NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Here is how to use gift histories to help forecast future fundraising goals. Determining where the funds will come from to deliver on the mission can feel a bit like a numerical game of Tetris, trying to make all the pieces fit together no matter how strange the final configuration.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 1, 2023

Many agencies feel client pressure to reach a certain goal, and it’s safer to focus on one-time gifts. So how do you convince your agency to add monthly giving to your appeals?

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 25, 2021

Transformational gifts can take your organization to the next level. Pursuing transformational gifts from a select group of interested and capable donors is not only the best way to achieve your annual fundraising goals, but it can also catalyze further growth and provide a stable future for your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

AI-Powered Insights: Salesforce’s Einstein AI analyzes donor data to predict future giving potential, identify major gift prospects, and recommend personalized engagement strategies. We can help you: Develop a customized Salesforce strategy: Tailoring the platform to meet your specific fundraising goals and objectives.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Yet somehow, its the one goal your boss or your board gets the most excited about. Why personalization matters: A checklist for donor cultivation The greatest gift you can give a donor is the gift of feeling known by you. Would you like to have donors who are four times more likely to give another gift? How can you do it?

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 11, 2022

While more and more organizations are realizing the value of a mid-level program, the concept of having mid-level donors, and creating specific strategies and a program for them is still in its infancy.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Or theyre told they must bring in X number of new donors at the organizations major gift level. Mid-level, major, and legacy gifts are a long game. So, handing over a bunch of major gift likelihood folks to your fundraiser and expecting them to raise major gifts from each of them is shooting them in the foot.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

What was our average gift amount? Set campaign goals. Test all buttons, links, post-gift email auto-responders, and landing pages on desktop and mobile devices. November 11-20 Train all staff to handle last-minute donor requests, like processing gifts online or accepting stock gifts. Filter by date.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 6, 2025

Also, not today, full-blown panic over meeting our aggressive budget goals. This year, youre starting on the right footwith data-driven insights , realistic, air-tight goals, and the perfect plan to reach them. Then, determine how many also made a gift to you in 2024 by dividing the number of 2023 donors by the number of 2024 donors.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Remember, your goal ( why you do what you do ) must encompass building community, facilitating human connection, and creating opportunities for people to find meaning. In fact, the average annual value of a recurring gift is 10.3 times higher than the value of the average one-time gift! Donor lifetime value skyrockets from 1.73

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

By Kyle Brown , COO at DonateStock – a fundraising platform that makes stock gifting to nonprofits easy and accessible. DonateStock has ignited a conversation in philanthropy with their innovative approach to stock gifting. Why Stock Gifting? Donors can deduct the fair-market value of the gifted stock on tax returns.

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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. Revenue from recurring donations is far more predictable than revenue from one-off gifts. There’s no need for repeat solicitation with recurring gifts.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 4, 2024

DonorsChoose, which links “wish lists” for classroom and student supplies submitted by public school teachers, set a $5 million goal for the day. DonorsChoose might have been proactively — correctly — conservative in its goal. Average gift size was for the most part stable, slipping slightly under 1% from $238.59

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Tribute and honorary gifts , made in honor or in memory of someone who is not a donor, are a great way for nonprofit organizations to raise awareness and funds while honoring an individual, either in memoriam or celebration. In fact, according to the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report , 33% of donors give tribute gifts to family and friends.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Join us for an enlightening session on how to leverage matching gifts during the crucial end-of-year giving season to boost your fundraising outcomes. Don’t miss out on top strategies for doubling or even tripling your revenue with practical advice on how to align your tech & teams to exceed your goals.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Donation request letters, whether sent via email or direct mail, are one of the most effective ways to reach donors and solicit gifts. This way, readers understand what youre fighting for and the goals you want to accomplish. Storytelling connects donors to your mission and introduces them to the people theyll help with their gifts.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Chances are, you’ve already made a good one with your donor because they’ve made their first gift to your organization. To use a drip-email campaign, determine what your end goal is, or your call to action. To use a drip-email campaign, determine what your end goal is, or your call to action. Examples: Make a second gift.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

If you suggest that my $100 gift will end hunger, I won’t believe you. Here are several examples to help you: Add this phrase somewhere in your appeal: “Your gift will not only help this project, but all our work at X.” One of the greatest gifts we can give our donors is the gift of being known by us.

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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. Since you probably raise a good percentage of your fundraising goal during the month of December, you have to make the time count! Secure A Matching Gift Matching gifts are nonprofit gold.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

There may be a lot of pressure to hit fundraising goals. After all, your nonprofit depends on that revenue to continue its mission's work. But all that pressure doesn't have to feel so intense.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Monthly Gifts: A Perfect Way For Millennials To Pitch In . And don’t forget that as they move up in their careers, millennials will increase their gift amounts to you substantially. 2)Set a goal of monthly donors on Giving Tuesday. . 3) Lead with the impact of a monthly gift. . ONE LESS COLD BREW CAN CHANGE A LOT.

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

Just as a successful capital campaign follows defined steps and milestones, so does the work of a database manager—nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes tasks to keep the campaign moving toward its goal. An audit query can be as simple as looking for data entry errors, like a recent cash gift with a gift date of two years later.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2025

Its your roadmap to streamline and integrate your operations, stay organized and reach your goals. Step two: Set goals, deadlines, and assign owners If you want to meet your goals, you need to specify the individual, team, or department in charge of working toward that goal. The best goals are SMART goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 25, 2021

As nonprofits continue to adapt to the new normal, many fundraisers struggle with the goal of engaging major donors. Learning how to ask for gifts remotely and in-person. Developing donor relationships in the age of social-distancing.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2025

Establish funding priorities: What gifts do you need of time, talent, and treasure to robustly champion your mission? Set stretch but realistic goals: Now put numbers to the funding priorities. To really improve the results, show where the additional gift income will come from. Capital projects and improvements?

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Spur Local’s Donation Counter Spur Local used a donation counter to add a sense of urgency and community as everyone rallied together to hit the goal. As you can see in the Feed Montana example above, they exceeded their goal of $85,000, filling up the green progress meter to 100%! It is also simple to set up with CauseVox!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Major Gifts. Their contact and gift information is saved in your CRM, a thank you note and receipt are automatically sent, and you are ready to solicit donations again in the future. Better supporter retention leads to less time needed to pursue new donors to reach financial goals. Peer-to-Peer and Team Fundraising.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Data from recent elections shows rage donors take their candidate’s loss in a presidential bid as inspiration to donate more to causes associated with the candidate’s party, while the winning team’s incoming gifts drop off. Did they make their first (only) gift during the election cycle? What are their interests beyond politics?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

Mention the donor’s past involvement with your organization and the impact their previous gifts have made. Clarify the campaign type, start and end dates, specific goals, and any other pertinent information your donors might want before getting involved. Tell the story of your campaign and how each gift can get you closer to your goal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

You may find that there are other organizations seeking to achieve similar goals that you can tackle together or connections they can introduce you to. 6) Secure matching gifts for your next fundraising campaign. Pro Tip: The easier it is to request a matching gift, the more likely your donor will follow through with asking for one.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Think back on what made the day successful—was it the heartfelt story shared on social media, the surge of donations from a matching gift, or the high open rate on a well-crafted email appeal ? Perhaps it was a message about the tangible impact of their gifts or the urgency of a specific need. But data only tells part of the story.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Step 1: Show your donors the impact of their last gift! This doesn’t mean you’re asking too often—it means asking again before showing their first gift had an impact. Whether their last gift was for GivingTuesday or months before, you need to do more than just thank them. You must tell them how their gift made a difference.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Show them precisely what impact their gift will make. Similar to how consumer brands use holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday to ignite the spirit of the holiday season and boost foot (or click) traffic, nonprofits can leverage Giving Tuesday to attract donor awareness, gifts, and loyalty. Provide suggested donation amounts.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Recurring Donation Options Many online platforms, such as Blackbaud’s Donation Forms, allow donors to set up recurring gifts, turning one-time contributors into ongoing supporters, thus improving donor retention. Set a collective goal and encourage friendly competition by featuring a leaderboard or highlighting top donor pages.

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2025

The traditional endpoint for philanthropic giving used to be a hard close and a hand-off of the gift to an organization offering an adequately agreeable mission statement. Your supporters want to feel more ownership over their gift even after it changes hands. Today, donors see their gift as an investment in outcomes.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

According to a recent report from the Blackbaud Institute , 72% of spontaneous gifts went to organizations with whom the donors were already familiar. Read on to learn more about who these first-time spontaneous donors are, and how to turn their GivingTuesday gifts into lasting support.

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