Bonterra

JULY 30, 2025

Industry-leading metrics : Peer-to-peer and branded giving campaigns powered by DonorDrive routinely outpace industry benchmarks in participation, retention, and revenue. Key benefits include: An open API for effortless integration with your existing systems and CRM. Embedded tools for a seamless donor and fundraiser experience.

Fundraising

Bonterra

JULY 9, 2025

Advocacy includes a wide range of activities that raise awareness or encourage people to act, from writing blog posts and mobilizing volunteers to educating lawmakers. What’s the difference between advocacy and lobbying? All lobbying is advocacy, but not all advocacy is lobbying.

Lobbying

Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

And once you’ve shared your report with stakeholders, be sure to track engagement metrics afterwards to see how well your report performed and in which ways it could be strengthened in the future. Importing CRM data into a digital report builder, like Storyraise , is simple and quick.

CRM

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Long story short: youll want to find a user-friendly platform to create a donation page, monitor fundraising metrics, and steward donors from one system. Gather relevant information to add to your CRM. Store their responses in your nonprofits CRM database to provide a better experience for donors.

Donation

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Supplement your header CTA button with text and banner CTAs throughout your blog posts or informational pages. Ensure your nonprofits CRM or marketing platform is equipped to track performance metrics relevant to your goals. For A/B testing to benefit your nonprofit, you need a reliable way to collect and report data.

CRM

Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

If your community outreach programs are grant-funded, your funder likely requires you to report key metrics like the number of individuals served or how you were able to expand your programs into new areas. Finance and fundraising teams must collaborate closely to ensure data pulled from the CRM aligns with financial records.

Finance

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2025

Inconsistent data entry and lack of standardized metrics slow down progress. If you manage constituent data outside your primary fundraising CRM, Blackbaud’s Persistent Key service can help you identify duplicate records and consolidate household or individual records for a more efficient multi-channel engagement strategy.

Software

Greater Giving

JULY 23, 2025

For instance, your data about volunteers might be housed in your volunteer management software and not get transferred to your CRM, preventing you from easily checking which donors also volunteer. Focus on relevant metrics. The post 5 Data Management Best Practices to Apply At Your Nonprofit appeared first on Greater Giving Blog.

Management

Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Then, create a donor segment list of these special supporters in your CRM. Track donor engagement metrics, including communication preferences, donor retention, and likelihood of giving. As you prepare to send your letters, use a matching gift database to determine which donors qualify for a matching gift.

Template

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To determine these target metrics, review past event results. When your auction platform integrates with your other nonprofit tools, you can leverage your CRM to: Find and send invites to past event attendees. Contact local blogs or even the Chamber of Commerce to promote your event. Set both revenue and performance goals.

Procurement

Fundly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Access real-time data on campaign updates, page views, donations received, and other key metrics. Additional integrations with the NonProfitEasy CRM, Double the Donations matching gift search tool , QuickBooks, Mailchimp, and other popular solutions allow you to extend your fundraising capabilities further.

Funding

Blackbaud

JULY 16, 2025

Research tools and the native capabilities of your fundraising CRM can help you understand the giving patterns of all your supporters and prospects, not just those considered for major gifts. The post Donor Cultivation Cycle: Tips for Each Major Stage of Fundraising first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog by Blackbaud.

Fundraising

Community Boost

JUNE 27, 2025

If you’ve ever opened a CRM or spreadsheet and been met with a wall of charts, graphs, and stats, only to walk away still wondering what exactly you should do today , you’re not alone. You don’t need 100 metrics, just the 5–10 that truly drive relationships and retention for your organization 2. You need clarity.

Burnout

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

The post Annual Giving Basics: A Fundamental Guide for Yearly Donations first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog by Blackbaud. Introduction to Annual Giving in Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®️ : Watch this webinar to learn how to maximize your annual giving potential.

Donation

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 19, 2025

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AI

NonProfit PRO

JULY 24, 2025

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Retail

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

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Instrumentl

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2025

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Software

Blackbaud

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Not with each other, typically, but rather with the key metrics they are each responsible for. You can change the scenario—including the dramatic little scene above—by effectively integrating data from your fundraising CRM and your accounting system.

CRM

DonorSnap

JANUARY 18, 2023

A nonprofit CRM will help you build meaningful relationships with your supporters. To reap the true benefits of CRM, your nonprofit will need both a system and a strategy. Keep reading to discover how you can leverage a CRM system and strategy to build lasting relationships with your supporters. What is a Nonprofit CRM System?

CRM

Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

To get started, let’s go over some of the types of metrics your nonprofits can track: Types of Data Analytics for Nonprofits. Fundraising Metrics. One of the most crucial data sets to keep an eye on are your fundraising metrics. Social Media Metrics. Fundraising Event Metrics. Email Marketing Metrics.

Metrics

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 8, 2024

By extending the power of its Blackbaud CRM platform with Power BI, the team now sees more focused information about their major giving prospects. Tim McCleary, CRM Director for The Salvation Army Southern Territory, said the organization’s 71 major and planned giving officers have portfolios assigned by geographic region across 15 states.

CRM

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Use a CRM to help w ith donor research . Data-driven fundraising strategies are always the smartest move, so make sure you have the necessary constituent relationship management software (CRM) integrations and reporting tools. So, if you know you want to attract high-impact donors and retain them, turn to the data in your CRM.

Fundraising

Qgiv

MARCH 14, 2023

Donor Retention Donor retention as a metric has gained traction since 2001 when Adrian Sargeant published the first academic research on the financial impact of increased donor retention. Many organizations use disparate systems, CRM, online giving, volunteer management, email marketing, wealth screening, website tracking, the list goes on.

Nonprofit

Not Your Father's Charity

MAY 25, 2022

So, review your CRM for people who donated generously in the past. A good plan also includes metrics to measure your progress over time. It’s easier to cultivate major donor prospects from those who know you and contributed in the past. Consider a mid-level program. Doing so helps you start to bump donors up the giving ladder.

Funding

Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Service integrations with giving forms can work with your CRM and email marking software to further enhance your data set and inform your reporting strategies. Useful metrics vary by organization and mission.

Metrics

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A nonprofit CRM is among the most essential tools for your organization to increase support, grow fundraising , and work more effectively toward its missions. According to Verified Market Research , “The Nonprofit CRM Market size was valued at USD 4.25 What are the benefits of using a CRM for nonprofits?

CRM

Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Store data about your wealthiest donors in your nonprofit’s CRM to reference in future communications. Use your CRM to note every interaction you have with major donors. The UpMetrics guide to impact reporting recommends taking the following steps to make your reports as compelling as possible: Choose relevant metrics.

CRM

Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

As Kevin Starr, director of the Mulago Foundation and the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, wrote for the Stanford Social Innovation Review , “If you’re trying to save the world, you need numbers—metrics that are selected carefully and gathered reliably. Not too many, just enough to know accurately: Delivery: what you did.

Funding

Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Blog Summary: In todays competitive landscape, nonprofits, schools, and community groups can significantly enhance their fundraising efforts by leveraging data analytics. This blog explores how these organizations can harness actionable insights and innovative tools to optimize donor engagement.

Fundraising

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

In fact, 67% of nonprofits use a CRM. Analyze donor behavior, campaign performance, and operational metrics to make data-backed decisions and optimize your fundraising. Salesforce | Cloud-based nonprofit CRM software Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud is a CRM solution tailored to meet the needs of nonprofit organizations.

Software

Qgiv

JULY 16, 2024

This includes donor information, donation history, engagement metrics, and other data you collect across various platforms. Engagement metrics Tracking how your donors engage with your organization can help you understand their commitment and interests. Here are three key steps to follow to help get you started: Centralize your data.

Management

DonorSnap

JULY 3, 2023

In this blog post, we will cover commonly asked questions about annual reports. Snapshot of Financials and Key Metrics Your annual report should include some financials in a very digestible format. What Data From Your CRM Should You Include in Your Nonprofit Annual Reports?

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

JUNE 6, 2024

But you and I know it’s critical to maintain a robust and up-to-date CRM. Work closely with administrators to identify reports that need to be run and the metrics to track during the campaign, which will inform your fund setup and gift entry process. We work hard to transform basic input into high-quality data. Review reporting.

Goals

Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2023

Check out this blog post for step-by-step instructions on developing a strategic fundraising plan. That can mean investing in a new CRM, acquiring an email service provider, or getting new online fundraising software. Check out this blog post for details. For more matching gifts best practices check out this blog post.

Fundraising

NextAfter

JUNE 26, 2023

The benefit of embracing a culture of testing is threefold: Provides a framework for continuous improvement: A/B testing gives you an advantage by providing a metric-based framework to innovate and improve your digital fundraising assets constantly.

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you’re reading a blog post with the words “capital campaign” and “board” in the headline, you might be spiraling through questions that are keeping you up at night (hopefully, it’s not 2 a.m.): It should be directly tied to your progress and defined metrics. Did we set appropriate capital campaign goals with our board?

Strategic Plan