Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

By Christy Smaglio , Instructional Writer at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Donor retention is a crucial aspect of a productive fundraising strategy. Here are seven excellent methods of increasing donor retention and how to automate them.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

Along with many funders incorporating trust-based philanthropy practices and principles, this growing trend may affect giving to nonprofits and impact the way nonprofits are asked to share organizational information with funders. I’m often invited to speak with organizations about the latest fundraising and nonprofit trends.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

If you are feeling the post-GivingTuesday blues and seeking to drive even more donations to your organization, don’t fret. 5 ways to get most out of the year-end giving season. 5 ways to get most out of the year-end giving season. For some of your donors, giving on GivingTuesday may not be the right time. Sound familiar?

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Socailbrite

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Donors are still eager to support the organizations and causes they care about, yet they expect to be engaged differently — often through digital channels. 3 strategies to foster successful fundraising campaigns. 3 strategies to foster successful fundraising campaigns. Nurture donor relationships through digital channels.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A solid donor relationship is the backbone of successful fundraising. When donors feel like they’re making a difference and that they’re valued for their contribution, they stick around and keep giving. Just like any other relationship in life, your relationships with your donors should be mutually beneficial and enjoyable.

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iMarketSmart

AUGUST 15, 2022

It can do more for the donor than just consuming more stuff would do. It can enhance the donor’s identity. It can advance the donor’s hero story. The steps don’t matter because the charity doesn’t care about the donor’s hero story. Fundraisers aren’t even allowed to tell the donor’s hero story.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

AUGUST 1, 2022

Donor retention is one of the most prevalent challenges for nonprofits. However, Forbes has reported t hat the outlook for charitable giving in 2022 remains more promising than you might expect. We’ve compiled a list of seven successful ways to retain donors and keep them engaged. . Thank Donors Properly .

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I think colleges and universities should STOP worrying so much about DONOR PARTICIPATION RATES and become much more concerned about QUALIFICATION RATES. And, how many crass solicitations result from that investment (which drive plenty of donors away). while new high dollar donors (+$5,000) retain at 44.15%.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

This is the first post in a 3-part series. Stay tuned for part 2 and part 3. . They scrambled to connect with donors in new and fresh ways with an updated nonprofit digital strategy. They scrambled to connect with donors in new and fresh ways with an updated nonprofit digital strategy. AD = After Disruption.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 29, 2021

How do you build trust with donors? Here are a few ways you can make your organization stand out and build trust with those who are loyal to your cause. When it comes to creating content, keep that same sense of sincerity. Spread your content across multiple platforms and keep it cohesive. Be sincere. Just be you.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

That means you need to make sure you don’t lose any of those donors you took such pains to acquire last year. 8 Fiscal Year-End Donor Retention Action Strategies + Practical Tips. 8 Fiscal Year-End Donor Retention Action Strategies + Practical Tips. Most donors are well-intentioned; they’re just busy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

To date, more than 50 million donors have given over $5 billion through the GoFundMe fundraisers. And because GoFundMe has a 0% platform fee , your organization will be able to keep more of the funds raised. People are far more drawn to photos that convey an emotion and include other people rather than a logo or text.

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Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

It covered broad brush strategies all nonprofits today should incorporate into their donor fundraising/marketing mix. These are my favorite tips to enhance what you’re already doing to attract and sustain individual donor fundraising. . Some take more of a commitment, yet the return on investment makes it well worth the initiative. .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

Having a clear online fundraising strategy, and the tools to bring it to life, is more important than ever, especially as younger generations gain more giving power. Bloomerang is designed to give nonprofit professionals more time back in the day by making data insights easy to interpret and act on.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Text-to-give is one of the easiest and fastest ways to raise donations via SMS messaging. This guide will explain how the process works and ways to optimize your campaigns to raise more from this channel. With a text-to-give or bill-to-carrier campaign, donors text in a donation amount, which is applied to their next phone bill.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nonprofit advocacy campaigns give your supporters a new way to get involved while furthering your mission through grassroots action. Plus, your nonprofit can attract new supporters interested in advocacy to your cause, growing your supporter network of donors and volunteers. Focus on volunteer retention.

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Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 14, 2014

Every week, I have a conversation like this with a nonprofit leader: Nonprofit Leader: "We need to find new donors." (As As though there''s a magic bullet, a secret place to find new donors.). Me: "Why do you want to find new donors?". We need more money so we need new, better donors.". Donor retention starts here!

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 18, 2021

In my previous post I outlined the 3 types of marketing automation tools fundraising operations really should understand. Plus, I said it can help you move your mid-level donors up. Here are my top 10 ways it can improve your team’s output and enhance its effectiveness. For nonprofits, this boosts confidence from the donor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

This is the fourth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Even though billions of dollars have been raised online since 1999, it’s surprising how many nonprofits make the donation process more complicated than it should be.

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Fundraising Coach

AUGUST 12, 2014

As a fundraising coach, one of the most common questions I get is about how to get new donors for a nonprofit. email newsletter subscriber: "How do I acquire new donors? I find that people keep saying donor acquisition is given way more attention than retention. Get 100 donors in the next 12 weeks?

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The world is moving at a rapid pace and we need to keep up. By keeping up with these trends, you will be able to provide value to your donors and experience higher retention rates. By keeping up with these trends, you will be able to provide value to your donors and experience higher retention rates.

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Ann Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Your volunteers donate their time and effort to your nonprofit. Improve their experience with these essential tips to create an effective volunteer program. Happy volunteer looking at donation box on a sunny day. By Karin Tracy. However, continually recruiting new volunteers to replace former ones can be a time and resource-intensive task.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It works for the donor. The donor is the hero. For this operations side, the donor-hero story does not work. For this operations side, the donor-hero story does not work. In the donor-hero story, charity administrators are minions. They merely scamper about doing the heroic donor’s bidding. Culture conflict.

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 12, 2022

Those metrics don’t reveal the quality of your relationships with your major gift donors and prospects. They don’t measure the value your donors get from engaging with you and supporting your mission. Email can also be automated , which enables you to scale up your major gifts fundraising without having to hire more people.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 1, 2021

Retention is getting tougher. Attracting new donors is becoming more costly. Marketing automation allows you to do more with less. When you hear about the broad benefits, it seems like the perfect solution to your problem of needing more of all the things you don’t have: time, money, and personnel.

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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. Here are 6 significant ways companies can support your organization: Credibility: when individual donors see companies supporting you, that raises your credibility and connection to the community.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This post is a guest blog by Jay Love, co-founder and current Chief Relationship Officer of Bloomerang. Or, perhaps you’ve invested a lot of energy into recruiting new donors and engaging existing ones, but your fundraising efforts aren’t yielding the results you were expecting. . Collect donor data. Personalize interactions.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Every nonprofit organization needs more of two things: time and money. Okay, every organization (nonprofit or for-profit) could use more of those two resources. If I’m more efficient, I can raise more money. Of course such a broad question can’t be addressed in a blog post, nor should it be.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Video marketing is now more important to nonprofits than ever. Did you know that videos get 1200% more shares than text and image content combined? On Instagram alone, videos get over 2 times more engagement than Instagram photos. So, how can nonprofits keep using video marketing to their advantage? And rightly so.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 10, 2020

With millions surfing the web at any given moment, social channels have proven to be super valuable as a way to keep in touch with friends and family ? Nonprofit marketers should realize the importance of social media for brand engagement and donor retention ? and the world. As of January 2020 , there are 3.8

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Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 1, 2014

And there are more in the comments! Again, there''s more conversation in the comments. 16 Experts Tell You How To Keep Your Donors Wanting To Come Back. Back in February, I was privileged to host the Nonprofit Blog Carnival. I asked how nonprofits could keep their donors wanting to come back.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

MAY 20, 2014

Relationships with organization’s donors require the same kind of focus and energy for the duration—if you want to keep them happy, involved, and giving. Unfortunately, recent research suggests that most fundraisers are doing a poor job of maintaining connections, with donor retention rates at an all-time low of 39%.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Below you’ll find some of the most common errors you make when thanking donors who gave online. With the rising popularity of online donors, there has been a coinciding increase in sector discussion of how to best manage online donor stewardship. Donor acknowledgment is certainly a factor in that discussion.

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

1] Another writes, “Fundraisers need to focus MORE on creating memories and moments with their donors … and LESS about hitting those wacky metrics or year-end goals.”[2]. Large sales require longer, deeper, more consultative relationships.[4] Now, replace the word “customer” with the word “donor.” Fightin’ words.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 17, 2018

” In Part I, I talked about ways to approach this question with your email list. . If someone hasn’t engaged with an email in 3 months or 6 months, you would consider them unengaged. This means you can keep them in the database, but that you no longer regularly send them print or email communications.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2013

The easier it is to do, the more likely your fans are to take up your cause and promote it to their social networks. In addition to featuring peer-to-peer fundraising tools on your website, make this donation tool a regular part of communication with your donors. 3) Celebrate your champions. 3) Celebrate your champions.

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