Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Manage event registration, check-ins, bidding, and checkouts from one centralized platform. Include staff assignments and determine the number of volunteers you need to help manage each task. One of the best (and easiest) ways to retain new donors is to follow up after the campaign.

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. Most donor management systems are great at reporting. Your nonprofit doesn’t need another dashboard. You need clarity. You need direction.

Burnout

Blackbaud

APRIL 28, 2025

Higher education institutions today face mounting pressures to attract and retain students in an increasingly competitive landscape. Use your award management software to help monitor fund utilization and scholarship impact, refine strategies, and ensure funds are used effectively. Once youve gained their attention, be proactive.

Award

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. Retaining First Time Donors This GivingTuesday : More than 60% of spontaneous donors who give without prior planning intend to give again.

Software

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

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. Sync your nonprofit event management platform with your constituent database so you can use your segments to inform your event communications.

Demographics

Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization. Having a successful volunteer management strategy will help you increase your volunteer retention rate, which ultimately creates more efficient volunteer staff.

Management

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

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

The NonProfit Times

JUNE 4, 2024

Constituent relationship management firm Keela has been acquired by Aplos Software and will become part of a three-application cloud solution for nonprofits. Aplos started looking for a CRM component during the fall of 2023. Aplos’ flagship product is accounting software. Aplos already owns Raisely, a fundraising software.

Software

GiveSmart

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Now that you know how vital donor management software is to your organization, learn the best practices and strategies to ensure you’re making the most of the program and improving your relationship with your donors. Learn more about how to implement these donor management best practices.

Management

Blackbaud

MAY 1, 2024

Motivate Donors with Personalized Communications Once donors give, create an email marketing plan to keep them engaged and retained. Here are some of the most important reasons to integrate systems so your CRM is sharing data with your email marketing system, and vice versa: Data siloes stifle your engagement strategy.

CRM

DonorSnap

MAY 17, 2023

Moves Management helps nonprofits sustain and cultivate donors at different stages of the donor life cycle. To better understand Moves Management, it is important to define the term and explore how to build a plan for it. To better understand Moves Management, it is important to define the term and explore how to build a plan for it.

Management

GiveSmart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Nonprofits rely on donors to continue their mission, so it’s important to keep track of your donor information to retain your current donors and potentially gain more. Donor management software helps streamline the process and allows you to devote more time to your goals. What is donor management?

Management

Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

TechSoup's Senior Online Community Manager, Lewis Haidt, introduced me to Vendor Relationship Management (more commonly shortened to VRM), which is sort of the converse to Customer Relationship Management. Vendor Relationship Management is meant to serve as the customer-side counterpart of CRM.

Management

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. Set opportunities in place for new hires to ask questions, express concerns, and provide general feedback to their managers. Necessary experience.

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. Set opportunities in place for new hires to ask questions, express concerns, and provide general feedback to their managers. Necessary experience.

Nonprofit

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. Develop a Strategy. Understand the Giver’s Journey.

Fundraising

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. . Event management tools to keep you on track. Let’s break down each platform!

Fundraising

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Managing a nonprofit takes patience, hard work, and a lot of organization. Plus, software solutions can help reduce your staff’s stress and streamline their workload by automating processes and providing a centralized place for managing different campaigns and communications. In fact, 67% of nonprofits use a CRM.

Software

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% Data is weighted across size of organization as determined by amount fundraised.

Fundraising

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. To help inspire creative ideas, you can utilize campaign management software to access analytics and data that help you come up with unique themes.

Software

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

GiveSmart

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Donor management is essential to help you make the most of the information you collect. The donor management process is a vital part of the donor journey and is necessary to help you achieve your organization’s goals. But what is donor management? Get to know GiveSmart Donor CRM today.

Management

Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

Manage expectations by setting a strategy that’s compatible with the resources you have. Choose a framework such as moves management and provide your team with training on the approach. Most nonprofits, however, are lucky to have even one staff person dedicated to major gifts. Remember to ask. Show gratitude.

CRM

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. This problem is not going away.

Nonprofit

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

APRIL 15, 2021

With proper event data management, you can harness that data to improve on fundraising events, retain more donors, and raise more money for your mission. What is event data and how is it managed? Through event data management. For the best results when managing your event data , start with a focus on broad data.

Management

CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Retaining Major Donors. Having a personalized stewardship plan is a fail-proof approach to retaining major donors. Pipeline (Moves Management) & Plans. Once you’ve done your research, be sure to park this info in a place where you can easily reference and update (like a CRM ). What Is Personalized Stewardship?

CRM

Blackbaud

MARCH 4, 2024

Dan is the vice-president of customer success modernization and managing director of International Markets Group at Blackbaud and has years of experience working in the higher education space. Let’s take a look at how you can make the most of your advancement technology to create such blended strategy!

Education

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

GiveSmart

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

For example, you may have trouble retaining donors. Donor management software helps your team gain a deeper understanding of your individual donors. GiveSmart’s Donor CRM can save you time and help improve your relationships with your new and existing donors, no matter where they are in the donor journey.

Management

DonorSnap

MARCH 28, 2024

This can help nurture your volunteers and retain them. Anyone who has run an auction knows that managing bid sheets and transactions can be time-consuming and messy. Luckily, many great nonprofit auction management tools like AuctionSnap help simplify the process.

Procurement

DonorSnap

MARCH 28, 2024

This can help nurture your volunteers and retain them. Anyone who has run an auction knows that managing bid sheets and transactions can be time-consuming and messy. Luckily, many great nonprofit auction management tools like AuctionSnap help simplify the process.

Procurement