Blackbaud

APRIL 28, 2025

Higher education institutions today face mounting pressures to attract and retain students in an increasingly competitive landscape. With shrinking budgets and growing demands for accountability, schools must find innovative ways to support their students while achieving institutional goals.

Award

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s imperative that you recruit a strong volunteer base and, more important, retain volunteers by valuing their time, effort, and skills. If you’re ready to make a plan to retain your volunteers, start with these six tips. If the budget permits, allow guests. billion in economic value.

Retainer

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Focus on Acquiring and Retaining Donors. 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. Budget for expenses. Develop a Strategy. Let’s begin.

Fundraising

Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

Learn more about how volunteer management and retention can help your organization: What is volunteer management How to manage volunteers Why is volunteer retention important How to retain volunteers What is volunteer management? Here are seven tips to help you retain your volunteers: Communication.

Management

Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

Think about how you can adapt the key components of a strong major gifts program to your organization: Data—from a spreadsheet to an enterprise-level CRM (customer relationship management), you’ll need a way to track and analyze giving history, affinity, capacity, and interactions. What does success look like, and how will you track it?

CRM

CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

There isn’t a universal dollar amount that tips someone into the ranks of a major donor – that threshold varies based on the size and budget of a nonprofit. Retaining Major Donors. Having a personalized stewardship plan is a fail-proof approach to retaining major donors. Who Is A Major Donor? Create Investment Reports.

CRM

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Retaining your supporters is one of the best ways for your organization to save money on fundraising outreach and earn more revenue. That’s because it’s less expensive to retain your supporters than to attain them, and as donors stay engaged with your organization, they’re more likely to increase their average donation amounts.

Donation

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Paired with a CRM or a donor management platform, you can organize all of your donors’ and supporters’ data in one place. When integrated with a fundraising platform, you can automatically transfer and store any data you’ve collected from your fundraisers to your CRM. Nonprofit CRMs. What is a nonprofit CRM? Bloomerang.

Fundraising

NextAfter

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Simply relying upon the email program to renew donors acquired last year was flawed because the very best they could do with that channel mix would be to only retain 36% of their new donors from last year (or those that currently were engaged with the email program). We needed a multichannel strategy in place to reach these donors.

Retainer

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Solution: Invest in a dedicated donor management system or customer relationship management (CRM) software. Solution: Utilize your donor management system or CRM to segment your audience based on factors such as giving history, interests, demographics, and engagement levels.

Fundraising

Qgiv

JULY 11, 2023

A major gift pipeline is the process your organization follows to identify, gain, and retain major donors for your cause. Because of the current decrease in donor acquisition , finding new ways of acquiring and retaining major donors is crucial for nonprofits. These donations keep organizations like yours running!

Fundraising

Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2023

That can mean investing in a new CRM, acquiring an email service provider, or getting new online fundraising software. Donor stewardship is the post-gift relationship-building process nonprofits use to retain and upgrade donors. That definitely helps nonprofit advertising budgets go farther. What is donor stewardship?

Fundraising

Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Determining the auction budget. To set accurate budgets for this event, look to other similar experiences and the amount of money needed to support them. To set accurate budgets for this event, look to other similar experiences and the amount of money needed to support them.

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

APRIL 9, 2024

You can cover if the candidate kept a budget and deadline in mind while working. You may be paying a flat fee, a retainer or an hourly rate. Speak with past clients that a prospective consultant has served so you can get first-hand insight into their working style and the fundraising results they’re able to produce.

Consultant

Fundly

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

On a retainer basis: This typically involves paying a fixed monthly fee to retain the consultants services for a set amount of time. This could mean helping you implement a data warehouse , training your team to take full advantage of all your CRM has to offer, or creating a data management strategy for your organization.

Consultant

Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

How many donors did we retain into the new year? This is also a good time to take a look at how your programming is performing and to review your budget. We will target our major donors and monitor our CRM to measure donation sizes to stay on track.” How did the funds raised last year help us this year?

Media

Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

As your budget allows, layer in Paid Google Ads to get even better results. We recommend using an evergreen – or “always on” – annual campaign that’s the baseline of your display budget. This can go a long way in retaining your donors and bolstering your reputation as you strive to acquire more donors in the future.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MAY 30, 2025

Attract and retain members. In the nonprofit sector, budgets can be tight, so retaining experienced staff is critical to maintaining continuity and organizational knowledge. Then, create a budget that accounts for both upfront costs and ongoing expenses like data migration. Strengthen leadership pipelines.

Training