Paid Search: Now More Than Ever We’re all working on GEO strategy and how to combat the age of AI infiltrating search. Still, it’s time to go “all-in” with an “always on” digital strategy for search. Most nonprofits are using the Google Ads Grant (applause), but Google favors paid search. This results in paid search typically seeing a dollar or more less in cost per click. Utilizing a combination of your free Ads Grant and paid search will not only help…
Nonprofit Analytics: How to Use Data to Drive Donations
Nonprofits are sitting on a goldmine of data—but many aren’t using it to its full potential. Analytics can reveal who your donors are, where you stand in the market, and what it’ll take to drive long-term growth. Nearly 80% of nonprofits don’t have a solid analytics strategy in place. And while fewer than one in…
The Ultimate Guide To Nonprofit Fundraising
Fundraising is how nonprofits grow, scale their impact, and build a loyal supporter base. The most successful organizations treat fundraising as a strategic function, not an afterthought. In this guide, we’ll break down the most effective fundraising strategies, along with the challenges and opportunities, to help you unlock consistent growth. Ready to grow your nonprofit…
Donor Retention Strategies: 8 Expert Tactics to Retain Your Donors
Nonprofits often make the mistake of focusing only on acquiring new donors rather than retaining existing supporters, which can be a far more cost-effective and impactful approach. With the average donor retention rate around 46% as of 2024, it’s become more crucial than ever to focus on keeping your supporters engaged and aligned with your…
How to Calculate Donor Retention Rate for Your Nonprofit in 2025
Donor retention is one of the most crucial metrics for any nonprofit organization. Organizations must know how to calculate the donor retention rate to determine whether their current supporters are loyal and how to keep them engaged for a longer period. This guide explores how to calculate donor retention, the top metrics to track, strategies…
Free Nonprofit Marketing Training: Top Online Courses to Get Started
Running a nonprofit organization requires more than passion and purpose. It takes strategic marketing to amplify your mission and grow your impact. Fortunately, nonprofits don’t have to invest a lot of money to gain digital marketing skills. Whether you’re new to digital marketing or want to level up your strategy, there are free nonprofit marketing…
Nonprofit Marketing Plan: How to Build a Winning Strategy in 2025
Every nonprofit organization needs a clear marketing plan to help it raise money, drive awareness, and strengthen donor and member relationships. Without a well-detailed plan, it’s difficult to get the most out of fundraising efforts and grow the organization. This nonprofit marketing guide will explore nonprofit marketing plans, how to develop one, the key elements…
10 Winning Strategies for Nonprofit Marketing
Securing donations and members for your nonprofit organization can be challenging. You have to consider your competitors and declining giving rates during the year. Nonprofits often have limited budgets and resources, making fundraising critical to fulfill their mission. That’s why you need to use nonprofit marketing strategies that work. This nonprofit marketing guide unpacks the…
Nonprofit Email Marketing: The Essential Guide
Nonprofit email marketing is cost-effective for communicating with volunteers, members, and donors, improving fundraising efforts, and establishing long-term relationships with constituents. By sharing relevant content and personalized emails, nonprofit organizations can maximize donations and membership signups using this digital marketing technique. This guide explores why email marketing matters for nonprofits, the best practices for nonprofit…
Navigating Digital Advertising During Election Season
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.
Don’t Lose Your Google Data: Universal Analytics Shut Down
Google is discontinuing Universal Analytics on July 1, 2024, meaning users will finally loose access to the interface and their data will be permanately deleted.
10 Ways to Maximize AI Potential in Nonprofits
Successfully implementing AI in a nonprofit setting requires thoughtful planning and strategic execution. Use this comprehensive guide to guide your organization toward a more technically advanced workflow.
Case Study: MPT PBS App Promotion
At a time when people are “cutting the cord,” there is a need to convert traditional cable watchers to streamers. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member stations direct plenty of time and effort into promoting paid Passport memberships. However, PBS identified a lack of awareness/education about the free PBS App. NextGen believes in a strategic balance between…
Display Ads 101: A Beginner’s Guide
Display advertising is a powerful tool with wide reach, precise targeting, and, arguably most importantly, creative capabilities beyond what a text-forward search ad offers.
Display Ads Design Guide: Tips for High-Performing Creative
From crafting compelling visuals and messaging to choosing how to reconfigure certain elements of that design to fit all dimensions, here are some tips to create display ads.
Creating a User-Centric Experience With YouTube Advertising
We all know the public media landscape is rapidly changing. We have entered what’s known as the “user-centric period” of media consumption and see great opportunity with advertising on YouTube.
12 Key Fundraising Insights From 2024 M+R Benchmarks
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.
5 Tips to Help Prepare for USPS Rate Increases
USPS announced proposed increases for some mailing rate, including a 5-cent increase in first-class mail stamps from 68 to 73 cents. Here are some tips to save money and prepare.
4 Tips to Boost Your Matching Gift Campaigns
How do you stand out and connect with donor audiences to strategically boost your matching gift opportunities? Here are some of our best tips.
Stop the Churn With These Simple Strategies
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.
2024 Fundraising Forecast: What Should Be Top of Mind?
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.
Why NextGen’s Texting Solution Is Perfect for Your Nonprofit
As digital channels evolve and grow, it is important for nonprofits to stay ahead of the curve and find new ways to engage with their donors and prospects.
How Texting Can Supercharge Your Fundraising Program
As digital channels evolve and grow, it is important for nonprofits to stay ahead of the curve and find new ways to engage with their donors and prospects.
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.
Digital Fundraising Program: 14 Strategies to Maximize Your Success
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.
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?
Don’t Get Hung Up on Attribution
We no longer live in a world where attribution is clear cut, so don’t get hung up on attribution. Your donors aren’t giving how you want them to.
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.
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.
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.
Navigating Postal Price Increases
While it may be tempting to significantly scale back direct mail, here are some tips on how to navigate new price increases and keep your direct mailings manageable and effective.
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.
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.
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 Search 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 Search 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 Search 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.
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!
The Love-Hate Relationship With Invoice Emails
Invoice emails reliably outperform and are a great option to supplement your calendar year-end fundraising campaigns.
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
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.
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