Monthly Giving: Begin Where You're At!
And yet, a monthly giving program is relatively easy to implement (and grow)!
Here's all you need to get started:
1. The capability to offer electronic funds transfer (EFT) and/or credit card payments. One organization that I spoke with offers its monthly giving program solely via direct mail and a sign-up form provided by the bank. If your organization isn't set up to accept recurring credit card donations, the beauty of EFT is that the retention rate tends to be higher than other methods because there are no expired credit cards.
Pamela Grow is the publisher of The Grow Report, the author of Simple Development Systems and the founder of Simple Development Systems: The Membership Program and Basics & More fundraising fundamentals e-courses. She has been helping small nonprofits raise dramatically more money for over 15 years, and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Fundraisers by Civil Society magazine, and one of the 40 Most Effective Fundraising Consultants by The Michael Chatman Giving Show.
