NextAfter

JUNE 9, 2023

In fact, according to data from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project, donor acquisition, dollars, and donor retention rates fell YoY in 2022. 1 – Recognize the power of acquiring a donor’s email address One way to increase retention is to acquire an email for a donor who only gives offline. We’ve dubbed this the COVID Bump.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

from the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy proves it. Turns out love has everything to do with fundraising. Relationship Fundraising 3.0

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Community Brands recently shared donor retention data that reinforced alarming trends that the nonprofit sector has been monitoring for a while. In their survey, they asked nonprofits what their current donor retention rate was: about 60% said they didn’t know and the rest had an average donor retention rate of 45%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 20, 2024

Double the Donation ] The current donor retention rate is 41.9%. M+R Benchmarks ] Donor retention increases by 29% for offline donors when you have their email address. Women’s Philanthropy Institute ] 88% of the Silent Generation gives to charity, donating an annual average of $1,367 across 6.2 increase in revenue.

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Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofits Retention 93

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 17, 2022

Recurring donors are over five times more valuable to your nonprofit than one-time donors, according to The State of Modern Philanthropy. When you combine this higher annual giving level with the fact that monthly donors have much higher retention rates, you can begin to see why monthly donations are important. 1) Increased Revenue.

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Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Retention Philanthropy 139

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 18, 2023

The report’s findings, researched and compiled by Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, are not entirely surprising. Philanthropy had been especially strong in 2020 and 2021, largely due to giving related to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to racial and social justice movements in the United States.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MAY 2, 2023

Recurring donors gave more money over all than those offering one-time gifts, highlighting a path nonprofits seeking to boost retention might want to follow.

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Retention Nonprofits 215

iMarketSmart

MARCH 19, 2018

The market/sector has been ‘flooded’ with people talking about donor retention for many years now. Many of them make money selling software and services that supposedly help fundraisers improve their donor retention. Yet after all their talk, the statistics say that donor retention just keeps going down.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2024

9 In my book, White Women Cry and Call Me Angry: A Black Woman’s Memoir on Racism in Philanthropy , I describe debilitating interactions with White women in the philanthropic sector during my tenure as president and CEO of a private foundation in Washington, DC. 15 These images are referred to as archetypes. Frieda Fordham and Michael S.

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Clairification

MARCH 18, 2024

Because merely grabbing the attention of someone with either capacity or inclination to give is no guarantee philanthropy will follow. We’ll look at two of these “truths/challenges/suggestions” today, and two more next week.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Embracing AI: Efficiency with an Ethical Touch: Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic dream in philanthropy. To navigate this, focus on donor retention , diversify your funding sources, and emphasize the long-term value you provide. However, concerns about privacy, bias, and authenticity linger.

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Clairification

APRIL 24, 2023

You probably already knew donor retention has been declining for the past decade. Philanthropy is still all around you, if you look. Repeat donor retention declined from 46.1% You see, information was presented from the full 2022 Fundraising Effectiveness Project report, and the results were sadder than usual. decline).

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Let’s Define Your Community Since your mission is to facilitate philanthropy in order to move your mission forward, let’s talk about your philanthropic community – the donors, volunteers, advocates and ambassadors who fuel your work, making your impact the greatest it can be. Fundamentally, all of philanthropy is a value-for-value exchange.

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Philanthropy Values Associations Children 111

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. Since the height of the pandemic in 2021, gifts from individual donors declined by 6.4%

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

What might this mean for philanthropy and fundraising moving forward? Giving USA 2021 , produced by Giving USA Foundation and Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy , reports total giving grew 5.1% The overall donor retention rate was 43.6% , a 4.1% The first-time donor retention rate dropped 9.2%

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Like many healthy nonprofits, Marie Curie was trying to instill greater collaboration and a deeper culture of philanthropy across teams, some of which were siloed. In other words, they looked at retention and future gifts among both groups. The organization was also experiencing some cultural shifts as well.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Donor retention and donor qualification. Similarly, you shouldn’t consider donor retention without involving donor qualification because there’s no sense in spending time and effort on retaining donors without a qualification strategy in place. Retention efforts cost money. Soap and water. Simon and Garfunkel.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate.

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Fundraising Fundraising Food Retention 122

The Agitator

APRIL 8, 2018

Why, for nearly six decades, has American philanthropy failed to grow beyond a 2% share of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)? That’s the question veteran fundraising consultant Michael Rosen explores in What Will It Take to Dramatically Increase Philanthropy? appearing in the Spring issue of AFP’s Advancing Philanthropy.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The minute you understand and act on this, your retention rates will rise. It’s worth noting that a recent study by Philanthropy Daily found that 49% of lapsed donors who hadn’t made a gift in at least two years believe themselves to be current donors. 1 Source: Center for Philanthropy, Indiana University and Bloomerang.co

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Retention Universities Philanthropy Communication 82

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 3, 2023

The Conference + Catalyst are presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners in partnership with the Institute for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration. We are also happy to announce that the Nonprofit Catalyst Awards returns and will be held in-person for the first time!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2020

Nonprofits that embrace flexible work movement experience many benefits , such as increased productivity and retention and decreased expenses and pollution contribution. 5) Philanthropy News Digest (US) :: philanthropynewsdigest.org/jobs. 13) Chronicle of Philanthropy (US) :: jobs.philanthropy.com. Bookmark your browsers!

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Bloomerang

MAY 1, 2023

We partnered with the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy to conduct our Fundraising Planning and Climate Report: Outlook for 2023. Experts say a culture of philanthropy from leadership defines behavior. On a panel at AFP ICON 2023, Kishshana Palmer, Bloomerang Board Member and CEO of Kishshana & Co.,

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

The data is available, and we know dire predictions of the death of philanthropy early in the pandemic have been disproved. And projections from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI in Indianapolis show it’s likely to happen again. Wonder no more. This is what happened in 2020. and +11.9%). And that’s a shame.

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Socailbrite

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s fine to send out print newsletters or advertise on billboards, but those efforts may not have the same impact they once did in achieving strong donor retention. As shown by the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy’s 2021 Fundraising Effectiveness Survey , just 18.6% Nurture donor relationships through digital channels.

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Fundraising Fundraising Retention Philanthropy 69

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Your organization Matching gifts lift average donation size, improve retention and donor lifetime value , and open the door to other giving. The more you grow corporate support, the more others in your community trust that you’re a worthwhile beneficiary of their philanthropy. Matching gifts are a win-win-win.

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Retention Philanthropy Recruitment Values 93

iMarketSmart

JANUARY 20, 2020

Just last week I sent three separate articles to Jeff: ‘ How to Land Donor-Advised Fund Gifts ’ from the Chronicle of Philanthropy (which disappointingly didn’t provide much of any insight into how to land gifts from DAFs, although that’s a topic for a different day); ‘ Donor Advised Funds Were Up Almost 300 Percent This Decade.

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Public and Nonprofit Management Taxation Retention Philanthropy 64

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How This Nonprofit Retains 46% of Their Donors with Amy Gibson Nonprofit Nation The Boys & Girls Clubs of Muncie, increased their donor retention rate from 26% to 46%. Build relationships, focus on cultivation, and practice time-blocking to navigate challenges with confidence and purpose. Listen to this episode. Listen to this episode.

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Fundraising Fundraising Culture Leadership 89

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 1, 2023

There’s no question that there’s power in philanthropy providing organizations with general operating support and unrestricted funding. Both are important components of trust-based philanthropy , a grantmaking approach that emphasizes humility and collaboration across a range of dimensions.

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Nonprofit Capacity Philanthropy Children Foundations 84

Candid

DECEMBER 19, 2022

He also urges nonprofits and funders alike to strive for greater funding transparency and to engage in trust-based philanthropy. If you’re wondering what trust-based philanthropy looks like in practice, revisit this blog by Candid’s CEO, Ann Mei. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Candid (@candiddotorg).

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Philanthropy Retention Production Technology 98

Clairification

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Philanthropy provides a perfect opportunity to bring people together. Because when people connect, and care about one another, our world tips ever more slightly back into balance. Right now we live in troubling times, where the world seems wildly out of whack and people seem further and further apart. Matchmakers!

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Technology Philanthropy Values Nonprofits 114

Bloomerang

MAY 27, 2021

A renewed focus on wellbeing and retention for volunteer re-engagement. The Chronicle Of Philanthropy. National Center For Family Philanthropy. CARES) Coronavirus Aid, Relief, And Economic Security Act. Initiative for nonprofits and businesses both at federal and state levels. . Detailing funding for pandemic relief grants.

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Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Entrepreneurship Governance 136

Fundraising Report Card

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Philanthropy tends to be fairly transactional — I give you some money, you send me a year-end appeal — and less relational — I give you some money, you ask me about my life story and connection to your mission. This could be (and most likely is) a contributing factor to dismal donor retention rates.

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Ann Green

APRIL 14, 2022

Effective donor engagement increases donor retention. However, before you improve your donor retention , you need to track metrics that tell you the effectiveness of your engagement strategies. Why is Measuring Donor Engagement Important? In fact, acquiring a new donor costs about ten times more than retaining a donor.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This staggering growth underscores the pivotal role of contactless payments in philanthropy. Contactless payments are surging worldwide—and Tap to Pay can help your organization increase revenue and improve donor engagement and retention. Discover the payment processor built just for nonprofits. Ready to try out Tap to Pay?

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Technology Retention Food Philanthropy 103

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

” The report , Grassroots, Black & Giving: How Philanthropy Can Better Support Black-led and Black-benefiting Nonprofits , is based on a survey of over 200 such organizations conducted by YBGB. Provide technical assistance in fundraising, especially toward individual donor cultivation, retention, and diversification.

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Nonprofits Leadership Poverty Social Policy 112

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

billion in donations made in the United States by individuals, bequests, foundations, and corporations ( Giving USA 2021: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2020 ) to the formal and informal mutual aid groups that formed. . This intense personalization of giving has been detrimental to philanthropy.

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