Nonprofit Donor Retention: The Ultimate Guide
Donor retention is just as important as donor acquisition—it ensures your supporters stay connected, engaged, and committed to your mission. Loyal donors don’t just give; they become part of your community.
This guide will:
- Define donor retention and explain why it’s critical for long-term fundraising success.
- Share benchmarks, common challenges, and top strategies to keep more donors year after year.
- Show you how leading nonprofits are using DonorSearch to strengthen donor relationships and increase retention
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How to Get Started with AI for Nonprofits: The Complete Guide
Artificial intelligence is transforming the nonprofit sector, helping organizations save time, raise more, and deepen donor engagement. This guide shows you how to get started.
This guide will:
- Explain what nonprofit AI is and why it matters.
- Share practical ways nonprofits can use AI, from donor screening to personalized outreach.
- Compare predictive and generative AI, with real-world examples of success.
- Show you how to use AI responsibly and build a strategy for your organization
How to Maximize Major Gift Fundraising: The Complete Guide
Major gifts drive the majority of fundraising revenue for nonprofits, but securing them requires strategy, focus, and the right tools. This guide will walk you through how to maximize your major gift program and unlock transformational donor support.
This guide will:
- Explain what major gift fundraising is and why it’s essential to nonprofit growth.
- Share proven strategies for identifying, cultivating, and stewarding major donors.
- Compare traditional approaches with data-driven strategies that increase efficiency and results.
- Show you how to build a major gift fundraising plan that scales impact and strengthens donor relationships.
Why DonorSearch? A Closer Look at our Tools’ Results and ROI
Fundraising success today requires more than just donor data—it requires actionable insights that fuel growth, efficiency, and stronger relationships. DonorSearch equips nonprofits with the industry’s leading prospect research, integrations, and AI solutions to deliver measurable return on investment (ROI). This guide shows you how.
This guide will:
- Explain how DonorSearch grows high-impact donor pipelines with the largest and most accurate philanthropic database.
- Share real-world examples of nonprofits exceeding fundraising goals by streamlining donor engagement.
- Compare predictive and generative AI fundraising tools, with proven lifts in response rates, gift sizes, and efficiency.
- Highlight how DonorSearch strengthens donor relationships through better insights and more personalized outreach.
How Nonprofits Utilize Artificial Intelligence
Explore the New Guide to learn how AI can empower you to:
- Increase Fundraising Revenue
- Find and Solicit High-Capacity Prospects Most Likely to Give
- Streamline Fundraising Operations
Annual Giving
One of the most important revenue sources for your nonprofit is the Annual Fund.
It’s the regular fundraising you do each year to support your general operations–more importantly, it’s a steady reminder of the importance of your mission.
This guide will:
- Define annual giving, and give you five reasons why it’s vital.
- List 8 steps to take in planning your annual giving campaigns.
- Show you how to identify your donor base’s best annual giving prospects.
Capital Campaigns
10 Essentials For A Solid Plan
Are you planning a capital campaign so your nonprofit can build that new building, feed families in your community, or just stay out of the red? Here are ten best practices for mounting a successful capital campaign.
This guide will:
- What a capital campaign is.
- How a capital campaign works.
- Teach you the ten questions you need to answer to plan your capital campaign.
Grateful Patient Programs
Are you ready to unlock the generosity of your patient prospects?
Most successful hospitals and health systems establish Grateful Patient programs to identify potential donors from among their patients and cultivate them for support.
This guide will:
- Give you an overview of Grateful Patient programs.
- Why they’re essential.
- The steps to setting up a successful program.
Major Giving
Major gifts are the most significant gifts an organization receives and the majority of funds collected altogether.
While they’re the most important slice of the fundraising pie, major gifts come from just a small number of a nonprofit’s donors (10-15%).
This guide will:
- Give you an overview of Major Giving.
- The importance of a major giving program.
- How to find the best prospects for a robust major giving program.
Planned Giving
Planned Giving enables donors to make bigger gifts to nonprofits than they could make from the average income.
Planned Giving programs are unique in the world of fundraising. The process of setting up a planned gift involves long-term efforts to build relationships with donors and manage the legal and financial details of the gift.
This guide will:
- Define planned giving.
- Identify the three main types of planned gifts.
- Cetegorize factors for planned giving prospects.
Prospect Research
Sustainable fundraising is all about meeting donors where they are.
Your ask gets a ‘YES’ when your donor feels that you understand what they care about and what they have to give and that their gift will be impactful. The best way to get the feeling across is to let prospect research guide your actions.
This guide will:
- Explain how prospect research helps?
- How do nonprofits do prospect research?
- How to choose the best prospects to screen?
Major Gifts Guide
As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you’ve likely heard the question posed: what’s better for your program—one gift of $1 million or one million gifts of $1? The answer is, of course, both. But the million-dollar gifts are significantly harder to come by! That’s why it’s so important to have a major gift program.
At DonorSearch, we work with all types of nonprofits to optimize their major gift strategies by targeting the best prospective major givers. To assist nonprofits like yours, we’ve put together this ultimate guide with everything you need to know about major gifts.
We’ll cover:
- What is a Major Gift?
- The Major Gift Fundraising Cycle
- Starting a Major Gifts Program
- Improving Your Major Gifts Program
Are you ready to learn more about major gifts and how to make the most of them for your organization? Let’s start with the basics.
