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. million people volunteered for a nonprofit organization in 2021, contributing $122.9 million people volunteered for a nonprofit organization in 2021, contributing $122.9

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Thanking donors is crucial for securing gifts—especially for small nonprofits trying to build a support base. By Logan Foote Building relationships is crucial for nonprofits to grow their impact. For small nonprofits in particular, these relationships are critical to growing and scaling your work to drive additional impact.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

Donor motivations are the “why” that drives their support of your nonprofit. 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. Learn how to uncover those motivations and inspire more support in this guide.

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OneCause

AUGUST 2, 2023

Peer-to-peer fundraising offers big benefits for your nonprofit. It helps to get the word out about your mission, attract new donors to your nonprofit, and deepen relationships with your existing supporters. So, let’s look at some proven tips to help your nonprofit recruit and retain more peer-to-peer participants.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2015

Various organizations and organizations offer again an exceptional array of events. This month we added webinars from the Nonprofit Marketing Guide to the list. Webinars and Other Online Events on Nonprofit Technology. How to Retain Your Donors. How to Retain Your Donors. July 9 — 2 p.m.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 20, 2022

Steven has contributed content to the National Council of Nonprofits, AFP, NTEN and Nonprofit Hub, and is a frequent conference speaker. Here are five tips for thanking your year-end donors that will increase the likelihood of them being retained in the following year: 1. Get the eBook: Retaining Your P2Peeps.

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GiveSmart

JANUARY 23, 2025

Nonprofit staff have grit. What can you and your team expect in the fundraising event, donor relationship, and nonprofit marketing landscapes? This on-demand webinar reviews what 2024 was like for nonprofits and offers fundraising, donor, and marketing strategies for 2025. It ties donations to outcomes.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Leveraging data and making tweaks to donor-facing forms helps your nonprofit build stronger relationships. The number of new retained donors, or those who gave the previous year but never before, dropped by 18.7%. The number of new retained donors, or those who gave the previous year but never before, dropped by 18.7%.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As fundraisers, you’re also in charge of putting together end-of-year giving campaigns for your nonprofit. Knowing how much time and effort you spend planning events and campaigns inspired us to create this resource to inspire you with these successful ideas for end-of-year giving campaigns. First, analyze your donor base.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 12, 2021

Sponsors at live fundraising events are accustomed to certain benefits—banners in a ballroom, a table and dinner for their guests, sometimes on-stage recognition. Selling sponsorships in the era of virtual and hybrid events present fundraisers with a challenge when those traditional benefits don’t look quite the same.

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CauseVox

MARCH 17, 2025

Picture this: a sunny day, a beautifully manicured golf course, and a group of enthusiastic golfers ready to tee offall while raising funds to support your nonprofit’s mission. Whether you run a small community organization or a large nonprofit, hosting a successful golf tournament fundraiser is entirely within your reach.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2025

This guide covers the following tips and school fundraising ideas to plan memorable and productive events and campaigns: Why host a school fundraiser? Plus, you can network with potential corporate partners interested in sponsoring events and campaigns. Host this event on the weekends so it doesnt disrupt learning time.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

The past five years have seen tremendous change in the world — and in the nonprofit sector. Organizations relying on event-driven fundraising suffered. And one of the biggest event-driven fundraising models shuttered their doors. And it’s one of the biggest problems nonprofits face. That said, AI is already here.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 19, 2023

Nonprofits react to crises. Though giving tends to rise around these events, nonprofits often are unable to retain these often one-time donors. If your organization doesn’t have a plan to steward these reactionary donations to make them become more commonplace, it should.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2022

As nonprofit fundraisers, we’re always thinking about our donors first. We’re focused on recruiting them, retaining, engaging, and so on. But donors aren’t the only people who make your fundraising events and campaigns successful, and they aren’t the only people whose needs you should be considering.

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The Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 8, 2024

It’s well-known in the nonprofit world that the second gift, sometimes even referred to as “the golden gift,” is when donor retention rates start to rise. So why do donors continue to give to your nonprofit after their first gift? How do systems of expressing gratitude work and why do they matter for retaining donors ?

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2024

We are thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership between Qgiv and Winspire that will help nonprofits raise more at their next fundraising event or auction! This diverse selection helps guarantee there is something to entice every donor, making your auction items more appealing and your events more successful.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 17, 2025

It does not change profit margins or a nonprofit’s mission impact. Nonprofit organizations that minimize or fail to recognize cultures important role will limit their ability to move their mission and organization forward. Five Organizational Culture Myths Myth #1: Organizational Culture is an abstract concept.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They may know their nonprofit needs to raise $14 million, but not the organizational goal of retaining more event participants and transitioning them to sustaining donors. Lack of alignment can happen at any level because subordinate employees do not have the tools to see if their work aligns with the strategic plan.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

7 Must-Have Members of Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Team With a dedicated nonprofit fundraising team, you’ll execute more effective strategies, plan impactful events, and attain more funding for your mission. That’s where this guide comes in—we’ll discuss the must-have members of your nonprofit’s fundraising team.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

DonorPerfect's Fundraising Calendar empowers nonprofit heroes! Each month, receive expert advice on securing the second gift, retaining donors, reimagining events, making successful asks, and more. Get 12 months of tailored inspiration, with practical tips, key dates, self-care, and customizable stickers.

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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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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Imagine this: you set what you think is an ambitious fundraising goal for your virtual event and then watch as you double, triple, quadruple that goal in the days leading up to the event. Like most nonprofits, Mentor New York had to pivot during the pandemic to virtual events and engagement for its supporters.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 17, 2023

Nonprofit organizations rely heavily on the support and dedication of volunteers to achieve their goals. Recruiting and retaining nonprofit volunteers can be a challenge, especially in today’s busy and competitive world. Volunteer Management Effective volunteer management is key to attracting and retaining volunteers.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Recruiting and retaining staff can feel like scaling a mountain. For example, a nonprofit looking to hire a volunteer manager might list 2-5 years of leadership experience in addition to a certain amount of hours spent volunteering and an undergraduate degree. When recruiting and retaining new team members, start with the end in mind.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Recruiting and retaining staff can feel like scaling a mountain. For example, a nonprofit looking to hire a volunteer manager might list 2-5 years of leadership experience in addition to a certain amount of hours spent volunteering and an undergraduate degree. When recruiting and retaining new team members, start with the end in mind.

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Qgiv

MAY 10, 2022

Growing your base of supporters is essential for growing revenue at your nonprofit organization. You can accomplish more when there’s a larger group of donors backing your nonprofit and making it happen. Prospective donors are folks who may not know anything about your nonprofit and its mission. The prospect stage.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 24, 2021

Throughout 2020, planners were forced to go online to hold their annual fundraising events virtually when large gatherings were prohibited due to the pandemic. The results were surprisingly good for many nonprofits, which has brought us to the next generation of fundraising—the hybrid event. The Hybrid Event.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JUNE 25, 2024

Among the thousands of brands, businesses, and other charitable organizations out there, your nonprofit has to figure out how to cut through the clutter and stand out to current and potential donors. Alternatively, you may use location data to send specialized newsletters highlighting relevant events and opportunities in people’s local areas.

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GrantNews

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Value of Your Volunteer Time To recruit and retain valuable volunteers you must build trust by providing the correct tools for a productive and joyful work environment for your volunteers. Because of this, we encourage nonprofits to offer virtual volunteering opportunities so that more supporters are easily able to volunteer.

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Qgiv

APRIL 19, 2023

An event communication plan is crucial to the success of your fundraising event. A good event communication plan can elevate your event and help you make the most of your fundraising efforts. This blog post will cover how to create your event communication plan. What is an event communication plan?

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For nonprofits, expressing gratitude isnt just a courtesy. The 2024 M+R Benchmarks Study found that December giving accounts for 26% of all online revenue for nonprofits, with the final week alone contributing 13% of total online donations. Host a year-end event. After all, donors are most generous at the end of the year.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This article offers suggestions to help churches like yours grow giving with church fundraising events. Fundraising events. Church fundraising events can work wonders. Almost every kind of nonprofit has been able to benefit from a giving day. Recurring gifts provide steady fundraising to many nonprofits.

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DonorSnap

MARCH 28, 2024

Event season is upon us and there are many ways nonprofits can help lighten the load that comes along with running successful events. From finding the right support to helpful tools, we have outlined three things nonprofits should do today to help run smoother events this year.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

As your nonprofit organization continues to grow, it’s time to consider investing in an effective fundraising platform that truly accommodates your nonprofit’s size, financial needs, and developing fundraising strategies. Why is fundraising important for nonprofits? Focus on Acquiring and Retaining Donors. Let’s begin.

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Qgiv

MARCH 14, 2023

2022 was a year of growth for many nonprofits across the country. While many have embraced the “new normal” as we move past the pandemic, there continue to be underlying challenges for nonprofits trying to raise money in 2023. Despite organizations utilizing fundraising best practices , many challenges for nonprofits remain.

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DonorSnap

MARCH 28, 2024

Event season is upon us and there are many ways nonprofits can help lighten the load that comes along with running successful events. From finding the right support to helpful tools, we have outlined three things nonprofits should do today to help run smoother events this year.

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