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How to Uncover Donors’ Motivations To Better Align Organization Mission and Individual Philanthropy

NonProfit PRO

Donors are fascinating, unique individuals who consider multiple motivations when deciding how, when and why to be charitable. It is no longer enough to say, “Our donors give because they care about our mission.” It's important to uncover donorsmotivations.

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The Psychology of Giving: 18 Tips to Increase Donor Retention and Lifetime Value

Nonprofit Megaphone

Here are some ways understanding the psychology of giving can help you increase donor retention and lifetime value: Personalized messaging: Tailoring your messaging to donor motivations can help you connect with them emotionally and increase the chances of future giving.

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Using Research to Raise More Money

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Some, like me, pursued higher education and research careers because they wanted to understand and impact nonprofits’ ability to raise more money. You can search broadly for something like “fundraising,” “nonprofit marketing,” or, “nonprofit donor motivation” and see what comes up.

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Agitator Cliff Notes: “Hacking Marketing”

The Agitator

From my dog-eared pages: What is the template for the donor story? Last week, I talked about the jobs-to-be-done framework to look at donor motivation. This asks what is the donor hiring your nonprofit to do at an emotional level ? As you can tell, there’s plenty of meat on these bones. And are you doing it for them?

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Dr. James explains how to harness friendship reciprocity to unlock heroic donations

iMarketSmart

6] See previous article: The Power of Heroic Philanthropy: Understanding Donor Motivations [7] Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. 13] CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education). Friendship and the banker’s paradox: Other pathways to the evolution of adaptations for altruism. 8] (2016, June 2). 2013, July 25).

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10 Years of Decoding What Works in Online Fundraising

NextAfter

Others may have led to a decrease, but they also led to important learnings about donor motivations. The additional emails would focus on educating and feeding back into the various segments. increase in the likelihood for a donor to give a gift online. Some of them led to big increases in results. EXPERIMENT ID: #93844.

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How to build deeper connections with your donors using surveys

iMarketSmart

One had response cards with this statement [where “X” was a checked box symbol]: “Annual alumni giving through the Penn Fund directly supports these priorities of undergraduate education. Philanthropy & Education, 2 (2), 1-28. [45] Philanthropy & Education, 3 (1), 73-102. [61] Jones & Bartlett Learning.