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. According to Jitasa , grant management is an ongoing process that begins before funding is even secured.

Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 16, 2025

The results demonstrate the power of behavior-based artificial intelligence in optimizing donor engagement, increasing contributions, and driving fundraising efficiency from initial contact during prospecting through ongoing management of the donor to maximize lifetime value. of new donors retained year-to-date. rail-container).hide();

AI

Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

Case management and advocacy: Supports staff who work directly with individuals and families to navigate challenges and access resources. Median annual gift size: Data from Blackbaud’s Fundraiser Performance Management community shows that the median annual gift amount is $100.

Donation

CauseVox

JULY 1, 2025

While a fundraising platform helps you raise money by hosting donation pages, peer-to-peer campaigns, events, and more, a CRM software for nonprofits helps you manage donor relationships. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management; in the nonprofit world, that means tracking and managing your interactions with donors.

CRM

Blackbaud

APRIL 22, 2025

Nonprofit vs. For-Profit Recruitment: Similarities and Differences As with other aspects of nonprofit management, you can develop your recruitment strategy by learning from for-profit organizations that take on similar activities. Once youve successfully recruited and hired a new team member, your HR team is responsible for onboarding them.

Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

JULY 21, 2025

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Retail

Community Boost

JUNE 27, 2025

Most donor management systems are great at reporting. You don’t need 100 metrics, just the 5–10 that truly drive relationships and retention for your organization 2. That’s what leads to more retained donors , more giving, and less burnout for your team. Reporting tells you what happened. Insight tells you what to do next.

Burnout

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

To determine these target metrics, review past event results. Manage event registration, check-ins, bidding, and checkouts from one centralized platform. Include staff assignments and determine the number of volunteers you need to help manage each task. This committee will be responsible for: Setting goals for the auction.

Procurement

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

Nonprofits Struggle to Obtain Second Gifts and Bring Back Lapsed Donors Donor acquisition remains soft with new donors having dropped 10.9%, and new-retained donors (first-time donors in 2024 who gave again) having fallen 11.4%. Meanwhile, loyal repeat-retained donors had a less severe drop of 6.1% addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Retail

Blackbaud

JULY 16, 2025

Can becoming more intentional in your relationship-building strategies help your organization retain more donors? Qualify : Blackbaud’s CRM tools provide a 360-degree view of constituents, allowing you to easily track engagement, giving history, and other key metrics to determine who is truly ready for cultivation.

Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

JULY 10, 2025

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Retail

Gail Perry Group

JULY 17, 2025

It’s our way of helping both fundraisers and their managers step back, reset, and build a stronger major gifts strategy—one that actually works in the real world. That gap leads to guesswork instead of a clear moves management strategy. Gaming the Metrics? That’s why we created the Major Gift Officer Bootcamp.

Burnout

NonProfit PRO

JULY 25, 2025

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Retail

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Multi-Year Funding: Funding approaches such as providing multi-year grants help reduce uncertainty and free up staff to focus on implementation as opposed to grants management. Measurement and Evaluation Traditional metrics of success, such as program outputs, overshadow the intangible but critical impact of staff well-being.

Burnout

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

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AI

Get Fully Funded

JULY 17, 2025

Volunteer relationship management begins at initial recruitment and extends even beyond the end of their very last shift. In this guide, we’ll explore four strategies for retaining your volunteers and cultivating loyal support for your mission. This might be via email, text, or your volunteer management app.

Training

Gail Perry Group

JANUARY 22, 2025

We have a challenge retaining some of our most generous supporters." "We Use Fundraising by the Numbers Building a donor pipeline is not just about having a long listits about using your data to predict future revenue and using your portfolio to manage the relationships. There aren't enough prospects.

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

MAY 30, 2025

After the donor passes away, the nonprofit retains the remaining value. While planned giving programs can take years to yield actual gifts, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be tracking every metric from the program’s inception! Charitable gift annuities (CGAs): CGAs are contracts between a donor and a nonprofit.

CRM

Big Fundraising Ideas

APRIL 22, 2025

By focusing on these metrics, youll gain a holistic view of your fundraisers success and identify areas forgrowth. Volunteer Burnout Recruiting and retaining volunteers can be tough. Time Management Balancing fundraising with school schedules is tricky.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

JUNE 11, 2025

Baseline Admissions Metrics Let’s start with the basics and then look beyond typical admission metrics to capitalize on this growth potential. Taking it a step further, Blackbaud Enrollment Management System offers admissions officers the tools to more easily analyze this data, providing actionable insights into applicant behavior.

Applicant

NonProfit PRO

JULY 8, 2025

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Retail

Blackbaud

JULY 18, 2025

Practices may lose income due to small inefficiencies, outdated systems, or missed opportunities to engage and retain patients, even while sticking to an existing budget. With the right strategies, you can worry less about collections, billing, and revenue cycle management (RCM), and concentrate on what matters most—caring for your patients.

Insurance

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 4, 2024

With my co-host, Brian Kish, we pour over data from Blackbaud’s donorCentrics® and Fundraiser Performance Management. Here’s what we suggest: We need to start rethinking annual giving metrics to create a new storyline about fundraising for higher education. Maybe we need to focus our attention on narrower metrics.

Metrics

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. Sync your nonprofit event management platform with your constituent database so you can use your segments to inform your event communications.

Demographics

Candid

JUNE 28, 2022

You can calculate this metric for your organization by dividing the number of donors who gave again this year by the total number of donors who gave last year. . Keep an eye on your retention rate using the analytics dashboard in your donor management system.

Retainer

Blackbaud

MAY 30, 2024

Plus, as a manager in a nonprofit, retention is a key component of your job. Retaining top performers is likely a measure of your effectiveness and success in your role. But while not every contributing factor to retention will be within your control as a manager, many thankfully are.

Management

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. However, make sure you have the right tools and technology in place to capture these metrics. Personalize communications.

Ethics

Joe Garecht Fundraising

MARCH 7, 2022

Use these metrics to better understand your fundraising efforts, find areas for improvement, and create a more impactful fundraising strategy. #1: This dashboard will help you track the metrics that matter and demonstrate your fundraising performance over time. . #2: 1: Donor Acquisition Rate. 2: Donor Lapse Rate.

Fundraising

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% year-over-year respectively). of all donors, had a 6.5%

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

MARCH 15, 2021

Ideally, you’re working with a robust donor management system that can track all your engagements with and donations from each supporter, both online and offline. We’ve helped thousands of successful nonprofits understand the fundraising metrics which are most critical to crafting a winning fundraising strategy. Donor Retention Rate.

Metrics

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

This metric provides insight into their true tuition-based earnings. This metric includes adjustments for: Need-based financial aid awards Merit-based scholarships State-funded scholarships and vouchers Other tuition reduction programs, such as sibling or employee discounts Table of Contents How is Net Tuition Revenue Calculated?

Metrics

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Focus on Acquiring and Retaining Donors. 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. So, if you know you want to attract high-impact donors and retain them, turn to the data in your CRM.

Fundraising

Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

When you start planning your fundraising events, you want to make registration and management as easy as possible for both you and your donors. With the right event management software for nonprofits, you can run your fundraising events more efficiently, helping you raise more money for your cause.

Software

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Managing a nonprofit takes patience, hard work, and a lot of organization. Plus, software solutions can help reduce your staff’s stress and streamline their workload by automating processes and providing a centralized place for managing different campaigns and communications. In fact, 67% of nonprofits use a CRM.

Software

Qgiv

MARCH 14, 2023

Donor Retention Donor retention as a metric has gained traction since 2001 when Adrian Sargeant published the first academic research on the financial impact of increased donor retention. 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.

Nonprofit

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The donor cycle, also known as the donor life cycle, is a systematic approach you can use to manage and nurture your relationships with donors over time. This structured approach helps you effectively engage and retain supporters over time. 5 stages of the donor life cycle Donor cycle best practices What is a donor cycle?

Demographics

GiveSmart

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Create metrics related to your goals or key indicators of goal achievement that are quantitative, qualitative, or both. These metrics will show you whether you've achieved your goals or not. Our data analytics tools help analyze donor behavior, identify trends, and personalize your outreach efforts to acquire and retain more donors.

Nonprofit