The Fundraiser Coach

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Pro Tip: you only need to invest in donors you want to retain! Most nonprofits invest in the Ask. But not so much in nurturing the relationships with our supporters. Is it time for your nonprofit to invest in building relationships and focusing on retention and the Ask? Or we assume our "e-blasts" and annual reports will do the heavy lifting.

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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.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 14, 2025

When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is your biggest challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled staff or volunteers?” It has been increasingly difficult to not only recruit and retain skilled staff, but just to get them to the interview process! ” , once again, nonprofit leaders came through!

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CauseVox

JANUARY 20, 2025

From these stats, you would have retained 40% of your donors, and lost 60%. The Art Of The Thank You The first piece in any donor retention strategy (especially one for retaining year-end donors) is the thank you. Its officially 2025! We made it through 2024, and with it the final push for year-end donations.

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Clairification

JANUARY 4, 2024

Now… you should be devoting at least as much time to thanking the donors who responded to your appeals, with the goal of retaining and upgrading them over time. To Retain Donors, Stand Out from the ‘Get Go’ Believe me, most donors aren’t sticking around. I’ll bet you devoted a lot of time to this endeavor.

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amplifi

JANUARY 4, 2024

And you can do even more if you make it a priority to retain year-end donors! And saying thank you the right way after someone gives is crucial if you want to retain year-end donors! You need to be timely with your thank you’s if you want to retain year-end donors. And the same is true if you want to retain year-end donors.

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Clairification

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Your goal with any fundraising strategy is to retain and, ultimately, upgrade these transactional donors. The absolute worst thing you can do the day after Giving Tuesday is nothing. As tempting as it is to let out a sigh of relief that it’s over, resist that temptation. It’s not time to relax yet. Nothing comes of nothing.

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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%. Theres a scene where Neo discovers that most of the population is asleep in pods where they are being used like a battery by the sentient AI that put them there. A chilling notion. Fundraising has been showing troubling trends for a while now.

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Clairification

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

To Retain Donors, Stand Out from the ‘Get Go’ Believe me, most donors aren’t sticking around. And … The number one reason donors don’t give again is they aren’t properly thanked! You may think you have a proper thank you letter template. TYPICAL THANK YOU LETTER TEMPLATE. Most thank you letters are simply boring.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

MARCH 10, 2025

However, recruiting and retaining these essential team members is not always easy. Your nonprofit needs a skilled, dedicated team to advance its mission. Use these onboarding best practices to set your new hires up for lasting success. By Debbie Willis Every new employee brings passion, talent, and a fresh perspective to your nonprofit.

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OneCause

AUGUST 2, 2023

So, let’s look at some proven tips to help your nonprofit recruit and retain more peer-to-peer participants. Attracting and retaining participants is key to your nonprofit’s peer-to-peer fundraising success. Peer-to-peer fundraising offers big benefits for your nonprofit. It’s a powerful fundraising approach. Learn more.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Key takeaways: Optimize Your Social Media Profiles for Fundraising: Learn how to enhance your social media presence to attract and retain donors. Create Engaging Content: Discover the types of posts that resonate most during fundraising seasons and how to craft messages that inspire action.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

According to Lynn Margherio, founder and CEO of Cradles to Crayons, volunteerism is the backbone of many successful nonprofits, even though attracting and retaining volunteers can be challenging. Fundraising isnt always about money. Mobilizing your volunteers can also have a financial impact. Make it easy for people to volunteer.

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Clairification

APRIL 11, 2024

It costs more to acquire a new donor than retain a current one. It’s why they retain, on average, 80 – 90% of current customers. Per the Fundraising Effectiveness Project, less than 20% of new donors (aka customers) are retained. A lot more. Please, please, please… let this sink in. The for-profit world understands this.

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

You will receive: A clear and effective strategy for Major Donor development Ironclad rules you must know Simple steps to implement Examples of how this has worked wildly and quickly. Session II: Utlizing Major Donors for Digital Campaigns with Abigail Quinlan. Abigail Quinlan, Nonprofit Marketing and Fundraising Strategist.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Automating communications to retain recurring donors. Diverse revenue streams provide a sustainable financial foundation for nonprofits. Explore revenue streams your nonprofit should pursue in this guide. Its important for you to diversify your revenue sources. Evaluate your mobile fundraising logistics. Choose mobile giving channels.

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Candid

JUNE 28, 2022

Highlighting the impact of donor gifts on your organization’s activities. When you have something exciting to share, seize the moment and reach out. Send messages that describe how you used donations, whether it was to purchase supplies for your animal shelter or to fund a children’s garden expansion project. . Segmenting donors.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 12, 2022

Here’s a look at how Planned Parenthood split its 55,000 mid-level program list into smaller segments to mail smarter, and effectively renew and upgrade lapsed and underperforming donors, respectively.

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Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

There are multiple reasons nonprofits should always be aiming for high levels of retention, not the least of which is that its significantly more cost-effective over time to retain than to acquire donors. However, the retention level jumps to approximately 60% for donors retained annually on a multiyear level.

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OneCause

APRIL 28, 2025

Retaining participants : Build an ongoing relationship with participants to keep them coming back year after year. Peer-to-peer fundraising is a powerful approach for nonprofits. It gets your constituents more involved with supporting your organization. It helps you reach new supporters through your constituents networks.

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In the most successful nonprofits, the marketing and fundraising efforts work hand-in-hand because leadership understands that marketing is vital to growing and retaining donors and donations. Are your fundraising and marketing strategies married up and hitched at the hip? If not, it may be time to re-evaluate.

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Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

Leaders are accountable for bringing resilient and imaginative colleagues into their organizationsand retaining them. At times, the future arrives earlier than we plan for or want it to. Nonprofitsand international development organizations in particularare grappling with fast-changing realities. Is it still relevant?

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GrantNews

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Funds will be awarded on a matching basis for projects that create jobs, initiate new business development, and/or retain existing businesses. Some funders require grant seekers to raise a portion of the needed funding. The grantor will then match the amount of money raised to cover the cost of a project.

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Clairification

JUNE 5, 2023

Today’s article will help you learn both: how to keep more fundraisers, and how to satisfy, inspire and retain more donors. I can’t get no… Oh, I can’t get no… satisfaction… Fundraisers report money is the number one reason they leave their jobs [See Part I of this two-part series here ].

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 12, 2023

The percentage of American adults who identify as LGBTQ+ has doubled since Gallup first began measuring it in 2012. And the younger the generation, the larger the percentage, with nearly 21% of Gen Z and almost 11% of millennials identifying as LGBTQ+. So, how can nonprofits connect with this growing demographic?

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 14, 2025

You Need to Automate Common Processes (While Retaining Oversight) According to the 2024 Nonprofit Digital Investments Report , 75% of nonprofits cite improving inefficient processes as critical to their tech investment decisions. But your growing pains cant be ignored much longer. ” If left unrefined, its effectively useless.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 28, 2022

When it comes to retaining and engaging your members, optimizing your member experience is everything. But when it comes to how to make it better, it can be difficult to know where to start! You probably already have a wealth of data from member surveys.

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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. I suggest trying out AI for this.

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Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

Retain staff. Donation Sources: Individuals: Donated $374.4 billion, a 1.6% increase from 2022, but a 2.4% decline when adjusted for inflation. Individual giving remained at 67% of total giving, though it fell below 2% of individuals’ disposable income. Foundations: Contributed $103.53 billion, making up 19% of total giving.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 15, 2025

It takes more than thank-you letters to retain donors for your nonprofit long-term. To effectively steward donor relationships and inspire higher levels of giving, you must strategically engage donors in various ways that deepen their connections to your nonprofit.

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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. This prohibition exists for several key reasons.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 13, 2021

Recruiting and retaining members during challenging social and economic times is hard work — as you well know! However, that doesn’t mean it’s time to throw in the towel just yet. There are many membership growth options that your.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We do really well at retaining donors. That’s how I was feeling the other day. I’d just heard some sad news, I’ve been administering chemo to Wally, the wonder pup, and this election has me on edge. Then Dawn’s email arrived. Here, I’ll let you read it… “I don’t expect you to remember me. Many of our donors have been with us 20-28 years.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

If current trends continue, stewarding and retaining a loyal donor base will only become more important. By Ryan Carpenter For the last several years, nonprofits have struggled to make ends meet due to falling revenue, rising inflation, and an increase in community needs. Charitable giving saw a 2.1% Perform a deep data analysis.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Believe it or not, the holidays and year-end are rapidly approaching. You’re probably working hard on your annual appeal, which will hopefully bring in lots of cash both by mail and online. But there’s a new opportunity for nonprofits to bring in that much-needed year-end money and promote the importance of the nonprofit sector: Giving Tuesday.

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Future Fundraising Now

JANUARY 8, 2025

Consider whether you can make your appeal mailing unique to you and different from the rest, while retaining their effectiveness. Back in the 90s, Relationship Fundraising was a sort of meme for a fundraising revolution that was growing in our industry. Standard fundraising back then was all about getting good at asking. And asking.

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