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

Blackbaud

AUGUST 6, 2025

Work with your development team to assess how well your organization retains donors and secures funding. Understand any outliers, such as COVID or a local environmental disaster, but use that information to help you prepare for a similar issue in the future.

Finance

Blackbaud

AUGUST 4, 2025

Free White Paper Future-Proofing Your Organization’s Finances: Proactive Steps to Ensure Stability and Growth Download now 7. How to Calculate: (Number of Repeat Donors ÷ Total Donors from Previous Year) × 100 How to Use: Acquiring new donors is harder—and more expensive—than retaining or re-engaging your current donors.

Metrics

CauseVox

JULY 1, 2025

In short: CRM software for nonprofits helps you remember, recognize, and retain your donors (and that’s where the real magic happens!). Download Our Free Guide To Nonprofit CRMs. It’s designed with small teams in mind, so you don’t need to be a data analyst to get the insights you need. You’ve got a nonprofit CRM.

CRM

The Fundraising Coach

MAY 30, 2025

After the donor passes away, the nonprofit retains the remaining value. Measure email opens and clicks, content downloads, webpage visits, and even RSVPs to planned-giving events. Charitable gift annuities (CGAs): CGAs are contracts between a donor and a nonprofit. This is an excellent gauge of interest in a commitment.

CRM

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For example, you say people experiencing homelessness rather than the homeless to make sure people retain their personhood and arent defined by an often temporary condition. Downloadable guides, interactive tools, research reports, and white papers give people a reason to come to your website outside of the search engine.

Engineering

Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Watch Erica’s presentation, download the resources below, and make a plan. Related Posts: Lessons From Motivate Monday | Retaining and growing… Lessons from MotivateMonday | Why monthly giving is… Motivate Monday | Bolster your back-end for monthly… Are you missing this key fundraising “system?

Retainer

Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

Retain staff. Download Encouraging Longevity in Nonprofit Development to discover the secrets behind employee retention. Download it here. One that includes realistic goals for grants and corporate support, individual support, program support, and events. Important: Invest in donor stewardship and reliable data.

Letter Of Inquiry

NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Each month, receive expert advice on securing the second gift, retaining donors, reimagining events, making successful asks, and more. Download the digital version or order your printed calendar now! Get 12 months of tailored inspiration, with practical tips, key dates, self-care, and customizable stickers.

Calendar

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 10, 2022

Use these frameworks to create compelling emails that will recruit, activate, engage and retain supporters. Download Now This free guide lays out the four types of emails you need to send your fundraisers to ensure your next peer-to-peer campaign is a success.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2024

Recurring donors are easy to retain, highly engaged, and deeply connected to the causes they love. Download now to access benchmarks, donor insights, data-backed strategies, and advice from industry fundraising experts. From 2018 to 2022, the average nonprofit’s recurring donor base grew 127 percent!

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We're heading into a recession in 2023, so how can your nonprofit ensure that you are offering competitive compensation to attract and retain the top talent that will get you through it? Download Keela's 2023 Nonprofit Salaries Guide to find out!

Retainer

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital advocacy can help organizations enlist and retain advocates across geography, time zones, ability, and so much more. Download this guide to learn how. Running the right experiments can help busy nonprofit staff develop a stronger and more engaged digital advocacy program.

Retainer

NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 4, 2024

Each month, receive expert advice on securing the second gift, retaining donors, reimagining events, making successful asks, and more. Download the digital version or order your printed calendar now! Get 12 months of tailored inspiration, with practical tips, key dates, self-care, and customizable stickers.

Calendar

CauseVox

JULY 1, 2024

Retaining and Growing Recurring Donations : Tips on keeping your recurring donors engaged and increasing their contributions over time. Download our free guide to recurring donations and take the first step towards creating a stable, long-term funding source for your nonprofit. Start Today!

Donation

Blackbaud

MARCH 8, 2024

To encourage you to download and read the full report , we are sharing a few highlights we think you will find particularly compelling. The annual and lifetime value of a sustainer is usually higher than the average one-time giver because one-time givers are only retained at around 20%, according to Giving USA.

Metrics

Pamela Grow

APRIL 29, 2023

The struggle to retain donors is widespread, with the lowest recorded donor retention rate at 42.6%. Download the New Donor Timeline and make a plan in your organization for acquiring that second gift. While major donors have kept donations rising or steady in the past, they also pulled back in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Nonprofit

Qgiv

APRIL 8, 2021

Download the Report. Retaining donors is critical! And the best way to retain donors is to show them their impact and make them feel amazing about supporting your work. by downloading the full report, “Navigating the Unknown: 2020 Findings to Future-Proof Your Fundraising.”. Hard times happen! during difficult times.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MARCH 13, 2024

Download the full Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Benchmark Report today. Rely on leadership: Team captains remain crucial to the success of team events. The best team captain has experience, enthusiasm, and consistent communication. The post Insights from the 12th Annual Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Report first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

With new donor acquisition costing 10-20x more than retaining existing donors, it's time to dig deep into your database and come up with a plan to re-engage the constituents that have fallen off your radar. Nonprofits typically lose over 50% of their donors every year.

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Network for Good

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Using Subscription Giving SM , which focuses on treating donors as subscribers, you can retain the new donors you attract for the long term. . Download Raising More with Less: 3 Strategies to Make Your Virtual Fundraising Sustainable for more ideas on how to stretch your fundraising investment further. . Giving Club Email Template .

Template

Selfish Giving

JULY 25, 2017

How national nonprofits and field offices can work together to retain corporate partners. How national offices generally share revenue with local chapters and the need for clarity and a policy. The research results that surprised Mollye and her team.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 22, 2025

of new donors are being retained year-to-date, and even repeat donor retention decreased by 4.6%. Staffing The National Council of Nonprofitsreports that nonprofits around the country are reporting significant challenges retaining staff and filling vacancies. Fundraising has been showing troubling trends for a while now. Only 13.8%

AI

CauseVox

AUGUST 12, 2024

Designing Your Campaign A compelling campaign design can attract and retain donors. Download your free guide today and start turning your vision into impact! From platforms that offer user-friendly interfaces to those that provide secure payment options, selecting the right tools is crucial.

Fundraising

CauseVox

AUGUST 2, 2024

Download our donor retention playbook for free below to discover effective strategies for retaining this important, change making generation. Download the Donor Engagement & Retention Playbook

Media

Network for Good

OCTOBER 21, 2020

If a business is looking for ways to attract new talent and retain the people they have, they’re likely to welcome a Remote Volunteer Day. Download Raising More with Less: 3 Strategies to Make Your Virtual Fundraising Sustainable for more ideas on how to stretch your fundraising investment further. .

Media

Blackbaud

JULY 16, 2024

Attracting and retaining new donors is a goal of every nonprofit since unrestricted funds are essential to our operations. More specifically, we are increasingly interested in attracting casual donors: a person on the street who hears about our work and decides to donate $10 every now and again.

Funding

Qgiv

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Ready to download the template? Download Template. We recommend downloading our End of Year Workbook to help your nonprofit set reasonable goals based on what you achieved over the past year. If you don’t have enough volunteers start up a volunteer recruitment program in order to attract and retain your talented volunteers.

Fundraising

Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2023

The information and action items presented in this report will help nonprofits implement sustainable fundraising strategies so they can raise more, retain donors, and reduce burnout. Over 50% of fundraisers that responded said that they spend 0-25% of their work time on donor retention.

Burnout

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Retains Existing Donors Thanking donors is actually an excellent donor retention strategy. This is why a genuine thank you goes a long way in retaining your most loyal donors, increasing the chances of them making a second, third, or fourth gift. Download Your Free Year-End & GivingTuesday Fundraising Toolkit:

Award

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

They take it a step further by including a link underneath the resources to a Google Drive where you can access some downloadable fundraising assets. As a nonprofit employee, you know how important it is to recruit and retain volunteers and advocates that are passionate about your mission. What You Can Do.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The report quotes nonprofit technology leader, Lucy Bernholz: "Nonprofits and foundations do all the same things with digital data that businesses do — they collect, store, use, share, mine, retain, and destroy it." Download the free Nonprofit Times/Cardinal Path report to learn more. " Key Findings.

Strategic Plan

Joe Garecht Fundraising

MARCH 7, 2022

Download KIT’s FREE fundraising analysis dashboard. Your Average Donor Lifespan represents the typical amount of time you’re able to retain a donor and develop a relationship. Additionally, it’s essential to have a large pool of new donors as only about 18% of first-time donors give again the following year. .

Fundraising

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2011

If it does, Outlook deletes the earlier message and retains the only the later one. This is good if you don't want to open another program just to glance over a document, or if you receive an attachment you're hesitant to download. Outlook's Conversation Clean Up feature is a good way to keep your Inbox neat and tidy.

Calendar

Qgiv

JUNE 8, 2021

FEP, formed nearly two decades ago as a collaboration between donor management software providers and data analysts, releases quarterly findings on giving trends in the form of downloadable reports and in a free online dashboard. Compared to past years, the 2020 report was as unique as the year itself.

Fundraising

Greater Giving

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Download The School Fundraising Infographic in Printable PDF Layout. Schools often find recruiting and retaining volunteers to be a significant challenge. According to our data, the top three challenges reported by schools are: Volunteers: The Backbone of Fundraising Volunteers are the lifeblood of any successful fundraising campaign.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

Find a download button beneath the video. Vine creators retain full rights to any content they submit, post, or display on Vine. Click on the browse button beneath one of the six license headings (such as Attribution, Attribution Share Alike, and so on).

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