona models can help bring your existing supporters into focus, using the information you already have to cultivate even stronger relationships. In the newest Blackbaud Institute eBook, 10 of the brightest minds from across the nonprofit sector share their unique perspectives to help you create a culture of philanthropy.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2017

From donor retention to nonprofit marketing to organizational leadership, every ebook is an invaluable resource. Study after study shows that lack of consistency in messaging is a principal reason for abysmal first year retention rates and absence of second and third gifts. Use the Same Message Regardless of Channel.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2015

To show your appreciation, discounts can be used as retention incentives for top fundraisers and team captains. 5 off) are excellent for building relationships with team captains and leadership at those corporations. Learn more practical Peer-to-Peer tips and tricks in our latest eBook – download it today!

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 29, 2021

” Yes, one of my favorite topics, not just peer-to-peer fundraising, but also peer-to-peer retention. And we’ll actually send you after this a copy of an ebook that Steven and some of the Qgiv folks worked on that talks pretty in-depth about retaining peer-to-peer participants and donors.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 27, 2014

About a year ago we were hit with the depressing reality of the state of donor retention across the nonprofit industry. Get to know them and build a donor retention strategy that guides them to deeper levels of engagement. Make sure your donor retention strategy reflects this. A first date without a follow up is just a dinner.

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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. How to Create a Fundraising Calendar.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So there’s actually an eBook they wrote on donor acquisition. Steven, if we could flag, I see a lot of questions about relationship donors, whether it’s either peer-to-peer or major donor or somebody who is a major donor rep or in that role. That’s a great way to begin to build that relationship. We value you.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Follow up, say thank you, and start building the relationship. It’s hot.

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