sgEngage

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Employer matching gifts offer key advantages to nonprofit organizations, including increased individual donations, opportunities for additional corporate funding, improved supporter engagement, and more. If youre wondering if corporate matching gifts can boost donor retention levels, the answer is yes.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 14, 2024

From corporate matching gifts to employee volunteer programs and beyond, these initiatives not only provide significant financial benefits for nonprofits but also encourage a culture of generosity throughout. Links to separate pages on Matching Gifts, Corporate Volunteerism, and more.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

7 Must-Have Members of Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Team With a dedicated nonprofit fundraising team, you’ll execute more effective strategies, plan impactful events, and attain more funding for your mission. That’s where this guide comes in—we’ll discuss the must-have members of your nonprofit’s fundraising team.

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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. As leadership and development teams lean in for a final push, donors are receiving countless requests for limited financial support. . Why Stock Gifting? Nonprofits receive larger pre-tax gifts (vs.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 22, 2021

Contribute to this research study by providing details on charitable giving, how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted your organization, technology investments that would benefit your team most, and more.

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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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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 7, 2025

Matching gift opportunities can double or even triple the donations you receive at the end of the year. We often see these during Giving Tuesday or year-end campaigns, but have you considered how matching gifts can accelerate your campaigns year-round? Lets look at the many benefits matching gifts can bring your organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Peer-to-Peer and Team Fundraising. 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. This type of donor may also donate to support special projects or programs on top of their recurring gift.

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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? To really improve the results, show where the additional gift income will come from. This will set the stage for not only motivating them to renew gifts, but to also consider increasing the amounts.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 8, 2025

These potential mid-level donors were inspired to make their first gift during the extraordinary environment of the pandemic and required a distinct donor journey. If the team at Intermountain could understand the path, they would be in a better position to make it smoother and more rewarding. Second Gift: They give again.

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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. In addition to the essential details youd include on a cash donation receipt, your in-kind donation tax receipts should feature the following: Gift description.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2021

Reviewing new donations that have the potential to become recurring gifts. A successful nonprofit gets more teams involved right away. Aligning around fundraising goals from the start helps to build trust between teams and show teammates how they can play important roles in your success.

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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. Social proof campaign.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By integrating fundraising and finance systems, information flows easily from gift records to journal entries, saving time, reducing the risk of fraud, and simplifying audits. Reconciliation is the process of matching financial records from different sources, such as gift records, invoices, and bank feeds, to ensure consistency and accuracy.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 21, 2024

While most nonprofits and schools are eligible to receive matching gifts through their donors’ employers, select organizations have proven to be particularly successful in their efforts to do so. In this blog, we’ll cover one standout example⁠, familiarizing your team with the ins and outs of Save the Children’s matching gift strategy.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For the past decade, only two things were certain every year: The Detroit Lions (my wife's favorite team) were not going to win a playoff game and digital monthly giving was going to increase by more than digital one-time giving. It was inevitable. That was until last year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

Now your team can boost your open rates to 37% just by adding video! DonorPerfect is thrilled to announce DP Video , a new feature that enables nonprofit teams to send video messages to donors right from their donor profile in DonorPerfect. 6) Secure matching gifts for your next fundraising campaign. The best part?

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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. Examples: Make a second gift. For example, create a filter that includes all donors who have made a first-time gift. List of major gifts given today. 1) Keep the Conversation with Donors Going.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

If, like my client, youre asking if its time to change your fundraising CRM , the starting point is understanding your current situation (your team, your data, and your needs) as well as your goals for the future. Training: What is the current skillset of your team and what is their capacity for adding new skills?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2025

Major donors: Your nonprofit’s largest donors expect to be highly involved and updated often on how you use their gifts. Planned giving donors: Donors interested in planned gifts want to know more about your organizations long-term plans and how their donations will create a lasting legacy.

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sgEngage

MAY 1, 2024

When your strategy combines these elements, your team can be confident it’s delivering a meaningful donor experience at every stage. Here are some proven tips to streamline the donor journey, from first gift to lifelong engagement. can come after the gift is processed. All the other details—phone number, physical address, etc.—can

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

The hidden cost of clunky software: Why ease of use matters (HINT: You’re Losing Money) Lets be clear: if youre settling for outdated, clunky software , youre likely allowing your team to only scratch the surface of its capabilities. It empowers everyone on your team to turn fundraising technology into a strategic advantage.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2025

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. Owner: Development Team. Launch a GivingTuesday campaign by November 15 and secure 150 individual gifts. Thats step one. The best goals are SMART goals.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As nonprofit leaders and their teams know all too well, every gift matters and makes a difference to the communities nonprofits serve. But philanthropy isn’t limited to giving money. There are many ways to be a philanthropist and advance the causes that are important to you.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Double the Donation is excited to announce an expanded partnership with Bonterra as matching gift functionality is now available on Bonterra’s Fundraising Essentials, Built on Network For Good. This integration makes it easier for nonprofit organizations to effectively identify matching gift eligible donors and raise more for their mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

At the start of 2018, we (the NextAfter team) set out to understand exactly what recurring giving looks like from the donor’s perspective. 2) Only 14% of organizations prompt one-time donors to upgrade to a recurring gift during the donation process. If they wanted to give a recurring gift, they would’ve just clicked the checkbox.”.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If you’re looking for the perfect holiday gift for a colleague, consider joy. If you make kindness official by designating it as an organizational value, you can weave the threads of consideration throughout your team. Give your team a choice between sitting and standing workstations. Antione de Saint Exupery.

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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 ? Touch base with your team and volunteers to gather their perspectives. But data only tells part of the story. But why stop there?

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sgEngage

MAY 28, 2024

Make More Accurate Gift Capacity Estimates Gift capacity is a sensitive subject. Only when a gift officer starts talking to a prospect via the qualification and the cultivation process can you know how much someone will give to your organization. Here are three methods for fine-tuning your gift capacity estimates.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

If you understand your donor’s motivation for the gift, and the circumstances surrounding the donation, it will help you make a far better ask that fits in to your overall cultivation strategy. The final 4-6 weeks of the year is a natural time for donors to make gifts in accordance with their financial planning strategies.

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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. This can include anything from merchandise, art pieces, restaurant meals, golf outings, and gift cards.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Our team created a peer-to-peer campaign using Grassroot Soccer’s messaging and branding. One thing that makes a peer-to-peer campaign unique, however, is the individual and team fundraising pages. We had already asked for volunteers to act as team captains, so after individuals signed up they were assigned to specific teams.

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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. Storytelling connects donors to your mission and introduces them to the people theyll help with their gifts. Sign your name with any contact information and thank your reader for their future gift.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 4, 2024

How can my scrappy smaller organization, with all the tasks my team is already juggling, adopt a new fundraising CRM and learn to use it with the least amount of disruption?” In change management, leadership addresses these essential questions: What does the team know about the change? You’re thinking, “I agree — we’re awesome!

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2025

Sharing data in an integrated financial and CRM ecosystem aligns functional teams and reduces time-intensive manual extracting and inputting of data, allowing you to put more of your time, energy, and resources into furthering your mission. Your supporters want to feel more ownership over their gift even after it changes hands.

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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. Studies also show that the best major gift and planned gift prospects are donors that have been retained for multiple years. Does this r eally improve donor retention?

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