Blackbaud

JULY 16, 2025

Can becoming more intentional in your relationship-building strategies help your organization retain more donors? 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.

Fundraising

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

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. That’s what leads to more retained donors , more giving, and less burnout for your team. Your nonprofit doesn’t need another dashboard.

Burnout

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

When your auction platform integrates with your other nonprofit tools, you can leverage your CRM to: Find and send invites to past event attendees. With your auction platform, CRM, and marketing tools working together, you can create targeted messaging and ensure your communications resonate with supporters.

Procurement

Blackbaud

JUNE 18, 2025

Those gifts synced with their CRM, Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®, providing a 360-degree view of donors that helped form the future of their year-round stewardship strategy. GivingTuesday allows nonprofits, schools, and community groups to tap into a wave of generosity and connect with people ready to support causes they care about.

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. Its about awarding with purpose.

Award

The Fundraising Coach

MAY 30, 2025

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. Many CRMs will offer wealth screening tools that can help identify prospects. Charitable gift annuities (CGAs): CGAs are contracts between a donor and a nonprofit.

CRM

Qgiv

APRIL 18, 2022

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. What is a fundraising CRM? There are for-profit and nonprofit CRMs out there. What is a fundraising platform?

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. million people volunteered for a nonprofit organization in 2021, contributing $122.9 billion in economic value.

Retainer

Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

No matter what technology you’re using to collect data, make sure all of these findings are routed to your constituent relationship management (CRM) system so the information is consolidated in one unified platform. If current trends continue, stewarding and retaining a loyal donor base will only become more important.

Ethics

Blackbaud

MAY 1, 2024

Motivate Donors with Personalized Communications Once donors give, create an email marketing plan to keep them engaged and retained. When it comes to the donor journey, a proper strategy can make all the difference. An easy way to enrich the donation experience is by offering an optimized donation form and a simplified donation process.

CRM

The NonProfit Times

JUNE 4, 2024

Aplos started looking for a CRM component during the fall of 2023. The firm released an online donation product, along with a CRM and communication tool, in 2014 and unveiled Advanced Accounting in 2016, the same year the firm secured $4 million in Series A funding from San Joaquin Capital. These were not built by institutions.

Software

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. Why is fundraising important for nonprofits? Let’s begin.

Fundraising

The NonProfit Times

JULY 30, 2024

The data comes from and the project is supported by nine constituent relationship management (CRM) platforms. There was a significant decline in new and new retained donors (10.3% Repeat retained donors, constituting 50.4% It was the same story, different day, for fundraising during the first quarter of 2024. of all donors.

Fundraising

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

Blackbaud

JULY 19, 2024

The more you invest in middle donors, the more likely you are to retain and upgrade them. Predictive AI software tools use machine learning technology to analyze your CRM donor data and identify complex giving patterns and trends indicative of midlevel donor potential.

AI

Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

Peer-to-peer fundraising is a great way to raise money and build your donor base, but the type of platform you use also has a major impact on your campaign’s performance, and your ability to retain new donors and fundraisers from year to year. . Donors are more likely to give when they know the person who’s doing the asking.

Fundraising

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. For this reason, your organization can list preferred skills in its job description.

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. For this reason, your organization can list preferred skills in its job description.

Nonprofit

GiveSmart

OCTOBER 14, 2024

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. Many people are inclined to feel the warm and fuzzy emotions that come with helping others and choose to make charitable donations during this time.

Software

Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2021

However, with a few ideas and implementation tips, you’ll be able to retain donors, steward them to the next level, and strengthen your organization as a whole. Use the information in your CRM to collect and leverage the most correct and accurate information. Recognizing your donors requires intention, authenticity, and some planning.

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. Increases in donor engagement.

Management

Qgiv

MARCH 14, 2023

The organizations that can do the best job of retaining donors in 2023 will be most successful—not just in this year, but for years to come. Many organizations use disparate systems, CRM, online giving, volunteer management, email marketing, wealth screening, website tracking, the list goes on. drop in donor retention in Q3 of 2022.

Nonprofit

CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Retaining Major Donors. Having a personalized stewardship plan is a fail-proof approach to retaining major donors. Smaller organizations may consider $500 a major gift, while larger nonprofits may start at a $1,000 mark. With any significant donation, major donors aren’t easy to come by no matter how big or small your nonprofit is.

CRM

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. It has been quite a year. Show gratitude.

CRM

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Use your CRM to track relationships with supporters. Use your CRM to track relationships with supporters. Like with your donors, you can use your CRM or volunteer management software to document developments in your relationships with supporters. Stay up to date with current advocacy trends. Focus on volunteer retention.

CRM

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

Use the donor data in your nonprofit’s constituent relationship management system (CRM) to segment donors into groups based on shared characteristics and preferences. Leverage fundraising software tools and marketing platforms that automatically populate your email subject lines and greetings with donors’ names stored in your CRM.

Donation

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

In fact, 67% of nonprofits use a CRM. Charity Engine | Nonprofit software with direct mail solutions CharityEngine is a CRM and fundraising platform designed to streamline operations for nonprofits of all sizes. Donor management software enables you to organize your donor information, track gifts, and strengthen your donor engagement.

Software

The Fundraising Coach

MARCH 15, 2021

Since the cost to acquire a new donor is higher than the cost to retain an existing one, retaining more donors will increase the sustainability of your fundraising efforts. While this number may not be a metric that is instantly calculable or waiting for you in your CRM, it’s a valuable tool to inform your fundraising efforts.

Metrics

Blackbaud

MARCH 4, 2024

As a key enabler to income generation growth and enhanced engagement with largest and most diverse external audiences, it is essential that fundraising teams harness a smart customer relationship management (CRM) that supports the ‘orchestration’ or automation of their work. It cannot and should not be all about fundraising.

Education

DonorSnap

MAY 17, 2023

Sustaining Existing Donors with Moves Management It is widely known that it costs less money to retain current donors than to acquire new ones. A warm welcome is key to retaining new donors. To better understand Moves Management, it is important to define the term and explore how to build a plan for it. What is Moves Management?

Management

DonorSnap

MARCH 28, 2024

This can help nurture your volunteers and retain them. With these tools, you can list items, offer mobile bidding to your guests, and import event transaction data into your CRM saving you countless hours of admin time. It is worth investing in a good CRM and Auction Software to help manage your nonprofit events.

Procurement

DonorSnap

MARCH 28, 2024

This can help nurture your volunteers and retain them. With these tools, you can list items, offer mobile bidding to your guests, and import event transaction data into your CRM saving you countless hours of admin time. It is worth investing in a good CRM and Auction Software to help manage your nonprofit events.

Procurement

Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2023

So not only is it a top-notch payment processor, but it’s also designed to save you time and reduce the manpower needed to get your donor data to speak with your CRM and accounting software. Bloomerang is a great choice because it blends payment processing and a CRM all on one platform. Why is a payment processor important?

CRM

Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

Vendor Relationship Management is meant to serve as the customer-side counterpart of CRM. These fall into the category of CRM. I don't have any control over what information Facebook retains about me or about TechSoup. We like to be ahead of the trend here at TechSoup, however. VRM: A Quick Explainer.

Management

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. When you find ways to personalize these types of outreach, you can more effectively capture donors’ attention and retain their support.

CRM

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. Your CRM will allow you to set permissions, so controls can be placed over different sections and types of data.

Fundraising