Monthly Giving expert Erica Waasdorp dives into the power of monthly giving, and shows the basics for starting your own monthly giving program, and sustaining that program once its up and running.
If your pond is not big enough, Erica Waasdorp has several suggestions that will make it bigger. In her recent webcast entitled, Major donors make the splash, monthly donors create the pond, Erica Waasdorp offered tips for launching and expanding a...
In the recent DonorPerfect webinar Growing Your Monthly Donor Program Without Breaking the Bank, one of the attendees asked this question. The answer is: It depends! I see organizations that have 5% of their donors give monthly, I also have clients...
Statistically, it’s likely that 6 out of every 10 donors who give to your nonprofit this year won’t give again next year. With all of the social media buzz around new causes every day, it’s easy for your one-time donors to drop off and support...
Living Hope International‘s mission is as personal as it is profound: “to operate Children’s Homes and Training Centers that offer a safe and loving environment in which our children can develop their full potential.” Since 2004, they’ve been...
DonorPerfect Online’s EFT recurring gift processing has been very successful, with a lot of data to prove it. A recent improvement provides users with a better system to deal with transactions that failed to process. How? Enhanced the reporting of...
By Erica Waasdorp, co-author of DonorPerfect Monthly Giving Starter Kit, Author of Monthly Giving. The Sleeping Giant, and President of A Direct Solution If you’re like a lot of organizations, boards (and sometimes other bosses) drag their feet on...
Written by Erica Waasdorp, Monthly Giving Expert and President of A Direct Solution You must absolutely start a monthly giving program. There, I’ve said it. And you’ll hear me say it time and time again. But why is this so important? I’ll tell you...
The Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Urban Institute have partnered with leading donor management systems (DonorPerfect was a founding member), to help provide data on a major problem facing nonprofits: retaining donors. It’s called...
Written by Adam Weinger, President of Double the Donation Many nonprofits don’t leverage the power of matching gifts. Matching gifts double donations, so $25 gifts turn into $50 gifts, a $100 gift doubles into $200, and a $1,000 donation morphs into...
