CauseVox

JULY 28, 2025

Even though it’s inevitable that many donors will lapse, small improvements in retention or reactivation can add up to meaningful revenue. Divide that number by your original donor count to get your attrition rate. Flip it around and you’ve got your retention rate. So retention is 43%, while attrition is 57%.

Donor

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

What was our retention rate year over year? October Collect testimonials, impact stories, videos, and pictures and use them to write ‘reporting back’ stewardship emails, postcards, texts, thank-a-thon phone scripts, or letters. What was our average gift amount? How many new first-time donors did we have at end of year?

Calendar

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For mobile users, the primary donation page conversion rate was just 10%. Retaining donors is equally challengingthe average nonprofit donor retention rate is consistently around 45%. Unnecessary steps or confusing instructions can harm your pages conversion rate, making it essential to design a user-friendly form.

Donation

DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Measuring the effectiveness of your marketing efforts: Set yourself up to track your marketing efforts success by measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) like return on investment, click-through rate, conversion rate, and more. Creating a better user experience (UX) on your website could increase conversion rates by 400%.

Marketing

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 24, 2025

But to get the full picture of where DAFs stand today, we need to dive deeper into the latest reports. The average DAF payout rate (the percentage of grants made relative to the charitable assets available) was almost 24%. The Latest Reports on DAF Giving In 2023, funding from DAF accounts made up almost 9.8% of all U.S.

Donor

Whole Whale

MAY 15, 2025

What You’re Missing: The Rest of the Funnel Retention is just the bottom of a much bigger picture. From that list, even a modest 5% conversion rate to donors could mean 1 new donor. Increase your email-to-donor conversion rate. Want better retention? Measure open and conversion rates. Want more donors?

Donor

Neon CRM

JULY 11, 2025

The good news: We’re being a little dramatic with how we paint this picture. You’ll find downloadable dashboards and annual reports packed with data on retention, gift frequency, and more. Perfect for grant proposals, board presentations, or simply understanding where your org fits in the bigger picture.

Resource

Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

“You look at different business areas or strategic goals and think about what it is now, like our retention rate, and come up with a reasonable future state that you feel like you could achieve,” explains Bill. Plus, it opens up a window into the future of what could be.

Analytics

Gyrus

APRIL 24, 2025

But despite their potential, LMS platforms are often underutilized due to low LMS user adoption rate, which hinder their overall impact and ROI. But despite their potential, many platforms are often underutilized due to a low LMS user adoption rate. Their buy-in can significantly boost the LMS user adoption rate.

Adopt

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 3, 2025

As a nonprofit, part of your job is making sure that volunteers have a positive experience across the entire volunteer lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to engagement and retention. Volunteer Retention. Your volunteer turnover rates are high. Return on Investment. Your volunteer program consistently exceeds its budget.

Volunteer

Fast Company Tech

JULY 18, 2025

The insights paint a clear picture: adaptability, trust, and human-centered innovation are the new cornerstones of business success. When too few people can be rated highly, it creates environments where peers may feel forced to compete rather than collaborate. retention issues, disengagement, etc.).

Trend

Fast Company Tech

JULY 2, 2025

Additional perks like credit-boosting features that report on-time rent payments help improve tenants’ financial standing enhance satisfaction and retention, a dynamic common across gig platforms. This helps fill vacancies faster and with greater confidence, lowering turnover and vacancy rates.

Professional

CauseVox

JUNE 3, 2025

.” That level of relevance builds trust, deepens connections, and leads to higher open and conversion rates. Segment Your Donor Base That one-on-one personalization is powerful, but your CRM also helps you step back and see the bigger picture. Thats where your CRM shines. Ready to take your fundraising to the next level?

Fundraising

The Verge

JUNE 23, 2025

And you’re right; social media is ultimately optimizing for engagement, retention, and time in app. When I started Hinge back in 2011, as venture capitalists looked at our business they asked those questions around engagement and retention. We look at the big picture. Where do you think the rates should be?

Social Media

Gyrus

APRIL 11, 2025

</p><p>Engagement levels are typically low, leading to poor retention of information. </p><p>Retention of information is another challenge. When they actively participate, information retention significantly improves. There are limited tools to evaluate learning outcomes effectively.</p><p>Engagement

Online Learning

Association Analytics

MAY 17, 2021

If you’re responsible for member retention, you have your renewal rate committed to memory, right? You are most likely doing everything you should -- calculating your retention rate on a regular basis, being consistent in your retention formula and sharing results with key stakeholders.

Retention

Association Analytics

DECEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re responsible for member retention, you have your renewal rate committed to memory, right? You are most likely doing everything you should — calculating your retention rate on a regular basis, being consistent in your retention formula and sharing results with key stakeholders.

Retention

Gyrus

APRIL 24, 2025

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Adopt

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Nonprofits who care about donor retention employ numerous strategies to keep their donors coming back year after year. Personal acknowledgments, impact reporting, and a strong monthly giving program are some of the cornerstones to a high donor retention rate. Savvy fundraisers have always kept donor retention top of mind.

Retention

Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

In our previous blog posts on retention and product value , we illustrated how data isn’t one dimensional. As a bonus, many associations find that repeat event attendees also renew at higher rates. ( Do your repeat event attendees also renew at higher rates? ). Let’s take a look at how event data can be put into action.

Associations

NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Your nonprofit’s donor retention rate is the percentage of donors who give from year to year, or over any other specific time period. With concrete retention strategies, you can make the most of increases in new donors. Here are the essentials to keep in mind when building or updating your nonprofit’s donor retention strategy.

Retention

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As a sector, we’ve been addicted to the buzz about social media – and social media itself – for nearly 20 years, but if we take a step back and take a critical look at the big picture of social media, many nonprofits will discover that their return on investment (ROI) from using social media is minimal. What is your engagement rate?

Trend

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Community Brands recently shared donor retention data that reinforced alarming trends that the nonprofit sector has been monitoring for a while. In their survey, they asked nonprofits what their current donor retention rate was: about 60% said they didn’t know and the rest had an average donor retention rate of 45%.

Donor

Neon CRM

JUNE 9, 2023

Membership retention rates for nonprofits vary widely. But, regardless of your mission or industry, member retention is vital. If you want to improve your membership retention rates, you need to nurture and build your member relationships consistently. What’s Affecting Your Membership Retention Rate?

Retention

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

By Emily Rose Patz , Senior Copywriter at DonorPerfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Improve donor retention through donor targeting and filtering. Goals can include: Gain insight into donor data through reporting and data analytics. Which tasks are slowing your team down the most?

Software

Achieve

MAY 24, 2024

However, with the average donor retention rate sitting around 45%, many nonprofits struggle to sustain newly acquired donors’ support. In this guide, we’ll cover four best practices to increase your donor retention rate with text messaging. Donor retention is a key piece of any successful fundraising strategy.

Retention

Bloomerang

JANUARY 3, 2022

When evaluating your year-end campaign , look at the whole picture. Looking at this data will help you make informed decisions and have an accurate picture of your organization’s health. . Response rates for each channel used . Email open and click-through rates by campaign (and/or subject line). Key Messages .

Evaluation

Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. For example, retention rates tend to be higher for mid-level and major donors. Start with benchmark data.

Analytics

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For companies raising capital in the coming year, news of rising interest rates, market volatility and falling valuations paints a daunting picture. The cohort analysis shows that newer groups of customers are larger and more retentive than ever before. Know your startup’s value so you can communicate it to investors.

Fundraising

sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2023

Using the toolkit’s free Reflection worksheet, gather data on your current revenue streams, audience, donor retention rates, and more. By now, you have a clear picture of your opportunities and goals, so it’s time to build a work-back calendar and activate your organizations around a development plan.

Gift

Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

But when looking at the bigger picture, even more valuable benefits become clear: Higher conversion rates through better-targeted donor lists. AI can generate predictions that help you: Create highly targeted mailing lists for appeals, reducing upfront costs and increasing conversion rates.

Course

sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

Some examples: Employee retention rate Absenteeism rate Employee satisfaction, quantified on a questionnaire or survey Free Guide Development Plan Toolkit Download Now Utilizing Effective Data Tools Many nonprofits started out as a grassroots group with a dream and some bootstraps. How do you present nonprofit outcomes?

Measure

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Donor Retention Rate. Without question, your donor retention rate is one of the most important fundraising metrics. But, it’s nearly impossible for a nonprofit to survive prolonged episodes of poor donor retention. . The closer your retention rate is to 100%, the better. Donor Attrition Rate .

Metrics

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

When asked by organizations whether their online fundraising programs should focus on donor acquisition or donor retention, I say, “Yes.”. We can see from the 2016 Luminate Online Benchmark Report that nonprofits are having success in both areas, but that between the two, efforts are skewed toward donor retention.

Retention

Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

Basing decisions on what members did 10 years ago could leave you with an outdated picture and skew results in the wrong direction. Since his activity is newer and more consistent, his engagement score is rated higher than Lynne’s. Do you want to improve retention numbers? Keep things recent to get the most accurate data.

Associations

Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Recognizing volunteers effectively can positively impact your retention rates. Actively recognizing volunteers is one of the most important components of volunteer engagement and retention. Your organization can use gamification to challenge volunteers, reward them for opportunities served, and create incentives for retention.

Volunteer

Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2022

While there are several answers to this question, getting a return on your investment (ROI) really starts with two key things: new donor retention and second gift conversions. Picture the ideal way you would like to cultivate and solicit your new donors. So, how do you set a second gift strategy? If not, how can I do so?”.

Donor