Blackbaud

JULY 16, 2025

Can becoming more intentional in your relationship-building strategies help your organization retain more donors? It’s the intentional process of nurturing potential donors, educating them about your mission, demonstrating your impact, and developing a genuine connection.

Fundraising

GrantNews

JANUARY 17, 2025

A workplace where colleagues share values, clear communication, and build a mutual respect guides behavior and helps everyone stay motivated and aligned toward common goals. Culture can help leaders achieve goals and objectives, but it can also create obstacles that prevent employees from doing their best work.

Grant

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This committee will be responsible for: Setting goals for the auction. Set both revenue and performance goals. Let’s say your auction will fund increased educational opportunities for students in need. One of the best (and easiest) ways to retain new donors is to follow up after the campaign. Build an auction website.

Procurement

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

Wild Apricot

AUGUST 4, 2025

The goal is simple: help nonprofits grow their audience and get results through video. Did you know individuals retain 95% of a message when watched via a video as opposed to only 10% retention in text? Education and Awareness YouTube is a great platform to educate people about your cause.

Nonprofit

Big Fundraising Ideas

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Youll find practical tips on planning, organizing, and engaging the community, all designed to help your school meet its goals while keeping the excitement high. On the one hand, you want to spark enthusiasm, creativity, and community spirit; on the other, you have financial goals and deadlines to meet.

Fundraising

Big Fundraising Ideas

APRIL 22, 2025

School fundraising is more than collecting donations or selling products to meet financial goals. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, over 90% of public schools rely on fundraising to supplement their budgets. But fundraising isnt just about meeting monetary goals.

Fundraising

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 24, 2024

I am a social worker by education. My goal in taking your classes was to be a better fundraiser for sure. I wanted to be educated. We do really well at retaining donors. I have taken several of your courses and read your blog. I have been the primary fundraiser for our organization for the last 30 years.

Donation

Blackbaud

JUNE 11, 2025

The expansion of school choice programs The data on this is still uncertain—with many states reporting the majority of usage by families already enrolled in private schools—but the promotion of these programs has kept non-public education top of mind and made it accessible to more families. Ready to transform your admissions process?

Application

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Retain more volunteers over time. Volunteer lifecycle stage The goal of this stage Strategies to use at this stage Recruitment Introduce your volunteer opportunities to new audience members and inspire them to sign up. Improve volunteer satisfaction.

Management

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. Document this important role and codify the goals for both the volunteer and the organization.

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. Define your segmentation goals. Any strong strategy starts with goal-setting. between 2022 and 2023. Let’s get started!

Demographics

Blackbaud

MARCH 4, 2024

This highlights the importance of making the most of higher education advancement technology with effective collaboration across advancement leaders, CIOs, CTOs and CITOs. The goal is to make it easier to act upon the vast amounts of data these institutions have. The popularity of these tools is not surprising.

Education

Qgiv

JANUARY 20, 2022

A prolific writer and speaker, he curates Bloomerang’s sector-leading educational content and hosts their weekly webinar series. Here are five tips for thanking your year-end donors that will increase the likelihood of them being retained in the following year: 1. Get the eBook: Retaining Your P2Peeps. About Bloomerang.

Retainer

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 4, 2024

For many years, the overarching narrative for annual giving in higher education fundraising has been the same: We’re getting bigger gifts from fewer donors. Here’s what we suggest: We need to start rethinking annual giving metrics to create a new storyline about fundraising for higher education. And that one gets a bigger gift.

Metrics

Qgiv

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Powerful Images and Donor Education. Make sure your form incorporates recurring giving nudges in order to encourage these kinds of donations that can help you hit your income goals. Retaining loyal supporters should always be a focus since those donors tend to stay involved with your organization longer and give more.

Goals

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

GrantNews

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Ultimately, the success of a nonprofit is judged by how it accomplishes its goals and the transparency involved. Having a code of ethics or statement of values helps attract talented employees, recruit board members, retain donors, and of course ensure that all transactions are aligned with the values of the organization.

Ethics

Grant Writer Team

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs): A nationally accredited public or nonprofit institution providing instruction beyond secondary education. Quota: A goal; most likely a goal required in order to retain some or all of the grant award.

Grant

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. Focus on Acquiring and Retaining Donors. All fundraisers know that their main goal is to raise money, but not all of them think about sustainability or scalability. Let’s begin.

Fundraising

amplifi

AUGUST 8, 2024

Be strategic with your goals. You’re working to give underserved children a better education. You know that if you want to raise more money and achieve your goals, you need to reach the right donors with the right message, in the right way, at the right time. LEARN MORE: The next step to thank and retain year-end donors.

Metrics

Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

Before November rolls around, you need to prepare your organization for the big day and set your GivingTuesday goals. Offer recurring giving plans While acquiring new donors is important, GivingTuesday can help you retain donors as well. Stewardship helps you retain your first-time donors and helps motivate them to give again.

ChatGPT

Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Free nonprofit resources offer your organization knowledge, strategic planning, and valuable data to help you accomplish your goals more efficiently. These resources come in various forms, ranging from educational webinars and podcasts to newsletters and fundraising software. Enriched knowledge. Qgiv Fundraising Webinars.

Nonprofit

GrantNews

AUGUST 20, 2024

Jobs: Locally owned businesses employ more people per unit of sales and retain more employees during economic downturns. The priority will be for applications that engage diverse communities and make a broad impact through research and education. Applicants will work collaboratively with an eligible research institution.

Retail

Blackbaud

MAY 1, 2024

Convert More Donors with a Better Donation Form The goal for nonprofit organizations and higher education advancement teams is always to raise more money online. Motivate Donors with Personalized Communications Once donors give, create an email marketing plan to keep them engaged and retained.

CRM

GiveSmart

OCTOBER 14, 2024

One poll found that 70% of Americans find the holiday season the best time to give back to others, and 65% of respondents are making it a personal goal to donate more. 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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Kate is also a member of the ICON Education Advisory Council, the VA AFP Caucus, and is the current chair of the Virginia Fundraising Institute. Earning these one-time donations helps you reach your year-end campaign goals, which is great. If not, it’s time to strategize how you’ll retain year-end donors for the long term.

Retainer

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But typically, the job someone had at the end of 2019 or the person doing it will have changed just enough that with some education and training in new skills, the organization and the person can thrive. As a result, you can grow your overall donor base, retain more long-term supporters, and get more dollars into your programming.

Training

Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

How could hiring a grant consultant help your organization meet its funding goals? A master’s degree and experience in a related field such as social work will show you that the candidate not only has relevant education but also has knowledge of nonprofits and how they work. 3. What does a full-time grant writer cost?

Consultant

amplifi

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Multi-channel donors give more on average and are retained at a rate two times higher than online or offline-only donors, according to the Blackbaud Institute. You might already have some idea of the channels that will help your school or university achieve your campaign’s goals. And the results don’t lie!

Goals

CauseVox

JULY 31, 2023

Here are six key steps to think through in order to execute on Giving Day: Pick A Date Set Clear Goals Plan The Campaign Spread The Word Leverage Technology Follow Up 1. Set Clear Goals It is important to define your fundraising target, donor engagement goals and impact-oriented objectives. Drive awareness around an issue?

Nonprofit

GiveSmart

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nonprofit development and marketing teams share similar goals in an organization. Both want to attract and retain donors to further their nonprofit's cause. Making meetings more productive with collaborative efforts boosts teamwork so everyone is driven toward your nonprofit's goals.

Retainer

CauseVox

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Campaign planning is the ideal way to ensure your campaign goals align with your organization’s goals. Set Goals GivingTuesday is inherently a short-term initiative, so having a specific fundraising and impact goal set for your campaign has been proven to help drive urgency and donations.

Nonprofit

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This structured approach helps you effectively engage and retain supporters over time. This initial step sets the foundation for building long-term relationships rooted in mutual interest and shared goals. The goal is to create a genuine connection and demonstrate the tangible impact of their support on your mission.

Demographics

GiveSmart

APRIL 24, 2024

Nonprofit development and marketing teams share similar goals in an organization. Both want to attract and retain donors to further their nonprofit’s cause. Making meetings more productive with collaborative efforts boosts teamwork so everyone is driven toward your nonprofit’s goals.

Retainer

Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

The third and most painful reason is that those with the capacity and interest to give very large gifts are typically white, highly-educated people. Set targets for acquiring and retaining more followers every year, starting right now. This is a tricky problem to deal with. Use technology designed for “marcher”-level giving.

Contracts

Big Fundraising Ideas

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Gift card fundraisers for schools are innovative and efficient methods of raising funds to support various educational programs and initiatives. Supporting Extracurricular Activities: Sports teams, arts programs, and clubs are essential for a student’s well-rounded education.

Retail