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Tag: Donor Cultivation

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Donor Cultivation

Making Your First Donor Retention Calendar, Step by Step

Donors staying loyal is the exception, not the rule. According to Chuck Longfield, ten years ago the average retention rates of a newly acquired donor were roughly 33%. Today it’s 27%.

March 17, 2014 | 3 min Read

Donor Cultivation

Fundraising Basics:[Part 2] Provide Great Donor Service

In part one of the Fundraising Basics series, we began exploring the core principles of fundraising and how your organization can harness [...]

March 12, 2014 | 3 min Read

Donor Cultivation

From Year 1 to Year 2: The Importance of Retaining First Gifts

How can we develop stronger relationships with these new donors when resources are so limited? [...]

January 16, 2014 | 2 min Read

Donor Cultivation

The 3 Principles to Acquire, Retain, and Upgrade Your Donors

This is a guest blogpost by Jeff Haguewood on the basic principles of successful fundraising.

January 13, 2014 | 4 min Read

Alumni Engagement

Engaged Young Alumni = Future Dollars!

Your young alumni are your future major gift and planned giving donors, but only if you engage with them early [...]

May 21, 2013 | 2 min Read

Data Insights

Rules of Engagement: The Chicken or the Egg?

Does engagement at your organization begin with the “chicken”, or in development parlance, the donor; or the “egg”-- the prospect? What does it matter? For optimal results, find ways to "touch" as many major gift prospects as you can, whether they have self identified through giving or whether you have identified them through other strategies. [...]

April 2, 2013 | 2 min Read

Donor Cultivation

Get in Touch With Your Event Donors

Bringing event donors into your fundraising mix can be a bit tricky. But does that mean you give up on them? Absolutely not.

April 1, 2013 | 2 min Read

Donor Cultivation

Acquisition Trends and New Donor Stewardship

Nonprofits need resources to accomplish their mission and can’t just watch their donor file shrink. Well, there are a number of steps that fundraisers should take.

January 28, 2013 | 3 min Read

Donor Cultivation

Top 3 Fundraising New Year’s Resolutions

There are actually only three ways to raise more money.

December 6, 2012 | 4 min Read

Marathon Fundraiser

Donor Cultivation

4 Ways to Encourage Self Donations

When the American Diabetes Association made the decision to focus on promoting self donations in their 2011 Tour de Cure fundraising campaign they saw a 2151% increase in self donors, receiving donations from 37% of their participants compared to 2% in 2010. There is no doubt this strategy contributed to the event’s 19% growth in online donations that year. [...]

August 9, 2012 | 2 min Read

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