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…
What is Charity Marketing? The Complete Guide + Strategies
Every nonprofit has a story worth sharing. The challenge? Getting it in front of the right people and inspiring them to act. That’s where charity marketing comes in. Done well, it connects your mission with the people who care most, building trust, loyalty, and lasting support. Whether it’s sparking conversations on social media, sharing impact…
The Complete Nonprofit Data Management Guide
Data is one of the most powerful tools you can use to drive your nonprofit mission. Proper data management allows nonprofits to make informed decisions, optimize operations, enhance reporting, and improve donor engagement. Ultimately, this can expand your reach and impact, giving you the insights you need to understand your supporters, build a thriving community,…
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…
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.
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…
Redefining Public Media Engagement: PBS’s Digital Evolution
Measuring audiences and engagement is becoming increasingly sophisticated as more content is produced and redistributed across an ever-increasing number of digital streaming platforms.
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.
Budgeting Is a Balancing Act
Here are the broad brushstrokes of how to think about budgeting—a refresher for some, new tools for others, and some general guidelines as we navigate the impact of global events.
Budgeting is a Bargaining Process
We’ve spent many years where you sit now, running direct-response fundraising programs for nonprofits we believed in. As fiscal year planning deadlines approach, here are some important principles.
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.
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.
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.
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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