Resource type: article February 21, 2025 Motivate Your Donors To Give More Without Pressure …costs, you remove a major mental barrier to giving. People love the idea that 100% of their gift will go directly to programs. Transparency in this area can transform cautious…
Resource type: article March 5, 2024 Make giving easier for your donors in 2024 …encompasses more than in-person events. And as fundraisers, we need to consider the full spectrum. Does your online giving form encourage donors to set up recurring donations? Does the form…
Resource type: article January 28, 2022 4 Tips for Small Shops to Find Donor Prospects …donors. Nonprofits who segment and personalize their donor communications based on frequency and recency of giving, reasons for giving, interests and other demographic information enjoy higher retention rates. If you…
Resource type: article April 7, 2025 Get Your Share Of $84 Trillion …the second-best time is now. The stark reality is that too many nonprofits don’t place enough emphasis on planned giving in general because they can’t see the immediate returns. Put…
Resource type: article November 30, 2016 Donor Abandonment: What It Is and How to Avoid It …the right solution with @Pay’s Online Giving Software: The Ultimate Buyer’s Guide. 1. Offer more giving channels. One of the simplest ways to tackle donor abandonment at the root is…
Resource type: webinar February 6, 2017 Capital Campaigns: Best Practices, Common Mistakes …a fulfillment phase is because it helps you position well for annual giving. A good capital campaign, in a good capital campaign, if you do it right, your annual giving…
Resource type: webinar October 2, 2018 The Delicate Art of Marketing Fundraising Bequests …you will discover. And this why I’m trying to move bequests marketing out of the planned giving department and into, if you have such a thing, the annual giving department….
Resource type: webinar January 28, 2022 Create And Run Your First Really Big Fundraising Campaign …with their behavior. They’re telling you with their behavior that they really like your organization. Giving quarterly, giving regularly, that’s a big deal. That’s a big deal for a lot…
Resource type: webinar January 28, 2022 Art and Science of Volunteer Development …giving, of course, is the volunteers are giving of themselves and we need to be grateful recipients of their volunteer service. Part of that being grateful recipients is showing appreciation….
Resource type: webinar August 15, 2017 How to Think Like a Donor in 1 Hour …This is what we’re going to talk about today. This is going to be a walk through neuroscience and the art of giving a great presentation and fundraising insights of…
Resource type: webinar January 28, 2022 The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication …a broken record saying this, I’m going to say it again, volunteers make your very best donors. Volunteers may not be your major donors but they are your monthly consistent…
Resource type: article September 8, 2017 Is It Okay to Delete Inactive Donors From Your Database to Keep Costs Down? …frequently they gave before lapsing. Did they: give you one gift and never gave again? give to you annual for several years and stopped giving? were they a monthly donor…
Resource type: article December 17, 2018 How to create a successful fundraising email …to longevity of giving (e.g., first-time donors receive different message than ongoing donors, multiple gift donors and/or monthly donors; lapsed donors receive different email than current donors). According to affiliation…
Resource type: article February 25, 2019 Why Your Nonprofit Needs A Second Gift Strategy …receive a monthly e-newsletter)? Shame on you! Donors absolutely must be rewarded, by you, for their giving. This is not optional. This is one of the most important parts of…
Resource type: article September 16, 2025 Donor appreciation: creating a strategy & 22+ ideas …point is, you never give again. This situation should never happen for your supporters. Dr. Adrian Sargeant conducted a survey about why donors stop giving. He found that 5% of…
Resource type: article October 1, 2021 How To Prepare Donor Data Reports For Your Board Members Your donors fuel your organization’s work, so it’s crucial to maintain a healthy, thriving base of supporters. A major part of connecting with these individuals and optimizing the giving experience…
Resource type: article July 11, 2024 How To Boost Your Fundraising With Philanthropic Psychology …be) through their giving. This is autonomy—acting on your own initiative. Autonomy is the ability to choose your best self and take actions that represent your ideals, like giving. Feel…
Resource type: article February 18, 2025 The hidden challenges of donor retention—and how to fix them Many nonprofits struggle with low donor retention rates, yet the reasons supporters lapse aren’t always obvious. While financial constraints are often blamed, our research found that many donors stop giving…
Resource type: webinar August 15, 2014 How to Build a Major Gifts Program from Scratch …current donor because you want to see what they’re giving in a community. See what Jane’s giving to other organizations. If she’s giving more, 10 or 20 thousand to other…
Resource type: Customer Story November 5, 2025 Lindbergh Schools Foundation: Increasing Giving by 455% With a Switch from DonorPerfect to Bloomerang …Monthly giving to the Foundation skyrocketed by 455% after switching from DonorPerfect to Bloomerang—from just 9 recurring donors to more than fifty. “We launched a monthly Green and Gold Society…