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.
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.
How do you stand out and connect with donor audiences to strategically boost your matching gift opportunities? Here are some of our best tips.
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.
NextGen Fundraising’s Carol Leister has transitioned from ownership to a consulting role, leaving CEO Tim Oleary as the company’s sole owner.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you are not actively building a Planned Giving pipeline through targeted lead generation, who will capture these gifts from your donor file?
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.
Going into FY23, it’s critical to build recognition with new audiences, establish brand affinity, and convert prospects to supporters.
In case you missed it, M+R released its annual study containing comprehensive data about online fundraising, advocacy, and marketing.
Understanding the value of your donor base—along with its segments and audiences—is critical for both fundraisers and nonprofit leaders.
Content calendars provide a visual reference or plan for integrated communication across social, email, website, and external properties.
This is a mutual relationship. Marketing teams can support membership fundraising efforts with multi-channel stewardship or impact awareness campaigns.
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.
From housekeeping to stewardship and multichannel planning, our Calendar Year End Checklist has priority steps for campaign planning.
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.
We live in a world with ubiquitous data, but the real value lies in analyzing information and making it actionable.
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!
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.
Invoice emails reliably outperform and are a great option to supplement your calendar year-end fundraising campaigns.
Donor relationships matter. They will be important than ever as nonprofits wrap up the fiscal year and prep for FY21 fundraising.
It’s a new year and a new decade, and for nonprofit fundraisers raising money and managing donors has never been more complex.
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.
Budgeting is a process that is as much about relationships as it is about numbers. You have to make it a team effort.
Sustainer programs work best and are of highest value when they are backed by a case for sustaining support.
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.
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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