Top Nonprofits

MARCH 26, 2025

To effectively tackle initiatives like school fundraisers , enrichment programs, and schoolwide improvement strategies, you need the helping hands of volunteers from your community. In this guide, well explore top tips for recruiting a robust volunteer community, as well as suggestions to help you manage and retain your volunteers.

Recruitment

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 6, 2025

With the right benefits and marketing strategies in place, you can cultivate a tight-knit community of familiar faces who will be the first to sign up for your events, participate in your fundraising initiatives, and speak out on behalf of your cause. One powerful tactic to consider is recruiting member ambassadors.

Recruitment

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The most recent data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project shows that more donations are coming from an increasingly small donor pool and emphasizes new donor acquisition as a top priority for nonprofits: The decline in donor numbers is largely driven by low participation from the smallest donor size group (under $100), which saw an -12.4%

Nonprofit Organizations

Ann Green

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Year-end fundraising coincides with the gratitude season, which includes Thanksgiving in the U.S. This is appropriate since thanking your donors is part of the fundraising equation, even though many nonprofits don’t always realize this. Here are a few ways to incorporate gratitude into your year-end fundraising campaign.

Recruitment

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2025

Below are five proven strategies to help nonprofit organizations market volunteer opportunities and recruit passionate individuals dedicated to driving their missions forward. Sharing their stories allows potential recruits to see the tangible rewards of volunteering.

Recruitment

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 19, 2025

Donor retention is more than just a fundraising metricits the key to nonprofit sustainability. Yet, retention rates remain stubbornly low. And the more you raise, recruit, and retain, the more good you can do. We’d give teachers non-apples and fly non-cars. Ridiculous, right? Truth is you’re for -purpose.

Retention

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2025

Below are five proven strategies to help nonprofit organizations market volunteer opportunities and recruit passionate individuals dedicated to driving their missions forward. Sharing their stories allows potential recruits to see the tangible rewards of volunteering.

Marketing

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2025

Below are five proven strategies to help nonprofit organizations market volunteer opportunities and recruit passionate individuals dedicated to driving their missions forward. Sharing their stories allows potential recruits to see the tangible rewards of volunteering.

Recruitment

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 28, 2025

For example, do you want to steward first-time donors, recruit volunteers, or promote an event to all past event guests? Later, you can analyze data like retention rates and try to determine the role your automated campaign played in strengthening relationships and boosting retention. Outline the donor or volunteer journey.

Marketing

Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But while your organization might be on top of metrics for fundraising and volunteer recruitment , there are other operational areas you can optimize—such as hiring. Tracking hiring KPIs can be overwhelming, especially for nonprofits that have only recently started focusing on recruitment.

Recruitment

Clairification

JANUARY 2, 2025

The trending topics included how to effectively leave voicemail; retention techniques; email and other campaign appeal strategy; how to communicate about things like overhead and transaction fees; philanthropic culture and board giving. Did you miss the most popular tips on Clairification last year?

Recruitment

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MAY 28, 2025

Lets uncover how all of these sectors utilize the full potential of data-backed decisions to boost their organizational growth for different purposes, including leveraging the benefits of data-driven recruitment. Chapters What Role Does Data-Driven Decision Making Play? Ultimately, it contributes to organizational growth and effectiveness.

Non-Profits

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 3, 2025

As a nonprofit, part of your job is making sure that volunteers have a positive experience across the entire volunteer lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to engagement and retention. Volunteer Retention. Fundraising Campaigns. Or do they feel disengaged, underappreciated, and/or burnt out? Volunteer Engagement.

Recruitment

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 5, 2025

5 Ways to Get Parents Involved in School Fundraisers Instability in government funding leads to budget shortfalls for public schools, resulting in fewer extracurricular opportunities, outdated educational materials, and teachers providing supplies out of pocket. However, many parents dread the fundraising season at their children’s schools.

Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

MARCH 14, 2024

Here's how to recruit and retain fundraisers — the smart way. Hiring a new member of your development team is exciting.

Recruitment

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JULY 10, 2023

Written by: Michael Ash, Ma, CNP, PCM, PMP Reading Time: 5 minutes In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit organizations face unprecedented challenges, from transitioning to remote work models to addressing economic hardships, new challenges in fundraising, and community struggles.

Retention

Ann Green

MARCH 14, 2023

Donor retention continues to be a problem for nonprofit organizations. Acquiring new donors is more expensive than keeping the ones you already have, so it’s important for you to keep track of your retention rate. Pay attention to your first-time donors The retention rate for first-time donors is around 20%.

Retention

NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the face of challenges in employee recruitment and retention in the nonprofit sector, here are ways you can attain career success.

Recruitment

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In today’s post,we dive into the Individual Donor Benchmark Report by Third Space Studio and focus on donor retention numbers. The report, which compiles data from nonprofits with revenues of under $2 million, provides a number of interesting findings, including: The best way to ensure fundraising success is to have a plan.

Retention

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

What if I told you that how you recruit peer-to-peer fundraisers and donors could be more efficient and result in more donations over time? . When you’re recruiting, are you considering how to get people who participated and gave to you the year before to come back and support you again? How to retain peer-to-peer fundraisers.

Retention

Ann Green

AUGUST 6, 2024

If you’re doing a year-end fundraising campaign, the time to start planning it is now, hopefully in an air-conditioned space. You can also use this for fundraising campaigns at other times of the year. Be sure your donation page is user-friendly and consistent with your other fundraising materials. Do you have a campaign plan?

Fundraising

Ann Green

AUGUST 2, 2023

Even though it might be sweltering outside, now is a good time to start planning your year-end fundraising campaign, hopefully in an air-conditioned space. You can also use this for fundraising campaigns at other times of the year. Be sure your donation page is user-friendly and consistent with your other fundraising materials.

Fundraising

Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Peter Drucker stressed the importance of strategic recruitment, emphasizing the need to select individuals based on their competencies, character, and dedication. Tailoring your recruitment efforts to find individuals whose skills and expertise align with your organization’s mission is fundamental.

Recruitment

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JUNE 5, 2024

He completed his DBA in Organizational Leadership and Development researching Appalachian nonprofits, psychological contracts, and retention. His expertise includes public relations, advertising, fundraising, social media, recruitment, retention, event development, leadership development, and community engagement.

Collaborations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 10, 2023

However, volunteers can quickly become another challenge for your event team if you don’t know how to effectively recruit and manage them. To recruit a team of energetic and helpful volunteers for your next event, you need to actively promote volunteering opportunities to your community of supporters. Let’s begin! Contact information.

Recruitment

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We all know why nonprofits want monthly donors — fantastic ROI, high retention rates and higher lifetime value. You must recruit donors. Some orgs like setting a public goal of the number of new sustainers they would like to recruit in a campaign. Photo Credit: https://flic.kr/p/aVmeYp. So, how do we get them? First, the basics.

Recruitment

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Much like you focus on donor retention, you also have to develop a plan for employee retention to ensure your team feels satisfied coming to work each day and upholding your mission. In this article, we’ll go over five tips to help your nonprofit nurture a flourishing work environment to keep employee engagement and retention high.

Leadership

Bloomerang

AUGUST 12, 2021

Do you know your organization’s donor retention rate? According to the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ 2020 Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP), only 43.6% As important as it is to pay attention to donor retention, it’s equally important to know how to “move the needle”—and we do. I’d bet not. .

Retention

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As we enter a new year, your nonprofit is likely in the thick of goal-setting for fundraising, marketing , and more. However, achieving goals like increasing your capacity or improving team effectiveness is only possible with talented employees and the best way to source the most ideal additions to your team is through recruitment.

Recruitment

The Volunteer Hub

MARCH 7, 2022

With the value of a volunteer hour approaching $29 in 2022, now is the time to focus on retention and better utilize your existing volunteer contacts. Simply put, to reduce turnover and increase retention, volunteers must be pleased with the environment in which they work and motivated by the tasks to which they are assigned.

Retention

Ann Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

But you need to spend just as much time thanking your donors as you do on fundraising. If this sounds impossible, find other staff or recruit volunteers to help you. It’s often a welcome surprise and can raise retention rates among first-time donors. donor relations fundraising writing thank you' Get everyone involved.

Recruitment

Ann Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

Pandemic or not, we still have seasons and fall is traditionally fundraising season for nonprofit organizations. You can also use this for fundraising campaigns at other times of the year. You may have already set a goal for your year-end campaign in your 2020 fundraising plan and most likely that has changed.

Fundraising

The Agitator

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Yesterday I complained … only ONE retention superstar had responded from our Agitator audience — Colorado Public Radio. Jonathon Grapsas at Flat Earth Direct in Australia has been working on retention amongst clients who do much of their donor acquisition via face-to-face solicitation. Average year.

Retention

Ann Green

AUGUST 11, 2022

Despite all this, now is a good time to start planning your year-end fundraising campaign. You can also use this for fundraising campaigns at other times of the year. You may have already set a goal for your year-end campaign in your 2022 fundraising plan (at least I hope you did) and maybe that has changed. Do you have a plan?

Fundraising

Ann Green

APRIL 27, 2015

Some organizations do fundraising appeals or hold events in the spring. Donor relations is an important, but often overlooked, component of fundraising. Retention rates are getting better, but we still have a long way to go. Find ways to build relationships in your spring fundraising campaign. Others don’t.

Recruitment

Ann Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Year-end fundraising season is underway and many of you may be working on your appeal letters. Thanking donors often takes a back seat in fundraising campaigns, but it’s a crucial component that you need to start planning now. Start recruiting board members, staff, and other volunteers to help you with this. Keep it up.

Non-Profits

Ann Green

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Donor retention continues to lag. You’ll often use a number of different channels when you send out a fundraising appeal or promote an event. Fundraising and recruitment. Be sure to add your fundraising appeals to your communications calendar. You need to communicate with your donors throughout the year.

Communication