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Heather Yandow. In today’s post,we dive into the Individual Donor Benchmark Report by Third Space Studio and focus on donor retention numbers. ~Kristina. Guest Post by Heather Yandow of Third Space Studio. Do you ever wonder how you stack up against other nonprofits? What the average organization’s donor base looks like? Or what you can expect to raise from monthly giving?
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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage
This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
In the world of fundraising, donor cultivation is king. People get sweaty palms over doing the ask, but if you’ve done cultivation right, the gift is like ripe fruit falling from the tree. Too often organizations skimp on donor cultivation. Why spend time on donor cultivation? Not only can you cultivate affordably, it’s also infinitely cheaper to keep a donor than to acquire a new one.
Source: https://flic.kr/p/8q7cDb. The other day my daughter and I were walking down an aisle in a department store and she noticed a huge Halloween products display. “Oh come on!” she said. TOO SOON. I agreed, and we had a laugh about how I forbid holiday music until after Thanksgiving. Ah, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. You know what it’s not too soon for?
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Earlier this summer, I mentioned that we’ve been tracking the communications of pairs of national nonprofits working in the same space. Where are the organizations’ strategies in sync? Where do they diverge? What can you learn from their approaches? We are calling the comparisons The Showdown. We will often declare “winners,” but that part is really just for fun.
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Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business
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If you’re really serious about growing your organization, you must focus on answering this one question: Why do donors do what they do? Unless you can empirically answer that question you’ll continue to be stuck with inefficient, scratch-the-surface guesswork, incremental testing to nowhere, and the oxymoron ‘flat-growth’ Today, the answers to this question of ‘why’ all too often relies on ‘truisms’ from the trove of unproven tribal wisdom.
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: The Big Three: Meet Your Year-End Giving Goals appeared first on Mission Minded.
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