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5 Tactics to Boost Your Donation Page Conversion Rate

Today’s post is brought to us by Abby Jarvis of Qgiv 5 Tactics to Boost Your Donation Page Conversion Rate Your nonprofit’s website and donation page give first-time donors and lifetime supporters a peek inside your organization. You can write blog posts, upload images and videos, and ask for donations from supporters who live halfway […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fundraising Tagged With: donation forms, donor page conversion, online giving 2 Comments

How to find new donors

How to find new donors Hold your donors close. First things first: before you begin to think about finding new donors, be sure you have plans in place to keep your current ones. If your retention rate is low, looking for new donors is a waste of time and money. Fix that first. Also: before looking […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fundraising Tagged With: donor acquisition, donor retention 2 Comments

How to be a good fundraiser

How to be a good fundraiser What makes a good fundraiser? Is it hard-charging ambition? A willingness to ask strangers for money? The impervious hide of a door-to-door salesman? Maybe those things help. But as I think about the best fundraisers I know, I think of different traits. Genuine care for people If you don’t like […]

Filed Under: Blog, Fundraising Tagged With: donor relations, fundraising professional, leadership 1 Comment

Monthly giving: 5 reasons to start today

Monthly giving: 5 reasons to start today Are you waiting at the starting block to start a monthly giving program? And I don’t mean a check box on your donation form. I mean a real program – with goals and a plan. Last month, I urged you to try something new this year. If you […]

Filed Under: Annual Giving, Blog Tagged With: donor retention, monthly giving, regular giving 1 Comment

The secret ingredient every fundraising program needs most

The secret ingredient every fundraising program needs most Did you know they make rice now in microwave cups? It wasn’t as if putting rice in boiling water was hard. But I’ll admit I like the little single-serve cups – no clean-up, 60-second satisfaction. Your fundraising program doesn’t work that way. Sorry for the bad news. […]

Filed Under: Blog, Planning Tagged With: donor relationships, fundraising staff, organizational planning 5 Comments

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