The Excellence in Fundraising Awards
For over 25 years, thousands of nonprofits have used DonorPerfect to organize constituent data and raise over $100 billion. At our annual DonorPerfect Community Network Conference, we’ll be awarding the best fundraising efforts of over 10,000 clients and 25,000 users.
Constant Contact, a DonorPerfect partner for over 10 years, is proud to sponsor the DonorPerfect Excellence in Fundraising Awards, which include:
1. Fastest Growing Nonprofit (Large and Small categories)
2. Fastest Acknowledgements
3. Best Donor Retention
4. Best Recurring Donation Program
We’ll be the first to acknowledge that there’s so much more to fundraising than these four categories. You spend tireless nights preparing for events, countless hours on long road trips, and have survived dozens of paper cuts from stuffing thousands of envelopes to further your cause. However, these four categories represent a core of mission-critical analytics that will continue to grow and sustain your nonprofit for generations to come.
How does each award relate to the fundraising best practice?
Fastest Growing Nonprofit
When you apply the best fundraising techniques towards your mission, you will grow. Simply put, this award will go to an organization who has grown the most financially this year compared to last year. This award will be given to two different organizations, a large nonprofit and a small nonprofit.
To qualify for this award, an organization must have donor giving data in DonorPerfect for the past 24 months.
Fastest Acknowledgements
Whether you thank your donors with a handwritten card, a phone call, or an automated mail merge, the most important factor is that you send something and send it fast. According to the National Council of Nonprofits, “Sending the acknowledgment within a short period of time of the gift reassures the donor that the donation was received and solidifies donor relations.”
To qualify for this award, an organization must have acknowledgement data for gifts in DonorPerfect from the past 12 months.
Best Donor Retention
It’s much easier, cost-effective, and more sustainable for your nonprofit to retain a donor than to find a new one. Your long-term mission depends on it. An organization’s donor retention rate is the percentage of donors who gave last year and also gave again this year. For example, if 100 donors gave last year and 50 of those same donors gave again this year, your donor retention rate is 50%.
To qualify for this award, an organization must have donor giving data in DonorPerfect for the past 24 months.
Best Recurring Donation Program
A donor who gives regularly will most likely give more, and remain a committed partner of your organization longer than those who don’t.
To qualify for this award, you must process recurring payments through EFT over the past 12 months and have the most recurring donors as a percentage of all active donors.
Eligibility and Prizes
To be eligible for these awards, the recipients must attend the 2016 DonorPerfect Community Network Conference where the awards ceremony will be held. Winners will receive an award, recognition at the conference, publicity for their nonprofit after the conference to share their best practices, a $250 donation from Constant Contact, and a $250 donation from DonorPerfect.
To register for the conference, click here.
Thank you to our valued partner, Constant Contact, for sponsoring the awards. Your DonorPerfect software integrates with Constant Contact and enables you to share contact information automatically, create segmented mailing lists, and track who opens your emails and what they click on.
