We’re experiencing a historically unprecedented campaign. Time to buckle up and prepare ourselves with the key strategies that will help your nonprofit thrive before, during, and after election season.
The 2024 M+R Benchmarks Study is finally here! Use these key insights to assess your nonprofit’s performance by comparing your results with this year’s pool of participants.
One of the challenges to building a successful email program is frequent and attentive list hygiene. At NextGen, we focus on several key areas to revitalize dormant programs.
You’ve likely seen countless 2024 fundraising forecasts over the past few weeks. Don’t worry, this is not a laundry list of the same old regurgitated predictions.
Consistent and strategic email communication is critical to a robust, successful digital program. But it takes more than just sending any generic email.
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.
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?
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.
Website redesigns can lead to better visitor experience and increase organic traffic in the long run, but they can require proper SEO strategy.
If you are not actively building a Planned Giving pipeline through targeted lead generation, who will capture these gifts from your donor file?
Going into FY23, it’s critical to build recognition with new audiences, establish brand affinity, and convert prospects to supporters.
Public media is changing. Now, digital acquisition channels are a low-barrier, low-cost way to build brand affinity and attract new donors.
In case you missed it, M+R released its annual study containing comprehensive data about online fundraising, advocacy, and marketing.
Content calendars provide a visual reference or plan for integrated communication across social, email, website, and external properties.
What can we do to gain a new perspective and share how inspiring the work and mission can be?
This is a mutual relationship. Marketing teams can support membership fundraising efforts with multi-channel stewardship or impact awareness campaigns.
Nonprofit leaders will need to be agile in their approach and expectations to fundraising programs. Business as usual just won’t do anymore!
Nonprofits should be transparent about current data policies and ensure that they adhere to stringent protocols. It’s just good business.
Flexibility and pivoting quickly in response to current events can win favor with your supporters and make money for your organization.
Strategic use of broad, phrase, and exact keyword match is a great way to ensure you are delivering relevant Google search results.
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 search provides a convenient donor journey for users with transactional intent while also capturing individuals with philanthropic interest and positive brand affinity.
Marketing and membership departments should craft consistent messages that answer why someone should support local public media.
As you update your messaging and content, we recommend you use an approach that works for NextGen and our clients: think like a journalist!
Invoice emails reliably outperform and are a great option to supplement your calendar year-end fundraising campaigns.
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
Marketing themes are a good way to shine a light on one area of impact. But do they always work in fundraising?
Now is a great time to put your fundraising creative on the table, sweep away the cobwebs and polish up the diamonds.
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