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2024 Year-End Recap: Evaluating Fundraising Events

Greater Giving

Whether your events included auctions, galas, or virtual campaigns, understanding key metrics and takeaways will set you up for even greater success next year. Heres why you should prioritize a thorough review: Measure Performance Track goals like attendance, revenue, and donor engagement.

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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. Define your segmentation goals. Any strong strategy starts with goal-setting. between 2022 and 2023. Let’s get started!

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Rethinking Annual Giving Metrics: A New Storyline for Higher Ed

Blackbaud

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. News & World Report metric of alumni participation , the impact of this ranking indicator is going to show in our data for years.

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4 Tips for Uncovering Your Donors’ Giving Motivations

Ann Green's Nonprofit

Consideration: The donor deepens their engagement by navigating to the nonprofit’s website and reading resources about its mission, programs, and goals. However, make sure you have the right tools and technology in place to capture these metrics. Personalize communications.

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What Are the Best Practices for Conducting a Post-School Fundraiser Review?

Big Fundraising Ideas

Key practices include setting clear objectives, analyzing metrics, and celebrating successes to foster accountability andmorale. Fundraisers are vital to supporting school programs, but their impact can extend far beyond immediate monetary goals if post-event reviews are conducted effectively. Why Conduct a Post-Fundraiser Review?

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7 Steps to Building a Major Gift Donor Pipeline: Unlock Fundraising Success

Gail Perry Group

Revenue goals are ever-rising! The huge financial goals and the pressure on fundraisers and organizational leadership can be intense. We have a challenge retaining some of our most generous supporters." Its all based on thoughtful metrics like donor engagement, frequency of gifts, and giving history.

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Perfecting the Thank-You Call: How a Five-Minute Phone Chat Can Triple Donor Retention

Center for Major Gifts

The goal is to be conversational, not reciting a prepared speech. Over time, measuring key metrics like retention rates and average gift size helps demonstrate the value of personal outreach. A quick, heartfelt phone call can be a game-changer when it comes to retaining donors and inspiring future giving.

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