NonProfit PRO

MAY 3, 2021

Face-to-face/door-to-door fundraising, also known as canvassing, came to a screeching halt during COVID-19. 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. .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

End of year is the most lucrative, high-stakes fundraising there is. A solid year-end fundraising plan can help! I’m here with an end-of-year timeline and fundraising communications calendar to make end-of-year fundraising as easy as pie. Just follow my timeline below to create your year-end fundraising plan!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Many nonprofits struggle with low donor retention rates, yet the reasons supporters lapse arent always obvious. We surveyed 1,000+ donors and 380+ fundraisers to uncover the hidden challenges impacting donor retention and the small but powerful changes that can make a difference. Thats a gap worth closing.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Quick Definition Online fundraising is the process of raising donations for a cause, project, or organization through digital platforms such as websites, social media apps, and email campaigns. In this article, we will cover online fundraising methods, tools, and some quick tips to get your nonprofit started!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

By Audrey Phillips , a customer success manager at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Mention the donor’s past involvement with your organization and the impact their previous gifts have made.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

By Wendy Mercurio , Content & Education Specialist at Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. December is an important month for nonprofit fundraisers. Fundraisers can receive helpful cues from these intelligent tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Below are the notes from the “10 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Trends to Watch in 2022” webinar presented by Heather Mansfield on December 1. The webinar was designed as a supplemental course to the webinar series required to earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising. M+R Benchmarks Report. Email #2

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Average gift size down? Retention rates declining? The Nonprofit’s Guide to Donor Science will challenge everything you thought you knew about effective donor acquisition and fundraising by showing you how to revolutionize your process with our new-world approach. Is your donor pool shrinking? Feel like you’ve tried everything?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 17, 2022

Even though monthly donors generally give smaller amounts on a per gift basis, the aggregate amount that they give over the course of a year almost always adds up to more. Part of this is due to the seasonal nature of giving, and part of this is due to the fact that fundraising tends to be cyclical. 5) Cost-Effective.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 20, 2024

A supplemental post to 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits , the statistics listed below can guide your nonprofit in creating and maintaining a successful online fundraising strategy. Double the Donation ] The current donor retention rate is 41.9%. increase in revenue. increase in revenue.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In that same spirit, we asked some of our favorite fundraisers to share their best piece of fundraising advice, as a way of paying it forward to other gift officers. If you’re looking for fundraising ideas that really work, put our experts’ advice to good use. Then pass it on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

This guide is meant to help you prepare for each season in your fundraising year. Implement a multichannel fundraising strategy with plenty of different opportunities to give. Revenue from Facebook fundraisers alone grew by 14% last year. Transformative Multichannel Online Fundraising Ideas. Winter 2022.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Donor retention on steroids – Make it monthly I implore you to make soliciting recurring donations a priority. Retention is a phenomenal 80 – 90% compared with under 20% for new one-time donors and just 45% when ongoing donors are added to the mix. In fact, the average annual value of a recurring gift is 10.3 years to 8.08

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

While ChatGPT may be all the buzz, have you considered how it and other artificial intelligence tools could enhance your fundraising efforts ? For nonprofits, it’s proving to be a valuable resource for writing communications, deepening engagement with supporters, and fundraising.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

5 Effective Donor Retention Strategies for Small Nonprofits Its tempting for small nonprofits to focus heavily on donor acquisition. Therefore, your nonprofit must first master the art of effective donor retention. With these benefits in mind, weve compiled a list of strategies to help your nonprofit increase donor retention.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Every year it becomes more and more crucial for nonprofits to invest in online fundraising programs. According to the 2020 Benchmarks Data from M+R , overall online giving revenue increased by 10% in 2019, and revenue from monthly gifts increased by 22%. How does RoundUp App work? But for the nonprofit, those nickels and dimes add up.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 25, 2024

Creating and growing a monthly giving program sets you up for success in donor retention, accurate budget projections, and total annual gifts. DonorPerfect and fundraising consultant Erica Waasdorp joined forces to create the free Monthly Giving Success Kit, so you can build or boost your recurring giving program with confidence.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 4, 2021

leads all of the fundraising at MSF, including mid-level gifts, major gifts, planned gifts, corporate gifts and foundation gifts. Currently, Kim Goldsmith-N'Diaye, director of development at Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders in the U.S.,

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Nonprofits who care about donor retention employ numerous strategies to keep their donors coming back year after year. Personal acknowledgments, impact reporting, and a strong monthly giving program are some of the cornerstones to a high donor retention rate. Savvy fundraisers have always kept donor retention top of mind.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 20, 2018

At the time, making an online donation was a radical concept that executive staff and donors resisted, but it was a new technology that Gen X knew would change fundraising forever – they just didn’t think it would take this long. 4) The average monthly donor will give 46% more in one year than those who give one-time gifts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 27, 2023

By Network for Good — an easy-to-use all-in-one nonprofit fundraising platform. These consistent gifts, known as recurring donations, help your organization’s long-term fundraising success and retention goals. Recurring giving is when a donor makes regular, ongoing donations to your nonprofit.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 12, 2024

Creating and growing a monthly giving program sets you up for success in donor retention, accurate budget projections, and total annual gifts. DonorPerfect and fundraising consultant Erica Waasdorp joined forces to create the free Monthly Giving Success Kit, so you can build or boost your recurring giving program with confidence.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When donors make a year-end philanthropic gift, they feel joyful. Here's how to encourage them to continue giving after year end.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

What if I told you that how you recruit peer-to-peer fundraisers and donors could be more efficient and result in more donations over time? . By creating donor retention strategies for retaining your past fundraisers and donors. Let’s take a look at how you can retain your peer-to-peer fundraisers! How are they helping?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

As we plan for 2023 fundraising and all that the year might bring, we know that diversified revenue streams mitigate the risk of losing any single source of funding. Peer-to-Peer and Team Fundraising. Major Gifts. This also typically leads to reduced churn and better supporter retention. 1) Monthly Giving and Pledges.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 1, 2025

Quick donation wins feel greatbut if you want to meet your fundraising goals year after year, you need more than a viral moment. You need a digital fundraising strategy that builds trust, deepens relationships, and turns curiosity into generosity time and time again. Thats where a full-funnel fundraising strategy comes in.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes 5 Fundraising Metrics Every Nonprofit Should Track This Year In todays data-driven world, you cant afford to guess whats working and whats not in your fundraising efforts. The 5 Key Fundraising Metrics 1. They show you whats working and where you can improve.

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Candid

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Every medium you leverage to reach donors and prospectssocial media, email, fundraising pages, and website should be consistent. Here are some steps you can take to improve online giving and receive more gifts: Have a donate button in your websites top navigation. Personalized outreach makes a defining impact on donor retention rates.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 10, 2025

CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. People give larger gifts to receive public recognition. Might you have opportunities to grow your fundraising through public donor listings? If you dont list names, might you lose out on larger gifts? People complain about perceptions of exclusivity.

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Charity Village

JANUARY 6, 2025

Join DonorPerfect experts to shuffle your engagement strategy and ace your retention activities in one cohesive approach.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 28, 2025

Theres one simple truth in fundraising: people will support the things they care most about. However, a single gift doesnt necessarily imply a deep-seated concern for the issues you aim to solve. Say you run an animal shelter and offer address labels as an incentive for someone to make a first gift.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2022

When respected researcher Penelope Burk asked donors why they stopped giving, or why they gave less than they could, here are some of their responses : I didn’t receive any information at all after making a gift to a not-for-profit last year. What my friends and I talk about is how donors who make smaller gift are dismissed as unimportant.

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 30, 2024

The latest results from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project suggest “cautious optimism” may be in order. Here's a look at the findings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Cabral, MA, CFRE, MFIA , founder of Development Consulting Services , which serves both fundraising professionals and executive directors new to fundraising, wanting to excel in their fundraising role, or advance in their career. The question is, do most fundraisers know their website analytics ?

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Charity Village

JUNE 29, 2023

However, despite the nonprofit industry’s average donor retention rate of 45%, organizations all over the world are struggling to keep their donors coming back for more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 13, 2020

By Christy Noel , Vice President of Digital Marketing Services at MobileCause – a company that pioneered text-to-donate and also offers an extensive suite of online, mobile and event fundraising solutions. Thanking your supporters after giving is crucial to donor retention and making them feel more connected to your cause.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The less than good fundraising news continues to roll in. There was a small increase in total dollars donated (0.9%) for the first three quarters of 2024 but there were significant declines in donor participation, particularly among smaller donors (gifts less than $100), which had a 12.4% of new donors retained year-to-date.

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