Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Its an opportunity to deepen relationships, show gratitude, and keep the conversation going, turning one-time participants into lifelong supporters. How to Keep Donors Engaged Post-Event Your post-event messages are just the beginning of building stronger relationships with your donors.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Real relationships: Making an ask for a donation immediately after meeting someone is like asking to borrow a car from someone you just met—there isn’t enough trust built to warrant the interaction. Instead, fundraisers should create a series of touchpoints, building the foundation of the relationship before making the ask.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In the timeline below, we tell you exactly when to send emails designed to cultivate a relationship with your new Giving Tuesday supporters. Subject line: Sofia, keep tabs on the impact of your gift by following us on social media. Why do donors stop giving after their first gift? 1) Day One: Welcome Wednesday & Thank You.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

This post is part of Your #GivingTuesday Game Plan , a new nonprofit resource hub by DonorPerfect that offers interactive Giving Tuesday communication templates that you can fill in and integrate into your campaign. Monthly Gifts: A Perfect Way For Millennials To Pitch In . 3) Lead with the impact of a monthly gift. .

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CauseVox

JANUARY 20, 2025

It costs 200-300% more to attract new donors than it does to get a second gift. Youre also more likely to get larger gifts from donors who give over time, so youre making more money. Very simply, donor retention refers to the number (or percentage) of donors that return to give another gift in a specific time period.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

As a tech leader at a growing social impact organization, you know that migrating to an enterprise-scale constituent relationship management (CRM) system can be a daunting proposition. It is a single source of truth for all constituent data, including interactions with different teams and campaigns within your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Major Gifts. These types of donations, once set up, are easily executed with nonprofit software such as Giveffect – an all-in-one nonprofit management software that includes donation management, relationship management (CRM), volunteer management, email marketing, and more in one easy-to-use suite. Peer-to-Peer and Team Fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2024

Retaining your donors requires building relationships with them, and those relationships will rely heavily on effective communication. Donor retention is, at its heart, about building relationships. Update your donation form and include the opportunity for a donor to leave a note about their gift. What do you notice?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Relationship-building, communication, commitment to the cause, perseverance, creativity, and project management are all transferable skills that can be applied to fundraising. These tools help you track donor interactions, segment your audience, and tailor your communications to maximize engagement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2019

You should want all of your donors to interact with your organization the way multichannel donors do! Try filtering for donors who: have a lifetime gift amount of $500+, 10+ volunteer hours, 10+ soft credited gifts, and gifts coded with your social media campaign or your annual appeal solicitation.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Regular updates, personalized appeals, and segmented lists can help build lasting relationships with donors and drive consistent contributions. These events can incorporate donation prompts, live chats, and real-time impact updates, creating an interactive experience for supporters.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Believe it or not, I’ve found that there are parallels between one of the greatest Halloween movies ever made and major gift fundraising. When preparing a major gift proposal, focus on the short-term and long-term impact their gifts would make on the trajectory of the organization. Are your appeals emotional and compelling?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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. Why are major gifts so important for nonprofits? What is a major gift? billion in 2022.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

In our conversation, he explains why our relationship to ourselves, each other, and the world are the product of the stories that we tell ourselves. He explains how to change your relationship to your thoughts, manage the activation of your stress response, and create structural changes in the wiring of your brain in as little as 20 hours.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 31, 2025

In an environment of fast-moving change where minute-by-minute updates can evoke strong emotional responses, every person who plays a role in fundraising from the marketing team to gift officers can play a role in keeping your supporters engaged. Track the data: This is a vital time to keep track of your data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

Finding new opportunities to build donor relationships. Reviewing new donations that have the potential to become recurring gifts. Personalized interactions go a long way with donors, and simply uncovering new opportunities to expand your recurring giving program can sustain revenue all year.

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

One way to get more funding is to start or grow your major gifts program to channel resources toward an equitable recovery for all. Starting a major gifts program can be intimidating. First, define (or revise) what a major gift is at your organization. Major gifts fundraising is a team sport. Start somewhere.

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2022

The foundation of an effective fundraising strategy is built on the relationships your team forms with the people who power your mission. Every member of your nonprofit team already knows how to build strong relationships with friends, co-workers, family members, significant others, and more. What is donor stewardship?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

2) Only 14% of organizations prompt one-time donors to upgrade to a recurring gift during the donation process. Let me explain this one a bit, because I’m not just talking about having a checkbox on your donation page to make a gift recurring. If they wanted to give a recurring gift, they would’ve just clicked the checkbox.”.

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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. In regards to the key question of “are corporate matching gifts and donor retention levels related?” In this article, we’ll help you understand how to make this magic relationship work for you.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But there’s one unsung strategy that can elevate your donor retention rates, while expanding mid-level and major giving: multi-year gift agreements. However, it’s an increasingly uphill battle to build long-term relationships with donors. Savvy fundraisers have always kept donor retention top of mind.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Every year, Employee Appreciation Day comes and goes, prompting organizations to rush into gratitude modeoffering lunches, shoutouts, and small gifts. Whether in relationships or the workplace, real appreciation is built through consistent, meaningful recognition. Its like only telling your partner I love you on your anniversary.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Before we discuss how to use data to build stronger relationships for your nonprofit, let’s start with a philosophical question: What is a relationship? There’s a good bit of research focused on the intersection between two people; research on the relationship between a person and an organization is a bit sparse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Many campaigns relied heavily on corporate relationships and digital platform integration to boost their visibility and engagement, making this a significant factor. Matching Gifts: Matching donations incentivize larger contributions and create a sense of urgency during the campaign window.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Donors are looking to stay connected to and support the organizations they care most about, and a recurring giving program helps donors break a larger gift into smaller, more affordable portions. Peer-to-Peer fundraising can build a major gift pipeline for your organization as well! In return, donors may provide larger gifts.

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

The social sector and major gift fundraising are no exception. AI tools enable major gift officers to do more with their time by minimizing administrative tasks, helping with research, and drafting communications. The Benefits of AI to Major Gift Fundraisers Fundraising is an industry that faces high stress and burnout.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In this age of digital overload and short attention spans, nonprofits that want to raise more money will instead create and sustain authentic, productive, long-term relationships with a network of individuals, corporate executives, government representatives, and/or impact investors.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2025

individual major gifts qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship), AI likely wont fit the bill. That being said, getting personal is key to building and sustaining relationships in an increasingly digital world. AI-assist useful Some aspects of major gift development can be personalized with a bit of an assist from AI.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 20, 2021

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you’re well aware that major gifts are some of the most important components of your organization’s overall fundraising strategy. These gifts make up a significant portion of your annual fundraising revenue, and they don’t just appear at random. Cultivate meaningful relationships.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

It can expedite research, gift processing and acknowledgments, preparation of proposals, contact reports, and monitoring and reporting on the impact of precious donor gift dollars. As is repeated over and over again, we are in the privileged business of nurturing relationships. Ours isn’t a complicated business.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Major Gifts Officer A major gifts officer manages all activities related to major gifts, generally focusing on major gift solicitation and stewarding major donor relationships. They’ll also need strong writing and communication skills to create proposals and interact with grantmakers.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A year later, they havent received an update on how their gift helped. Simplify donor interactions. If a donor has to click five times just to update their gift, thats too much work. Want to strengthen donor relationships? Thats a gap worth closing. Their connection to the cause weakens. The emotional bond fades.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Winspire’s live auction item ideas guide explains that each method is best suited to different types of items as follows: In-kind donations : Physical goods and gift certificates Nonprofit discounts: Ticketed experiences (concerts, athletic events, etc.) Happy fundraising!

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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. Try these 13 successful, yet underutilized strategies to help you raise more money and create stronger relationships this year-end. Secure A Matching Gift Matching gifts are nonprofit gold.

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Kindful

MARCH 8, 2021

With email marketing automation, you can make sure that you’re cultivating relationships with your current and future supporters at the right time , every time. By implementing automation techniques for recurring emails, you can strengthen the relationships that matter most, whether you’re on the clock or not. New subscriber.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

Keep reading to check out our list of ways your nonprofit can leverage ChatGPT and use AI to enhance donor relationships, optimize communications, and ultimately increase revenue. While this tool is a valuable asset for nonprofits, it shouldn’t be seen as a substitute for human interaction.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As bridge builders whose success depends on forging authentic relationships with donors, fundraisers can sometimes find the line between the professional and the personal becoming blurred. This can be particularly complicated if the institution makes decisions that the gift officer disagrees with personally.

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