Blackbaud

JUNE 16, 2025

For finance teams in donor-focused and grant-funded organizations, working hand-in-hand with fundraising partners is critical to crafting reports that truly engage and tell a story. Grant Reports Grant stewardship requires detailed reporting on how funds were allocated and whether they achieved the intended outcomes.

Finance

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

Center for Major Gifts

MARCH 22, 2025

When discussing your nonprofits work, keep it brief and refrain from making a new request for funds. Logging each conversationor voicemailin a CRM system lets you track whether donors respond positively, ask follow-up questions, or pledge to give again.

CRM

GiveSmart

MARCH 12, 2025

Examples of quantitative data include metrics such as donation amounts, number of donors, and page views. Choosing which type of data to collect and analyze is the first step toward your success: Data that generates more funding: Donors are interested in seeing their donations’ impact on the community they’re supporting.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Ensure your nonprofits CRM or marketing platform is equipped to track performance metrics relevant to your goals. Craig focuses on digital strategy using email marketing, online advertising campaigns, SMS campaigns, CRM management, reporting/analytics for KPIs, and more.

CRM

Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I’m writing to ask you to team up as we [solve a problem or fund a project]. Then, create a donor segment list of these special supporters in your CRM. Churches raise funds for various reasons, from funding community outreach programs like food banks to supporting international trips. By donating.

Template

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

The Goal of an Annual Giving Campaign: Secure the Foundation The primary goal of an annual giving campaign is to raise unrestricted funds to support your nonprofit’s ongoing operational costs and core programs throughout the year. What this looks like depends on your organization’s type and the programs it funds.

Donation

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To determine these target metrics, review past event results. Let’s say your auction will fund increased educational opportunities for students in need. Fund-a-need” items are widely popular for silent auction attendees who want to support the cause but can’t necessarily afford to bid on one of the more lavish items.

Procurement

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 raise more funds just by looking at a dashboard. Your nonprofit doesn’t need another dashboard. You need clarity.

Burnout

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. You take these steps through various methods for every gift level, well before making a single direct appeal for funds.

Fundraising

Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

#NonprofitFunding TWEETABLE INSIGHT Tweet The Critical Role of Planned Giving in Ensuring Nonprofit Longevity Nonprofits that embrace comprehensive planned giving strategies and robust long-term funding models are gaining unprecedented favor among foundations. Diversification is your shield against shifting government priorities.

Funding

Gail Perry Group

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

To make matters worse, were all under pressure to increase fundraising revenues right now, especially in this chaotic time of fluctuating funding. Here's what you can do: You can facilitate a shift to proactive fundraising by setting metrics around regular, personal contacts. To help you, we want to break this down.

Metrics

Planned Giving

APRIL 17, 2025

Youre inviting someone to fund impact. 39 We just need a better CRM. CRMs dont fix bad habits. 43 We dont need to track metrics. Because nothing says urgency like being buried three clicks deep. Delusion No. 26 Were grassroots. Translation: Were broke and proud of it. Delusion No. Unless youre actually begging.

SAM

The Fundraising Coach

MAY 30, 2025

However, there’s a source of funding you may be overlooking—planned giving. While establishing relationships that can lead to planned gifts can take time, there are ways nonprofits can effectively raise more funds through this type of fundraising. Use your CRM to identify loyal, long-term donors, particularly those over the age of 55.

CRM

NonProfit PRO

JULY 24, 2025

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Retail

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

She has helped nonprofits triple their funding. She has helped nonprofits triple their funding and over thousands of students have taken her grant writing courses, and she also happens to host the Grant Writing Simplified podcast. And then of course the most obvious, your funding is tied to it. I love that.

Instrumentl

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2025

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Software

Ann Green's Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Use these donor insights to support your nonprofit’s text-to-give strategies and drive a greater ROI: Donation frequency Donation recency Donation amount Demographics Level of involvement To track these metrics and set your text-to-give campaign up for success, you’ll need the right tools.

Donation

Not Your Father's Charity

MAY 25, 2022

Why Raise Funds from Nonprofit Major Donors? Raising funds from nonprofit major donors is a vital part of your fundraising strategies. That said, any nonprofit can cultivate relationships with major donors with the means and desire to fund the vision. So, review your CRM for people who donated generously in the past.

Funding

Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. While nonprofits will hopefully see an increase in unrestricted funds—and a decrease in burdensome reporting requirements—as part of this and other movements, good nonprofit accounting principles still apply. What Are Restricted Funds? What are Unrestricted Funds?

Funding

Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

In this guide, we’ll dive into what you can do to discover, analyze, and appeal to donor motivations and maintain a healthy level of funding for your cause. However, make sure you have the right tools and technology in place to capture these metrics. Use ethical and organized data collection methods. Perform a deep data analysis.

Ethics

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

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Even as overall giving slumps, this increase is significant because it means that more organizations are receiving reliable funding on a monthly basis. Before you begin any project involving data analysis, start by clearly outlining your goal so you know which metrics to analyze. Understand donors’ giving behaviors.

Metrics

Joe Garecht Fundraising

MARCH 7, 2022

Use these metrics to better understand your fundraising efforts, find areas for improvement, and create a more impactful fundraising strategy. #1: This dashboard will help you track the metrics that matter and demonstrate your fundraising performance over time. . #2: 1: Donor Acquisition Rate. 2: Donor Lapse Rate.

Fundraising

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. After all, you can’t support your mission without the funds needed to do so!

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

The Fundraising Coach

MARCH 15, 2021

We’ve helped thousands of successful nonprofits understand the fundraising metrics which are most critical to crafting a winning fundraising strategy. In this article, we’ll explore the following 6 fundraising metrics: Fundraising ROI. Essentially, this metric reveals how much money you raised for each dollar you spent on fundraising.

Metrics

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

With an effective and sustainable nonprofit fundraising campaign, charities have the potential to engage broad audiences and increase their impact as their funding grows. Sustainable fundraising practices can help you grow, ensure long-term support, and even aid larger projects like funding research. Measure all fundraising metrics.

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Store data in the right CRM for you. Store data in the right CRM for you. For a quick refresher— nonprofit data is stored in a constituent relationship management (CRM) system. Luckily, there are CRM systems designed for nonprofits of all sizes, and with some research, you can find the perfect solution for your organization.

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

JUNE 11, 2024

With the right donor database or constituent relationship management (CRM) system, you can centralize your data and create a single source of truth for all valuable information your organization collects. Look to integrate the following tools with your CRM: Fundraising platform. Invest in a centralized data platform. Fundraising.

CRM

CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Think of it as your roadmap to success, guiding your organization not only in compensating for any lost funds but also in meeting your current goals and reaching your long-term destination. Calculate the Funding Gap: Subtract the guaranteed income from the total expenses.

Calendar

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

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 19, 2024

You’re tirelessly working to grow your nonprofit’s impact, nurture your community, and raise funds—all while managing all the other day-to-day tasks. More engaged supporters More effective campaigns More funds raised all with less effort. Track and Analyze Metrics Regularly monitor the performance of your segmented campaigns.

CRM

The Fundraising Coach

AUGUST 4, 2022

Keep a log of all phone calls in your donor management software solution or nonprofit CRM, including when the calls took place, whether they were answered, and what was discussed. . Whether you meet with donors in person or virtually, take notes during each meeting and record them in your CRM for reference. Donor retention rate.

Management

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. Fine-tune your fund setup. Document as you go. Make giving easy.

Goals

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. GoFundMe | Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe is a leading crowdfunding platform that empowers individuals and nonprofits to raise funds for a wide range of causes.

Software

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