Full-Funnel Approach: Building Bridges Across Teams
Many organizations struggle to evolve beyond a siloed approach that inevitably fragments branding, messaging, and donor conversion. How do we know? Because we’ve been there.
Reflections on 2022: Supply Chain & Paper Shortages
Over the past two years, we have proactivity tracked and responded to the economic supply-chain and paper shortages to minimize impact for our direct marketing print clients, working to ensure a consistent, compelling, and high-quality donor experience.
Reflections on 2022: Monitoring Economic Trends
The COVID pandemic, economic turmoil, social movements, and other unpredictable world events have impacted nonprofits. The good news: we’ve learned to anticipate and respond in real-time to global challenges.
Don’t Get Hung Up on Attribution
Don’t get hung up on attribution. Your donors aren’t giving how you want them to.
Navigating New Facebook Rules During Election Season
Entering the 2022 election cycle, it is important to consider rules around data privacy and messaging about sensitive topics. Here are a few recent updates regarding advertising about social issues on Facebook and Instagram
2022 Fundraising Trends: Journey Into the Mind of a Donor
As fundraisers and marketers, we’re always excited to learn about the latest trends and statistics that give us better insight into how donors behave, what they prefer, and how to adjust our strategy accordingly.
Don’t Trust Your Open Rates: Understanding Changes in Email KPIs
As any good digital marketer or fundraiser knows, you live and die by your KPIs. But what if one of the most important email metrics may not be accurate?
Navigating SEO & Organic Traffic During a Website Redesign
Website redesigns can lead to better visitor experience and increase organic traffic in the long run, but they can require proper SEO strategy.
Best Practices for Email Marketing
Consistent and strategic email communication is critical to a robust, successful digital program. But it takes more than just sending any generic email.
Planning for Planned Giving
If you are not actively building a Planned Giving pipeline through targeted lead generation, who will capture these gifts from your donor file?
How to Grow Your Digital Fundraising Program
Online donors act differently than direct mail donors. As we move towards an increasingly digital world, it’s important to have a solid digital fundraising program.
Digital Acquisition Tactics
Going into FY23, it’s critical to build recognition with new audiences, establish brand affinity, and convert prospects to supporters.
Stay Ahead of Public Media Fundraising Trends
Public media is changing. Now, digital acquisition channels are a low-barrier, low-cost way to build brand affinity and attract new donors.
M+R Benchmarks 2022: Everything You Need To know
In case you missed it, M+R released its annual study containing comprehensive data about online fundraising, advocacy, and marketing.
Think Like an Investor: Managing Donor Segments
Understanding the value of your donor base—along with its segments and audiences—is critical for both fundraisers and nonprofit leaders.
Content Calendars: What Do You Need To Know?
Content calendars provide a visual reference or plan for integrated communication across social, email, website, and external properties.
Mission, Message, & Voice
What can we do to gain a new perspective and share how inspiring the work and mission can be?
Membership & Marketing: A Mutual Relationship
This is a mutual relationship. Marketing teams can support membership fundraising efforts with multi-channel stewardship or impact awareness campaigns.
2022 Roadmap for Successful Nonprofits
Nonprofit leaders will need to be agile in their approach and expectations to fundraising programs. Business as usual just won’t do anymore!
2022 Roadmap: Build a First-Party Data Strategy
Nonprofits should be transparent about current data policies and ensure that they adhere to stringent protocols. It’s just good business.
Calendar Year End Campaign Planning
From housekeeping to stewardship and multichannel planning, our Calendar Year End Checklist has priority steps for campaign planning.
The Love-Hate Relationship With Invoice Emails
Invoice emails reliably outperform and are a great option to supplement your calendar year-end fundraising campaigns.
Think Like a Journalist: Don’t Be Afraid to Change Your Fundraising Plan
Flexibility and pivoting quickly in response to current events can win favor with your supporters and make money for your organization.
Paid Advertising Keyword Match Strategy
Strategic use of broad, phrase, and exact keyword match is a great way to ensure you are delivering relevant Google search results.
Paid Advertising Key Features
Paid advertising can be your best friend—and offer a strong ROI on acquisition—as long as you know how to make the most out of this channel.
Paid Advertising 101
Paid search provides a convenient donor journey for users with transactional intent while also capturing individuals with philanthropic interest and positive brand affinity.
Data vs Information: Actionable Analytics
We live in a world with ubiquitous data, but the real value lies in analyzing information and making it actionable.
Content as a Case for Support
Marketing and membership departments should craft consistent messages that answer why someone should support local public media.
Think Like a Journalist: Messaging and Content
As you update your messaging and content, we recommend you use an approach that works for NextGen and our clients: think like a journalist!
Donation Form Do’s and Don’ts
While there is no such thing as a 100% conversion rate, a few simple “Do’s and Don’ts” can boost performance and improve design.
Donor Relationships are a Major Key to FY21 Success
Donor relationships matter. They will be important than ever as nonprofits wrap up the fiscal year and prep for FY21 fundraising.
NextGen’s Top Five for 2020
It’s a new year and a new decade, and for nonprofit fundraisers raising money and managing donors has never been more complex.
Theme vs. Case for Support
Marketing themes are a good way to shine a light on one area of impact. But do they always work in fundraising?
Spring Clean Your Creative
Now is a great time to put your fundraising creative on the table, sweep away the cobwebs and polish up the diamonds.
Relationships Count with Budgeting
Budgeting is a process that is as much about relationships as it is about numbers. You have to make it a team effort.
Public Media Sustainer Giving
Sustainer programs work best and are of highest value when they are backed by a case for sustaining support.
The Lost Art of Match Back
Write this in big letters on your office wall: “Always Match Back!” The cost is nominal, but the impact on future donor acquisition planning is massive.
How Seasonal Is Fundraising?
As the mercury rises, expectations among fundraisers drop. How can summer appeals compete with all the distractions in your donors’ lives?
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