NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

If a donor gets a bland, templated acknowledgment a week later, what does that tell them? Related story: 10 Tips to Thank and Retain Your Donors window.dfp_npp_ros_inline = googletag.defineSlot("/124057991/npp_ros_inline", [fluid], "napco-ad-npp_ros_inline").addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Retail

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

Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Maintaining a Repository of LessonsLearned Centralized storage: Save post-event reports, surveys, and templates in a shared drive for easyaccess. Proper documentation helps improve future fundraisers and retains knowledge even as teams or personnel change.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

JUNE 18, 2025

More GivingTuesday Resources GivingTuesday: Planning Guide with Email and Social Templates : We’ve combined the latest fundraising insights into our free planning guide with email and social templates—refreshed for 2024—to make this your easiest and most successful GivingTuesday yet! Here’s how to keep your organization front of mind.

Software

NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

Accelerated Campaign Creation: Constant Contacts AI-powered platform creates turnkey marketing campaigns in minutes, including recommended copy, imagery, email templates, and an ideal communication schedule for each element of the campaign.

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

Education and Teacher Development : Professional development, curriculum innovation, and efforts to retain educators are stalling. Add “Risk and Adaptation” Language to Templates Demonstrate that your organization is aware of the external funding climate and actively planning in response to it.

Federal Grants

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Retain more volunteers over time. For example, this template highlights the four stages of the volunteer lifecycle, along with your nonprofit’s objectives at each stage and strategies for improving the volunteer experience. End-to-end reporting with custom and pre-built templates that provide a complete view of your volunteers.

Management

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. You may think you have a proper thank you letter template. To Retain Donors, Stand Out from the ‘Get Go’ Believe me, most donors aren’t sticking around.

Retainer

Clairification

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

You may think you have a proper thank you letter template. TYPICAL THANK YOU LETTER TEMPLATE. 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! Your donation is making a difference.

Template

Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Grab your Monthly Giving Ask template to help frame your direct mail and email asks. 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

OneCause

AUGUST 2, 2023

So, let’s look at some proven tips to help your nonprofit recruit and retain more peer-to-peer participants. The next might include some simple steps and templates to help them start fundraising with friends and family. For example: Offer email templates they can use to solicit donations from friends and family.

Retainer

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. . Giving Club Email Template . The post Use This Email Template to Upgrade Donors from One-Time to Monthly appeared first on Network for Good.

Template

Qgiv

AUGUST 6, 2021

We even included some helpful templates to get you started! Get The Templates. Don’t forget to check out the fundraising email templates we’ve included! Welcome Email Series Template 1: Introduction to the Mission. Get The Templates. Welcome Email Series Template 2: Your Nonprofit’s History and leadership.

Template

Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

ChatGPT can help you jumpstart your GivingTuesday prep by creating communication templates based on prompts you type in. The more specific prompt you provide the AI, the better template it can give to you. Type in non-sensitive information about your organization and ask ChatGPT to create a short email template to send to your donors.

ChatGPT

RBW Strategy

JUNE 11, 2024

NOFO Template Language/Plain English (§200.204): With OMB’s focus on clarity and transparency, it’s no wonder that the NOFO template is a welcome change. The goal is to reduce confusion so applicants can understand the pre-award and post-award requirements, and the template will be similar across agencies.

UEI

Double the Donation

MAY 23, 2024

In today’s competitive landscape, nonprofits are constantly looking for new ways to attract and retain dedicated volunteers. Fortunately, one way to incentivize and enhance engagement in volunteer activities involves rallying volunteers to participate in their employers’ Volunteer Time Off programs.

Template

Qgiv

MARCH 27, 2023

ChatGPT can help you retain donors by writing donor thank-yous and thank-you receipts Appeals aren’t the only way to merge ChatGPT and fundraising. You can ask ChatGPT to create a thank you phone script for your volunteers, create an email thank you template, thank you messaging for a specific campaign you’ve run, and more!

ChatGPT

Candid

AUGUST 15, 2024

Strategic nonprofit fundraising There’s no one-size-fits-all template for successful nonprofit fundraising. Candid’s senior development manager shares insider tips, tactics, and strategies for building relationships with grantmakers to help smaller nonprofits find, secure, and retain grant funding.

Fundraising

Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Social media and email marketing resources and templates can help you transform your mass communications into personalized donor engagements. Bloomerang Guides & Template s. Check out Bloomerang’s resource library for different guides and templates. This guide can help you better manage and retain your volunteers.

Nonprofit

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Duration of support Some of the donors you’ve retained over the years may be unaware of all the ways they can give to your cause. The post How to Use Donor Segmentation in Text Fundraising (with Templates) appeared first on Fundraising Blog for Nonprofit, Educational, and Faith-Based Organizations. Good morning! Give here: [Link].

Template

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As mentioned, we recommend creating different thank-you letter templates for different gifts, such as online donations, pledge donations, fundraising event gifts, sponsorships, and tribute gifts. Write a thank-you letter template for each group based on their unique contributions to your organization. Automate the thank-you process.

Template

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.

Retainer

Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2015

Key points: The 2013 version allows you to easily create professional-looking outreach materials using ready-made templates within the application (even more templates are available on the Internet). Just pop in your own text and images. The admin fee is $45. Tools for Creating Presentations, Graphs, Sketches, and More.

Publishing

Qgiv

OCTOBER 11, 2022

To help you along your Giving Tuesday journey, we’ve collected the most helpful how-to articles, templates, tips, tricks, and resources into this Giving Tuesday toolkit to make planning your campaign a breeze! GivingTuesday Text Templates : Need help crafting the perfect text messages for your Giving Tuesday communications?

Template

Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2025

Second, it helps you retain more current donors in the future. Lapsed Donor Renewal Template Here’s a swipeable format you can use in either a letter or email to renew your lapsed donors. Communication is important for two reasons. First, it’s the best strategy for going after the donors who have left. Personalize your request.

Pass-Through

Qgiv

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This blog post explores how to create an annual fundraising plan and even provides a helpful annual fundraising plan template to help putting together your fundraising plan easier. Ready to download the template? Download Template. To make creating your annual fundraising plan easier, we’ve put together this handy template.

Fundraising

Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

Bloomerang helps nonprofit organizations reach, engage, and retain the advocates they depend on to achieve their vision for a better world. You can use templates and refer to helpful hints on how to get the most out of your message and capture your donors' attention. Manage Your Emails.

Management

Qgiv

JULY 30, 2021

Peer-to-peer fundraising is a great way to raise money and build your donor base, but the type of platform you use also has a major impact on your campaign’s performance, and your ability to retain new donors and fundraisers from year to year. . Selling merchandise is easy.

Fundraising

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

During the session “Crush Your Year-End Fundraising in the New Normal,” nonprofit consultant Pamela Grow provides a template for effectively running your year-end fundraising campaign. Every year, total donations during Q4 increase, so it’s essential that you retain your donors. Explore how Bloomerang can help you retain more donors.

Fundraising

CauseVox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

They included a lot of fundraising essentials, such as: Fundraising templates Email outreach messages Social media messages Sponsor packages Background on the event itself Graphics. Overall, with their transition from an in-person event to virtual, they were able to retain 99% of revenue.

Mentor

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Use this service for any of the following reasons: Get answers to human resources questions on subjects like payroll, compensation, benefits, training, recruiting, retaining staff, and managing volunteers. Expansive Library of Forms and Letter Templates. Comply with federal and state employment laws.

Consulting

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It offers a range of tools to help organizations recruit, manage, and retain volunteers while also facilitating the planning and execution of events. With its intuitive design tools and extensive library of templates, Canva makes it easy for organizations to produce eye-catching graphics and materials without requiring advanced design skills.

Software

GiveSmart

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Allow GiveSmart to help you set up part of your campaign in just a couple of clicks with the Giving Tuesday Text Series pre-built with templates and timing. Set it and forget it: Timing Is Everything When scheduling your promotional materials, remember that timing is everything.

Goals

The NonProfit Times

JULY 16, 2024

Fresh Library of Email Templates: Rooted in donor psychology and fundraising best practices, Bloomerang’s professionally-designed and written email templates come preloaded with sample content to inspire a variety of nonprofit communications. Organizations can easily brand templates with their specific colors and logos.

AI

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

To have volunteers to retain, you first have to optimize your volunteer recruitment process. Try using the following template to create your own recruitment letter: Make sure current volunteers are prepared to explain your organization’s mission and why they’re involved in your volunteer program. Final Thoughts.

Pass-Through

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

By engaging your donors with tailored messaging, you’ll inspire your donors to retain their support and continue to donate to your mission. Tailored messaging Tailor your fundraising appeals for your different donor segments by creating templates for your different donor groups.

Nonprofit

CauseVox

MAY 6, 2021

. “ To help you write the best automatic donation receipt for your nonprofit, I’ve compiled a few great donation receipt examples and a template you can customize for your own receipt: Jump to the Donation Receipt Template. Please retain this donation receipt. 501c3 Donation Receipt Template.

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