Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

By Bryna Dilman , Director of Marketing at FrontStream , who offers expert tips to nonprofit organizations planning to move their in-person auctions online. . For instance, if a local Italian restaurant donated a gift card but it’s only open for delivery, disclose this in the item restrictions field. 4) Say thank you and stay engaged.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 3, 2021

If you can build trust, plus expand a personal relationship with a donor while also having the knowledge of their gift capacity and areas of interest, a possible layering can occur.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 28, 2025

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. The benefits vary a discount to your local art museum, a branded T-shirt, a gift card.

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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. Frequent communication is vital in cultivating donor relationships, especially with new supporters. Examples: Make a second gift. List of major gifts given today. First impressions are essential.

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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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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This form of fundraising provides predictable (and often unrestricted) future funding, strengthens relationships with loyal supporters, and builds powerful social proof among your community. Your outreach challenge will be to strike the right balance between efficiency and personalization. Who Gives to Planned Giving Programs?

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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. Personalized thank-you messages: A heartfelt, tailored message of appreciation reminds supporters that their presence and contributions made a meaningful difference.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

I love technology as much as the next person, and have benefited enormously from its application throughout my personal, professional, and civic lives. The most common concept spoken about in the nonprofit community is being in the business of building relationships. Nothing is as personal as fundraising.

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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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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Conversely, loyal donors give 42% more over their lifetime and are 70% more likely to leave a planned gift. Effective donor stewardship isnt just about saying thank you; its about cultivating meaningful, genuine relationships. This small but immediate gesture can set the tone for a lasting relationship.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2025

To effectively steward donor relationships and inspire higher levels of giving, you must strategically engage donors in various ways that deepen their connections to your nonprofit. With your stewardship matrix as a guide, your staff will have a clear roadmap to engaging donors throughout their entire relationship with your nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 15, 2025

Sending memorial donation notification letters helps build positive relationships with families and strengthen your memorial giving program. Your organization might receive these gifts because the deceased person had a special connection to your cause or if their cause of death relates to your nonprofits mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 25, 2021

Developing donor relationships in the age of social-distancing. Learning how to ask for gifts remotely and in-person. Join major giving expert and ACFRE, Amy Eisenstein, as she delves into the trending topics your organization needs to tune into this year including: Discovering major donors within your donor community.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

What was our average gift amount? Schedule in-person ask visits with donors. Test all buttons, links, post-gift email auto-responders, and landing pages on desktop and mobile devices. Coordinate with your direct mail drop, use segments and personalization appropriately, and split A/B test your subject lines.

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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? Pick up the phone. Mail something memorable.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Such subpar messages may be the reason that 63% of fundraisers feel uncomfortable using AI for personalized donor communications. While AI is often touted as a way to hyper-personalize fundraising efforts, to many fundraisers, AI can make communications seem less personal, less authentic.

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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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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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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Donation tax receipts allow you to confirm that youve processed and implemented a charitable contribution while expressing appreciation for donors gifts. Donors want to know that you recognize their previous relationship with your organization. How can you show your gratitude and acknowledge their contributions?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising encourages existing supporters to set up their own pages, gathering donations from their personal networks on behalf of the organization. Regular updates, personalized appeals, and segmented lists can help build lasting relationships with donors and drive consistent contributions.

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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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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. It doesn’t mean you have to individually know each and every person in your donor database—that isn’t practical.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 19, 2019

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. Handwrite a personal letter from time to time. Thank them unexpectedly. An occasional surprise can go a long way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

As a non-profiteer of many years, I have known donor giving programs to be described via a myriad of terms; sustainment, long-term, continued, recurring – all ways to describe the length of the relationship a donor establishes with a non-profit. And their relationship with Water.org starts in a fairly simple way; by checking a box.

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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. Save time and grab this exact template from our Giving Tuesday Fundraising Template Kit and personalize it for your organization. Why do donors stop giving after their first gift?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It’s every major gift officer’s nightmare scenario:You’re at a donor event, making small talk with an attendee you have never met before, and you’re struggling to come up with something to talk about. Here are some guiding rules for finding your next major gift funder with the help of prospect research.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on when it’s a good idea to give gifts to donors. . Dear Charity Clairity, I know public broadcasting offers donors gifts in exchange for their donations at various levels. Also, it’s a lot of work to get donated gifts, and expenses to buy them.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

By spending time with these free resources, you’ll start to hear the same themes, such as diversifying your funding streams, finding the right donors for the work your organization does, and nurturing your relationship with your donors so they keep giving. Corporate donations require relationships that take time to cultivate.

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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. 3) Lead with the impact of a monthly gift. . Spell out how each monthly gift amount makes a difference. ONE LESS COLD BREW CAN CHANGE A LOT.

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In order to be a major donor prospect, the person has to have the capacity to give at the level that you consider to be a major gift. The key here is to think through your ideal donors to come up with a number of donor profiles that can help guide your efforts. #2 2 – Have the Capacity to Give. Don’t write people off too easily.

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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. It is always a bonus if your team has personal qualities like integrity, leadership skills, and outstanding manners.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

Reviewing their activity wall of donations to personally thank donors. Finding new opportunities to build donor relationships. Reviewing new donations that have the potential to become recurring gifts. You can also customize your default donation amount for different segments of donors to optimize the average gift size.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 4, 2021

You and I have a desire to be connected to others and when that other person shows you that they know you, that connection strengthens. Even when you may not know the other person that well, a personal touch will immediately strengthen that relationship.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In this age of Google Ad Grants and inexpensive Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter targeted advertising, one can drive traffic from what is a primary relationship-building platform to an organization’s website or to a lead or landing page. Social media sites are for relationship building.

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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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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 21, 2021

When we decide to give someone a gift, we usually try really hard to get a gift that is meaningful to the person we’re giving it to. When we seek to succeed with our philanthropic investors, unfortunately, a sort of organizational narcissism often kicks in.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 14, 2022

Are you acknowledging those differences in the way you build relationships with these supporters? However, by understanding the multitude of reasons why a person may donate to a nonprofit organization, you can start connecting with more of your supporters on a deeper level – and transform your fundraising results in the process.

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