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

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

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

Retention rates: In the first quarter of 2024, the Fundraising Effectiveness Survey found retention increases as gift size increases; 23% of small donors ($101-$500) are retained compared to only 10% of micro-donors ($1-$100). This data demonstrates that organizations should be focusing on quality over quantity.

Donation

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

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

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. Recent nonprofit trends show that giving is on the decline, decreasing by 2.1% between 2022 and 2023. Demographics.

Demographics

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

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

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. The name Keela will be kept, Vinod said.

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

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

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. of all donors, had a 6.5%

Fundraising

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

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. Then, equip them with the tools and feedback they need to improve.

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. Then, equip them with the tools and feedback they need to improve.

Nonprofit

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

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. . Bloomerang | Constituent Relationship Manager. Platform Overview.

Fundraising

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

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. The more active you are with your donors, the more likely they will return for each end-of-year giving campaign.

Software

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

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

CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Retaining Major Donors. Having a personalized stewardship plan is a fail-proof approach to retaining major donors. 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? with professional and personal information.

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. What does success look like, and how will you track it?

CRM

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

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. How to Effectively Track Moves with Your CRM Keeping track of where a donor is in your moves management plan is crucial to its effectiveness.

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

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

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. There’s no need for a service integration.

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