Ann Green

APRIL 14, 2022

As a fundraiser, you need to increase donor engagement , and the only way to do that is by tracking engagement metrics and monitoring your success. This article will show you four metrics for measuring donor engagement and tell you why they’re important for your fundraising team. . Effective donor engagement increases donor retention.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

What if I told you that how you recruit peer-to-peer fundraisers and donors could be more efficient and result in more donations over time? . By creating donor retention strategies for retaining your past fundraisers and donors. Let’s take a look at how you can retain your peer-to-peer fundraisers! How are they helping?

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The Volunteer Hub

MARCH 7, 2022

With the value of a volunteer hour approaching $29 in 2022, now is the time to focus on retention and better utilize your existing volunteer contacts. But exactly what does it take to retain volunteers and keep them active? This is a valuable means of evaluating the tasks that should be assigned to maximize retention.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you are trying to fundraise without an annual fundraising plan, you are trying to bake a pie with a lot of ingredients but no recipe. Do you really want to make fundraising so hard? The solution is to have a recipe or rather, a plan, that maps out all your fundraising for the year. Can you do it?

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JUNE 5, 2024

Encouraging empathy, active listening, and open-mindedness can help employees appreciate diverse perspectives and experiences. Leaders should lead by example by actively engaging with employees of all generations, soliciting feedback, and fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

DECEMBER 6, 2018

As a refresher, common goals — the broad outcomes you seek via communications — include engaging your community to keep people inspired and active in your work, raising awareness of issues to educate people on your cause, advocating on your issues, brand building/reputation management, and fundraising from individuals.

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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.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

To help you grow into a modern leader, we’ll explore these common nonprofit management skills you can (and should) develop at your own organization: Marketing Fundraising Public Speaking Interpersonal Communications Relationship-Building Strategic Planning Delegation Budget Allocation Problem-Solving Before training your team, invest in yourself.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2022

Nonprofits with written fundraising plans consistently outperform organizations without them. One study found that 37% of organizations with budgets under $1 million and 22% of organizations with budgets over $1 million don’t have a fundraising plan in place. 6 steps to creating a fundraising plan. Assess past performance.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If so, peer-to-peer fundraising is a perfect fundraising strategy for you to try out this year. With peer-to-peer fundraising, donors raise money on your behalf by leveraging their personal networks. Come up with an exciting fundraising event idea. Gamify your fundraising event.

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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. Who laid off their fundraising and marketing staff, and cut back on donor communications. If you rely on contributed income, fundraising and marketing are essential.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 28, 2022

You can’t plan out your nonprofit’s impact this year without projecting your fundraising revenue. In fact, you must plan your programs first so you know what your fundraising goal is. 3 Rules for Projecting Fundraising Revenue. 3 Steps to Projecting Fundraising Revenue for Your Annual Plan . The two are tied together.

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Ann Green

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By Jay Love Is your nonprofit looking to reach new audiences with your fundraising appeals , volunteer events, and advocacy opportunities? The goal here isn’t that you should immediately start participating in every activity we’ve listed. Engage with peer-to-peer fundraising donors. Take an active social media approach.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Expressions of loyalty, including retention or renewal (e.g., maintain a 75% donor retention rate this year). increase the percentage of race revenue raised via peer-to-peer fundraising by 20%). Participation levels, such as registrations, donations and RSVPs (e.g., sell out 90% of the workshops this year).

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NextAfter

JUNE 9, 2023

In fact, according to data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project, donor acquisition, dollars, and donor retention rates fell YoY in 2022. 1 – Recognize the power of acquiring a donor’s email address One way to increase retention is to acquire an email for a donor who only gives offline. What is the COVID Bump?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2021

In part one of this series, I outlined my top six fundraising strategies for 2021: . Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. This aligns with one definition of philanthropy : “Goodwill to fellow members of the human race; especially: active effort to promote human welfare.”. or $12,000. You generate!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2021

In part one of this series, I outlined my top six fundraising strategies for 2021: . Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications. You need to prioritize how you can increase your donor lifetime value by using a variety of strategies that increase donor retention and upgrades. Promote bequests.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You worked hard to meet last year’s fundraising goals, and now you’re able to look ahead at a new year filled with new possibilities. To help start your year off strong, consider prioritizing these five fundraising ideas today. Use these insights to inform your nonprofit’s year-round fundraising activities.

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Candid

JUNE 28, 2022

Donor retention is the measurement of how many donors continue giving to your nonprofit year after year. Maintaining a high retention rate means your nonprofit has access to ongoing, sustainable financial support. Maintaining a high retention rate means your nonprofit has access to ongoing, sustainable financial support.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2022

In this roundup, I compiled the best year-end fundraising advice from several nonprofit consultants in my network. If you had one piece of advice for successful end-of-year fundraising what would it be? From Tom Ahern , professional copywriter, coach, author of 8 fundraising books , and town crier for donor love. Start earlier.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

As a fellow fundraiser, let me begin by giving you my congratulations on completing an unprecedented fundraising year. Take time to appreciate your team members who contributed to your organization’s fundraising success. . How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . Should we eliminate the golf outing?

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Here’s one common approach: Divide your metrics into those that measure Activity, Reach, Engagement, and Impact. Activity = content you created. Predictive = activity that you expect to create Performance in the future. How many emails did you send last month? Reach = who and how many saw it. How many people received the email?

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 15, 2023

Can you be pursuing them more actively and frequently? We’ll break down the benefits of developing a planned giving program into four key categories: financial stability, donor appeal and access, donor relations, and fundraising potential. Your donors at various giving levels may be drawn to planned giving (if you actively promote it!)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Related Webinar: Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits. Today, nonprofits worldwide have access to online fundraising tools that could not have been imagined at the turn of the millennium, and current best practices are shaped by 20+ years of innovation and experimentation. 1) Implement Donation Page Best Practices.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 25, 2022

Are you ready for the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising? Need to improve your Active Listening Skills in the Workplace ? Bonnie Meyer shares 4 Communications Strategy Tips for Donor Retention. Homecoming. Disney Springs, FL. Hello, Friends!

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Bloomerang

MAY 25, 2022

With the app, the fundraising power of Bloomerang can be accessed from anywhere and in real time to provide meaningful insights that improve constituent interactions. Now fundraisers can keep up to date on their donors, fundraise on the go more efficiently, and ultimately build better relationships with their constituents.” . “Now

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 14, 2024

As a gift officer, do you sometimes feel like your administrators and leaders are directing you to perform fundraising activities that don’t actually seem to produce much revenue? Their performance is measured by activities. Major gifts fundraising is not about scheduling the most meetings you can make happen.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Here at Bloomerang, we specialize in donor retention. Retention is the key to maximizing your fundraising strategy, and appreciation is at the root of that strategy. We’ll start with the fundamentals: the importance of donor appreciation and how it can inform your fundraising strategy. Ideas for Major Donors.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Here at Bloomerang, we specialize in donor retention. Retention is the key to maximizing your fundraising strategy, and appreciation is at the root of that strategy. We’ll start with the fundamentals: the importance of donor appreciation and how it can inform your fundraising strategy. Ideas for Major Donors.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For instance, if you want to increase donor retention with an outreach campaign, you wouldn’t want to target donor prospects. It’s a critical element in streamlining and strengthening your fundraising plan. Additionally if you want a more personalized approach, you can work with a fundraising consultant. Engagement histories.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Online fundraising has been on an upward trajectory for years. But because of pandemic-related restrictions on in-person interactions, online fundraising increased by 32% in 2020. After a year of significant growth, online fundraising grew by a more modest 3% in 2021 , and the number of gifts increased by 5%.

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Ann Green

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data can help inform your nonprofit’s approach to text-to-give and drive greater fundraising results. A text donation campaign informed by donor data is more likely to inspire donors to act and bring in greater fundraising results. Your nonprofit is now hosting a text fundraiser to coincide with your upcoming fundraising gala.

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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%.

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Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

My last article of this two-part series, “ Nonprofit Giving Trends and Future Fundraising Strategy ,” began a discussion of smart fundraising strategies to take advantage of best practices and current trends. It covered broad brush strategies all nonprofits today should incorporate into their donor fundraising/marketing mix.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The less than good fundraising news continues to roll in. Donor retention continued to decline (4.6%), marking the fourth consecutive year of year-over-year negative activity. Donor retention continued to decline (4.6%), marking the fourth consecutive year of year-over-year negative activity.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 25, 2024

In today’s fast-paced and economically uncertain world, nonprofit organizations (NPOs) face the critical task of fundraising effectively. DRMs can directly address industry challenges by offering tools for personalized communication and targeted outreach to support relationship building and retention. you’ve got a lot of competition.

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Ann Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fundraising during a pandemic can be a challenge. Therefore, organizations that depend highly on individual donations have seen significant drops in fundraising revenue. While you may have some doubts about continuing fundraising practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s crucial that you don’t quit altogether. Let’s jump in!

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