Donor Engagement

Donor stewardship planning is crucial for nonprofits as it helps retain donors, increase donor loyalty, and secure sustainable funding. Get the step-by-step template to make your plan a reality.

As a one-person team, accomplishing your donor engagement goals can be a challenge. How do you balance fundraising campaigns with engagement opportunities and donor conversions with genuine connections?

Today, we're breaking down anything and everything you need to know about the donor cycle. So, how do you move someone from potential donor to first-time donor to full-fledged lifelong partner? Let's find out.

By establishing a major donor strategy, small nonprofits set themselves up for long-term success. Major donors are integral to the health of small nonprofits—and when 89% of your donations come from 14% of your donors, it’s clear where nonprofits should focus their efforts.

When you think about donor experience as an essential part of relationship building, it becomes a critical part of your strategy and planning. Your donors will appreciate it.

Saying thank you to donors is critical to any nonprofit fundraising strategy. Check out how you can delight your nonprofit donors by saying thank you the right way.

Your complete guide on how to ask for donations on text, email, and facebook, including donation message examples, wording to use, and more!

No matter the size of the gift, International Women’s Day is a wonderful way to say thank you to the women in your world. Here are a few fundraising, stewardship, and general celebratory ideas you can try out.

Overwhelmed nonprofit marketers, take note! This primer sets you on a path to use your digital channels to think and act multi-channel-ly, when you shouldn’t, and how to pull it off successfully.

Nonprofit donor management is essential for understanding your donors, growing your relationships with them & gathering data. Here’s all you need to know!

We go deep into donor relations, answering your “what is donor relations” question, guiding on donor relationship building & more!

If you’re asking yourself, “do I need a CRM?”, the chances are you do. We cover both why you need a CRM system but also why you don’t. (But you do.)

Donor management software enables nonprofits to build a relationship with their donors & maximize their business. Here’s why you need one.

The way you relate to your donors can impact your entire nonprofit strategy. And equitable donor stewardship efforts go a long way toward positive change!

Looking for strategies and tips on how nonprofits can retain donors? Here are the 6 top tips for keeping your donors' attention year-round.

Nonprofits of all shapes and sizes can benefit from having a major gifts program. If your nonprofit wants to kickstart its major gift program, read on for our tips for getting started with major gifts.

What’s an equity-focused nonprofit to do? Maybe it's time to look at community-centric fundraising.

It’s worth investing extra time and energy to level up your donor experience strategy with the goal of improving donor retention and increasing giving levels. Explore next-level tactics for creating a 5-star donor experience.

Year-end fundraising is a busy time for nonprofits of all shapes and sizes. Luckily, it’s also when your supporters are feeling the most charitable.Wouldn’t you like to double the impact of each donation you receive? You can⁠—by following these nine easy steps.

Solving the lapsed donor problem at your nonprofit is kinda like plugging a bunch of leaks. With testing and consistent investigation, you can lessen the leaky lapsed donors each year.

Finding ways to optimize your fundraising efforts and tools is your path forward. Let’s talk about some ways you can do this as a team of one.

Creative donor stewardship is one way to stand out in the hearts and minds of donors. Make a plan to do something special for parents this year that will add a little extra delight to your donor relations!

Increasing donor retention can be fun! Donor stewardship can be a highly effective donor stewardship strategy. Let’s get into the nuts and bolts of how you can implement thank yous as a donor retention strategy.

By integrating a few key changes to your stewardship and communications, your nonprofit will be on its way to building even greater trust with its donors.

Donor surveys can help you gather a lot of useful insights about your donors. Take the time to craft a quality survey and you’ll be on your way to a better donor experience in no time!

When you treat donors the same way you treat the most important people in your life, your relationships give back in spades—and in ways you never anticipated.

To cultivate and steward your recurring donors, look for creative ways to go above and beyond and build lasting relationships.

Donor cultivation events are different from any other fundraising event, so if you're thinking of planning one, now is a good a time as any! Good luck, nonprofit friends.

You’ve gotta have a perfect pitch in your back pocket. Let’s talk about some ways to develop your perfect 30-second pitch to wow potential donors.

For the resource-strapped nonprofiteer, managing volunteers can take up a lot of precious time. Take heed of these seven tips for getting your volunteers to organize themselves.

There's an art to using text messaging as part of your donor communications. Text Engagement gives you the beauty of text messaging without the beast of uncertainty.

How to effectively engage your board members when planning your next nonprofit fundraising event.

Marry the art and science of the donor lifecycle through the powerful, automated tools Funraise offers. Launch your Moves Management strategy by designing a powerful path to giving for your prospective donors.

Funraise got a makeover! Get the scoop on our recently enhanced platform look and functionality.

Seek out donor feedback! We bet you'll see that your donors not only have plenty to say, but their contributions make it easy to focus your efforts.

Funding options for your nonprofit. Resource on available funding options as well as grants for your nonprofit startup.