Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

You may be wondering where to focus your fundraising as we emerge from the fog of 2020 and into, perhaps, a less cloudy future when it comes to nonprofit giving trends. Charitable giving was up in 2020 , and projections for nonprofit giving trends in 2021 and 2022 are even rosier. Nonprofit Giving Trends on the Horizon.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 12, 2014

It has become a fairly common factoid that around 60% of new donors only give once to that cause—however, showing love to your donors can be one of the driving factors behind donor retention. When you boil it down, nonprofit organizations are here for one thing: benefiting their cause. Duh, right?

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Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Here are a few actionable strategies to help you create an effective retention plan. Deploying strategies to retain volunteers is crucial to the success of your nonprofit. If your nonprofit is like many organizations, you rely heavily on volunteers to reach your mission and goals.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2020

For nonprofits and other social good organizations faced with difficult decisions, fundraising investments are often the first budget line items to be questioned. These events can cause a metric like retention or new donor acquisition to swing up and down. From each one of these events, a key fundraising lesson has emerged.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

What steps is your nonprofit taking to retain volunteers in 2021? Here are 5 strategies to incorporate into your retention plan this year. Deploying strategies to retain volunteers in 2021 is crucial to the success of your nonprofit. What steps is your nonprofit taking to combat this loss?

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Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here are 5 strategies to incorporate into your retention plan going into the new year. Deploying strategies to retain volunteers is crucial to the success of your nonprofit. If your nonprofit is like many organizations, you rely heavily on volunteers to reach your mission and goals.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So, a year-end fundraising goal and plan is important for nonprofits to take full advantage of donors’ kindness. In fact, recent research shows that a quarter of annual nonprofit revenue is raised in the month of December. But unfortunately, the average donor retention rate in 2022 was 42.6%, making it the lowest rate on record.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Right Shoe Can Change Your Life, and So Can the Right Nonprofit Fundraising Software How It Had “Always Been Done.” When I started my nonprofit fundraising career a decade ago, all I knew were spreadsheets, paper bid sheets, and manually charging sales for each guest at a fundraising event.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Dive in as our experts share their top tips and secrets that have consistently won the day in the nonprofit world. How to Audit Your Strategic Plan to Prepare for Annual Planning Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast Your strategic plan is your guiding star, helping you determine where to channel your energy, time, and resources.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

8 Fiscal Year-End Donor Retention Action Strategies + Practical Tips. There’s nothing more important to your bottom line and long-term sustainability than donor retention. Most nonprofits have a “house list” of affiliated people who’ve not yet become donors. Don’t let them! 1 Fiscal Year-End Donor Acquisition Tip.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This strategy encourages your supporters to engage with each other and their friends and creates further awareness for your nonprofit by spreading your mission to new audiences. So, how do you turn a virtual stranger into a long-time supporter of your nonprofit? It all comes down to your donor retention strategies.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Software solutions keep the nonprofit sector in motion. 67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. That’s just the start—nonprofit software tools come in many varieties, offering support for marketing, event planning, form building, and much more.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

You might be inspired to bring your idea to life by starting a nonprofit. million registered nonprofits in the United States, making these charitable organizations a staple of modern society. However, any new nonprofit needs a strong foundation to thrive. Around 30% of nonprofits cease to exist within 10 years of their founding.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker. As a leader in the nonprofit sector, you’re not only concerned with your own learning journey, but the professional development of your employees as well. So how can you, in the words of Peter Drucker, “teach people how to learn?”

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What if you had a system that attracted people to your nonprofit, and within a day turned them into first-time donors? Since 2015, Beeline has helped nonprofits expand their mission and grow their donor base through digital marketing. But what if this is wrong?

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Classy

AUGUST 4, 2021

There are many nonprofit roles that are responsible for fundraising. Nonprofits who get more of their staff involved in their online fundraising strategy prove to be more successful in driving donations. Working as a team to maximize donations benefits your nonprofit’s mission and overall financial health. . Database Owners.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When we first started researching the use of AI in nonprofit organizations, we described the key benefit of AI as the “dividend of time.” With many nonprofit workplaces taking up generative AI over the past year, what costs and benefits are staff seeing? This is called “co-botting” or “co-piloting” with AI.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Faced with existential crises thanks to the pandemic and the social upheaval of the past year, businesses of all stripes (nonprofits included) went into survival mode. They scrambled to connect with donors in new and fresh ways with an updated nonprofit digital strategy. It will be this way for everyone, and nonprofits are not immune.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to tell a compelling fundraising story when your cause doesn’t have a happy ending: We don’t save lives or have puppies or kittens. Organizations that do that tend to have poor donor retention. Education: People will survive without what you teach.

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Qgiv

JUNE 16, 2021

Knowing your donors is one of the most important parts of nonprofit email marketing, and it goes a long way in the donor cultivation process ! Your new donors and your existing donors are at two different stages in their relationship with your nonprofit. Chances are, donors in this category have a giving history with your nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Do you know what your retention rates are or how to increase donor loyalty? The sorry state of donor retention has been a topic of discussion for at least the past decade, since the Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report began collecting data. Yet too many nonprofits still don’t prioritize donor retention strategies. .

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Bloomerang

JUNE 15, 2022

Creating The Perfect Union Between Business And Your Nonprofit. If you feel like your nonprofit is a match made in heaven for a for-profit business and want some inspiration on how to strategize it, there’s a lot you can learn from Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE. Bernard Ross, MA is one of the greatest minds in nonprofit fundraising.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 3, 2022

Developing a training program that exceeds the expectations of volunteers will impact retention, engagement, and referral sources for your nonprofit. Is your nonprofit providing volunteers with opportunities to grow and become a greater asset to your nonprofit, long-term? Leverage Existing Skill-sets.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

posted by Erin Larkins, Fall 2019 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. First, it helps with staff retention rates. When a nonprofit leader invests in the PD of their employees, it will have significant positive effects on fundraising and donor involvement. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 15, 2018

Check out these social media accounts and websites from the best thought leaders the nonprofit sector has to offer. Julia is an author, consultant and speaker who helps plan and launch modern nonprofit marketing campaigns. Vu takes a humorous, realist approach to nonprofit management with his blog called “Nonprofit AF.”

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

But before you can capitalize on the information stored in your CRM or other nonprofit software, you need to know exactly what analytics to track in the first place. Team DNL provides Digital Nonprofit Leadership to mid-sized and large nonprofit organizations. This includes assisting with nonprofit analytics!

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For many nonprofits, donation data consistently spikes in October, November, and December and declines in January and February. Start with stewardship Research suggests that meaningful donor connections with nonprofit organizations are a key factor in determining their giving patterns. Find a Candid Community partner near you.)

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 21, 2022

The vast majority of financial support for the vast majority of nonprofit organizations comes from individual donors. So why should nonprofit spend time attracting corporate partners? Donor retention requires a lot of work, and regardless of how well you do it, has to be offset with donor growth. Who to pitch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I am thrilled with the response to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout as my co-author and I have been sharing the ideas on a virtual book tour during the last month. I was thrilled to see this blog SSIR blog post, Five Myths that Perpetuate Burnout Across Nonprofits by Ann-Sophie Morrissette.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Is success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? Can other nonprofits reproduce it? ” Why not “crowd nonprofits” that share program delivery, administration, and fundraising. My answer: yes and no.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It wasn’t long after their civil war, and the program was working with child combatants, using sports to teach new skills. 36,333 improved their attendance, engagement, and retention in education. In 2005, a visit to Right to Play in Sierra Leone with skateboarding icon Tony Hawk changed my life.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Kachuriak and the NextAfter team conducted a survey among 500 nonprofit executives, consultants, managers, and practitioners. Assessing core traits relating to behavior and motivation, the result s reveal three key insights that affect the hiring behavior of nonprofits: Nonprofits seem to be hiring at random.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. However, I don’t always have that opportunity because many times nonprofit workshops are hosted at conferences at hotels.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

Volunteerism definition Volunteerism is the act of contributing free labor to conduct community service or support a nonprofit organization. Plus, nonprofit organizations can utilize these groups of passionate volunteers to help achieve goals in making the world a better and safer place. Let’s take a closer look at this phenomenon!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-hosting The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media.

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