Center for Major Gifts

MARCH 22, 2025

In this article, well discuss how making thank-you calls a key part of your donor stewardship routine can boost donor retention and fundraising results and show you how to make effective calls for your organization. A quick, heartfelt phone call can be a game-changer when it comes to retaining donors and inspiring future giving.

CRM

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

These unrestricted gifts are necessary to pay fundraisers’ salaries, overhead, bills, and the supplies for your tried-and-true programs. How Is Annual Giving Different from Other Fundraising Types? Let’s take a look at annual giving compared to other fundraising types like major gifts or planned gifts.

Donation

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Silent auctions are a classic go-to fundraising event, and for good reason. From large in-person events to casual virtual gatherings, fundraising silent auctions can generate much-needed revenue and strengthen donor relationships. Gathering auction items is one of the most important steps when planning your silent auction fundraiser.

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. Why this matters (especially for small teams) Small nonprofits often don’t have the luxury of a dedicated fundraiser, let alone a data analyst.

Burnout

Blackbaud

JUNE 18, 2025

Many nonprofits participating in GivingTuesday rely on Blackbaud’s fundraising platforms , donor management software , payment processing , and data analytics capabilities for their campaigns. Blackbaud software can be the key to their fundraising success. “We What tools do fundraisers use for GivingTuesday campaigns?

Software

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

The Fundraising Coach

MAY 30, 2025

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. After the donor passes away, the nonprofit retains the remaining value. Use your CRM to identify loyal, long-term donors, particularly those over the age of 55.

CRM

Qgiv

APRIL 18, 2022

There’s a lot of fundraising software available to nonprofits, but how do you know what your nonprofit needs? And what’s the difference between a fundraising CRM and a fundraising platform? This blog post will break down what a fundraising CRM is, what a fundraising platform is, and the key differences between them.

CRM

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. Ciconte and Jeanne Jacob propose TheVolunteer Bill of Rights in Fundraising Basics: A Complete Guide.

Retainer

Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

To keep donors around and retain their support, organizations have to grab supporters’ attention and make their communications stand out from the thousands of messages their audience receives each day. Then, you can more easily identify major donor prospects and reach out to them with relevant fundraising appeals. Demographics.

Demographics

Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

Whether you’re future-proofing your fundraisers by focusing on future giving initiatives or leveraging low-cost digital channels to acquire donors , your nonprofit can still inspire enough support to keep its operations going strong. If current trends continue, stewarding and retaining a loyal donor base will only become more important.

Ethics

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

As your nonprofit organization continues to grow, it’s time to consider investing in an effective fundraising platform that truly accommodates your nonprofit’s size, financial needs, and developing fundraising strategies. Why is fundraising important for nonprofits? Focus on Acquiring and Retaining Donors. Let’s begin.

Fundraising

The NonProfit Times

JULY 30, 2024

It was the same story, different day, for fundraising during the first quarter of 2024. Those are some of the numbers reported today by the Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) and presented by the Foundation for Philanthropy at the Association of Fundraising Professionals and by GivingTuesday. and 3% respectively.

Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

MARCH 3, 2022

Manage your nonprofit’s core activities—fundraising, CRM, and accounting—in one software solution. With all your data in one intuitive, easy-to-use system, you’ll have more time to focus your energy on stewarding and retaining donors.

CRM

Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

Peer-to-peer fundraising is an incredible opportunity to leverage your supporters’ personal networks and increase the reach of your campaign. This strategy involves recruiting supporters to fundraise on your behalf, and you might be surprised to find out just how many of them are willing to fundraise for your organization!

Fundraising

Joe Garecht Fundraising

MARCH 7, 2022

It’s not enough to know that your fundraising strategies are successful. These insights can only be gained by calculating fundraising Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This article will unpack 10 essential KPIs for measuring fundraising success. This article will unpack 10 essential KPIs for measuring fundraising success.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MAY 1, 2024

Whether your fundraising year is tracking ahead of schedule, right on track, or you’re off to a bit of a slow start, there’s no time like the present to consider what kind of experience you are delivering to both new donors and to long-time supporters. When it comes to the donor journey, a proper strategy can make all the difference.

CRM

The NonProfit Times

JUNE 4, 2024

Aplos already owns Raisely, a fundraising software. Aplos started looking for a CRM component during the fall of 2023. and Canada for acquiring and retaining donors via the CRM and personalized communications tools, resulting in more than $2 billion (CAD) raised since its founding in 2013 in Vancouver B.C.,

Software

The Fundraising Coach

MARCH 15, 2021

Most fundraising professionals know that having good information is the secret to increased revenue, stronger relationships, and more successful appeals. By analyzing the donor data you have available, you can learn volumes about donor motivation and behavior, then use this information to guide your fundraising approach.

Metrics

Blackbaud

JULY 19, 2024

Just as AI is revolutionizing the way major gift officers fundraise , AI is fast becoming a powerful tool for identifying and engaging the unfulfilled potential of donors in the middle of your database. This analysis was based on 210 global nonprofit organizations’ fundraising data, covering 512 million donations, 41 million donors, and 9.4

AI

Blackbaud

JULY 30, 2024

Constituent relationship management (CRM) platform. Your nonprofit may have viable major donor prospects among its current supporters, so digging into your CRM data can help you find them. Then, you can use your prospect research database to see if they have the financial capacity to upgrade to the major donor level.

AI

Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Recruiting and retaining staff can feel like scaling a mountain. Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. When recruiting and retaining new team members, start with the end in mind. Related Posts: What Early Job Prepared You for a Fundraising Career?

Nonprofit

Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Recruiting and retaining staff can feel like scaling a mountain. Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. When recruiting and retaining new team members, start with the end in mind. Related Posts: What Early Job Prepared You for a Fundraising Career?

Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

It’s important to have a plan in place for donor acknowledgement and John Killoran, Founder of Snowball Fundraising, lends his expertise from assisting over 7,000 nonprofits below. . Donor appreciation should be a crucial aspect of your overall fundraising strategy from the moment you start your nonprofit.

CRM

Qgiv

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite organizations utilizing fundraising best practices , many challenges for nonprofits remain. They are: Donor retention Leveraging technology Economic uncertainty Fundraising events Donor communication and engagement 1. Leveraging Technology Nonprofit fundraising technology drives so much of today’s giving.

Nonprofit

GiveSmart

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This means your nonprofit faces an excellent opportunity to engage with donors through your year-end giving fundraiser and gain more support. The best way to retain your donors is to make them feel welcome and follow up with efficient communication on ways they can stay involved with your nonprofit.

Software

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2022

To be the most effective fundraiser that you can, it’s important to know about the fundraising cycle. The fundraising cycle or donor cultivation cycle is the key to gaining, engaging, and retaining donors. The fundraising cycle has six stages and is the key to your fundraising success. Identification.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

The past couple of years have represented a challenging time for nonprofit fundraising. In difficult circumstances, it’s helpful to return to the fundraising basics to ensure you’re making the most of tried and true strategies to boost your nonprofit’s donation revenue. Foster face-to-face connections when possible.

Donation

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

From planning peer-to-peer fundraisers to properly marketing your online campaigns, there’s an endless number of items on your to-do lists. That’s why it’s essential to carefully choose the right software solutions to support your operations–the right tool can drive a high ROI for your fundraising efforts. Personalize donor engagement.

Software

The Fundraising Coach

AUGUST 27, 2024

Use a Robust CRM A robust constituent relationship management (CRM) system will aggregate donor data , making it easy to derive insights that could influence your marketing and fundraising strategies. Anyone who can use your fundraising platform likely has access to donor data, as well.

Fundraising

Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Fundraising solutions Attract donors Meet the right donors, have better conversations, and hit your fundraising goals. Bonterra’s fundraising solutions help you build and maintain stronger donor relationships, making it easy to give and simple to raise more for your mission.

Fundraising

Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

Major gifts fundraising is a team sport. Small and large shops alike benefit from having a variety of stakeholders involved in fundraising. Ideas for fundraising allies include: Program, operations, finance, and admin staff. As we say in fundraising, if you don’t ask, you won’t get. Build your team. Remember to ask.

CRM

CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

What is peer-to-peer fundraising, and how can you leverage it to boost your nonprofit fundraising? After seeing thousands of fundraising campaigns, we see that peer-to-peer fundraising typically raises twice as much as compared to other digital fundraising campaigns.

Fundraising

CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

What is peer-to-peer fundraising, and how can you leverage it to boost your nonprofit fundraising? After seeing thousands of fundraising campaigns, we see that peer-to-peer fundraising typically raises twice as much as compared to other digital fundraising campaigns.

Fundraising

CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

If you’ve been in the fundraising game for a while, you’re aware of the important role major donors play. On average, gifts from major donors make up the bulk of a nonprofit’s fundraising revenue each year. She’s data-obsessed and strives toward community-centric fundraising. Retaining Major Donors.

CRM

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

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

To be a skilled fundraiser, you need many skills. You’ll make mistakes, miss opportunities, and learn valuable lessons on your journey to becoming a seasoned fundraising professional. That being said, everyone makes fundraising mistakes, it’s how you learn from them that matters most. Top fundraising mistakes to avoid 1.

Fundraising