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Try These Nonprofit Donor Retention Tweaks with BIG, Happy Outcomes

Clairification

Maybe at a restaurant, hotel, fast food restaurant or retail outlet? Customer service, like everything an effective organization does, changes people.” — Seth Godin Part of the Problem is Culture Think about it. This also happens at nonprofits without a donor-centered culture of philanthropy. It’s so stupid!

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Unlocking The Power Of A Donor Thank You: Feeding America’s Approach

Bloomerang

Aaron and his team have designed a donor thank you process that’s an ongoing practice integrated into the fundraising culture at Feeding America. Feeding America’s mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all. Thanking a donor well increases donor retention multiple times.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering an Analytical Approach to Strategy and Planning

Bloomerang

Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. 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. Let’s say you’re a food bank.

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5 Challenges Nonprofits Face in 2024

The Charity CFO

These challenges include financial issues, data security compliance, and talent retention problems. The cost of cat and dog food is going up, so your expenses are higher to feed the animals in your care. Donor Retention and Engagement Building positive donor relationships is an integral part of nonprofit management.

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The Five Most Meaningful Words: "What Do You Think, April?"

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Director of Capacity Building April Carter Provides a Perspective on Momentum Nonprofit Partners’ Organizational Culture “What do you think, April?” Those five simple words have been foundational to my success and to the thriving culture of my place of work. It takes commitment on everyone’s part to build a culture like ours.

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Getting to Know Our Board Members: Amanda McCollum

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Amanda’s approach of gratitude, empathy, and understanding, has allowed her to create HR policies internally at Adams Keegan, and for hundreds of their clients that fosters a culture of care, which ultimately leads to a better work environment and employee retention. because it is such a melting-pot of cultures.

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Making Mothers Out Front a Liberatory Space

NonProfit Quarterly

Our climate crisis is related to people being unhoused, living in food deserts, and being unable to find work because of a lack of affordable transportation. Throughout this process, we’ve asked ourselves two main questions: How do we embed justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion into our internal culture and programmatic work?