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The document outlines key trends in fundraising, highlighting an overall giving increase of 1.6% with a notable 9.2% growth in online giving, while the services sector saw a decline of 2.8%. Additionally, first-time donors receiving personalized thank-yous within 48 hours were found to be four times more likely to donate again. Recommendations for improving digital fundraising strategies include optimizing donor communication, enhancing website usability, and tracking online revenue effectively.
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- 1. RECONNECT Let’s Make aDigital Deal
- 2. INDUSTRY TRENDS Where isFundraising Going?
- 3. 3 Giving Trends Overallgiving: +1.6% Services Sector: -2.8% Online giving +9.2% #GivingTuesday +52%
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- 5. Percent of RespondersWho Pay Monthly Bills by CHECK 0 10 20 30 40 50 45-54 55-64 65+ Source: Google Consumer Surveys
- 6. Giving is Changing Source:Grizzard’s DonorGraphicsTM media usage study, 2014. Base: US Donors (online adults who are 12-month active donors) n=1,531.
- 7. 2015 HOLIDAY ACQUISITIONMATCHBACK REVENUE Includes prospects solicited in the 2015CHDDFG acquisition package. Direct Mail gifts are those specifically attributed to the package code mentioned. Digital, White Mail, and Other revenue were attributed through a matchback. The direct mail acquisition package raised $117,800 through 12/31. However, including attributed matchback revenue increases the total revenue raised to $219,032 – an incremental gain of 86%!
- 8. 2015 HOLIDAY RENEWALMATCHBACK REVENUE Includes donors solicited in the 2015CHDDC9, 2015CHDDCH, and 2015CHDLCA packages. Direct Mail gifts are those specifically attributed to the package codes mentioned. Digital, White Mail, and Other revenue were attributed through a matchback. The direct mail renewal packages raised $1,615,901 through 12/31. However, including attributed matchback revenue increases the total revenue raised to $2,833,860– an incremental gain of 75%!
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- 10. 2016 Donation Test •11 1st Time Gifts online • $100 each • Stewardship: – Text messages 0 – Thank You Calls 0 – Personal Email 1 – DM Thank You1 – Welcome Kit 0
- 11. Donor Care Manager •Text thank you – 30 minutes • Personal email – 2 hours • Thank you letter – 24 hours • Thank you call – 48 hours • Welcome Kit – 72 hours
- 12. “First-time donors whoget a personal thank you within 48 hours are 4x more likely to give a second gift.” – Tom Ahern
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- 14. Presidential Election Funding •.4% of US Population gives 64% of all Political Donations Donations <$200 $200+
- 15. Steve Nardizzi CEO ofWounded Warrior Project • 10 years ago this charity was a startup • Today it has revenue of $450 million+ Source: Geoff Peters
- 17. INDUSTRY TRENDS Where isDigital Fundraising Going?
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- 19. Overall Giving bySector
- 20. Online Giving bySector
- 21. Overall Month byMonth Growth in Giving
- 22. Online Month byMonth Growth in Giving
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- 24. Do you havestaff dedicated to digital strategy?
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- 28. Channels with UniquePlans
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- 30. Restrictions on DigitalPlanning
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- 32. WEBSITE TRENDS Where areNonprofit Websites Going?
- 36. • Every fieldeliminated from the donation experience increases conversion by 2% • Follow large donors on twitter • Social Shares – Do you respond to posts? • Identify your Influencers
- 39. YOUR WEBSITES What areWe Seeing in Your Websites?
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- 52. Conversion Rate Optimization Conversionrate optimization (CRO) is the process of optimizing your landing pages and overall website design to raise your conversion rate. In other words, the goal is for the highest possible percentage of visitors to your site to convert, or complete your desired action. CRO is quickly gaining in popularity because it's seen as a way to increase profits from sales without raising your advertising spend.
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- 60. YOUR EMAIL What areWe Seeing in Your Email Programs?
- 61. Email Metrics –Open Rate 11.65% Average Open Rate in 2015 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16% 18% Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 62. Email Metrics –CTOR 9.72% Average CTOR in 2015 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 63. 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16% 18% Feb Mar AprMay Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 9.30% Average Bounce Rate in 2015 Email Metrics – Bounce Rate
- 64. Email Metrics –Unsubscribe Rate 0.25% Average Unsubscribe Rate in 2015 0.00% 0.05% 0.10% 0.15% 0.20% 0.25% 0.30% 0.35% 0.40% 0.45% Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 65. Email Metrics –Conversion Rate 50.96% Average Conversion Rate in 2015 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 66. Email Metrics –Average Email Gift $119.73 Average Email Gift in 2015 $- $20 $40 $60 $80 $100 $120 $140 $160 $180 $200 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 67. Email Metrics –Average Overall Online Gift $137.66 Average Overall Online Gift in 2015 $- $50 $100 $150 $200 $250 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 69. 50% 75% What percentageof online revenue can be attributed directly to email? 25%
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- 71. YOUR LIST BUILDINGPROGRAMS How are You Performing?
- 73. Returns on DigitalMedia Spend October-15 November-15 December-15 AGGREGATE R/C 0.17 0.76 1.66 1.12 Option A Option B Option C Campaign Pages 82% 49% 34% Other Pages 15% 36% 33% View-Through 3% 15% 33%
- 74. High performing ads 5.62%CTR, 251 gifts 14.89% CTR, 0 gifts 0.38% CTR, 1 gift 0.15% CTR, 71 gifts
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- 76. IP Targeting Type GroupResponse Rate Lift in Response Average Gift R/C Cultivation Targets 32.50% 8.48% $58.64 17.10 Cultivation Non-Targets 24.02% $59.47 Type Group Response Rate Lift in Response Average Gift R/C Acquisition Targets 0.99% 0.19% $38.41 0.15 Acquisition Non-Targets 0.80% $38.10
- 77. Month Revenue 14-Sep 14-Oct 14-Nov $17,886 14-Dec$113,381 15-Jan 15-Feb 15-Mar $9,406 15-Apr 15-May $17,286 15-Jun $20,607 15-Jul $200 15-Aug $3,165 Total $181,931 Lightboxes For a Mission with just over $1 million per year in online donations, 18% came in through lightboxes.
- 78. BUILD THE MOSTEFFECTIVE DIGITAL FUNDRAISING MACHINE What Should You Be Doing?
- 79. Big Picture Takeaways •Giving is increasingly moving online. • Donors expect to hear about the impact they are helping you have. • And promptly. • Legacy Giving results from strong donor cultivation. • The biggest digital fundraising hurdles result from lack of planning and investment. Integrate your marketing, communications, and development efforts to increase the opportunity for finding existing in-house resources, and focus on digital fundraising.
- 80. Website Takeaways • Easeof use, speed, and mobile adaptiveness have big impacts on giving. • Test and optimize.
- 81. Email Takeaways • Emailaffects a lot of online and offline giving. Make sure your communications follow best practices and are impactful. • Clean and grow your list.
- 82. Digital Media andList Building Takeaways • Make sure you’re tracking all online giving back to the source. Many people will claim gifts that are not reasonably theirs. • Integrate IP Targeting into your programs. • Use lightboxes.
- 83. Contact: Chip Grizzard CEO 404.935.7132 [email protected] Eric Pratum DigitalStrategy Director 404.935.7130 [email protected]
Editor's Notes
- #5 We are at a turning point. Donors today want to be more than silent partners. They want to stay apprised of their investment. If you don’t offer these benefits, they won’t stick around.
- #6 Boomers are changing HOW they donate to charity. But DM is the #1 driver of online gifts
- #10 We are in a very different time yet there is a way to thrive.
- #12 There are things you can do better than we can. But we know they are absolutely critical to the success of our plan. That is why we are going to fund this position with a performance guarantee.
- #14 RIGHT NOW, pull a list of long term donors. RIGHT NOW, schedule an annual “estate/bequest” letter to them. Put it on the calendar. RIGHT NOW, create two lines about estate gifts to add to all your communications.
- #19 According to Blackbaud 2015 Charitable Giving report, overall giving was up 1.6% while online giving was up 9.2%.
- #20 According to Blackbaud 2015 Charitable Giving report, giving trends by sector.
- #21 According to Blackbaud 2015 Charitable Giving report, online giving trends by sector.
- #22 According to Blackbaud 2015 Charitable Giving report, giving by sector by month.
- #23 According to Blackbaud 2015 Charitable Giving report, online giving by sector by month.
- #24 According to Blackbaud 2015 Charitable Giving report, the percentage of fundraising that is online by sector.
- #25 According to NTEN’s 2015 Digital Outlook report, only 43% of nonprofits had dedicated digital staff.
- #26 According to NTEN’s 2015 Digital Outlook report, fundraising is the most siloed marketing/communications department.
- #27 According to NTEN’s 2015 Digital Outlook report, this is what respondents to this report said they would do in 2015.
- #28 According to NTEN’s 2015 Digital Outlook report, this is what respondents to this report said they would do in 2015.
- #29 According to NTEN’s 2015 Digital Outlook report, these are the channels for which nonprofits had unique plans.
- #30 According to NTEN’s 2015 Digital Outlook report, these are the primary challenges to digital fundraising success nonprofits identified.
- #31 According to NTEN’s 2015 Digital Outlook report, these were the primary restrictions that stopped digital planning.
- #32 According to Blackbauds 2015 Diversity in Giving report, Place of Worship was the most likely choice for a person’s donations. Local Social Services, Children’s Charities, and Health Charities all ranked similarly.
- #41 Modern websites make strong use of photos and enticing the individual to scroll.
- #42 They have white space and offer the opportunity to interact.
- #43 They have strong and memorable designs.
- #44 They are easy to use on mobile.
- #45 The majority of them are built on Wordpress.
- #46 Sites like this see huge increases in traffic.
- #47 They use campaign integration on donation pages in order to tie the initial motivation to give all the way through the process eventually to the thank you.
- #48 They make it easy to give by being mobile responsive.
- #49 They see huge gains in revenue.
- #50 At this point, I’ll explain that I’d like a few folks to answer some questions in order to win a few small prizes.
- #51 These are 2 very different donation processes. I will walk through them and ask 2 people to guess whose sites they think they are.
- #52 And another donation process.
- #53 How did those websites settle on those donation processes? Through testing like Conversion Rate Optimization. Will the hundreds of millions on the line, you can bet that they test into the best process for them.
- #54 Another round of guessing.
- #55 The KPI for the experiment was the evergreen donation page conversion rate. The test version resulted in a 171% higher conversion rate in one experiment. It was re-run and resulted in a 180% higher conversion rate the second time.
- #56 The KPI for the experiment was the evergreen donation page conversion rate. The experiment resulted in an 440.68% higher conversion rate for the test version.
- #57 The KPI for the experiment was the evergreen donation page conversion rate. The experiment resulted in an 11.57% lower conversion rate for the test version. Why is this important? Because we ended up with the winner of the 3rd experiment being the loser from the first experiment. This can happen for a lot of reasons – poorly designed experiments, measuring the wrong things, and more – but most importantly, it can happen when you make assumptions and don’t test the right things. If you just take results from another Mission and apply them to your program, you might get a big winner, but you could also get a big loser. You have to test.
- #58 The KPI for the experiment was conversion rate. The control lightbox had a 7.43% conversion rate while the test lightbox had a 4.32% conversion rate.
- #59 The man, girl, and woman were all statistically valid winners with a 99.3%, 96.7%, and 94.5% probability of outperforming the boy at a 95% confidence threshold. The KPI for this test was the evergreen donation page conversion rate. The results were: Control – Boy – Conversion rate 11% – Average gift of X Test 1 – Family – Conversion rate 3% – Average gift of X.1 Test 2 – Girl – Conversion rate 19% – Average gift of X.3 Test 3 – Man – Conversion rate 23% – Average gift of X.3 Test 4 – Woman – Conversion rate of 18% – Average gift of X.4
- #60 RESULTS – The evergreen page won. The KPI for this experiment was clicks to a donation page. The results were: Control – 5.63% conversion rate Test – 2.60% conversion rate
- #62 Performance we’re seeing in the Giving Engine.
- #63 Performance we’re seeing in the Giving Engine.
- #64 Performance we’re seeing in the Giving Engine. The bad bounce rates are due to bad email lists. In almost every case that a Mission has said their list was clean, it has not actually been.
- #65 Performance we’re seeing in the Giving Engine.
- #66 Performance we’re seeing in the Giving Engine.
- #67 Performance we’re seeing in the Giving Engine.
- #68 Performance we’re seeing in the Giving Engine.
- #69 Another round of guessing.
- #70 28.23% of gifts we tracked in the Giving Engine in 2015 were attributable to email clicks.
- #71 Which had the higher average gift? The Hunger Fund email had an average gift just over $300. The Thanksgiving email had an average gift just over $200.
- #73 Examples of banners and paid search.
- #74 Another round of guessing.
- #75 Another round of guessing.
- #76 An explanation of IP Targeting.
- #77 This is a roll up of IP Targeting performance. With 100% confidence, the lift in cultivation response rate is statistically valid. This increased revenue over a half million dollars for our Missions. With 99.3% confidence, the lift in acquisition response rate is statistically valid.
- #78 This is a common example of lightbox performance for a Mission.
- #84 Remember to use the app to give feedback on this presentation.