CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2025

Recognizing and thanking donors is a hallmark of an excellent retention strategy. It helps strengthen the relationship you have with your donors and their commitment to your cause. Download Our Free Donor Engagement & Retention Playbook: 1) Immediate Email Confirmation Let’s start with the lowest hanging fruit.

Donor

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Learning how to manage volunteers effectively will help bridge the gap between recruitment and retention, ensuring more supporters stick around long-term. Volunteer management is the process of working with volunteers throughout their engagement with your organization, from recruitment to ongoing engagement and retention.

Volunteer

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Host a year-end event. Holiday-Themed Appreciation Event Ideas Here are some ideas to put on a memorable year-end event : Gala: Host a New Year’s Eve-inspired gala. Remember, gratitude isnt a one-time campaign but an ongoing component of your nonprofits relationships with supporters. Create a thank-you video.

Volunteer

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

What was our retention rate year over year? November November 1-10 Host a “Thanks for giving” thank-a-thon where board members call donors to thank them and share a win the donor made possible. Collect data (ideally the last two years, but at a minimum for the previous year) How much did we raise at end of year? Filter by date.

Calendar

Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By personalizing your donation letters, your nonprofit can increase fundraising revenue and develop long-lasting supporter relationships. Providing this accessibility reinforces transparency and trust, which are essential in fostering strong donor relationships. Pick the perfect time to send your donation request letters.

Template

Greater Giving

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Saying “thank you” isn’t just a box to check—it’s about showing genuine appreciation and strengthening those relationships. Host a Thank-You Event Think about a cozy in-person gathering. So, how do we express our gratitude in a way that feels meaningful, especially during the holidays?

Donor

Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2025

From recruitment and onboarding to engagement and retention, we’ll cover the best practices that turn a good program into a great one. The volunteer management cycle includes five distinct phases: Recruitment, Onboarding, Engagement, Retention, and Evaluation. Alright, let’s get started! What is volunteer management?

Volunteer

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

From large in-person events to casual virtual gatherings, fundraising silent auctions can generate much-needed revenue and strengthen donor relationships. While silent fundraising auctions can raise a lot of money for your organization, they can also be costly to host. Host a rehearsal or walkthrough.

Social Media

CauseVox

JULY 1, 2025

While a fundraising platform helps you raise money by hosting donation pages, peer-to-peer campaigns, events, and more, a CRM software for nonprofits helps you manage donor relationships. If a fundraising platform is where your campaigns happen, your nonprofit CRM is where your relationships grow. Let’s dive in!

Software

Pamela Grow

JULY 2, 2025

When it comes to donor retention, thanking your donors goes a long way. Personalized messages, on the other hand, show that you’re invested in building deeper relationships with donors and allow you to take advantage of the thrill of the “honeymoon phase” after that first donation.

Donor

Bloomerang

APRIL 10, 2025

Host informational sessions for prospective volunteers. Plus, you can introduce yourself to prospective volunteers and start forming personal relationships that may turn into long-term partnerships. Consider hosting regularly occurring information sessions, such as on the first Wednesday of every month.

Volunteer

Allegiance Group

MARCH 24, 2025

Offering opportunities to collaborate with fundraisers from around the globe, youll find sessions dedicated to donor research, relationship building, volunteer engagement, leadership, ethics, and accountability all designed to help you elevate your impact. The conference takes a tech-forward approach to enhancing stewardship and retention.

Conference

DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Stronger supporter and community relationships: Marketing provides natural opportunities to connect with people who support your mission, from low-level donors to corporate sponsors. This makes followers feel seen and helps you build long-lasting relationships. Focus on building relationships.

Marketing

Allegiance Group

JUNE 24, 2025

For example, your organization could use a graphic design tool to create fundraising appeals for social media, a marketing calendar to schedule posts, and a donation tool to host your donation form and accept contributions. Best For: Organizations that want to enhance their donor recognition and retention efforts.

Tools

Gyrus

JULY 25, 2024

Assessments Facilitates preparation for regulatory audits by offering robust assessment tools to gather evidence of employee knowledge retention and compliance. Automatically prompts learners to re-certify upon certificate expiry by triggering refresher courses or assessments.

Train

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

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Companies

Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2025

That being said, getting personal is key to building and sustaining relationships in an increasingly digital world. Simply search on major donor predictive AI and major donor generative AI to find a host of options]. All you, you, you You cant outsource the nurturing of personal friendships, or major donor relationships.

Facilitation

Hands on Fundraising

JUNE 10, 2025

There could be a whole host of reasons for this. As fundraisers, we work hard to find and recruit new donors to our causes. But do you ever feel like your supporters are slipping away after their first gift?

Donor

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Knowing your donor retention rate is crucial. Prioritize donor retention. If your retention rate is below 50%, focus on stewardship personalized thank-yous, donor impact updates, and consistent engagement. These events take far less staff time, build stronger relationships, and often lead to repeat giving.

Strategy

Bloomerang

MARCH 14, 2025

Effective internal communication and trust are the foundation of donor retention success. When alignment is strong, fundraising strategies become more efficient, donor relationships deepen, and your organization can confidently scale its impact. Heres who should be at the table and why they matter: 1.

International

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

And, when you properly steward and build relationships with these new donors, they can become lifelong supporters of your mission. Form relationships with other community organizations. Form relationships with other community organizations. YOY decrease. But first, you have to find and connect with these individuals.

Donor

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2025

In fact, after four years of giving, one of the primary reasons donors continue to give is because of the close, personal, friendly relationship they have with the person who asked them for money. Retention is cheaper than acquisition. The 5-minute call that raised millions.

Donor

The Verge

JUNE 23, 2025

Listen to Decoder , a show hosted by The Verge ’s Nilay Patel about big ideas — and other problems. Justin also called the idea of AI companionship “playing with fire” and compares those relationships to junk food. I think that the relationship is different. Subscribe here ! There’s a lot more in this conversation.

Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

Stellar stewardship can deepen your relationship with your partners and help build trust in your area of expertise that in turn translates to positive funds for your mission. In business, customer retention is “big business.” Create VIP opportunities and advisory boards to deepen relationships.

Help

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 27, 2023

These consistent gifts, known as recurring donations, help your organization’s long-term fundraising success and retention goals. More Loyal Donors While new donor retention rates average less than 20% , monthly giving programs typically enjoy retention rates of over 80% after the first year and over 95% after year five.

Donation

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

By creating donor retention strategies for retaining your past fundraisers and donors. Recurring Giving Benchmarking Analysis , retention rates for recurring gifts can be upwards of 90%, compared to 40% for one-time gifts and a single-digit rate for one-time peer-to-peer gifts. . Luckily, you can change course. Conclusion.

Retention

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

Match their energy by providing volunteer opportunities, hosting giving challenges, offering peer-to-peer fundraising opportunities, and encouraging community chatter. Related Resources: How to Host a Virtual Fundraising Event (with Checklist for Nonprofits). 25 Ways to Spotlight Your Donation Form. Autumn 2022. Crowdfunding.

Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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.

Fund

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

3) Implement a donor retention strategy. While not as fun as using social media, implementing a donor retention strategy is likely to result in more revenue and dedicated supporters. According to the Fundraising Effectiveness Report , the overall donor retention rate for 2021 was 43.6% — meaning that 56.4% 2022 Session ].

Trend

Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

The pandemic unexpectedly transformed how organizations hosted their events and meetings, forcing event planners to quickly pivot and move their meetings to virtual platforms. In our previous blog posts on retention and product value , we illustrated how data isn’t one dimensional.

Associations

Association Analytics

JANUARY 5, 2023

We continued our A2 webinar series, Analytics in Action, co-hosted webinars with other leading industry partners, spoke at association conferences all over the country and created tons of educational reading materials for association professionals. Oh, and let’s not forget our post-game party hosted at Blake Shelton’s place – Ole Red.

Associations

Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

Having a successful volunteer management strategy will help you increase your volunteer retention rate, which ultimately creates more efficient volunteer staff. One of the best ways to retain your volunteers and continue your relationship with them is to show your appreciation. Why is volunteer retention important?

Retention

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 30, 2023

It’s a great time of the year for some hot donor retention strategies! I teach my clients that offering warm touches – the little things that warm a donor’s heart and make them feel good – are THE BEST donor retention strategies to keep people giving. And the good news is that increasing donor retention isn’t that hard.

Retention

.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The motivation to build stronger relationships, both remote and in-person, resonated across the association community. Jamie Notter, Co-Founder at Propel , showed us how to integrate culture, strategy, and execution to help teams deliver peak performance and improve employee retention. “If Solutions Day exemplifies that idea.

Culture

3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

Combat the challenges of donor retention? A Major Gifts Officer is actively developing personal relationships with existing and potential donors. When the personal relationship is interrupted, what does the organization “know” about the donor? While that’s understandable, it is also a big problem.

Attention

VentureBeat

JUNE 16, 2025

Its most recent title, Kitchen Masters, is a match-3 title which Bigger reports shows strong early retention and engagement. The Istanbul-based team launched in 2019 into the burgeoning Turkish gaming scene, and has specialized in casual puzzle games. alongside further refining the gameplay.

Game

VentureBeat

JUNE 12, 2025

The exciting relationship for us with Hasbro is incredibly topical, especially coming off the success of Monopoly Go,” said Berman. “We Regarding the business model, Berman said, “We partner with the biggest consumer platforms on the planet to deliver daily engagement and retention through daily games. And more games are coming soon.

Game