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Monthly Giving Talk at the 2015 Blackbaud Conference
1. Play It Again, Sam
Monthly Giving Programs for sustaining
donations “As Time Goes By”
PRESENTED BY JEANNE HORNE, SHARE OUR STRENGTH
WENDY MARINACCIO HUSMAN, MAL WARWICK|DONORDIGITAL
3. ‘As Time Goes By,’
monthly donors rule with
#NoKidHungry #Donordigital.
Here’s looking at you, #BBCon.
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4. Share Our Strength
Jeanne Horne
Senior Manager, Digital Communications
Share Our Strength
P No Kid Hungry is ending childhood hunger in America
P Feeding kids where they live, learn and play
P Engaging the public to make child hunger a
national priority
5. Donordigital
Wendy Marinaccio Husman
Senior Account Executive
Donordigital
P Integrated, multi-channel strategy
P High-level and granular analysis
P Full copywriting and design creative service
P Production and management services
6. Why Monthly Giving Rules!
• Revenue you can count on
• Increase donor lifetime value
• No need to renew
• Planned giving prospect pool
• Donor preference: “set it & forget it”
23. In the mail
Current donors
• Mailed appeal – on the response form (organic)
• Mailed appeal – dedicated sustainer ask
• Monthly newsletter bangtail
• Welcome package to new donors
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27. Telefunding
• Phones are the #1 offline recruitment
channel
• Target audiences
• Get people on the phone as soon as they
make a gift; convert right away
• Donors HPC $25-99 with 2+ gifts
• Email in support of the ask
31. 3 Rules of Asking for More
Just follow the rules:
1. Use specific upgrade amount
2. Process to avoid duplicating monthly gift
3. Get the data right
37. Stop-loss
• Credit card expiration
• Donor services number easily accessible
• Staff member check for expired cards
• Triggered email series for upcoming expirations
• Website forms
• Mail
• Phone
• Other card issues
• Similar strategies for lost/stolen or reissued cards
40. We want you back
• Re-join attempts
• Triggered email series
• Annual receipt with lapsed member postcard
• Phone calls
• Track re-acquired donors
• Back in the regular communications flow
• Conditionalize content
• Online ads targeted to lapsed sustainers
44. Metrics to Track
• Total revenue by campaign, month and
year over year
• Break out monthly from single gifts
• New monthly donors
• Upgraded donors
• Avg. gift amounts
• Avg. duration (months) on file
• Source of gifts
48. Use our calculator when testing
• Ensure your tests have
a statistically
significant response
• 90% confidence
indicates a 10%
chance the result is
not significant; best to
be at 95%+
• http://malwarwick.com/
response-significance-
calculator/
50. Take-aways for large programs
• Spend as much time on retention and stop-loss as
on recruitment
• Ask monthly donors to upgrade
• Integrate monthly asks across channels
• Treat your monthly donors like you know them
51. Take-aways for small programs
• Improve best practices throughout your
fundraising
• Create a dedicated monthly giving donation form
• Ensure processes/staff resources are in place
• Keep a long view