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Giving Tuesday: Don’t Take the Money and Run

Clairification

Your goal with any fundraising strategy is to retain and, ultimately, upgrade these transactional donors. The name of the game in the business of sustainable fundraising is lifetime donor value. Here’s a great book on the topic: Building Donor Loyalty: The Fundraiser’s Guide to Increasing Lifetime Value.].

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2024 Year-End Recap: Evaluating Fundraising Events

Greater Giving

Evaluating Your 2024 Fundraising Events: What Worked and What Didnt? As 2024 wraps up, now is the perfect time for evaluating fundraising events. Whether your events included auctions, galas, or virtual campaigns, understanding key metrics and takeaways will set you up for even greater success next year.

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Reach Your Target Audience: 5 Effective Segmentation Tips

Pamela Grow

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. Then, you can more easily identify major donor prospects and reach out to them with relevant fundraising appeals. Event communications.

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6 Tips to Retain Volunteers

Blackbaud

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. Ciconte and Jeanne Jacob propose TheVolunteer Bill of Rights in Fundraising Basics: A Complete Guide.

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9 Tips for Recruiting and Retaining Peer-to-Peer Participants

OneCause

Peer-to-peer fundraising offers big benefits for your nonprofit. It’s a powerful fundraising approach. One of the most important components of a strong peer-to-peer fundraising event or campaign is your participants, or volunteer fundraisers. Target potential fundraisers. Learn more.

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4 Tips for Uncovering Your Donors’ Giving Motivations

Ann Green's Nonprofit

Whether you’re future-proofing your fundraisers by focusing on future giving initiatives or leveraging low-cost digital channels to acquire donors , your nonprofit can still inspire enough support to keep its operations going strong. If current trends continue, stewarding and retaining a loyal donor base will only become more important.

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GivingUSA 2024 | What Small Nonprofits Need to Know

Pamela Grow

What do smart fundraisers, particularly those heading up “one-person” development shops, need to know? Develop a balanced, thoughtful fundraising plan. One that includes realistic goals for grants and corporate support, individual support, program support, and events. Retain staff. declined by 2.1%