14 February 2023 By David Allen, Development for Conservation Happy Valentine's Day! (Love your donors. They will love you back.) This post will have nothing to do with Valentine's Day. But I hope you have a lovely day, regardless! For the last several years, about this time, I...
1 March 2022 By David Allen, Development for Conservation Two weeks ago, I asked you for data related to the value of your “first-gift” donors from 2017: Isolate the members and donors you have who made a first gifts to your organization at some point – any...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation For the last several years, about this time, I have posted about a metric I’ve wanted to collect data on – the 5-year-value of new members. I’ve been asking everyone to look back at the donors who made first gifts (ever)...
25 January 2022 By David Allen, Development for Conservation It’s hard to believe now, but there was once a time, years ago, when the primary germ concerns were about washing your hands before dinner. Killer pandemics were the stuff of Stephen King and Michael Crichton novels. Before COVID...
5 October 2021 By David Allen, Development for Conservation I’m working on a Rally Workshop with two fabulous colleagues. The workshop is called Using Donor Software to Help Raise More Money, and it will be virtually presented this afternoon. (Please make plans to join us!) Along the way,...
16 February 2021 By David Allen, Development for Conservation Three weeks ago, I asked you for data related to the value of your “first-gift” donors from 2016: Isolate the members and donors you have who made a first gifts to your organization at some point – any...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation For the last several years, about this time, I have posted about a metric I’ve wanted to collect data on – the 5-year-value of new members. I’ve been asking everyone to look back at the donors who made first gifts (ever)...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation For the last several years, about this time, I have posted about a metric I’ve wanted to collect data on – the 5-year-value of new members. Last year I asked everyone to look back at the donors who made first gifts...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation One way of looking at evaluating fundraising program health is to evaluate four of the underlying systems that serve as components: Marketing systems that bring new donors to the table; Renewal and Upgrade systems that bring donors to the $250...
By David Allen, Development for Conservation Three weeks ago, I asked you for data related to the value of your donors: Isolate the members and donors you have who made a first gift to your organization at some point – any point – during the calendar...