Blackbaud

JANUARY 14, 2025

While you may be aware on a general level that your CRM platform is becoming a headwind to your organization achieving its fundraising goals, the prospect of migrating vast amounts of data, retraining staff, and committing the money and resources required for a successful upgrade can make it tempting to say, Lets make do for another year.

CRM

OneCause

APRIL 28, 2025

Be sure to build and optimize your participant portal to help your participants recruit team members, access resources that help them fundraise, showcase their personal fundraising pages , ask for donations from their social networks, and track progress toward their fundraising goals. Embrace mobile tools and tactics.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MAY 1, 2025

SMART Goals Setting SMART goalsmeaning goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-boundprovides a clear structure for drafting successful objectives. Often, nonprofits overlook the importance of setting well-defined and realistic goals , which can hinder their progress.

Fundraising

Gail Perry Group

JUNE 5, 2025

As the end of your fiscal year approaches, theres one question on every CEO and board members mind: Will we hit our annual fund goal or fall short? If you have the right focus in this last month of the fiscal year, your team can not only meet your goal you may even exceed it. And all eyes are on the bottom line. on that list.

Goals

Candid

MAY 5, 2025

In fact, its in eight of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals including eradicating poverty, ending hunger, and reducing inequality. It also helps retain liquidity within the local economy and reduces reliance on intermediaries that charge high fees.

Policy

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Many organizations are experts at driving traffic to their online donation forms, but plenty struggle to actually secure donations and reach their fundraising goals. Retaining donors is equally challengingthe average nonprofit donor retention rate is consistently around 45%. Make it easy for supporters to complete their donations.

Donation

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Monthly retainers Organizations that need ongoing grant support benefit from monthly retainers. Monthly retainer costs range widely. Most retainer agreements last 6-12 months. Many consultants set minimum retainer amounts between $1,500 and $3,000 per month.

Grant

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

With Giving Tuesday and year-end appeals on the horizon, leveraging social media effectively can make all the difference in reaching your fundraising goals. Key takeaways: Optimize Your Social Media Profiles for Fundraising: Learn how to enhance your social media presence to attract and retain donors.

Media

Bonterra

JUNE 19, 2025

The first gift isn’t the goal. of new donors are retained after their first gift. These tools help reduce friction, improve ROI, and make every interaction feel more intentional for your team and your supporters. It’s just the beginning. Acquiring donors is hard. Keeping them is even harder.

Fundraising

CauseVox

MARCH 17, 2025

Planning the Golf Tournament Fundraiser Set Clear Goals Before you hit the green, start by setting crystal-clear goals. Home Page The home page (as displayed in the Scouting for America example above) should showcase key details like date, location, and fundraising goals. Ask yourself: What is our fundraising target?

Fundraising

Center for Major Gifts

MARCH 22, 2025

The goal is to be conversational, not reciting a prepared speech. A quick, heartfelt phone call can be a game-changer when it comes to retaining donors and inspiring future giving. Use their name, reference the specific gift they made, and let them know how grateful you are for their support of that particular campaign or program.

CRM

Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2025

Theyre an opportunity to showcase your schools achievements and build relationships that translate into broader community support for your educational goals. Explore our educational case studies to understand how other educational organizations have used our tools to drive fundraising success and retain donors long-term.

Fundraising

GrantNews

JUNE 23, 2025

The goal is to help veterans reenter the workforce and access long-term support. The goal of the program is to help businesses generate export revenue while creating or retaining jobs tied to foreign sales. To learn more, click here. State Government Grants for Businesses : What are they? Learn more here.

Government

Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 13, 2025

Measure and Communicate Success Effectively To earn and retain grant funding, organizations must provide clear evidence of their impact. Create a cohesive strategy that aligns with your organizations goals, strengths, and resources. These partnerships also demonstrate your commitment to sustainability and long-term change.

Grant

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. This data demonstrates that organizations should be focusing on quality over quantity.

Donation

Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Fundraisers are vital to supporting school programs, but their impact can extend far beyond immediate monetary goals if post-event reviews are conducted effectively. These shouldinclude: Assessing overall success: Did the fundraiser meet its financial and non-financial goals? Why Conduct a Post-Fundraiser Review?

Fundraising

Blackbaud

JULY 16, 2025

Can becoming more intentional in your relationship-building strategies help your organization retain more donors? Cultivation Strategies to Strengthen Donor Relationships With cultivation, your goal is to educate donors about your organization’s cause and help them foster a connection to the organization.

Fundraising

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A thoughtful thank you may inspire supporters to give once more, helping you reach your annual revenue goal before the clock strikes midnight on New Years. Charity marketing research emphasizes that viewers who watch a video retain 95% of the information they see, compared to 10% retention when reading that information as only text.

Template

Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Fundraising Manager Your nonprofit’s fundraising manager or director will oversee all fundraising activities, develop high-level strategies, and ensure that fundraising efforts align with organizational goals.

Fundraising

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This committee will be responsible for: Setting goals for the auction. Set both revenue and performance goals. In fact, with the help of Qgiv + Bloomerang, one organization raised 130% of its gala fundraising goal after switching from Greater Giving! To determine these target metrics, review past event results.

Procurement

Community Boost

JUNE 27, 2025

That’s what leads to more retained donors , more giving, and less burnout for your team. Reporting isn’t the goal → relationships are At the end of the day, your mission isn’t to generate reports. You see a recurring donor’s payment failed → You follow up before it becomes a long-term lapse.

Burnout

amplifi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It gets them excited to engage with your organization and helps you retain them long-term. And remember, donors aren’t really interested in your nonprofit’s financial goals. So, focus your thank you’s on the impact they had in your story, not how they helped you reach a fundraising goal. Get a little personal. Prove you care.

Nonprofit

Big Fundraising Ideas

JANUARY 21, 2025

Setting clear goals and sharing compelling stories help teams secure resources for uniforms, travel, and tournaments. By leveraging digital platforms, teams can tap into a broader audience, simplify the donation process, and achieve their goals faster. Start by setting a clear and achievable fundraising goal.

Fundraising

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

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

When you receive a patient’s first annual fund gift, it often becomes important to do deeper prospect research, with the goal of assigning and cultivating the grateful patient for an appropriate major or transformational gift. Best practices for data management include: Minimization : Collect and retain only the necessary data.

Ethics

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

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Recognize Grantee Well-Being as Central to Mission Success Funders see grantee well-being not as a secondary or optional concern but as essential to the success of their mission and broader social change goals.

Burnout

Gail Perry Group

JULY 17, 2025

Why the number of visits may not be enough P roblem: Quantity-based performance goals alone don’t tell the whole performance story What kind of metrics really drive results? Managers who align the right type of performance goals with donor readiness and relationship progress help gift officers focus their time - and close more major gifts.

Burnout

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Salvation Army leaders set an aggressive goal of $3 million for GivingTuesday 2024. Those people are more likely to give again and are retained at a higher-than-average rate. Red Kettles typically bring in an average $2.7 million a day. If the organization hits the target, that level will supersede the $2.71

Pass-Through

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

Gail Perry Group

JANUARY 22, 2025

Revenue goals are ever-rising! The huge financial goals and the pressure on fundraisers and organizational leadership can be intense. We have a challenge retaining some of our most generous supporters." Use Fundraising by the Numbers to build a pipeline that allows you to predict revenue and track progress towards your goals.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JULY 17, 2025

In this guide, we’ll explore four strategies for retaining your volunteers and cultivating loyal support for your mission. Acknowledging milestones is a prime opportunity to reflect back on all your volunteers have accomplished and specifically highlight the impact of volunteers who have supported your long-term goals.

Training

Big Fundraising Ideas

APRIL 22, 2025

School fundraising is more than collecting donations or selling products to meet financial goals. But fundraising isnt just about meeting monetary goals. Or is the goal to enhance school spirit while supporting multiple initiatives? Volunteer Burnout Recruiting and retaining volunteers can be tough.

Fundraising

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The goal is to raise $5 million! Effective audience research is essential for nonprofits looking to expand or retain their audiences. I'll have mine with extra syrup and social good! Next week, McDonald's will bring back its Shamrock Shake. For every shake sold, McDonalds will donate 25 cents to RMHC. Marketing Your Cause 1.

Funding

Candid

MAY 21, 2025

A third of nonprofit knowledge workers say they could work faster if they had clearer goals Asked what would help them work faster, respondents were most likely to say if they had clearer goals (33%) and if all teams at my organization used the same processes to get work done (33%).

AI

Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 24, 2024

My goal in taking your classes was to be a better fundraiser for sure. We do really well at retaining donors. You have said that you like to hear feedback from your students, so I have been thinking of you all through the day today and finally stopped to write to you. I am sending you so much gratitude.

Donation

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