Whole Whale

AUGUST 25, 2021

Direct mail response rate (to house): 4% Postage per letter: $0.49. Very large charitable donations—categorized here as gifts of $100 million or more… that were publicly announced totaled at least $3.3 Direct mail response rate: (to house): 5% Postage per letter: $0.47. Charitable bequests included $31.76 Mail stats. 2016 Stats.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. Williams suggests classifying donors by tiers, rather than by “major” or “minor” gifts. When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors.

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Roundtree

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Never assume they know the impact their gift is having. If you want donors to remain as excited as they were when they first gave, then tell them stories of how their gift is making a real difference in the world. Impact updates make donors feel connected to the work and the value of their gift. This is also true with donors.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

To make sure yours don’t get lumped in with the spam, here’s how to use your email communication to forge (or maintain) relationships with your constituents. Williams suggests classifying donors by tiers, rather than by “major” or “minor” gifts. When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors.

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Roundtree

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

How can your organization send donor emails that improve open and click rates? #1: If your organization has donors who give monthly, time a monthly email to arrive the day after their gift is drafted from their bank account or charged to their credit card. Instead, focus on an issue in the email: “How Your Gift Changed Katie’s Life.”

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Bloomerang

MARCH 13, 2023

The average nonprofit email open rate is 23%. 85% of all emails are spam. I often say “ if you want gifts, give them.” GenZ receive an average of 20 emails/day , though they may be no more likely to open your email and/or act on it (especially if it’s urgent) because they visit their inbox infrequently. Keep priming the pump.

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The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The average one-time gift is $128, while the average monthly donation is $52, which amounts to $624 per yea r — more than 4x more! Monthly giving donors have a retention rate of 90%, whereas repeat (but not subscribed) donors fall to 60% and first-time donors drop all the way to 23%. A gift can be a surprise thank-you.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Common examples of nonprofit KPIs include average donation size, number of recurring or repeat donors, new donor acquisition rate, and donor attrition rate. Neon CRM gives you the tools to automate receipts and thank-you emails once donors submit a gift online. You’ll then see higher digital retention and conversion rates.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Open rates, fundraising click-through rates and page completion rates for both fundraising and advocacy all went down. Monthly giving has continued its rapid growth as nonprofits received 40% more revenue from monthly gifts in 2017 than 2016. The average size of a monthly gift received from an email appeal is now $18.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 13, 2023

The average nonprofit email open rate is 23%. 85% of all emails are spam. I often say “ if you want gifts, give them.” GenZ receive an average of 20 emails/day , though they may be no more likely to open your email and/or act on it (especially if it’s urgent) because they visit their inbox infrequently. Keep priming the pump.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

According to a benchmark report , the average one-time email gift is $87! The real case for multiple ESPs is that it provides a different IP address, which can prevent your emails from being marked as spam. I’ll admit these are difficult to accurately measure but they are more influential than click throughs and open rates.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Still others are marked as spam and go to the trash folder, never to see the light of day again. . If recent donors see an email from your nonprofit, you don’t want them to assume that you’re already asking for another gift. Segmenting inactive donors can help nonprofits maintain high open rates. Leave no doubt!

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 7, 2021

Out-of-the-box capabilities for managing campaigns and appeals, engagement plans, householding, and gift processing are designed to break down silos and empower your organization’s mission. NPSP, together with Sales Cloud, enables organizations with prebuilt solutions based on typical nonprofit use cases.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The average one-time email gift is $87 ! The real case for multiple ESPs is that it provides a different IP address, which can prevent your emails from being marked as spam. This is important because spam filters are responsible for an average loss of $15,000 per year, according to the Nonprofit Email Deliverability Study.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

This month we’re covering building a major gifts program, but we’re going to be digging right into end-of-year through September as well as October through, you’re creating your campaigns, copywriting, how to ask, and everything in between. Maybe we segment our major gift donors. . You can download this.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Oscar One-Off Donor Susan Sustainer Marta Major Gifts Vince Volunteer Malik Millennial + Nellie Newbie Eddie Engager + Emma Event Attendee Luna Lapsed Donor. With that information, you can then make a tailored ask to turn that occasional gift into a monthly or weekly one. Marta Major Gifts. FYI - this is a long read.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 6, 2009

Remember when there was no spam? GEnie was a mix of flat rate and pay-per-minute use. A lot of the site’s forums (roundtables) were free within the monthly charge, but anything gaming or chat was billed at a rate that only got as low as $6/hour during off-peak hours.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Segmenting your lists will lead to more targeted messaging and is proven to boost response rates and help to reduce unsubscribes. It will also help to prevent people from marking you as Spam. You might try mentioning the last gift a person made or perhaps the name of an event the person recently attended.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2017

6 Tips to Spice Up Your Nonprofit Newsletter : Avoid low open and engagement rates with these email tips! How Nonprofits Can Improve Their Email Deliverability : Ensure that your emails are being delivered to your donors’ inboxes and avoiding the spam folder. Utilizing the gift ask chart in this article is one way to do that.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

Email open rates declined 1%, compared to a 3% decrease between 2006 and 2007. Open rates can be an unreliable metric due to spam filters, preview panes and image blocking -- all of which make it hard to know whether someone is actually opening (or reading) an email. Average gift size across organizations was $71 in 2008.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

If you just had to rate it on a 1 to 10. And if you can’t articulate that, if you can’t really speak to that, then maybe you’re not bringing much value for them and maybe your retention rates are not going to be great. Our gifts are going to go further.” I don’t mean spamming people.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

They are going to decide then whether or not they want to unsubscribe because you’re sending them spam or if they want to stay engaged with your organization. Track the open rates of the emails, the click through rates, and what people are clicking on. PLEASE (yes, that’s the sound of me begging) don’t do this.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

Although the rate of change may vary, just like tidal ranges and patterns differ depending on your location, the basic concept remains the same. The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. Get too comfortable at high tide and you might lose sight of the dangers below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2005

s materials Processing and recording of gifts, be careful of regulations. t Spam regulations ??? t Spam requires you to have a physical mailing address, opt out of every mail and be responsive, registered domain and bunch of other things, only allowed to email to people who have opted into your list. t spam work.

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M+R

JANUARY 5, 2024

Read time: 5 minutes Waking up on New Year’s Day is for two things: taking stock of whether you already regret your new year’s resolutions, and immediately refreshing your end of year fundraising data to see if anyone gave that final gift at midnight on 12/31. Average gifts were down – but large gifts may have switched channels.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

We have raised funds for many hundreds of nonprofits by mail, and dozens online – a total exceeding half a billion dollars, largely in the form of small gifts. And the most recent numbers suggest that that growth rate dropped precipitously during the last year. (2) nonprofits in 2008. That’s $7 billion out of $306 billion.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 18, 2022

Joining your local chamber may make sense, especially if they have a nonprofit rate. Foundation spam-a-thon. Yes, you could develop and execute a follow-up email sequence to attempt to convert these customers into donors, but don’t expect a large conversion rate. Your local Chamber of Commerce. The Bottom Line.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Many museums are protective about how frequently they send messages to members and other lists, fearing that they will be ignored or perceived as spam. Of course, this fear stems from the uncomfortable reality that most museum communication is spam—unwanted information about events or exhibits. Museum emails are almost always shouting.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Matching gifts options. Your supporters’ donations can go further with matching gifts. Matching gifts are additional contributions made by your supporters’ employers when their employees give to charitable causes. In other words, matching gifts are essentially free money for nonprofits.

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