Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When it comes to fundraising, we often strive to use storytelling and tugging of heartstrings to appeal to potential donors. Research conducted on effective marketing tactics and donor psychology are extremely beneficial to crafting communications that engage donors. But there is a science behind doing this well.

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Of course, it’s hard to deliver more value to mass market, low dollar donors than to high value, wealthy supporters. Conclusion: Aligning Strategy with Donor Values The takeaway? Building a successful fundraising strategy isn’t about dollar amounts—it’s about aligning your approach with donor motivations.

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Candid

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Fundraisers need to understand donors’ motivations The data shows the size of a gift or grant often matters more to organizational sustainability than the type of donor—whether it’s from individuals or institutional funders. Similarly, the top 0.1%

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

But the groups that often have the greatest success connecting with donors, motivating activists, or getting media attention do not spend much time talking about their programs and services. Nonprofits are often very good at talking about what they do. Instead, they are adept at articulating why they do what they do.

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Bloomerang

MAY 4, 2023

Innovative fundraising researcher Adrian Sargeant, co-director of the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy, says, “Nonprofits are a means to an end for the donor. The study also found that donors who are given a choice felt more connected to the nonprofit and its mission. When people give to you, they’re not loving the charity.

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The Agitator

MAY 23, 2018

This time, I’m going with a non-fundraising book: Hacking Marketing by Scott Brinker of Chief Marketing Technologist fame. The idea is how to take the lessons from the agile software development movement and apply them to more traditional marketing. Intimate customer tribes over impersonal mass markets.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2011

In their research, they have identified six common types of donor motivation: What do all of these have in common? This week, Hope Consulting and GuideStar released the second part of the Money for Good research. Two things: Emotion and impact. If nothing else, remember this: Speak to the heart and show how you make a difference.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Having these insights available for all your donors enables you to tailor your communications and engagement strategy specifically for that prospect or donor, deepening your philanthropic relationship. Imagine how efficiently you could use this data to build both major and mid-level portfolios.

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The Agitator

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Many are unaware of the ample evidence in behavioral science for why premiums not only delude fundraisers but, far more importantly, destroy donor motivation and loyalty. Choosing to ignore the ‘premium problem’ is far too often the option selected in the drive to keep acquisition rates high and CEOs happy.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

MAY 1, 2012

Their guide outlines a four-step process for identifying, engaging, qualifying, cultivating and converting event donors. Treat event donors the same say you would treat a friend of a friend. So how do you do that?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 6, 2024

By integrating everything—CRM, marketing automation, and advanced analytics—they ensure every message you send resonates deeply with what your members care about. The post The Psychology Behind Giving: Motivating Members to Become Donors appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

MAY 1, 2012

Their guide outlines a four-step process for identifying, engaging, qualifying, cultivating and converting event donors. Treat event donors the same say you would treat a friend of a friend. So how do you do that?

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Participation and motivation Donor Motivation Recruitment Communication 71

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

That’s what everyone is saying at the Direct Marketing Association conference here in New York, where I spoke this morning with fellow bloggers Jeff Brooks , Sarah Durham of Big Duck , Roger Craver of the Agitator and Karen Zapp. Jeff Brooks says people under 50 don’t give enough to merit much cultivation at all. Errr… no.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

So, the pitch is strong, the donor motivated, and a gift comes in. After donors give to a nonprofit, those organizations need to practice good stewardship. Q: That’s great advice, Katya. And happily, consistent with our guidebook!)

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2022

Establish a clear communication cadence that takes donors through the stewardship process in a way that keeps them updated—and does so without sending them too many emails during a short period of time, as this can cause email fatigue. This can help you decide how to space out your donor communications. .

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Participation and motivation Retention Public and Nonprofit Management Communication 107

Fundraising Coach

MARCH 21, 2023

What” compels donors to give cannot be reduced to a dirty tear-streaked face, or stories of profound hardship. Trying to measure donor motivations in A/B marketing tests is challenging and we are often not able to draw concrete conclusions as to why some campaigns were marginally more successful than others.

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 15, 2021

By analyzing the donor data you have available, you can learn volumes about donor motivation and behavior, then use this information to guide your fundraising approach. Donor data can help you with segmentation, marketing, stewardship, and more. How to Calculate.

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Blue Avocado

AUGUST 20, 2024

Here, it might be useful to enlist the eyes of friends and family to market-test all possible options with a focus on discovering any potential snags. Remember, clarity on the material aspects of solicitation ensures that, once a donor decides to give, they can know exactly what to do. The staff is willing to talk to me.

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The Agitator

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

That’s because authors Katrina VanHuss and Otis Fulton provide a fascinating, road-tested tour of donor motivation, donor recognition and donor incentives—good and bad—and the behavioral science principles that undergird them. Market Relationships.

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Of course, its hard to deliver more value to mass market, low dollar donors than to high value, wealthy supporters. Conclusion: Aligning Strategy with Donor Values The takeaway? Building a successful fundraising strategy isnt about dollar amountsits about aligning your approach with donor motivations.

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Participation and motivation Fundraising Fundraising Collaborations 52

Nonprofit Megaphone

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Ask yourself why donors would want to attend. To find the right event and audience, it’s important that you understand (and then align) both your donors’ motivations and your fundraising goals. Create a contact strategy. Start by asking yourself a truly humbling question: “Why would someone want to attend my event?”. Occupation.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 7, 2022

Marketing materials. Creating an online donation page is the perfect chance to build a strong connection and relationship with your donors, motivating them to give. You can keep track of your interactions with corporate sponsors and use email marketing tools to reach out to partners. Equipment and supply purchases.

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NextAfter

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A business trying to get market intelligence from a survey may aim for an 80% level of confidence. So let’s take a look at a few recent experiments from our library of 5,500+ digital fundraising case studies —experiments that did not validate but do, however, provide valuable insights into donor motivation.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Whether it’s the tax incentive or that warm, fuzzy feeling, donors want to contribute money to causes that they care about. You can appeal to donors’ motivations for giving and receiving twice as many donations when you promote matching gifts for your annual fund. People give for many different reasons.

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 15, 2021

By analyzing the donor data you have available, you can learn volumes about donor motivation and behavior, then use this information to guide your fundraising approach. Donor data can help you with segmentation, marketing, stewardship, and more. How to Calculate.

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iMarketSmart

MARCH 20, 2022

As a specific example of the importance of identification from fundraising, an in-depth investigation of donor motivations for giving to university athletic programs found that, “‘vicarious achievement’ was a primary motivational factor for donors to university athletic programs. Sport Marketing Quarterly, 28(2).

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 3, 2017

Life stories are like fingerprints. No two are alike and everyone has them. All of our life stories are filled with challenges that must be overcome, successes and failures, good times and heartaches, help we received from others and times we provided assistance.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2023

International Review of Public and Nonprofit Marketing, 15 (3), 393-411. [16] Journal of Marketing, 67 (3), 47-62. [24] International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 5 (4), 365-372. [28] International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, 15 (3), 393-411. [32] 15] James, R. 24] Greenwald, A.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 3, 2022

But the job is to raise money from donors motivated by their own hero story. She can feed the administrator-hero story back to the administrators and out to the donors. Their hero story causes them to misperceive donor motives. Otherwise, the donor won’t give. Industrial Marketing Management, 90 , 300-313.

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NextAfter

MAY 31, 2022

“We did that on our donation page, and our donors say they love it.” “We Those phrases, although common to hear from fundraisers and marketers – don’t put the donor’s behaviors first. If you ask your donors for their opinion , how do you know their words match their actions ? Some of them led to big increases in results.

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The Agitator

MARCH 18, 2018

Rather it serves as a poignant reminder of the eternal quest to find a magic segmentation elixir – for consumer marketing, political campaigning, and yes, fundraising. It seems to be making its way back in vogue in consumer marketing, voter profiling and yes, fundraising. Read the story and judge for yourself). Background in Brief.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

You can design your marketing and fundraising materials to appeal to the right emotions. Psychologists have studied the dynamics of giving for years and identified some key internal motivators for giving. People who give to your legal defense fund for immigrants may feel angry at how immigrants are treated.

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